The spoile of peoples evil gotten good,
The which her sire had serap’t by hooke and crooke,
And burning all to ashes pour’d it down the brooke.”
In Holland’s Suetonius, p. 169:—
“Likewise to get, to pill and poll by hooke and crooke so much, as that——”
In a letter of Sir Richard Morysin to the Privy Council, in Lodges Illustrations, &c., i. 154:—
“Ferrante Gonzaga, d’Arras, and Don Diego, are in a leage, utterlie bent to myslyke, and to charge by hook or by crooke, anything don, or to be don, by the thre fyrst.”
L.S.
Cupid Crying.—The beautiful epigram upon this subject, which appeared in No. 11 p. 172., was kindly quoted, “for its extreme elegance,” by the Athenæum of the 26th January, which produced the following communication to that journal of Saturday last:—
“Will the correspondent of the ‘NOTES AND QUERIES,’ whose pretty epigram appears copied into your Athenæum of Saturday last, accept the following as a stop-gap pending the discovery of the Latin original?