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which was passed at Mortlake, he suffered severely 
from the pressure of poverty.” 
He died in 1608. Dr. Taylor, I suppose, writes 
on the authority of Dee’s MSS. and Journal, 
edited by Dr. Isaac Casaubon. W. M. K. 
Viridis Vallis (No. 14. p. 213.).— This is the 
monastery of Groenendael, situated in the forest 
of Soignies, near Brussels. In the Bibliotheque 
des Ducs de Bourgoyne are preserved several 
manuscript volumes relative to its history. (See 
Marchal’s Catalogue, vol. ii. p. 84.) Sir Thomas 
Phillipps has also a Chartulary of this monastery 
among his manuscripts. F. M. 
Recent Novel. —I beg to inform “ AponrxHus” 
that the Novel of which he is in search (No. 15. 
p- 231.) is Le Morne au Diable, by Eugéne Sue; 
the hero of which is the Duke of Monmouth, who 
is supposed to have escaped to Martinique. J.S. 
MISCELLANIES. 
Use of Monosyllables.—In Beaumont and 
Fletcher's Boadicea, Act 3. Se.1., (Edinburgh, 
1812.), I meet with the following lines in Cara- 
tach’s Apostrophe to “ Divine Andate,” and which 
seem to corroborate Mr. C. Forses’s theory (No. 
16. p. 228.) on the employment of monosyllables 
by Shakspeare, when he wished to express violent 
and overwhelming emotion; at least they appear 
to be used much in the same way by the cele- 
brated dramatists whom I quote : — 
“ Give us this day good hearts, good enemies, 
Good blows on both sides, wounds that fear or 
flight 
Can claim no share in; steel us both with anger, 
And warlike executions fit thy viewing. 
Let Rome put on her best strength, and thy Bri- 
tain, - 
Thy little Britain, but as great in fortune, 
Meet her as strong as she, as proud, as daring ! 
And then look on, thou red-eyed God; who does 
best, 
Reward with honour; who despair makes fly, 
Unarm for ever, and brand with infamy !” 
C.L R. 
Feb. 16. 
To endeavour oneself (No. 8. p. 125.). — 
“G.P.” thinks that the verb “endeavour” takes 
a middle voice form in the collect for the second 
Sunday after Easter, in the preface to the Con- 
firmation Service, and in the Form of Ordering of 
Priests; but in these instances is it any thing 
more than the verb neuter, implying that we 
should endeavour ourselves to follow, &c.? 
In Shepherd's Elucidation of the Book of Com- 
mon Prayer (2 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1817), under the 
head of the Confirmation Office, it is stated rela- 
tive to the persons to be confirmed (vol. ii. 
p-312.), “that they solemnly engage evermore to 
endeavour faithfully to perform their part of that 
covenant.” C. I. R. 
Evelyn's Sculptura.—In a copy of Evelyn’s 
Sculptura, 3rd edit , with Memoir of the Author's 
Life, 8vo. London, 1759, I find the following memo- 
randum, in pencil, prefixed to the Memoirs : — 
« By Dr. Warton of Winchester, as he himself in- 
formed me in 1785.” 
An autograph resembling “J. Chelmar” is on 
the fly-leaf. As I do not see this Memoir ascribed 
to Dr. Warton in any list, to which I have access, 
of his writings, perhaps the Memoir is not gene- 
rally, or at all, known to be by him, and I there- 
fore send the memorandum to you to be winnowed 
in your literary threshing-floor, by those who have 
better means and more leisure to ascertain its 
value. J. M. 
Oxford, Feb. 5. 
William Baxter. —1 do not know whether Wil- 
liam Baxter is authority for anything. When you 
see a word quoted from one of the languages or 
dialects which the moderns call Celtic, that word 
will very commonly be found not to exist. When 
at a loss, quote Celtic. If W. Baxter says (see 
No. 13. p. 195.) that buarth papan means the sun’s 
ox-stall, or, in other words, that papan means the 
sun, I should wish to know where else such a 
name for that luminary, or for any thing else, may 
be met with? I have not found any such thing. 
Derivation of the word “ Avon.” — Among the 
many proofs of the prevalence of the Gaelic roots 
in existing names at both ends of the island, it 
may be mentioned that there are ten rivers named 
Avon in Britain, and Avon is simply the Gaelic 
word for a river. J. U. G. Guten. 
Warton and Heinsius. — A late critic thinks he 
has discovered that Mr. ‘Thomas Warton, a con- 
temporary of Mr. Wise, and fellow of the same 
college, an antiquary and scholar of whom Eng- 
land may be proud, knew little of Latin, and less 
of Greek, because, forsooth, he did not notice 
Milton's false quantities, which Heinsius did! As 
well might it be argued, that the critic is an im- 
moral man, because he did not notice the delin- 
quencies of Heinsius in a moral point of view ; the 
said Heinsius being obliged to resign his secre- 
taryship to the city of Amsterdam in consequence 
of a prosecution by a young woman for breach of 
peace of marriage, under the faith of which she 
ad lived with him, and borne him two children. 
The sentence of misdaadigheyd was pronounced 
against him, and confirmed, on appeal, by the su- 
preme court of Holland, in 1662. So much for 
the unpatriotic puff of the learned foreigner, to 
