Ditto, ditto. "The Spanish proverb." What is it? Cf. "A bow long bent at last waxeth weak;" and the Italian, "L'arco si rompe se sta troppo teso." (Ray's _Proverbs_, p. 81., 4th edit., 1768.) Ditto, p. 43. "The poets feign," &c. See _Iliad_, i. 399. Ditto, ditto (note _y_). "The myth is related in the _Works and Days of Hesiod_," vv. 47-99., edit. Goettling. Ditto, p. 44. "Sylla nescivit." Sueton. _Vit. Caes._, 77. Ditto, p. 45. "Galba." Tac. _Hist_., i. 5. Ditto, ditto. "Probus." Bacon seems to have quoted from memory, as we find in Vopiscus (_Hist. Aug. Script., ut supr._, vol. ii. 679. 682.), as one of the _causae occidendi_, "Dictum ejus grave, Si unquam eveniat salutare, Reip. brevi milites necessarios non futuros." Ditto, ditto. "Tacitus saith." _Hist_., i. 28. P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A. (_To be continued._) * * * * * SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE. _The Passage in King Henry VIII., Act III. Sc._ 1. (Vol. vii., pp. 5. 111. 183. 494.).--MR. INGLEBY has done perfectly right to "call me to account" for a rash and unadvised assertion, in saying that we must interpolate _been_ in the passage in _King Henry VIII._, Act III. Sc. 2., after _have_; for even that would not make it intelligible. So far I stand corrected. The passages, however that are cited, are not parallel cases. In the first we have the word _loyalty_ to complete the sense: " . . . . . My loyalty, Which ever has [been] and ever shall be growing." In the second, the word _deserved_ is clearly pointed out as being understood, from the occurrence of _deserve_ after _will_: "I have spoken better of you than you have [deserved] or will deserve at my hands." I will assist MR. INGLEBY'S position with another example from _Rich. II._, Act V. Sc. 5.: " . . . . . like silly beggars, Who sitting in the stocks, refuge their shame, That many have [sat] and others must sit there." And even from a much later writer, Bolingbroke: "This dedication may serve for almost any book that has, is, or shall be published." Where we must supply _been_ after _has_. But in the passage I attempted, and I think successfully, to set right, admitting that custom would allow of the ellipsis of the participle _been_, after the auxiliary _have_, to what can "am, have, and will be" possibly refer? " . . . . . I do professe That for your highness' good, I euer labour'd More then mine owne, that am, haue, and will be."