explanations of panoramas: to what vile uses they may be next applied,
there is no guessing. Poor Shakspeare! how I have pitied him, and you too,
Mr. Editor, as I have seen him for so many months undergoing the operation
of the _teazle_ in "N. & Q.!" I hope there will be soon an end of this
"skimble stuff," "signifying nothing."

But my observation upon the Drury Lane play-bill reminded me of one I have
in my common-place book; and, as a correspondent and reader of "N. & Q.," I
think it my duty to send it:

_A Spanish Play-bill, exhibited at Seville_, 1762.

"To the Sovereign of Heaven--to the Mother of the Eternal World--to the
Polar Star of Spain--to the Comforter of all Spain--to the faithful
Protectress of the Spanish Nation--to the Honour and Glory of the Most
Holy Virgin Mary--for her benefit, and for the Propagation of her
Worship--the company of Comedians will this day give a representation
of the Comic Piece called--

NANINE.

The celebrated Italian will also dance the Fandango, and the Theatre
will be respectably illuminated."

WILLIAM ROBSON.

Stockwell.

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SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE.

_The Meteorology of Shakspeare._--A treatise might be written on
meteorology, and might be illustrated entirely by passages taken from the
writings of "the world's greatest poet." "N. & Q." may not be the fitting
medium for a lengthened treatise, but it is the most proper depository of a
few loose Notes on the subject. {337} Those who study Shakspeare should, to
understand him, thoroughly study Nature at the same time: but to our
meteorology. Recent observers have classified clouds as under:

______________________________________________________________
|Howard's Latin | Foster's English | Local Names. |
|Nomenclature. | Names. | |
|_______________|_____________________|______________________|
|Cumulus. | Stackencloud. | Woolbag. |
|Cirrus. | Curlcloud. | Goatshair, Grey |
|Stratus. | Fallcloud. | Marestails. |
|Nimbus. | Raincloud. | |
|_______________|_____________________|______________________|

There are composite forms of cloud, varieties of the above, which need not
be noticed here. The Cumulus is the parent cloud, and produces every other
form of cloud known