"Altera per jugulum pennis tenus acta sagitta est:
Expulit hanc sanguis; seque ejaculatus in altum
Emicat."—VI. 260.
The author of this ballad would appear, from the passages cited by Addison, to have been well read in the Latin poets. Had Addison recollected the above passage of Ovid, he would doubtless have adduced it.
J. S. W.
Stockwell.
Horace Walpole at Eton.
—The following anecdote of Horace Walpole while at Eton was related by the learned Jacob Bryant, one of his school-fellows, and has not, I believe, been printed; it is at all events very much at your service.
In those days the Etonians were in the habit of acting plays, and amongst others Tamerlane was selected for representation. The cast of parts has unluckily not been preserved, but it is sufficient for us to know that the lower boys were put into requisition to personate the mutes. After the performance the wine, which had been provided for the actors, had disappeared, and a strong suspicion arose that the lower boys behind the scenes had made free with it, and Horace Walpole exclaimed, "The mutes have swallowed the liquids!"
BRAYBROOKE.