Chapter M: Oxford, Jan. 17. 1850

_Name of Shylock._--When Mr. Knight says that _Scialac_ was "the name of a Marionite (Maronite?) of mount Libanus," he appears to consider the {222} term peculiar, or nearly so, to that personage; but Upton, as long ago as 1748, in his _Critical Observations_, 2nd ed. p. 299., remarked, that _Scialac_ was the generic name, and _Shylock_ merely a corruption. I may also remark, that Mr. Knight dismisses Dr. Farmer's theory as worthless, without sufficient consideration. It by no means follows that 1607 is the date of the _first edition_ of _Caleb Shillocke_, merely because Boswell saw a copy bearing that date.

J.O. HALLIWELL.

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SONNET.

_Written on the close of the Session_, 1849.

"The tyme cam that resoun was to ryse."--CHAUCER.

"_Corin_. And how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone?

"_Touchstone._ Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself it is a good life.... In respect it is in the Fields, it pleaseth me well."--SHAKSPEARE.

Ho! for the shady grove and silvery stream!
Now that yclosed is the Fane, where I
Am doomed, by no unhappy destiny,
To tend those Mighty Ones who find a theme
For their lives' labour in the nation's weal.
Now am I free, or book or rod in hand,
Alone, or compassed by a cherub band
Of laughing children, by the brook to steal,
Seeking repose in sport which WALTON loved--
Sport meet alike for Youth or thoughtful
Age--
Free, an I wish to go a pilgrimage
With CHAUCER, my companion long approved,
Or thee, thou Greater One, who lovedst to sing,
"Of books in brooks, and good in every thing."

WILLIAM J. THOMS.

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THE DEVOTEE. (_From the Latin_.)

Balbus, in vain you urge the notion
That Ignorance begets Devotion--
We can't believe it till we see
Yourself a fervent devotee.

RUFUS.

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_By Hook or by Crook._--It is said that Strongbow, when debating with his followers on the best mode of capturing Ireland, said, that it must be taken "by Hook or by Crook." "_The Hook_" is the name of a well-known promontory, forming the N.E. boundary of Waterford Harbour; and _Crook-haven_ is an equally well-known harbour, on the south coast. Could this have any thing to do with the proverb?

J.G.

Kilkenny.

_Macaulay's Young Levite._--I send you an advertisement, from a local paper of 1767, which shows what stipend was offered to a curate at that period. The population of Burton Bradstich and Shepton Gorge, in 1821, was respectively 854 and 311. I do not know what it was in 1767.

The value of the rectory of Burton, with the chapelry of Shepton, was returned, in 1650, as 201l. In 1826 it was computed to be 500l.

A.D.M.

From "Cruthwell's Sherborne, Shaftesbury, and Dorchester Journal; or Yeovil, Taunton, and Bridgewater Chronicle of 10th July, 1767."

"A Curate is wanted, at Old Michaelmas next, to serve the
Churches of Burton and Shipton, in Dorsetshire; Salary 36l. per
annum, Easter Offerings, and Surplice Fees; together with a good
House, pleasant Gardens, and a Pigeon House well stock'd. The
Churches are within a mile and a half of each other, served once
a Day, and alternately. The Village of Burton is sweetly
situated, within half a mile of the Sea, about a mile and a half
from Bridport Harbour, and is noted in the Summer for its fine
Mackarel Fishery. Application to be made to the Rev. Mr.
Richards, Rector.

"A married gentleman will be most agreeable."

_Praise undeserved._--Does any one know where the oft-quoted line,

"Praise undeserved in censure in disguise,"

is to be found? A long search for it has hitherto proved ineffectual.

D.S.

[This line, which is so often quoted, with the variation--

"Praise undeserved is _Satire_ in disguise,"

is to be found in Pope's _First Epistle of the Second Book of
Horace_; where, however, we find that neither _Censure_ nor
_Satire_ is the correct reading. It is moreover, both in
Warton's edition and in the _Aldine Poets_, edited by the Rev.
A. Dyce, marked as a quotation, as will be seen in the following
extract; so that Pope, it appears, is not the author of it.
Perhaps some of our correspondents can trace the source from
which he derived it:--

"Besides, a fate attends on all I write,
That when i aim at praise they say I bite.
A vile encomium doubly ridicules;
There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools.
If true, a woeful likeness; and, if lies,
'Praise undeserved is _Scandal_ in disguise.'"]

_Passage in Cowper's "Task."_--In all early editions of Cowper's _Task_ the opening lines of the 4th book are punctuated as follows:--

"Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge,
(That with its wearisome but needful length
Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon
Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright,)
He comes, the herald of a noisy world," &c.

In modern editions, I believe universally, we find the following corruption of the passage:--

"Hark! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge,
That with," &c.

closing with a colon or period at "bright," and {223} beginning a new sentence with "He comes;" and thus making the poet use the vulgar colloquialism "'tis the horn over the bridge," instead of the remark, that the postman is coming over it.

W.P.P.

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Such of our clerical friends as have in their churches a peal of bells which, at the will of the ringers,

"Speak the loud language of a mighty knell,"

and who must, therefore, sometimes be painfully convinced of the ill practices which occasionally grow up in the belfry, will thank us for calling their attention to the _Practical Remarks on Belfries and Ringers_, lately published, by the Rev. H.T. Ellacombe, in which they will find some useful hints for the correction of such abuses.

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