Mar. 30. 1850.] 
“ Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear 
As morning roses newly wash’d with dew.” 
Here is perfect consistency: the clearness of the 
“morning roses,” arising from their being “ wash’d 
with dew ;” at all events, the quality being height- 
ened by the circumstance. In a passage of the 
so-called “older” play, the duke is addressed by 
Kate as “ fair, lovely lady,” &e. 
“ As glorious as the morning wash’d with dew.” 
p. 203. 
As the morning does not derive its glory from 
the circumstance of its being “ wash’d with dew,” 
and as it is not a peculiarly apposite comparison, 
I conclude that here, too, as in other instances, 
the sound alone has caught the ear of the imitator. 
In Act VY. Se. 2., Katharine says, — 
«“ Then vail your stomachs; for it is no boot ; 
And place your hand below your husband’s foot ; 
In token of which duty, if he please, 
My hand is ready: may it do him ease.” 
Though Shakspeare was, in general, a most cor- 
rect and careful writer, that he sometimes wrote 
hastily it would be vain to deny. In the third 
line of the foregoing extract, the meaning clearly 
is, “as which token of duty ;” and it is the per- 
formance of this “token of duty” which Katha- 
rine hopes may “do him ease.” The imitator, as 
usual, has caught something of the words of the 
original, which he has laboured to reproduce at a 
most unusual sacrifice of grammar and sense; the 
following passage appearing to represent that the 
wives, by laying their hands under their husbands’ 
feet—no reference being made to the act as a 
token of duty—in some unexplained manner, 
“might procure them ease.” 
“ Laying our hands under their feet to tread, 
If that by that we might procure their ease, 
And, for a precedent, I'll first begin 
And lay my hand under my husband's feet.” 
p. 213. 
One more instance, and 1 have done. Shak- 
speare has imparted a dashing humorous character 
to this play, exemplified, among other peculiari- 
ties, by such rhyming of following words as — 
“ Haply to wive and thrive as least I may.” 
“We will have rings and things and fine array.” 
“With ruffs, and cuffs, and farthingales and things.” 
I quote these to show that the habit was Shak- 
speare’s. In Act I. Sc. 1. occurs the passage— 
“that would thoroughly woo her, wed her, and 
bed her, and rid the house of her.” The sequence 
here is perfectly natural; but observe the change: 
in Ferando’s first interview with Kate, he says, — 
““My mind, sweet Kate, doth say I am the man 
Must wed and bed and marrie bonnie Kate.” 
p. 172. 
In the last scene, Petruchio says, — 
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“ Come, Kate, we'll to bed: 
We three are married, but you two are sped.” 
Ferando has it thus :— 
“Tis Kate and I am wed, and you are sped: 
And so, farewell, for we will to our bed.”—p. 214. 
Is it not evident that Shakspeare chose the 
word “sped” as a rhyme to “bed,” and that the 
imitator, in endeayouring to recollect the jingle, 
has not only spoiled the rhyme, but missed the 
fact that all “three” were “married,” notwith- 
standing that “two” were “sped” ? 
It is not in the nature of such things that in- 
stances should be either numerous or very glaring ; 
but it will be perceived that in all of the foregoing, 
the purpose, and sometimes even the meaning, is 
intelligible only in the form in which we find it 
in Shakspeare. I have not urged all that I 
might, even in this branch of the question; but 
respect for your space makes me pause. In con- 
clusion, I will merely state, that I have no doubt 
myself of the author of the Taming of a Shrew 
having been Marlowe; and that, if in some scenes 
it appear to fall short of what we might have ex- 
pected from such a writer, such inferiority arises 
from the fact of its being an imitation, and pro- 
bably required at a short notice. At the same 
time, though I do not believe Shakspeare’s play to 
contain a line of any other writer, 1 think it ex- 
tremely probable that we have it only in a revised 
form, and that, consequently, the play which 
Marlowe imitated might not necessarily have been 
that fund of life and humour that we find it now. 
Samvuex Hicxson. 
St. John’s Wood, March 19, 1850. 
PROVERBIAL SAYINGS AND THEIR ORIGINS — PLA- 
GIARISMS AND PARALLEL PASSAGES. 
“ “Oy of @€or pidodaw amrobvncket vos.” 
Brunck, Poéte Gnomici, p. 231., quoted by 
Gibbon, Decl. and Fall (Milman. Lond. 1838. 
8vo.), xii. 355. (note 65.) 
“ Quem Jupiter vult perdere, priis dementat.” 
These words are Barnes’s translation of the 
following fragment of Euripides, which is the 25th 
in Barnes’ ed. (see Gent.s Mag., July, 1847, p. 
19, note) : — 
© “Oray 5& Aatuwy avopt mopatvy Kakd, 
Tov vudv €6AaWe mpwrov.” 
This, or a similar passage, may have been em- 
ployed proverbially in the time of Sophocles. See 
]. 632. et seq. of the Antigone (ed. Johnson. Lon- 
dini, 1758. 8vo.) ; on which passage there is the 
following scholium : — 
“Mera codias yap trd twos Gotdiuouv KAcwoy eros 
mepavTat, 
“Orav 8 5 daluwv dvdpt moprtyy Kad, 
Toy voby €6AaWe mpdrov ¢ BovAcverau.” 
