Chapter C: R. M

_Shakepeare's Use of Captious_ (Vol. ii., p. 354.).--In _All's Well that Ends Well_, Act I. Sc. 3.:

"I know I love in vain; strive against hope;
Yet in this _captious_ and intenible sieve,
I still pour in the waters of my love,
And lack not to lose still:"

has not MR. SINGER, and all the other commentators upon this passage, overlooked a most apparent and satisfactory solution? Is it not evident that the printer simply omitted the vowel "a," and that the word, as written by Shakespeare, was "cap_a_tious," the "t," according to the orthography of the time, being put for the "c" used by modern writers?

With great deference to former critics, I think this emendation is the most probable, as it accords with the sentiment of Helena, who means to depict her _vast_ but unretentive sieve, into which she poured the waters of her love.

W. F. S.

P.S.--I hope MR. SINGER and J. S. W. will tell us what they think of this proposed alteration.

Bognor, Feb, 22. 1851.

_Tanthony_ (Vol. iii., p. 105.).--I would suggest that the "tanthony" at Kimbolton is a corruption or mis-pronunciation of "tintany," _tintinnabulum_. I have failed to discover any legend of St. Anthony, confirmatory of ARUN'S suggestion.

A.

Newark, Notts., Feb. 12.

_By the bye_ (Vol. iii., p 73.).--Is your correspondent S. S. not aware that the phrase "Good bye" is a contraction of our ancestors' more devotional one of "God be wi' ye!"