From wrong pointing, and ignorance of the idiomatic structure, the passage has hitherto been misunderstood; and Warburton proposed to read, "Which teacheth _me_," but was fortunately opposed by Johnson, although _he_ did not clearly understand the passage. I have ventured to change _am_ to _are_, for I cannot conceive that Shakspeare wrote, "that thou and I _am_ one!" It is with some hesitation that I make this trifling innovation on the old text, although we have, a few lines lower, the more serious misprint of _your change_ for _the charge_. I presume that the abbreviated form of _the = y^e_ was taken for for _y^r_, and the _r_ in _charge_ mistaken for _n_; and in the former case of _am_ for _are_, indistinctness in old writing, and especially in such a hand as, it appears from his autograph, our great poet wrote, would readily lead to such mistakes. That the correction was left to the printer of the first folio, I am fully persuaded; yet, in comparison with the second folio, it is a correct book, notwithstanding all its faults. That it was customary for men who were otherwise busied, as we may suppose Heminge and Condell to have been, to leave the correction entirely to the printer, is certain; for an acquaintance of Shakspeare's, Resolute John Florio, distinctly shows that it was the case. We have this pithy brief Preface to the second edition of his translation of Montaigne: "_To the Reader._ "Enough, if not too much, hath beene said of this translation. If the faults found even by myselfe in the first impression, be now by the printer corrected, as he was directed, the work is much amended: if not, know that through mine attendance on her Majesty, I could not intend it; and blame not Neptune for my second shipwracke. Let me conclude with this worthy man's daughter of alliance: 'Que t'ensemble donc lecteur?' _Still Resolute_ JOHN FLORIO." S. W. SINGER. Mickleham. _Shakspeare_ (Vol. vii., p. 521.).--May I ask whether there is any precedent (I think there can be no excuse) for calling Shakspeare's plays "our national Bible"? A CLERGYMAN. * * * * * Minor Notes. _The Formation of the Woman_, Gen. ii. 21, 22.--The terms of Matthew Henry on this subject, in his learned _Commentary_, have become quite commonplace with divines, when speaking of the ordinance of marriage: "The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam: not made out of his head, to top him; nor out of his feet, to be trampled upon by him; but out of his side, to be equal with him; under his arm, to be protected; and near his heart, to be beloved."