Jarltzberg.
Pistol and Bardolph.—I am glad to be able to transfer to your pages a Shakspearian note, which I met with in a periodical now defunct. It appears from an old MS. in the British Museum, that amongst canoniers serving in Normandy in 1436, were "Wm. Pistail—R. Bardolf." Query, Were these common English names, or did these identical canoniers transmit a traditional fame, good or bad, to the time of Shakspeare, in song or story?
If this is a well-known Query, I should be glad to be referred to a solution of it, if not, I leave it for inquiry.
G.H.B.
EPIGRAM FROM BUCHANAN.
Doletus writes verses and wonders—ahem—When there's nothing in him, that there's nothing in them.
J.O.W.H.