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 304 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9" s. iv. OCT. w, reason for retaining "lest"of the First Folio, not as a form of least, the superlative of little, but as meaning/or fear that. The speech is interrupted by Miranda's words, " Alas, now, pray you, Work not so hard," the task having been resumed with the closing words. Fer- dinand would say that he must complete a certain task upon a sore injunction, and that, although occasionally forgetting his work and becoming wholly absorbed with thoughts of Miranda, such thoughts do even refresh his labours, the latter being then most busy (in order to make up for lost time) lest, when he does so forget to keep steadily at work, he should fail to finish the task according to command. E. MERTON DEY. St. Louis. ' TROILUS AND CEESSIDA,' II. ii. 70-1 (Globe Text).— Nor the remainder viands We do not throw iu unrespective sieve. The note in the " Eversley Edition" on the ex- pression "unrespective sieve" indicates some uneasiness as to whether the word sieve, which is usually regarded as that repre- sented by the Quarto reading, is correct, on the ground that it involves an idea contra- dictory to "unrespective." On the other hand, the Folio reading "same" seems un- intelligible. Now since non-final s for / or for the composite./?, and u (as v was printed) for r, are easy printers' blunders, it is not unlikely that the word in the original manu- script was "fire," which on a revision was changed to " flame," in order to avoid the awkward echo of the sound of " viands " in the preceding line. On this theory, allowing for the misprints, we have a reconcilement between the Quarto and Folio readings, and an interesting trace of careful revision on the part of the poet. ALFRED E. THISELTON. MEMORIAL TO THE POET CAMPBELL. — It is pleasant to record that the French have placed a tablet on the house at Ikmlogne where the poet Campbell breathed his last on the loth of June, 1844. Advantage was taken of the recent visit to Boulogne of some of the members of the British Association, and on the 21st of last month the tablet was uncovered in the presence of a representative gathering of both nations. M. Leon Morel, professor at the Lycee Louis le Grand, delivered the ad- dress, mentioning, among other works of the poet, "le petit porme militairo intitule ' Napoleon et le Matelot Anglais,' car il inte- resse notre histoire locale, c'est un recit que connaissent tous les collegiens d'Angleterre, et bon nombre des ndtres." After reference to Campbell's part in the foundation of the London University, M. Morel closed his ad- dress by saying that the memorial was "a token of regard to a great man and a token of old and sincere friendship with a great nation." The numbers of ' N. & Q.' are full of inter- esting references to the poet, among others the origin of' Hohenlinden ' with the criticism which appeared in the Greenock Advertiser ' Notices to Correspondents':— "T. C.—The lines commencing On Linden, when the sun was low, are not up to our standard. Poetry is evidently notT. C.'s forte." The Athenaeum, of the 6th of July, 1844, in giving an account of the poet's funeral in Westminster Abbey, mentions that at that part of the service where we commit his body to ashes and dust to dust, " one of the Polish exiles cast upon the coffin of their friend some earth wnich he had brought with him from the grave of the great Kosciusko." JOHN C. FRANCIS. BROWNING'S 'LA SAISIAZ.'— He there with the brand flamboyant, broad o'er night's forlorn abyss, Crowned by prose and verse; and wielding, with Wit's bauble, Learning's rod Well ? Why, he at least believed in Soul, was very sure of Uod. In his ' Browning Cycloptedia' Dr. Berdoe says:— ' Many writers (Canon Cheyne for one, in ' The Origin of the Psalter,' p. 410) have thought that by the lines beginning 'He there with the brand flamboyant,'&c., the poet referred to himself. Of course any such idea is preposterous ; the reference was to Voltaire." Not having access to Canon Cheyne's work, I do not know the ground of his opinion; but if Canon Cheyne be one and the same with the learned Prof. Cheyne of Oriel, I should say that he is about the last man likely to propound any idea deserving to be styled " preposterous." No "man of sense"—"unit mid the millions " says Browning—" takes flare for evidence"— believes anything solely because it is war- ranted by one whom the world has dubbed as famous. But since the unthinking millions must have " fame," mere " flare," to flash con- viction, "give me fame a moment." Suppose For the nonce that I unite in my own person the fame of Rousseau in prose, of Byron in verse, of Voltaire in wit, and of Gibbon in learning; then I make use of " the brand flamboyant" to flash forth this: I believe in Soul and am very sure of God ; which believe, for I believe it. R. M. SPENUE, D.D.