r's kiss; rebukable,
And worthy shameful _check_ it were to stand
On more mechanic compliment."

"_Belarius._ . . . O, this life
Is nobler, than attending for a _check_."

"_Iago._ However, this may gall him with some _check_.

"_Desdemona._ And yet his trespass, in our common reason
. . . . is not almost a fault
To incur a private _check_."

These instances may show that the word in question was a favourite
expression of the poet. It is true there was a translation of the Ethics of
Aristotle in his time, _The _Ethiques_ of Aristotle_. If he spelt it
_ethiques_, no printer would have blundered and substituted _checks_.

Judge Blackstone suggested _ethicks_, but Johnson and Steevens kept to
_checks_. And Johnson, in his _Dictionary_, _sub voce_ Devote, quotes the
passage, but which, by a strange printer's misreading, is referred to
"_Tim._ of Ath." instead of _Tam. of Sh._ in Todd's edit. of _Johnson's
Dictionary_ (1818).

W. N.

Pall Mall.

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EPITAPH AND MONUMENTS IN WINGFIELD CHURCH, SUFFOLK.

I am not aware if the following epitaph has yet appeared in print; but I
can safely assert that it really has a sepulchral origin; unlike those
whose doubtful character causes them to be placed by your correspondent MR.
SHIRLEY HIBBERD among the "gigantic gooseberries" ("N. & Q.," Vol. vii., p.
190.). I copied it myself from a gravestone in the churchyard of the
village of Wingfield, Suffolk. After the name, &c. of the deceased is the
following verse:

"Pope boldly says (some think the maxim odd),
'An honest man's the noblest work of God;'
If Pope's assertion be from error clear,
The noblest work of God lies buried here."

Wingfield Church itself is an interesting old place, but has been a good
deal mauled in times past; and the brasses, of which there were once
several, are all gone. It is, I believe, a good deal noted for a parvise,
or room over the porch, from which, by an opening in the wall, a view of
the altar is obtained. There are two or three piscinas in different parts
of the church, and a sedilla near the altar. The most interesting objects
are, however, three altar tombs, with recumbent figures of the Earls of
Suffolk; the earliest, which is of wood, representing either the first or
second peer of the family, with his spouse. The next in date is that of the
celebrated noble who figures in Shakspeare's _Henry VI._ The mo