going about on the watch." Perhaps _runagates_, according to
modern usage, would come nearer to the proposed signification, but not to
be quite up with it. Many words in Shakspeare have significations very
remote from those which they now bear.

PATRICK MUIRSON.

_Shakspeare and the Bible._--Has it ever been noticed that the following
passage from the Second Part of _Henry IV._, Act I. Sc. 3., is taken from
the fourteenth chapter of St. Luke's Gospel?

"What do we then, but draw anew the model
In fewer offices; or, at least, desist
To build at all? Much more, in this great work,
(Which is almost to pluck a kingdom down,
And set another up) should we survey
The plot, the situation, and the model;
Consult upon a sure foundation,
Question surveyors, know our own estate,
How able such a work to undergo.
A careful leader sums what force he brings
To weigh against his opposite; or else
We fortify on paper, and in figures,
Using the names of men, instead of men:
Like one that draws the model of a house
Beyond his power to build it."

The passage in St. Luke is as follows (xiv. 28-31.):

"For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first,
and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

"Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to
finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

"Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

"Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down
first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him
that cometh against him with twenty thousand?"

I give the passage as altered by Mr. Collier's Emendator, because I think
the line added by him,

"A careful leader sums what force he brings,"

is strongly corroborated by the Scripture text.

Q. D.

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Minor Notes.

_Judicial Families._--In vol. v. p. 206. (new edition) of Lord Mahon's
_History of England_, we find the following passage:

"Lord Chancellor Camden was the younger son of Chief Justice Pratt,--a
case of rare succession in the annals of the law, and not easily
matched, unless by their own cotemporaries, Lord Hardwicke and Charles
Yorke."

The following case, I think, is equally, if not more, remarkable:--

The Right Hon. Thomas Berry Cusack-Smith, brother of the present Sir
Michael Cu