has put an admirable description of
them into the mouth of Juliet's nurse:

'O he's a lovely man! An eagle, madam,
Hath not so _green_, so quick, so fair an eye,
As Paris hath.'

"Steevens, who had some glimpse of the meaning of this word, refers to
an apposite passage in _The Two Noble Kinsmen_. It is in Aemilia's
address to Diana:

' . . . . . . Oh vouchsafe
With that thy rare _green eye_, which never yet
Beheld things maculate,' &c.

"It is, indeed, not a little singular, that this expression should have
occasioned any difficulty to his commentators; since it occurs in most
of our old poets; {593} and Drummond of Hawthornden uses it
perpetually. One instance of it may be given:

'When Nature now had wonderfully wrought
All Auristella's parts, except her eyes:
To make those twins, two lamps in beauty's skies,
The counsel of the starry synod sought.
Mars and Apollo first did her advise,
To wrap in colours _black_ those comets bright,
That Love him so might soberly disguise,
And, unperceived, wound at every sight!
Chaste Phoeebe spake for purest _azure_ dyes;
But Jove and Venus _green_ about the light,
To frame, thought best, as bringing most delight,
That to pined hearts hope might for aye arise.
Nature, all said, a paradise of _green_
Placed there, to make all love which have them seen.'"
Gifford's _Translation of Juvenal and Persius_,
3rd edition, 1817.

Gifford's quotation from _Romeo and Juliet_ (errors excepted) is to be
found in Act III. Sc. 5.

C. FORBES.

Temple.

"Isabelle etait un peu plus agee que Ferdinand. Elle etait petite, mais
bien faite. Ses cheveux, au moins tres blonds, _ses yeux verts et
pleins de feu_, son teint un peu olivatre, ne l'empechaient pas d'avoir
un visage imposant et agreable. (_Revolutions d'Espagne_, tom. iv. liv.
viii.; Mariana, _Hist. d'Espagne_, tom. ii. liv. xxv.; _Hist. de
Ferdinand et d'Isabelle_, par M. l'Abbe Mignot, &c.)"--Florian,
Gonzalve de Cordoue, _Precis Historique sur les Maures d'Espagne_,
quatrieme epoque, note _i_.

E. J. M.

Hastings.

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THE MYRTLE BEE.

(Vol. viii., pp. 173. 450.)

Allow me to thank C. BROWN for the reply he has sent to my inquiries on
this subject. I shall cer