iola_. She pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy."--Correct it thus:

"She pined in thought
And with _agrein_ and _hollow_ melancholy."--p. 339.

"_Iago_. I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense,
And he grows angry"--

that is, or rather _was_, according to our homely apprehension, I have
rubb'd this pimple (Roderigo) almost to bleeding:--but, no; Mr. Becket
has furnished us not only with the genuine words, but the meaning of
Shakespeare--

I have _fubb'd_ this young _quat_--_Quat_, or cat, appears to be a
contraction of cater-cousin--and this reading will be greatly
strengthened when it is remembered that Roderigo was really the
intimate of Iago.--p. 204.

In a subsequent passage, "I am as melancholy as a gibb'd cat"--we are
told that _cat_ is not the domestic animal of that name, but a
contraction of _catin_, a woman of the town. But, indeed, Mr. Becket
possesses a most wonderful faculty for detecting these latent
contractions and filling them up. Thus,

"_Parolles_. Sir, he will steal an egg out of a cloister." Read (as
Shakespeare wrote), "Sir, he will steal an _Ag_ (i.e., an _Agnes_) out
of a cloister." _Agnes_ is the name of a woman, and may easily stand
for chastity.--p. 325.

No doubt.

"_Carter_. Prithee, Tom, put a few flocks in Cut's saddle; the poor
beast is wrung in the withers out of all cess."

Out of all cess, we used to think meant, in vulgar phraseology, out of
all measure, very much, &c.--but see how foolishly!

_Cess_ is a mere contraction of _cessibility_, which signifies the
_quality of receding_, and may very well stand for _yielding_, as
spoken of a tumour.--p. 5.

"_Hamlet_. A cry of players."

This we once thought merely a sportive expression for a _company of_
players, but Mr. Becket has undeceived us--"_Cry_ (he tells us) is
contracted from _cryptic_, and cryptic is precisely of the same import
as mystery."--p. 53. How delightful it is when learning and judgment
walk thus hand in hand! But enough--

--"the sweetest honey
Is loathsome in its own deliciousness"--

and we would not willingly cloy our readers. Sufficient has been
produced to encourage them--not perhaps to contend for the possession of
the present volumes, though Mr. Becket conscientiously affirms, in his
title-page, that "they form a complete and _necessary_ supplement to
every former edition"--but, with us, to look anxiously fo