r, and the pelf shall be paid to you, sir."
And as I went down stairs I could hear him say to himself several times,
"Oblige ME indeed, ha, ha, hah!--_you_ oblige ME!!" In a word I got the
money from him, but never saw him after." "You saw Barry, though?" "Oh
yes, he gave me a general order to the house, introduced me to Mrs.
Barry,--and always smiled and spoke so kindly, squeezed my hand too
whenever I saw him, that I never thought of money. It dont signify
talking, but I verily believe, that he could wheedle the birds off the
trees with that sweet voice of his, and his good-natured look. I would
rather be put off by Barry, than paid by Mossop." In this simple
anecdote, which is a fact, the private characters of Barry and Mossop
are clearly and faithfully illustrated.

FOOTNOTES:

[C] Our readers will partly judge what the powers of that roan must have
been, who could beguile an erudite critic into such an enthusiastic,
rapturous expression of approbation.

[D] The late John Palmer had one of the finest persons and faces in
Great Britain. I remember to have seen him, handsome Brereton, and manly
F. Aitkin, when in the prime of life on the stage at the same time with
Barry, when he was labouring under old age, and so miserably infirm that
he walked with difficulty. Yet neither I nor any one of the spectators
ever noticed the others, so lost were they to the sight under the
towering superiority of Barry. _Editor._

MISCELLANY.

THEOBALDUS SECUNDUS,
OR
SHAKSPEARE AS HE SHOULD BE.

NO. III.

_Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, continued._

Marcellus invokes the ghost almost in the words of Charon, who, too
charitable to suffer a man to go to the devil in his own way, thus
addressed the son of Anchises:

Quisquis es armatus qui nostra ad flumina tendis,
Fare age venias: jam isthinc et comprime gressum.

The sybil in Virgil gives a civil answer to a civil question, and
narrates the birth, parentage, and education of her protege. Not so "the
buried majesty of Denmark." Disdaining to be tried by any but his peers,
he withholds all parlance till he commences with his son, and having
entered O. P. (signifying "O Patience," to the inquisitive spectator)
makes his exit P. S. (signifying poor spirit). Marcellus, hereupon,
moralizes after the following fashion:

_Mar._ Thus twice before, and _jump_ at this _dead_ hour,
With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.

Why this dead hour?