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catchers to send more thanks after you, when you doe not draw, then when you doe ; for they know, It n'i/f be their owne another daie."

M. P. T. Ann Arbor, Mich.

' RICHARD II.,' III. ii. 155-6 : SITTING ox THE GROUND.

For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

This passage was recalled to me by reading the following comment in * Wives and Daughters,' by Mrs. Gaskell, describing Molly's despair on hearing of her father's intention to marry again :

"She had cast herself upon the ground that natural throne for violent sorrow and leant up against the old moss-grown seat."

Chap. x. ' A Crisis.' I note also the following :

Sophocles, ' TrachinisM 789 (Dindorf ), makes Heracles, when he wearied after the first agony of the poisoned robe, throw himself on the ground :

'Eiret 6" a7r7re, TroAAa /xevraAas \0ovl

ptTTTWV eavrov. Job ii. 13 (A.V.) :

" So they [Job's three friends] sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights."

I had got thus far when I noticed that in the " Knutsford Edition " of * Wives and Daughters ' Dr. A. W. Ward, the editor, refers to the passage quoted from Mrs. Carikell. In his Introduction (p. xxi) he has a foot-note attached to " natural throne for violent sorrow," which reads as follows :

" ' Rest thy xinrest on England's lawful earth,' says the Duchess of York to Queen Margaret, who with Queen Elizabeth takes her seat beside her on the ground ('Richard III.,' Act IV. sc. iv.), and Constance (' King John,' Act III. sc. i.) 'seats her- self on the ground ' with the words :

here I and sorrows sit ;

Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. The idea somehow seems to pervade the earlier part of the ' r wrjippfd up about the head," as the " Globe " Glossary says. Now, however, in Tin- Oxford and Cambridge Review for It -l)n uiry, Dr. Smythe Palmer brings for- ward, and supports with abundant erudi- tion, a brilliant suggestion that " mobled " ivpn-st'iits "Mab-led," i.e., distraught by fairy influence. He compares with this word " pixy-led," " Puck-led," and " will- led " (led astray by a will-o'-the-wisp).

Dr. Smythe Palmer shows that an unusual word was intended in the passage, and points out that a writer in ' N. & Q.' in July, 1864 (3 S. vi. 66), with a true instinct, suggested "mad died," bewildered almost to madness. This same sense is now secured without conjecture, for " the traditional mobled (muffled) was also spelt mabled"

MlDLANDER.

INSCRIPTIONS IN THE TRAFALGAR CEMETERY, GIBRALTAR.

(See ante., p. 104.)

THE following list concludes my notes on inscriptions in this cemetery : FOURTH Bow.

51. William Hepenstall, Esq., Capt. R.X.. ob. 19 Jan., 1809, a. 43.

52. Henry Eugene, s. of Lieut. H. E. Shadwell, 35th Regt., ob. 12 Jan., 1813, a. 8 months.

53 Cathrine, d. of Lieut.-Col. Daly, of the R.V.B., ob. 25 Sep., 1808, a. 5 yrs. 3 months.

54. Elizabeth, w. of Robert Brown, Esq. y Major 4th Royal Veteran Battalion, ob. 1 Dec., 1810, a. 58.

55. Grace, d. of, w. of the Rev. ,

Chaplain to the Forces, ob, during the prevalence of the dread malady most calamitous to this garrison, 18 Nov., 1804, a. 50.

56. Sophia, d. of Capt. Walmsley, 82nd Regt. y ob. 22 Jan., 1811, a. 3.

57. Richard Tribe, Esq., Capt. 82nd Regt. r ob. 25 May, 1811, a. 30.

58. Ensign Joseph Curti(s), 7th R.V.B., a victim to the epidemic fever, 30 Sep., 1813, a. 50.

59. Mrs. C., w. of Digby Thos. Carpenter, Esq., Pavmaster 10th Regt., ob. 22 Nov., 1804, a, 23.

60. Ensign John Sinclair, 7th R.V.B., ob, 5 Dec., 1812, a. 62.

61. James Wilson, Lieut. 1st Royal Veteran Battn., ob. 28 Sep., 1807, a. 65, having faithfully served his country upwards of 49 years. Erected by his widow with 6 children.

62. Ann, w. of Lieut. J. Tulloch, 7th R.V.B., ob. 3 Oct., 1812, a. 32. Also Peter Tulloch, ob. 2 Oct., 1812, a. 20.

63. Richard Lewis, Esq., Apothecary to the Forces, ob. 10 Oct., 1806, a. 38. Erected by his widow with 6 children.

64. Elizabeth, w. of George Tassie, Adjt. r 7th R.V.B., ob. 2 July, 1812, of a decline, a. 34.

65. Major John Grant, 2nd Batt. 89th Regt. after having eminently distinguished himself in a course of long and meritorious service, WMS mortally wounded at the head of his battalion in an attack upon Fort Frangerola, near Malaga. 14 Oct., 1810, and ob. 20 Oct., a. 48.

66. Amelia, d. of Lieut. Walker, 4th R.V.B., ob. 24 Mar., 1812, a. 2 months 19 days.

67. Ralph Willet Adye, Esq., Capt. and Brigade-Major in the Royal Regiment of Artillery ob. 22 Oct., 1804, a. 34, a victim to the distemper ra^inu- in tin- garrison. The remains of his s, John Willet-Adye, who ob. 20 Mar., 1804, a, 2 yrs, 1 month, are deposited in the Garrison Chapel.

68. Capt. Duncan McPherson, 54th Regt. ob. 18 Oct., 1804, a. 2J.