[742] [The N. Engl. Dict. quotes W. Hooper's Rational Recreations (1794) as an earlier authority for the use of "concision" in the sense of conciseness.]

[NP] Who now are weltering——.—[MS. erased.]

[743] ["The cat will mew and dog will have his day." Hamlet, act v. sc. 1, line 280.]

[NQ]

I should not be the foremost to deride

Their fault—but quickly take a sword the other way,

And wax an Ultra-royalist, where Royalty

Had nothing left it but a desperate Loyalty.—[MS. erased.]

[744] {551}

["And hold no sin so deeply red