O, there's a nobleman in town, one Paris, tha would fain lay knife aboard; but fhe, good foul had as lieve fee a toad, a very toad, as fee him. I anger her fometimes, and tell her that Paris is the properer man ; but, I'll warrant you, when I fay fo, the looks as pale as any clout in the varfal world. Doth not rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter? Rom. Ay, nurfe; What of that? both with an R. Nurfe. Ah, mocker! that's the dog's name. R is no, I 5 Rom. Ay, Nurfe 3 what of that? both with an R. Nurfe. Ab, mocker! that's the dog's name. R is for the know it begins with no other letter ;] I believe, I have rectified this odd ftuff; but it is a little mortifying, that the fenfe, when found, fhould not be worth the pains of retrieving it. fpinis indigna theatris "Scripta pudet recitare, & nugis addere pondus." The Nurfe is reprefented as a prating filly creature; the fays, the will tell Romeo a good joke about his mistress, and asks him, whe ther Rofemary and Romeo do not begin both with a letter: Hefays, Yes, an R. She, who, we muft fuppofe, could not read, thought he had mock'd her, and fays, No, fure, I know better: our dog's name is R. yours begins with another letter. This is natural enough, and in character. R put her in mind of that found which is made by dogs when they fnarl; and therefore, I prefume, the fays, that is the dog's name. R in the fchools, being called The dog's letter. Ben Jonfon, in his English Grammar, fays R is the dog's letter, and birreth in the found. "Irritata canis quod R. R. quam plurima dicat." Lucil WARBURTON. -R. is for Thee ? STELVENS. Dr. Warburton reads:6 Ab mocker! that's the dog's name. R is for the No, &c.] I believe we should read, R is for the dog. No; I know it begins with fame other letter. TYRWHITT. I have adopted this emendation, though Dr. Farmer has fince recommended another which fhould feem equally to deferve attention. He would either omnit name or infert letter. The dog's letter, as the fame gentleman obferves, is pleafantly exemplified in Barclay's Ship of Fools, 1578: This man malicious which troubled is with wrath, STEVENS is for the dog. No; I know it begins with fome other letter: and the hath the prettiest fentiments of it, of you and rosemary, that it would do you good to hear it. Rom. Commend me to thy lady. Nurfe. Ay, a thoufand times.-Peter! [Exit Nurse. Peter, take my fan, and go before. [Exeunt. SCENE V. Capulet's Garden. Enter Juliet. Jul. The clock ftruck nine, when I did fend the nurfe. In half an hour fhe promis'd to return. Perchance, the cannot meet him :-that's not fo.O, she is lame! love's heralds fhould be thoughts, Which ten times fafter glide than the fun's beams, Driving back shadows over lowring hills: Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love, And therefore hath the wind-fwift Cupid wings. Now is the fun upon the highmost hill Again, in Lloid's Jubilee of Britaine, 1607, "R is canina litera." HENDERSON. The author of THE REMARKS proposes to regulate the text thus: Ah mocker! that's the dog's name. R is for theknow it begins with fome other letter. EDITOR. ro; I 6-fhould be thoughts, &c.] The fpeech is thus continued in the quarto, 1597: -fhould be thoughts, And run more fwift than hafty powder fir'd, The greatest part of the feene is likewife added fince that edition. G 2 STEEVENS. Of Of this day's journey; and from nine 'till twelve My words would bandy her to my fweet love, But old folks, many feign as they were dead; Enter Nurfe, with Peter. O God, fhe comes !-O honey nurse, what news? [Exit Peter. Jul. Now, good fweet nurfe,- O lord! why look ft thou fad? Though news be fad, yet tell them merrily; Nurfe. I am aweary, give me leave a while; 7 Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunt have I had! Jul. I would, thou hadft my bones, and I thy news: Nay, come, I pray thee, fpeak ;-good, good nurfe, fpeak. Nurfe. What hafte? can you not stay a while? Do you not fee, that I am out of breath? Ful. How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath To fay to me that thou art out of breath? The excufe, that thou doft make in this delay, Is thy news good, or bad? anfwer to that; 7 Fic how my bones ache! -What a jaunt have I had?] This is the reading of the folio. The quartos read: what a jaunce have I had ? The two words appear to have been formerly fynonymous. See K. Rich. II. vol. v. p. 255; Spur-gall'd and tir'd by janncing Bolingbroke." MALONE. Say 1 Of this day's journey; and