AJAX.
Muggleton (Vol. v., p. 80.).
—The Muggletonian sect probably still exists. I was surprised at finding a shop for the sale of its publications immediately within St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, about five years ago. Perhaps R.S. may think it worth while to look whether the same trade be still carried on there.
J. C. R.
Passage in Hamlet (Vol. v., p. 169.).
—I have just read A. E. B.'s Notes on Shakspeare, No. II. His long criticism, ending in his own suggestion of a new reading of the passage in Hamlet, does not convince me that he has found the true reading yet. I suggest the following:
"The dram of base
Doth all the noble substance often dull,
To his own scandal."
This reading of mine only makes it necessary to substitute the letters n and ll, for a and o, in the quarto of 1605.