Pepys, in his Diary, vol. i. p. 152., under date 8th November, 1660, says:
"To Mr. Fox, who was very civil to me. Notwithstanding this was the first day of the King's proclamation against hackney coaches coming into the streets to stand to be hired, yet I got one to carry me home."
T. D.
SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE.
Passage in "The Tempest," Act I. Sc. 2.—
"The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,
Dashes the fire out."
"The manuscript corrector of the folio 1632," Mr. Collier informs us, "has substituted heat for 'cheek,' which is not an unlikely corruption, a person writing only by the ear."