from nine 'till twelve during the day, to found ets reduced by poverty. istori, has played at the e poet Moore has been nforms us that a female Wurtemburg, of which that the old Guelphic endour for the purpose. few days of each other elever lively book by an iography of a Museum," nchard Jerrold's "Iman a pleasant gossiping h agreeable vivacity. ncipally represented by , been carried off prebefore his name had as works. Vörösmartz re to the quiet of the f our Shakspeare into Arany, is however still "Toldi," a poem written The the evening eh press may be an, more extraor ss new volume of his ains charming traits of full of piquant descrip cdotes about many mat-Chancellor Shadwell's much pleasant humour, Elms, and finding that took a boat, and found side the floating chanhis injunction; and the is cooling and refresh st agreeable are adverickens is engaged upon Alfred Tennyson has ady to issue from the o'clock in the morning when they approached the Chevrette. A fire of musketry and grape from her, instantly burst upon them; and a fire of musketry from the shore. But the boats dashed on her; on both bows, and on the quarter; sabres, pikes, and tomahawks were faced, and beaten down, and driven back; a party fought their way aloft to loose sails; and, after a terrible and bloody struggle, the cable was cut. Away swept the corvette, with her sails fluttering, the batteries on shore firing on her; the Frenchmen jumping overboard-or those who had been driven below, firing from below, and the deck covered with dead bodies. This piece of work was much admired at the time, for it was done against numbers trebly superior. The British had 11 killed, and 57 wounded; the French, 92 killed, and 62 wounded... Edward Boxer was but a subaltern and a boy, but it was a very fiery beginning for a fighting man's career. Boxer next went to the West Indies, and served in the Goliath, 74, there. While in the Goliath, in 1803, he was at the taking of La Mignonne, a corvette of 18 guns, near St. Domingo; but this was a harmless business, the big Goliath snapping up the little Mignonne, of course, without trouble. In 1805, he joined the Arethusa as "mate," the grade between midshipman and lieutenant; and in that rank also served on board the Ocean, 98, "off Cadiz," under Collingwood, whose flag she bore. Several of Collingwood's pleasant and elegant letters are dated "Ocean," and Ocean, off Cadiz." About the time Boxer must have been under him in that ship, we find Collingwood writing:-"Smith, my man, provides us our dinner; but now I find, that with my losses, and movings, and breakings, I have scarce a knife or fork left, and, indeed, am very ill off for everything. My soup is served in a tin pan, and I have borrowed a pewter tea-pot for my breakfast."("Correspondence," pp. 191 and 194.) While matters were in this state in the admiral's cabin, we can fancy how the mates and midshipmen were off. Life was very rude, then, afloat, and we must remember that, and not be too hard on the Rear-Admiral's very decided want of all kind of polish in gesture and speech. In January, 1807, he was confirmed lieutenant, and in the expedition to Egypt, in March of that year, did some sharp work. He commanded a detachment of seamen landed to act with the army under Major-General Frazer, and is mentioned in the "Gazette" accordingly. In 1809, also, he commanded a detachment of boats in a brilliant attack on some French store-ships, bombards, &c., protected by batteries in the Bay of Rosas. He was then a lieutenant of the Tigre, 80, and again appeared in the “Gazette.” It was a useful piece of service-destroying a whole convoy of ships—and was done with peculiar quickness. The loss of life was considerable. He removed from the Tigre with his captain (Hallowell), when that officer attained his flag, and was his first-lieutenant in the Malta, 84, from 1811 to 1814. In 1813, he had the direction of the gunboats at the siege of Tarragona (O'Byrne's " Naval Biography," p. 109); and he received his second commission, that of commander, in 1815. He had up to this time been continually afloat for about seventeen years; but after the peace he was far more employed than the mass of men, and this is much in his favour, considering that he does not seem to have had "family" interest or connection of any kind. He had the Sparrowhawk, 18, for some time in 1822-23; and in June, 1823, he was promoted to post Spur-gall'd and tir'd by jauncing Bolingbroke." MALONE. Say |