_Thomas Gage_ (Vol. vi., p. 291.).--Thomas Gage (formerly a Dominican friar, and author of the _English American_, 1648--as I saw the work entitled--subsequently a Puritan preacher), is, I imagine, identical with Thomas Gage, minister of the Gospel at Deal in Kent, whom your correspondent A. B. R. inquires about, p. 291. If so, he became chaplain to Lord Fairfax, and, according to Macaulay, was not unlikely to have married some dependent connexion of that family. E. C. G. _Marriage in High Life_ (Vol. vi., p. 359.).--I have often heard a similar story, from an old relation of mine with whom I lived when a girl; and she had heard it from her father,--which would carry the time of its occurrence back to the date 1740, named by your correspondent. My informant's father knew the parties, and I have repeatedly heard the name of the bridegroom; but whether Wilbraham or Swetenham, I do not now remember. Both Wilbrahams and Swetenhams are old Cheshire families, and have intermarried. I am almost certain a Wilbraham was the hero of the story. I have had the house pointed out to me where he lived, and it was not above a couple of hours' drive from Chester, whither we were going in the old-fashioned way of carriage-conveyance. I am sure he was not a peer, though, if a Wilbraham, he might be related to the late (first) Lord Skelmersdale. There is one other little circumstance, which the reference to those former times has reminded me of,--the pronunciation of the word _obliged_ (as in the Prologue to the _Satires_, where Pope says: "By flatterers besieged, And so obliging that he ne'er obliged), which the old lady that I have referred to, maintained was the proper pronunciation for _obleege_, to confer a favour; whereas the harsher sound, to _oblige_, was discriminatively reserved for the equivalent, to compel. She was a well-educated woman, and had associated with the good society of London in her youth; and she always complained of the want of taste and judgment shown by the younger generation, in pronouncing the same word, with two distinct meanings, alike in both cases. E. C. G. _Eulenspiegel_ (Vol. vii., p. 557.).--The German verses under MR. CAMPKIN'S portrait of Eulenspiegel, rendered into English prose, mean: "Look here at Eulenspiegel: his portrait makes thee laugh. What wouldst thou do, if thou couldst see the jester himself? But Till is a picture and mirror of this world. He left many a brother behind. We are great fools In thinking that we are the greatest sages: Therefore laugh at thyself, as this sheet represents thyself." From the orthography, I do not think that the lines are much anterior to the beginning of the eighteenth century. The names of the artist will be the safest guides for discovering the date of the print. [alpha]. {610}