The array of Shakespearian _apa? ?e?? mue?a_ appears still vaster if we compare it with expressions of the same nature in the Scriptures and in Homer. In the English Bible words with the initials _a_ and _m_ used once only are 132 to 674 with the same initials in Shakespeare. The scriptural _once-onlys_ would be more than twice as many as we find them were they as frequent in proportion to their total vocabulary as his are. The Homeric _apa? ?e?? mue?a_ with initial _m_ are 78, but were they as numerous in proportion to Homer's whole world of words as Shakespeare's are, they would run up to 186; that is, to more than twice as many as their actual number. In the Greek New Testament I have enumerated 63 _apa? ?e?? mue?a_ beginning with the letter _m_--a larger number than you would expect, for it is as large as that in both English Testaments beginning with that same letter, which is also exactly 63. It indicates a wider range of expression in the authors of the Greek original than in their English translators. The 310 Shakespearian words with initial _m_ used _once only_ I have also compared with the whole verbal inventory of our language so far as it begins with that letter. They make up one-fifth almost of that entire stock, which musters in Webster only 1641 words. You will at once inquire, "What is the _nature_ of these rejected Shakespearian vocables, which he seems to have viewed as milk that would bear no more than one skimming?" The percentage of _classical_ words among them is great--greater indeed than in the body of Shakespeare's writings. According to the analysis of Weisse, in an average hundred of Shakespearian words one-third are classical and two-thirds Saxon. But then all the classical elements have inherent meaning, while half of the Saxon have none. We may hence infer that of the significant words in Shakespeare one-half are of classical derivation. Now, of the apa? ?e?? mue?a with initial _a_, I call 262 words out of 364 classical, and with initial _m_, 152 out of 310; that is, 414 out of 674, or about four-sevenths of the whole Shakespearian host beginning with those two letters. In doubtful cases I have considered those words only as classical the first etymology of which in Webster is from a classical or Romance root. In the biblical words used once only the classical portion is enormous--namely, not less than sixty-nine per cent.--while the classical percentage in Shakespearian words of the same class is no more than sixty-one.