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 ii s. ix. JUNE 6, 1914.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Truth needs no advocate ; the unjust cause Buys up the tongues that travel with applause In these your thronged courts.

' A. and V.,' IV. i. (iii. 191). (V.)

A judge, methinks, looks loveliest when he weeps Pronouncing of death's sentence.

' C. C.,' III. i. (iv. 48).

Compare :

You have made sorrow look lovely of late, You have wept.

' D. L. 0.,' I. ii. (iii. 25). (vi.)

I am lost, lost in 't for ever.

' C. C.,' III. iii. (iv. 54). Again :

O, I am lost for ever !

Compare :
 * 0. C.,' IV. ii. (iv. 69).

I am lost for ever !

' W. D.,' V. i. (ii. 112). O, I am lost for ever !

' D. L. C.,' II. iii. (iii. 46).

Dr. Stoll notes that in three of these in- stances the exclamation is that of a woman on hearing the news of her lover's death ; in the fourth ('The White Devil') it is the sight of the lover in his death agony that prompts the woman's cry.

(vii.) O dear cousin,

You are grateful above merit !

' C. C.,' III. iii. (iv. 56). Compare :

We are happy above thought, because 'bove merit. ' W. D.,' I. ii. (ii. 15).

(viii.) In the latter part of Act IV. sc. i., the whole of which is attributed to Rowley by Mr. Gosse, occurs one of the most unmis- takable indications of Webster's hand. In the course of the conversation in " The Three Tuns : ' tavern, between Pettifog, the lawyer, and Lionel, Pettifog remarks that although he has sat in the tavern but half an hour, and drunk only three pints of wine, the offerings of his clients have brought him in 9s., and he has paid all the reckoning. " Almost a counsellor's fee," observes Lionel. To which Pettifog replies :

And a great one, as the world goes in Guild- hall ; ior noiv our young clerks share with 'em, to help 'em to clients. ' C. C.,' IV. i. (iv. 63).

This practice of barristers sharing their fees with solicitors' clerks, as an inducement to the latter to bring them clients, is again alluded to in ' The Devil's Law Case.' Sani tonella (the lawyer's clerk) has endeavoured to retain Ariosto as counsel for Leonora in her lawsuit with Romelio, but Ariosto will have nothing to do with the case. Sanito- nella accordingly takes the brief to Contilupo, who eagerly accepts it. " That I could not think of this virtuous gentleman, Before I

went to th' other hog-rubber ! " exclaims the clerk :

Why, this was wont to give young clerks half -fees To help him to clients.

' D. L. C.,'IV. i. (iii. 79).

Note the close verbal repetition, charac- teristic of Webster.

(ix.)

. . . .one thing I would advise you ;

'Tis counsel worth a fee, though I be

No lawyer. ' C. C.,' IV. i. (iv. 67).

Compare :

.... I think no civil lawyer for his fee Can give you better counsel.

'D. L. C.,'I.ii. (ii. 27), (x.)

I do freeze with expectation of it.

' C. C.,' IV. ii. (iv.69). Compare :

My intelligence will freeze else.

' D. M.,' IV. i. (ii. 233). I '11 not freeze i' th' business.

(xi.)

You have ta'en a mass of lead from off my heart

For ever would have sunk it in despair.

'C. C.,'IV. ii. (iv. 70). Compare :

And thou hast ta'en that massy sheet of lead That hid my husband's bones, and folded it About my heart. ' D. M.,' III. ii. (ii. 209-10).

(xii.)

You are to sleep with a sweet bed-fellow Would knit the brow at that.

'C. O.,'l\ : .ii. (iv. 74). Compare :

. . . .why, the saints in heaven Will knit their brows at that.


 * W. D.,' II. i. (ii. 38).

H. DUGDALE SYKES, ( To be continued.)

" GARBETT JOHNSON, TOMB-MAKER. "- Details of the following suit from the Court of Requests only become interesting from the light they throw on the reputed maker of Shakespeare's monument. This is proof positive that Johnson did not and could not have done that piece of work. But as it has always been said that he also made that of John Combe we must remember that he r in order to be, sure of it, had his tomb designed and prepared during his lifetime (which gave reason to the traditional saying that he asked Shakespeare what epitaph he should put on it) Johnson might have designed the figure and monument of the latter.

On the 26th June, 15 James I., Giles Canon and Jane his wife complained that they had pur- chased from Garrett Johnson, tomb-maker, for