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Coleridge's manner ; but especially I do not think 

 the couplet — 



" Who felt all grief, all wild despair, 

 Tliat the race of man may ever bear," 



is one which Coleridge would have penned, reading 

 as I do in the Aids to Reflection, vol. i. p. 2.55. 

 (edit. Pickering, 184-3) his protest against the 

 doctrine 



" holdeii by more than one of these divines, that the 

 agonies suffered by Christ were equal in amount to the 

 sum total of the torments of all mankind here and 

 hereafter, or to the infinite debt which in an endless 

 succession of instalments we should have been paying 

 to the divine justice, had it not been paid in full by the 

 Son of God incarnate !" 



There are one or two other expressions of which 

 I entertain doubt, but not in sufficient degree to 

 make it worth while to dwell upon them. 



Are we ever likely to receive from any member 

 of Coleridge's family, or from his friend Mr. J. H. 

 Green, the fragments, if not the entire work, of his 

 Logosopkia? We can ill afford to lose a work 

 the conception of whicli engrossed much of his 

 tliougiits, if I am rightly informed, towards the 

 close of his life. Theophylact. 



Dryden — Illustrations hy T. Holt White (Vol. 

 iv., p. 294.). — My father's notes on Dryden are in 

 my possession. Sir Walter Scott never saw them. 

 The words iEoROTUs attributes to Sir Walter were 

 used by another commentator on Dryden some 

 thirty years since. Algernon Holt White. 



Lofcop, Meaning of (Vol. i., p 319.). — Lofcop, 

 not loscop, is clearly the true reading of the word 

 about which I inquired. Looecope is the form in 

 which it is written in the Lynn town-books, as 

 well as in the Cinque-port charters, for a reference 

 to which I have to thank your correspondent 

 L. B. L. (Vol. i.,p.371.) I am now satisfied that it 

 is an altered form of the word lahcop, which occurs 

 in the laws of Ethelred, and is explained in 

 Tiiorpe's Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, 

 vol. i. p. 294., note. The word loveday, which is 

 found in English Middle- Age writers, meaning "a 

 day appointed i'or settling differences by arbitra- 

 tion,"' is an instance of a similar change. This 

 must originally have been lah-dceg, though I am 

 not aware that the word is met with in any Anglo- 

 Saxon documents. But in Old-Norse is found 

 Liigdagr, altered in modern Danish into Lavdag 

 or Lovdag. C. W. G. 



Middletons Epigrams andSatyres, 1608 (Vol. iv., 

 p. 272.). — These Epigrams, about which Qu^so 

 inquires, are not tiie production of Thomas Mid- 

 dlcton the dramatist, but of "Richard Middle- 

 ton of Yorke, gentleman." The oidy copy known 

 to exist is among the curious collection of books 

 presented by tiic poet Drummond to the Univer- 

 «ity of Edinburgh. A careful reprint, limited to 



forty copies, was published at Edinburgh in 1840. 

 It is said to have been done under the superin- 

 tendance of James ilaidment, Esq. 



Edwakd F. Rimbaclt. 



Lord Edward Fitzgerald (Vol. iv., p. 173.). — 

 Your correspondent R. H. was misinformed as to 

 the house of Lord Edward Fitzgerald at Harold's 

 Cross, from the fact of his friend confounding that 

 nobleman with another of the United Irishmen 

 leaders ; namely, Robert Emmett, who was ar- 

 rested in the house alluded to. Lord Edward 

 never lived at Harold's Cross, either in avowed 

 residence or concealment. 



R. H.'s note above referred to, provoked the 

 communication of L. M. M. at Vol. iv., p. 230., 

 who seems to cast a slur upon the Leinster family 

 for neslectinn; the decent burial of their chivalric 

 relative. This is not merited. The family was 

 kept in complete ignorance as to how the body 

 was disposed of, it being the wish of the govern- 

 ment of the day to conceal the place of its sepul- 

 ture ; as is evident from their not interring it at 

 St. Michan's, where they interred Oliver Bond 

 and all the others whom they put to death at 

 Newgate ; and from the notoriety of their having 

 five years later adopted a similar course with 

 regard to the remains of Robert Emmett. (See 

 Madden's Life of Emmett.') But is he buried at 

 St. Werburgh's ? Several, and among others 

 his daughter, Lady Campbell, as appears from 

 L. M. M.'s note, think that he is. I doubt it. Some 

 years since I conversed with an old man named 

 Hammet, the superannuated gravedigger of St. 

 Catherine's, Dublin, and he told me that he 

 officiated at Lord Edward's obsequies in St. Cathe- 

 rine's church, and that they were performed at 

 night in silence, secrecy, and mystery. E. J. W. 



Earwig (Vol. iv., p. 274.). — I do not know 

 what the derivations of this word may be, which 

 are referred to by AHflN as being in vogue. It is 

 a curious fact that Johnson, Richardson, and 

 Webster do not notice the word at all ; although I 

 am not aware that it is of limited or provincial 

 use. In Bailey's Scottish Dictionari/, and in 

 Skinner's Etymologicon, ii is traced to the Anglo- 

 Saxon ear-wicga, i. e. ear-beetle. In Bosworth's 

 Dictionary we find loicga, a kind of insect, a shorn- 

 bug, a beetle. C. W. G. 



Sanderson and Taylor (Vol. iv^ p. 293.). — 

 In No. 103 of "Notes and Queries," under the 

 head of " Sanderson and Taylor,^^ a question is 

 put by W. W. as to the common source of the 

 sentence, " Conscience is the brightness and splen- 

 dour of the eternal light, a spotless mirror of tlie 

 Divine majesty, and the image of the goodness of 

 God." AVithout at all saying that it is the conij- 

 mon source, I would beg to refer W. AV. to " The 

 1 Wisdom of Solomon," c. vii. v. 26., where " wis- 



