May 7. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Essay XIII. p. 33. "Busbecliius." InBusbequii 

 Legaiiones Turcica Epist. Quatuor (Hanoviae, 

 1605), p. 133., we find this told of " Aurifex quidam 

 Venetus." — N. B. In the Index (.v. v. Canis) of an 

 edition of the same work, printed in London for 

 E. Daniel (1660), /or 206 read 106. 



Ditto, ditto (note h). Gibbon (Miscellaneous 

 Works, iii. 544., ed. 1815) says, "B. is my old and 

 familiar acquaintance, a frequent companion in my 

 post-chaise. His Latinity is eloquent, his manner 

 IS lively, his remarks are judicious." 



Ditto, p. 34. " Nicholas Machiavel." Where ? 



Ditto, p. 35. "^sop's cock." See Phaedrus, iii. 

 12. 



Essay XV. p. 38. " lUe etiam cebcos," &c., Virg. 

 Georg. I. 464. 



Ditto, ditto. " Virgil, giving the pedigree," &c. 

 JEn. iv. 178. 



Ditto, p. 39. " That kind of obedience which 

 Tacitus speaketh of." Bacon quotes, from me- 

 mory, Tac. Hist, ii, 39., " Miles alacer, qui tamen 

 jussa ducum interpi-etari, quara exsequl, mallet." 



Ditto, ditto. "As Machiavel noteth well." 

 Where? 



Ditto, p. 40. " As Tacitus expresseth it well." 

 Where ? 



Ditto, p. 41. "Lucan," i. 181. 



Ditto, ditto. " Dolendi modus, timendi non 

 item." Whence ? 



Ditto, ditto. " The Spanish proverb." What is 

 it ? Cf. " A bow long bent at last waxeth weak ;" 

 and the Italian, " L'arco si rompe se sta troppo 

 teso." (Ray's Pi-overhs, p. 81., 4th edit, 1768.) 



Ditto, p. 43. " The poets feign," &c. See Iliad, 

 i. 399. 



Ditto, ditto (note y). " The myth is related in 

 tlie Works and Days of Hesiod," vv. 47 — 99., edit. 

 Gottling. 



Ditto, p. 44. "Sylla nescivit." Sueton. Vit. 

 Cces., 77. 



Ditto, p. 45. « Galba." Tac. Hist., i. 5. 



Ditto, ditto, " Probus." Bacon seems to have 

 quoted from memory, as we find in Vopiscus (Hist. 

 Aug. Script, ut supr., vol. il. 679. 682.), as one of 

 the causa occidendi, "Dictum ejus grave. Si un- 

 quam eveniat salutare, Reip. brevi milites ne- 

 <;essarios non futuros." 



Ditto, ditto. " Tacitus salth." Hist., i. 28. 



P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. 

 (To be continued.) 



SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDEJfCE. 



The Passage in King Henry VIII., Act III. 

 Sc. 1. (Vol.vii., pp.5. 111. 183. 494.). — Mr. In- 

 GLEBY has done perfectly right to " call me to 

 Account" for a rash and unadvised assertion, in 

 saying that we must interpolate been in the 

 passage in King Henry VIII, Act III. Sc. 2., after 



have ; for even that would not make it intelligible. 

 So far I stand corrected. The passages, however, 

 that are cited, are not parallel cases. In the first 

 we have the word loyalty to complete the sense : 



" • My loyalty, 



Which ever has [been] and ever shall be growing." 



In the second, the word deserved is cleai-ly pointed 

 out as being understood, from the occurrence of 

 deserve after will: 



" I have spoken better of you than you have [de- 

 served] or will deserve at my hands." 



I will assist Mr. Ingleby's position with another 

 example from Rich. II., Act V. Sc. 5. : 



". . . . . like silly beggars, 



Who sitting in the stocks, refuge their shame, 

 That many have [sat] and others must sit there." 



And even from a much later writer, Bolingbroke : 



" This dedication may serve for almost any book 

 that has, is, or shall be published." 



Where we must supply been after has. But ia 

 the passage I attempted, and I think successfully, 

 to set right, admitting that custom would allow of 

 the ellipsis of the participle been, after the auxili- 

 ary have, to what can "am, have, and will be" 

 possibly refer ? 



" . . . . . I do professe 

 That for your highness' good, I euer labour'd 

 More then mine owne, that am, haue, and will be." 



What ? Add true at the end of the line, and 

 it mars the verse ; but make the probable correc- 

 tion of true for haue, and you get excellent sense 

 without any ellipsis. I am as averse to interpola- 

 tion or alteration of the text, when sense can by 

 any rational supposition be made of it, as my 

 opponent, or any true lover of the poet and the 

 integrity of his language, can possibly be ; but I 

 see nothing rational in refusing to correct an 

 almost self-evident misprint, which would redeem 

 a fine passage that otherwise must always remain 

 a stumbling-block to the most intelligent reader. 

 We have all I trust but one object, i. e. to free the 

 text of our great poet from obvious errors occa- 

 sioned by extremely incorrect printing in the folios, 

 and at the same time to strictly watch over all 

 attempts at its corruption by unnecessary med-. 

 dling. This, and not the displaying of our own 

 ingenuity in conjectures, ought to be our almost 

 sacred duty ; at least, I feel conscious that it is 

 mine. S. W. Singer. 



" That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain." 



Hamlet. 

 The notable quotation of this line by the Earl of 

 Derby, in the Lords, on Monday evening, April 25, 

 has once more reminded me of my unanswered 

 Query respecting it. Vol. vi., p. 270. 



On the 26th February (Vol.vii., p. 217.) Mb. 

 Coi^lier was good enough to say, that his only 



