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should be " makes." The version adopted by some modern editions is :

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done.

This represents the obvious meaning of 'the words, and is quite good English, but is it generally accepted ? Is there, in short, any authority for it, or is it only a conjec- ture ? J. FOSTER 'PALMER.

3 Oakley Street, S.W.3.

'HAMLET' I. iv. 36-8 (12 S. iv. 211; v. 4, 115 ; vi. 2)

Throughout the seventy years of ' N. & Q.'s ' life all the emendations of the,above passage suggested in its pages have been devoted to the words "of a doubt." But why 'should these words be looked on as a corruption ? Has it never been suggested that the corruption lies in the word " doth " or the word " all " ? May not one of these

have been set up in place of the word " robs " or some other word indicating deprivation ? The passage would then read :

The dram of eale

Robs all the noble Substance of a doubt, or

The dram of eale Doth rob the noble Substance of a doubt.

In other words " the smallest tincture of evil takes from the whole of the noble sub- stance any trace of doubt as to its general badness," which is just what Shakespeare has said of the Danes and of " particular men " in the passage preceding the crux. The difficulty in accepting MR. N. W. HILL'S suggestion of " lees " and " overdaub," is that the passage seems clumsy and has not the true Shakespearian ring about it. The suggestion offered above gives a better and more Shakespearian line.

W. E. WILSON. Ha wick.

PRINCIPAL LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES, TAVERNS, IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

(See ante. p. 29.)

AND INNS

Bull and Mouth

[Bumper Tavern

Burton's

Button's

Camisar's .. Cannon

Carpenter's Castle

Castle Tavern Castle Tavern

Catherine Wheel Chapter

Charing Cross

North End, Hampstead. . See Spiller's Head. Holborn (on site of present Holborn Music Hall)

St. Martin's-le-Grand

St. James's Street

Cheapside. .

At corner of Russell Street and Bow Street. The site is now part of the widened thoroughfare leading westward to Covent Garden

St. Martin's Lane

Opposite The British, on the site of the present Union Club in Trafalgar Square

Near Southampton Street, Covent Garden

Covent Garden

Paternoster Bow. . Near Gray's Inn Gate

Bishopsgate Street Without

St. Paul's Church yard. . 1754

1766

1770

1793

Corner of Spring Garden. . 1741

Dobson's 'Hogarth,' 1907, p. 29.

1749 'Tom Jones,' (xiii. 2); Shelley's 'Inns, p. 69 ; Wheatley's ' London,' i. 299 ; Cunningham, p. 88 ; Larwood, p. 62.

Thornbury, ii. 217, 219 ; Wheatley's

' London.' i. 300.

1711 Spectator, Nos. 264, 358, 468. 1798 The Times, Jan. 8. 1713 Addison's Guardian, June 2. 1730 Fielding's ' Temple Beau.' 1749 ' Torn Jones,' xiii. 5 ; Wheatley's ' Hogarth's London,' p. 273 ; Hard castle, i. 109

Wheatley's ' London,' i. 314.

1711 The Postman, Oct. 11 ; MacMichael's

' Charing Cross,' p. 180. 1742 MacMichael's ' Charing Cross,' p. 34. 1793 Roach's L.P.P., pp. 47, 52.

MacMichael's ' Charing Cross,' p. 213.

Larwood, p. 487 ; MacMichael's ' Charing

Cross,' p. 147.

Humphrey's ' Memoirs,' p. 218 ; Larwood, p. 130.

Middlesex County Records [Sessions Books, 878-901

Besant, p. 333.

The Connoisseur, January.

Morley's ' Baretti,' p. 101.

Chatterton to his mother, May 6.

Roach's L.P.P., p. 58 ; Wheatley's ' Lon- don,' i. 350 ; Besant, p. 315 ;Cunningham, p. 104; Sydney's 'XVIII. Century,* i. 186.

Daily Advertiser, Nov. 7.

1752 1730