And charge with all thy chivalry,”—
fancying, no doubt, that the poet, from ignorance of military terms, had committed a blunder, he used invariably to say—
“And charge with all thy cavalry.”
K.—I once heard two whimsical blunders made in the course of a performance of Macbeth, at a poor little country theatre. The Lady Macbeth—who, not unlikely, had been a laundress—instead of saying merely
“A little water clears us of this deed,”
chose to “make assurance double sure,” and said—“A little soap and water.” And, presently after, for
“We have scotch’d the snake, not killed it,”
the Thane, looking with an air of profound mystery at his tender mate, whispered her,
“We have cotch a snake, and killed it.”