38 NOTES AND QUERIES. ' . [INows) 
founded paragraphs which have appeared and daily 
are appearing in the public prints. 
I am, Sir, your very humble servant, 
NEtson. 
The Rev. Dr. Scott. 
The above have never been printed, and I 
shall be glad if they are thought worthy of a 
place in your very useful and interesting 
periodical. Jam, Sir, &c. 
ALFRED GATTY. 
Ecclesfield, 7th Nov. 1849. 
MISQUOTATIONS. 
Mr. Editor,— The offence of misquoting 
the poets is become so general, that I would 
suggest to publishers the advantage of printing 
more copious indexes than those which are now 
offered to the public. For the want of these, 
the newspapers sometimes make strange blun- 
ders. The Times, for instance, has lately, 
more than once, given the following version 
of a well-known couplet : — 
“ Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, 
As to be hated needs but to be seen.” 
The reader’s memory will no doubt instantly 
substitute such hideous for “so frightful,” and 
that for “as.” 
The same paper, a short time since, made 
sad work with Moore, thus :— 
“You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will, 
But the scent of the roses will hang by it still.” 
Moore says nothing about the scents hanging 
by the vase. ‘‘ Hanging” is an odious term, 
and destroys the sentiment altogether. What 
Moore really does say is this: — 
“You may break, you may ruin the vase if you will, 
But the scent of the roses will cling round it still.” 
Now the couplet appears in its original beauty. 
It is impossible to speak of the poets with- 
out thinking of Shakspeare, who towers above 
them all. We have yet to discover an editor 
capable of doing him full justice. Some of 
Johnson’s notes are very amusing, and those 
of recent editors occasionally provoke a smile. 
If once a blunder has been made, it is persisted 
in. ‘Take, for instance, a glaring one in the 
2nd part of Henry IV., where in the apos- 
trophe to sleep, “clouds” is substituted for 
“ shrouds.” 
“ Wilt thou, upon the high and giddy mast, 
Seal up the ship-boy’s eyes, and rock his brains 
In cradle of the rude imperious surge, 
And in the visitation of the winds, 
. Who take the ruffian billows by the top, 
Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them 
With deafening clamours in the slippery clouds, 
That with the hurly death itself awakes ?” 
That shrouds is the correct word is so ob- 
vious, that it is surprising any man of common 
understanding should dispute it. Yet we find 
the following note in Knight’s pictorial edi- 
tion :— 
** Clouds. — Some editors have proposed to read 
shrouds. A line in Julius Cesar makes Shaks- 
pere’s meaning clear :— 
““<T have seen 
Tl’ ambitious ocean swell, and rage, and foam, 
To be exalted with the threatening clouds,’” 
Clouds in this instance is perfectly con- 
sistent ; but here the scene is altogether dif- 
ferent. We have no ship-boy sleeping on the 
giddy mast, in the midst of the shrouds, or 
ropes, rendered slippery by the perpetual 
dashing of the waves against them during the 
storm. 
If in Shakspeare’s time the printer’s rule of 
“following copy” had been as rigidly ob- 
served as in our day, errors would have been 
avoided, for Shakspeare’s MS. was sufficiently 
clear. In the preface to the folio edition of 
1623, it is stated that “his mind and hand 
went together ; and what he thought he ut- 
tered with that easinesse that wee have scarce 
received from him a blot in his papers.” 
D***N**R, 
8th Nov. 1849. 
HERBERT AND DIBDIN’S AMES. 
BORDE’S BOKE OF KNOWLEDGE—ROWLAND'S CHOISE 
OF CHANGE—GREENE'S ROYAL EXCHANGE. 
Mr. Editor, —I am induced to mention the 
following misstatement in Herbert’s edition 
of Ames’ Typographical Antiquities, en- 
larged by Dibdin, not by its importance, but 
by its supplying an appropriate specimen of 
the benefits which would be conferred on 
bibliography by your correspondents com- 
plying with Dr. Maitland’s recommendations. 
“ Mr. Bindley,” says Dibdin, “is in possession 
of the original impression of Borde’s Boke of the 
Introduction of Knowledge, which was successively 
in the collection of West and Pearson. This copy, 
and another in the Chetham Library at Manchester, 
are the only ones known with the following im- 
