Having taken up my pen on this subject, allow me to remark upon the manner in which MR. COLLIER's folio is referred to by your correspondent. I have carefully considered many of the emendations proposed, and feel in my own mind satisfied that _so great a number_ that, in the words of your correspondent, _demonstrate themselves_, could not have been otherwise than adopted from some authority. Even in the instance of the passage from Henry V., "on a table of green friese," which A. E. B. selects, I presume, as being especially absurd, I think "the old corrector" right; although I had frequently cited Theobald's correction as particularly happy, and therefore the new version was at first to me very distasteful. But, whatever opinion may be held as to the value of the book, it is surely unbecoming to the discussion of a literary question to indulge in the unsparing insinuations that have been thrown out on all sides respecting it. I leave out of question the circumstance, that the long and great services of MR. COLLIER ought to protect him at least from such unworthy treatment. SAMUEL HICKSON. P.S.--Since writing the above, I have seen MR. KEIGHTLEY's letter. I hope he will not deprive the readers of "N. & Q." of the benefit of his valuable communications for the offences of one or two. He might consider, first, that his own dignity would suffer least by letting them pass by him "as the idle wind;" and, secondly, that some allowance should be made for gentlemen who engage in controversy on a subject which, strangely enough, next to religion, seems to be most productive of discord. S. H. "I have no way, and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen Our means _secure_ us; and our mere defects Prove our commodities." Does not Shakspeare here use _secure_ as a verb, in the sense "to make careless?" If so, the passage would mean, "Our means," that is, our power, our strength, make us wanting in care and vigilance, and too self-confident. Gloucester says, "I stumbled when I saw;" meaning, When I had eyes I walked carelessly; when I had the "means" of seeing and avoiding stumbling-blocks, I stumbled and fell, because I walked without care and watchfulness. Then he adds, "And our mere defects prove our commodities." Our deficiencies, our weaknesses (the sense of them), make us use such care and exertions as to prove advantages to us. Thus the antithesis is preserved. How scriptural is the first part of the passage! "Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall."--1 Cor. x. 12. "He hath said in his heart, Tush, I shall never be cast down; there shall no harm happen unto me."--Ps. x. 6. The second part is also scriptural: "My strength is made perfect in weakness."--2 Cor. xii. 9. "When I am weak then am I strong."--2 Cor. xii. 10. In _Timon of Athens_ we find _secure_ used as verb "_Secure_ thy heart."--Act II. Sc. 2. Again, in _Othello_: