On arriving at the Teutonic or old German tongue, we find the same connexion still existing: _Avg_, _auga_,--_oculus_; whence _ougen ostendere_--Gothis _augo_; and _awe, auge, ave, campus ad {26} amnem_. (Vid. Schilteri, _Thes._, vol. iii. _ad voc._) And here we cannot help noticing the similarity between these words and the Hebrew [Hebrew: Y'OR], which (as well as the Coptic _iaro_) means primarily a river or stream from a spring; but, according to Professor Lee, is allied to [Hebrew: 'WOR], light, the enlightenment of the mind, the opening of the eyes; and he adds, "the application of the term to water, as _running, translucid_, &c., is easy." Here, then, is a similar connexion of ideas with a change in the metaphor. In the dialects which descended from the Teutonic in the Saxon branch, the connexion between these two distinct objects is also singularly preserved. It is to be found in the Low German, the Friesic, and the Anglo-Saxon. In the latter we have _ea_, _eah_, _eagor_, a welling, flowing stream; _eah_, _aegh_, _eage_, an eye, which might be abundantly illustrated. We could hardly fail to find in Shakspeare some allusion to these connected images in the old tongue; no speck of beauty could exist and escape his ken. Thus: "In that respect, too, like a loving child, Shed yet some small drops from thy tender spring, Because kind Nature doth require it so." _Tit. And._, Act V. Sc. 3. "Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring; Your tributary drops belong to woe, Which you, mistaking, offer up for joy." _Rom. and Jul._, Act III. Sc. 2. Many of the phrases of the ancient tongues, in which the eye bears a part, have been handed down to us, and are still preserved in our own. My space, however, forbids me to do more than allude to them; but there is one very forcible expression in the Hebrew [Hebrew: `AYIN B`AYIN], literally, eye in eye, which we render much less forcibly--face to face. The Welsh have preserved it exactly in their _llygad yn llygad_. Indeed, this is not the only instance in which they are proud of having handed down the Hebrew idiom in all its purity. Shakspeare twice uses the old phrase: "Since then my office hath so far prevailed, That face to face, and royal eye to eye, You have congreeted."--_Hen. V._, Act V. Sc. 2. And in _Tro. and Cres._, Act III. Sc. 3; but it appears now to be obsolete.