When devils will their blackest sins put on,

They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,

As I do now."

Any of your readers who are acquainted with the common careless handwriting in use at the time, will greatly oblige by informing me if it be beyond likelihood that a word commencing with the letter s should have been read as though it began with p.

I have no intention of continuing the contest on the meaning of "eisell," nor should I have felt it necessary to notice the remarks of J. S. W. in No. 91., had they been avowedly in opposition to mine and MR. SINGER'S. But when the advocate assumes the ermine, and proceeds to sum up the evidence and pass judgment, I feel it only right that those points in which he has misrepresented my argument should not be passed over. I did not say "that the word cannot mean a river because the definite article is omitted before it." What I did say was, that "English idiom requires an article unless it be personified." Milton's lines merely confirm this, though I am willing to admit that the argument is of little weight When, however, J. S. W. expresses his surprise that "a gentleman who exhorts," &c., had not looked to the general drift of the passage, I fancy he cannot have read my first observations with regard to it, in which I say "the idea of the passage appears to be," &c. What is this but the "general drift?" Before finally leaving this subject, allow me to explain, that, in objecting to the terms "mere verbiage" and "extravagant rant" of a correspondent, I took them together. I included the latter perhaps hastily. But, however "extravagant" the "rant" of his real or assumed madmen may be, I am satisfied that there is no "mere verbiage" to be found in Shakspeare.

SAMUEL HICKSON.

HOUSE OF YVERY.
(Vol. iii., p. 101.)

Some years ago, in the library of a noble earl in the north of England, I met with a "fair and perfect" copy of this rare book. The following is a list of the plates which it contained:—