Leicester.
Lord Cliff.—In 1645, James Howell published his Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ; amongst the letters was one on Wines, addressed to the Right Hon. Lord Cliff. Who was he? The letter is dated Oct. 7, 1634.
Y. S. M
Dublin.
Enough.—Was this word always pronounced as at present, enuf? I am inclined to think not; for Waller, in his poem "On a War with Spain," rhymes it with bough:
"Let the brave generals divide that bough,
Our great Protector hath such wreaths enough."
And again, in his "Answer to Sir John Suckling's Verses," he couples it with plough, in those anti-Malthusian lines:
"The world is of a large extent we see,
And must be peopled: children there must be!—