From great Troy, afar, to Monâ."
JOHN FENTON.
Glyn y mêl, Fishguard, June 27, 1851.
John Perrot (Vol. iii., p. 336.).
—I possess a neatly written MS., of 88 pp. small 8vo., entitled A Primmer for Children, written by a suffering Servant of God, John Perrot; corrected, ammended, and made more easie: London, in the Yeare 1664. The only notice of him after this date is in p. 290. of Sewel's History of the Quakers:
"Perrot now walked in an erroneous path, grew worse from time to time; even to that degree that, being come into America, he fell into manifold sensualities and works of the flesh; for he not only wore gawdy apparel, but also a sword; and being got into some place in the government, he became a severe exacter of oaths."
E. D.
Sneck up (Vol. i., p. 467.; Vol. ii., p. 14.).
—Sneck up is a stage direction for hiccup, which Sir Toby was likely to observe after his "pickle herring." Davis is quite right in following Theobald. A word for Theobald. Every commentator is indebted to him, and almost every one has abused him, from Warburton and Pope to Coleridge, and without Theobald's notes and most sagacious amendments, ordinary readers would be puzzled to read Shakspeare. The booksellers, I am glad to see, had sense enough to see Theobald's merit, and gave him a far larger sum for his edition than has been paid to most of his successors.
S. H. (2)