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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 4. 
MADOC’S EXPEDITION. 
A TRAVELLER informs us that Baron A. von 
Humboldt urges further search after this ex- 
pedition in the Welsh records. He thinks the 
passage is in the Examin Critique. 
“CLOUDS” OR SHROUDS, IN SHAKESPEARE. 
I quite agree with your correspondent 
D***N**R, that there never has been an 
editor of Shakespeare capable of doing him 
full justice. I will go farther and say, that 
there never will be an editor capable of 
doing him any thing like justice. I am the 
most “modern editor” of Shakespeare, and 
I am the last to pretend that I am at all 
| capable of doing him justice: I should be 
ashamed of myself if I entertained a notion 
so ridiculously presumptuous. What I in- 
tended was to do him all the justice in my 
power, and that I accomplished, however 
imperfectly. It struck me that the best mode 
of attempting to do him any justice was to | 
take the utmost pains to restore his text to 
the state in which he left it; and give me 
_ leave, very humbly, to say that this is the 
chief recommendation of the edition I super- 
intended through the press, having collated 
every line, syllable, and letter, with every 
known old copy. For this purpose I saw, 
' consulted, and compared every quarto and 
_ mere, and in several private collections. 
every folio impression in the British Museum, 
at Oxford, at Cambridge, in the libraries of 
the Duke of Devonshire and Lord Elles- 
| my edition have no other merit, I venture to 
assert that it has this. 
great labour, but it was a work also of sincere 
love. Itis my boast, and my only boast, that I 
| all commentators and collectors of medals. 
have restored the text of Shakespeare,as nearly | rameter 
as possible, to the integrity of the old copies. 
If | 
It was a work of | 
| 
When your correspondent complains, there- | 
fore, that in “Hen. IV. Part 2,” Act III. se.1, 
in the line, 
“‘ With deafening clamours in the slippery clouds,” 
the word shrouds is not substituted by editors 
of Shakespeare for “clouds,” the answer is, 
that not a single old copy warrants the merely 
fanciful emendation, and that it is not at all 
required by the sense of the passage. In the 
4to of 1600, and in the folio of 1623, the 
word is “clouds; ” and he must be a very bold 
editor (in my opinion little capable of doing 
justice to any author), who would substitute 
his own imaginary improvement, for what we 
have every reason to believe is the genuine 
text. Shrouds instead of “ clouds” is a merely 
imaginary improvement, supported by no au- 
thority, and (as, indeed, your correspondent 
shows) without the merit of originality. I 
am for the text of Shakespeare as he left it, 
and as we find it in the most authentic repre- 
sentations of his mind and meaning. 
J. PAYNE COLLIER. 
MEDAL OF THE PRETENDER. 
Sir, — Possibly some one of your literary 
correspondents, who may be versed in the, 
what D’Israeli would call Secret History of 
the Jacobite Court, will endeavour to answer 
a “Query” relative to the following rare 
medal : — 
Obv. A ship of war bearing the French flag ; 
on the shore a figure in the dress of a Jesuit 
(supposed to represent Father Petre) seated 
astride of a Lobster, holding in his arms the young 
Prince of Wales, who has a little windmill on his 
head. Legend: “ Allons mon Prince, nous 
sommes en bon chemin.” In the exergue, “Jac: 
Franc: Eduard, supposé. 20 Juin, 1688.” 
Rev. A shield charged with a windmill, and 
surmounted by a Jesuit’s bonnet; two rows of 
Beads or Rosaries, for an order or collar, within 
which we read “Hony soit qui non y pense ;” 
a Lobster is suspended from the collar as a badge. 
Legend: “ Les Armes et l’Ordre du pretendu 
Prince de Galles.” 
The difficulty in the above medal is the 
Lobster, though doubtless it had an allusion 
to some topic or scandal of the day ; whoever 
ean elucidate it will render good service to 
Medallic History, for hitherto it has baffled 
The windmill (indicative of the popular fable 
that the Prince was the son of a miller), and 
the Roman Catholic symbols, are well under- 
| stood. 
calls it “ a boy kneeling on the shore.” 
| medal is so rare that probably the artist could 
There is an engraving of this medal in 
Van Loon’s Histoire Metallique des Pays 
Bas. It is also imperfectly engraved in 
Edwards’ Medalliec History of England, for 
_the Jesuit is represented kneeling on the 
shore, and Pinkerton, who furnished the text, 
The 
obtain only a rubbed or mutilated impression 
to engrave from. My description is from a 
