it smacks very strongly of Macbeth (Act I. Sc. 7.), and "the poor cat i'th adage:"
"Catus amat pisces, sed non vult tingere plantas."
Rt.
Warmington.
Dreng (Vol. vii., p. 39.).—Dreng is still the Danish term for a servant or a boy: their present station in society could perhaps be only found by a correspondence with Copenhagen; and would then possibly give as little elucidation of their former social position as an explanation of our modern villain would throw any light upon the villani of Domesday Book.
William Bell.
17. Gower Place.
Meals (Vol. vii., p. 208.).—In Celtic, the word Meall means any rising ground of a round form, such as a low hillock; and the name of Mealls may have been given to sand-banks from having a resemblance to small hills at low water.
Fras. Crossley.
Along the sea-margin of the tongue of land between the rivers Mersey and Dee, the sand has been thrown up in domes. Two little hamlets built among those sand-hills are called North and South Meols.