_St. Evona's Choice._--To your citation of Ben Jonson's exceptional case of the Justice Randall as "a lawyer an honest man," in justice add the name of the learned and elegant author of _Eunomus_; for Mr. Wynne himself tells the story of St. Evona's choice (Dialogue II. p. 62. 3rd ed. Dublin, 1791), giving his authority in the following note:-- "The story here dressed up is told in substance in a small book published in 1691, called a _Description of the Netherlands_," p. 58. In strict law, Sir, the profession may in courts of Momus be held bound by the act of the respectable but unlucky St. Evona; but in equity, let me respectfully claim release, for Evona was a _churchman_. A TEMPLAR. [We gladly insert our correspondent's "claim to release," but doubt whether he can establish it; inasmuch as St. Ivo or Evona, canonized on account of his great rectitude and profound knowledge both of civil and canon law, was both lawyer and churchman, like the CLERICUS so recently discussed in our columns; and clearly sought for and obtained his patron saint in his legal character.] _Muffins and Crumpets, &c._--Not being quite satisfied with the etymology of "muffin," in p. 205., though brought by Urquhart from Phoenicia and the Pillars of Hercules, I am desirous of seeking additional illustration. Some fancy that "coffee" was known to Athenaeus, and that he saw it _clearly_ in the "black broth" of the Lacedaemonian youth. In the same agreeable manner we are referred to that instructive and entertaining writer for the corresponding luxury of "muffins." _Maphula_, we are told, was one of those kinds of bread named as such by Athenaeus; that is to say, "a cake baked on a hearth or griddle." If we need go so far, why not fetch our muffins from Memphis, which is _Moph_ in Hebrew? (See _Hosea_, ix. 6.) It is, perhaps, _mou-pain_, in old French, _soft bread_, easily converted into _mouffin_. So "crumpet" may be a corruption of _crumpate_ a paste made of fine flour, slightly baked. The only difficulty would then be in the {254} first syllable, concerning, which the ingenuity of your various correspondents, Mr. Editor, may be exercised to some effect. Is it connected with the use of the _crimping_ irons in producing these delicacies? HYPOMAGIRUS. Oxford. _Dulcarnon_.--Dulcarnon is one of those words in Chaucer which Tyrwhitt professes that he does not understand. It occurs in _Trolius and Creseide_, book iii. 931.933. Creseide says:-- "I am, til God me better minde sende, At _Dulcarnon_, right at my witt'is ende. Quod Pandarus ye nece, wol ye here, _Dulcarnon_ clepid is fleming[3] of wretches." This passage of _Trolius and Creseide_ is quoted in the life of Sir Thomas More, given in Wordsworth's _Ecclesiastical Biography_. More's daughter said to him, when he was in prison, "Father, I can no further goe; I am come, as Chaucer said of Cressid Dulcarnon, to my witt's end."