The above is the reading of the first folio. _Pioned_ is explained by MR. COLLIER, "to dig," as in Spenser; but MR. HALLIWELL (_Monograph Shakspeare_, vol. i. p. 425.) finds no authority to support such an interpretation. MR. COLLIER'S anonymous annotator writes "tilled;" but surely this is a very artificial process to be performed by "spongy April." Hanmer proposed "peonied;" Heath, "lilied;" and MR. HALLIWELL admits this is more poetical (and surely more correct), but appears to prefer "twilled," embroidered or interwoven with flowers. A friend of mine suggested that "lilied" was peculiarly appropriate to form "cold nymphs chaste crowns," from its imputed power as a preserver of chastity: and in MR. HALLIWELL'S folio, several examples are quoted from old poets of "peony" spelt "piony;" and of both _peony_ and _lily_ as "defending from unchaste thoughts." Surely, then, the reading of the first folio is a mere typographical error, and _peonied_ and _lilied_ the most poetical and correct. ESTE. * * * * * MINOR NOTES. _Monumental Inscriptions_ (Vol. viii., p. 215. &c.).--I have never seen the monumental inscription of Theodore Palaeologus accurately copied in any book. When in Cornwall lately, I took the trouble to copy it, and as some of your readers may like to see the thing as it is, I send it line for line, word for word, and letter for letter. It is found, as is well known, in the little out-of-the-way church of St. Landulph, near Saltash. "Here lyeth the body of Theodoro Paleologus Of Pesaro in Italye, descended from ye Imperyail Lyne of ye last Christian Emperors of Greece Being the sonne of Camilio, ye so[=n]e of Prosper the sonne of Theodoro the sonne of Iohn, ye sonne of Thomas, second brother to Constantine Paleologus, the 8th of that name and last of yt lyne yt raygned in Constantinople, untill subdewed by the Turkes, who married with Mary Ye daughter of William Balls of Hadlye in Souffolke Gent, & had issue 5 children, Theodoro, Iohn, Ferdinando, Maria & Dorothy, and departed this life at Clyfton ye 21th of January, 1636." ED. ST JACKSON. {409} _Marlborough at Blenheim._--Extract from a MS. sermon preached at Bitton (in Gloucestershire?) on the day of the thanksgiving for the victory near Hochstett, anno 1704. (By the Reverend Thomas Earle, afterwards Vicar of Malmesbury?)