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term peculiar, or nearly so, to that personage; but | 
Upton, as long ago as 1748, in his Critical Ob- 
servations, 2nd ed. p. 299., remarked, that Scialac 
was the generic name, and Shylock merely a cor- 
ruption. I may also remark, that Mr. Knight 
dismisses Dr. Farmer’s theory as worthless, with- 
out sufficient consideration. It by no means fol- 
lows that 1607 is the date of the first edition of 
Caleb Shillocke, merely because Boswell saw a 
copy bearing that date. J. O. HaLiiwE.u. 
. SONNET. 
Written on the close of the Session, 1849. 
“ The tyme cam that resoun was to ryse.”—CuHaucEr. 
“ Corin. And how like you this shepherd’s life, Mas- 
ter Touchstone ? 
“ Touchstone. Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself it 
is a good life. .. In respect it is in the Fields, it pleaseth 
me well.” — SHAKSPEARE. 
Ho! for the shady grove and silvery stream ! 
Now that yclosed is the Fane, where I 
Am doomed, by no unhappy destiny, 
To tend those Mighty Ones who find a theme 
For their lives’ labour in the nation’s weal. 
Now am I free, or book or rod in hand, 
Alone, or compassed by a cherub band 
Of laughing children, by the brook to steal, 
Seeking repose in sport which Warton loved— 
Sport meet alike for Youth or thoughtful 
Age — 
Free, an I wish to go a pilgrimage 
With Cuaucer, my companion long approved, 
Or thee, thou Greater One, who lovedst to sing, 
“Of books in brooks, and good in every thing.” 
Wiuiam J. THoms. 
THE DEVOTEE. 
(From the Latin.) 
Balbus, in vain you urge the notion 
That Ignorance begets Devotion — 
We can’t believe it till we see 
Yourself a fervent devotee. Rurus. 
By Hook or by Crook. —It is said-that Strong- 
bow, when debating with his followers on the best 
mode of capturing Ireland, said, that it must be 
taken “by Hook or by Crook.” “ The Hook” is 
the name of a well-known promontory, forming 
the N. KE. boundary of Waterford Harbour ; and 
Crook-haven is an equally well-known harbour, 
on the south coast. Could this have any thing to 
do with the proverb ? J.G. 
Kilkenny. 
Macaulay's Young Levite.—I send you an 
_ advertisement, from a local paper of 1767, which 
shows what stipend was offered to a curate at that 
period, The population of Burton Bradstich and 
Shepton Gorge, in 1821, was respectively 854 
and 311. I do not know what it was in 1767. 
The value of the rectory of Burton, with the 
chapelry of Shepton, was returned, in 1650, as 2017. 
In 1826 it was computed to be 5001. A.D. M. 
From “ Cruthwell’s Sherborne, Shaftesbury, and Dor- 
chester Journal; or Yeovil, Taunton, and Bridge- 
water Chronicle of 10th July, 1767.” 
«“ A Curate is wanted, at Old Michaelmas next, to 
serve the Churches of Burton and Shipton, in Dorset- 
shire ; Salary 36/, per annum, Easter Offerings, and 
Surplice Fees; together with a good House, pleasant 
Gardens, and a Pigeon House well stock’d. The 
Churches are within a mile and a half of each other, 
served once a Day, and alternately. The Village of 
Burton is sweetly situated, within half a mile of the 
Sea, about a mile and a half from Bridport Harbour, 
and is noted in the Summer for its fine Mackarel 
Fishery. Application to be made to the Rev. Mr. 
Richards, Rector. 
«A married gentleman will be most agreeable.” 
Praise undeserved.— Does any one know where 
the oft-quoted line, 
«« Praise undeserved is censure in disguise,” 
is to be found? <A long search for it has hitherto 
proved ineffectual. D.S. 
{This line, which is so often quoted, with the varia- 
tion — 
“ Praise undeserved is Satire in disguise,” 
is to be found in Pope’s First Epistle of the Second 
Book of Horace ; where, however, we find that neither 
Censure nor Satire is the correct reading. It is, more- 
over, both in Warton’s edition and in the Aldine Poets, 
edited by the Rev. A. Dyce, marked as a quotation, as 
will be seen in the following extract; so that Pope, it 
appears, is not the author of it. Perhaps some of our 
correspondents can trace the source from which he de- 
rived it: — 
« Besides, a fate attends on all I write, 
That when I aim at praise they say I bite. 
A vile encomium doubly ridicules ; 
There’s nothing blackens like the ink of fools, 
If true, a woeful likeness; and, if lies, 
‘ Praise undeserved is Scandal in disguise.’ ”] 
Passage in Cowper's “‘ Task.” —Tn all early edi- 
tions of Cowper's Tash, the opening lines of the 4th 
book are punctuated as follows : — 
“ Hark ! ’tis the twanging horn! O’er yonder bridge, 
(That with its wearisome but needful length 
Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon 
Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright, ) 
He comes, the herald of a noisy world,” &c. 
In modern editions, I believe universally, we 
find the following corruption of the passage : — 
“ Hark ! ’tis the twanging horn o’er yonder bridge, 
That with,” &e. 
closing with a colon period or at “bright,” and 
