ERYX.
Sheridan and Vanbrugh.
—Could any of your readers inform me as to the following? I find printed in Sheridan's Dramatic Works by Bohn, a copy of Sir John Vanbrugh's play of The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger. It is, with a very few omissions, an exact reprint, but bears the title of A Trip to Scarborough, or Miss in her Teens. No comment is made, or any mention of Vanbrugh.
O. O.
Quotation from an old Ballad.—
"Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But, why did you kick me down stairs?"
In what old ballad or poetic effusion may the above forcibly expressive, though not remarkably elegant, lines be found? A short time ago they were quoted in The Times' leading article, from which fact I suppose them to be of well-known origin.
NREDRA NAMB.