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celebrity, Mrs. Barbauld. The printer was J. McCreery for T. Cadell and W. Davies in- the Strand. The little volume is in excellent preservation after nearly a century's existence, and is of interest to admirers of the poet as affording matter for a com- parison with earlier issues. There is also an appendix of notes on the three " books " therein. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

SHAKESPEARIAN A : AN EMENDATION. In ' Henry VIII.,' III. ii., occur the following lines, assigned to Cardinal Wolsey : I do profess

That for your highness' good I ever labour'd More than mine own ; that am, have, and will be, Though all the world should crack their duty to

you, And throw it from their soul.

The words " that am, have, and will be," says Mr. Gollancz in ' The Temple Shake- speare,' " have taxed the ingenuity of scholars." We are further told that " some two-dozen various emendations are recorded in the Cambridge Shakespeare," but, says Mr. Gollancz, " probably the line is correct as it stands."

But the line " as it stands " makes neither sense nor metre, whereas a very simple, and, as it seems to me, a very obvious emendation gives us both. I feel confident that Shake- speare (or was it Fletcher ?) wrote " that am I, have, and will be," i.e., " that am I, have (been), and will be."

It is quite easy to supply the past par- ticiple " been " from " be " which imme- diately follows, and the ellipsis certainly cannot be called a violent one.

I do not find this suggestion among the various emendations recorded by the Cam- bridge editors, though Howe reads " that am I, have been, and will be." But the insertion of " been " ruins the metre, and I cannot doubt that the reading of the First and Second Folios is right with the addition of the personal pronoun, which has inadvertently slipped out. G. G. GREENWOOD.

iOS 2KHNH.

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This proverb is quoted by PROF. BENSLY under ' Origin of Quotations Wanted,' '* 2. Veni, vidi, vici " (ante, pp. 76, 77). The reference given is Apostolius, xii. 58. In my copy of Apostolius, viz., the Elsevier edition, Leyden, 1653, the reference is Ceiituria xiv. 26.

The saying appears as the last but one of " Democrat is Philosophi Aurece Sententiae "

in ' Opuscula Mythologica, Ethica et Physica/ Cantabrigise, 1671, in that part entitled ' Demophili, Democratis, et Secundi .... Sententise Morales ' ____ Editio secunda, Canta- brigiae, 1670, p. 18 ; also in' Opuscula Mytho- logica Physica et Ethica,' Amstelsedami, 1688, p. 632.

In these two books the form is : 'O KoV/zos (TKyvr), 6 f3ios Tra/ooSos*

There is a foot-note to the effect that Plotinus (Ennead 3, lib. 2, c. 15) rightly says that TTct/ooSos refers to " the first entrance and appearance of the chorus on the stage."

Perhaps Sir John Shadwell, M.D., had this saying in his mind when he composed the first inscription for his father's (Thomas Shadwell's) monument in Westminster Abbey, vetoed by Dean Sprat :

" Upon the Pyramid was engraved SKHNH Antiquities of St. Peter's, or, the Abbey- Church of Westminster ' (attributed to Jodocus Crull), 3rd ed., 1722, vol. ii. p. 42. (A great deal more of the inscription was rejected, as alluding to stage plays.) See also ' A New View of London ' (by Edward Hatton), 1708, p. 823. where Ilat Iviov appears for Ilcuyvtov. Hatton sa}^s that it " is intended to be fixed this following Mon. which I had a sight of at the Stone Carvers before put up." ROBERT PIERPOINT.
 * HAS '0 BJ02 | KAI IIAirXION." See ' The

EARL GODWIN'S SWORD. The following appeared in The Irish Times of 28 July :

" Mr. James Coombs Hurditch, of Atherton House, Portbury, Soms., yeoman, died 25 June last Probate of his will, dated 4 Dec., 1913, has been granted to Mr. Jas. Arthur Herbert Hurditch^ son, and his daughter, Ethel Marianne Hurditch, both of Atherton House. The testator left the ancient sword which, according to tradition, belonged to Earl Godwin, and was known by h : s ancestors as the Godwin Sword, to his son Godwin Thos. Hurditch."

WILLIAM MACARTHTJR.

79, Talbot Street, Dublin.

THE COLOUR OF SHAKESPEARE'S EYES. John Davidson, the poet, in his book of mingled verse and prose entitled ' A Rosary r (1903), p. 2, speaking of Shakespeare, says :

" There comes up to London in his twenty- third year a penniless ruffian from Warwickshire. Muscular, with a thick neck ; fierce gray eyes of extraordinary size and lustre ; dark red hair upon. a great and exquisitely shaped head."

But I have always supposed, judging from the half-length effigy in Stratford-on-Avon Church, that while his hair was a dark auburn > his eyes were hazel or, at any rate, brown.