I should be glad if any one could inform me by whom the latter lines were added, and where they may be found in print.
C.W.G.
Pity is akin to Love.—Where are the following words to be met with?—
"For Pity is akin to Love."
I have found very similar expressions, but never the exact words as above.
H.
REPLIES
AELFRIC'S COLLOQUY, AND THE A.-S. WORD ÆGYPE IN THE A.-S. PSALTER.
In reference to MR. THORPE'S note (No. 15. p. 232.), I beg leave, with all possible respect and deference, to suggest that his joke is not quite ad rem.—What would do for a beefsteak does not help his mistake; for it is quite evident that sprote applies to fish-swimming and not to fish-catching; and I presume that "useful and sagacious" auxiliary, Dr. Kitchener himself, would hardly have ventured to deny that fish may swim quickly?