Ceste indentur tesmoyne q' mos^r Joh[=n] de Cobeh[=m] s^r de Cobeh[=m] ad baille [p=] assent de les sires de Morlee et Louel dys lib' de bone moneye amest' Joh[=n] Barnet, cest assau' cent south p^r le un [p=]tye et cent south p^r lautre [p=]tye acause q' mesme le dit mestre Joh[=n] et mest' Will[=m] Dawode et mest' Will[=m] Sondeye serrount assessours sur la matire pendaunt [p=]entre les deux syngn' susdite p^r leur armes en le Court de Chiualerie. En tesmoynaunce de quel payment a ycestes endentur lez [p=]tyes susditez entrechaungeablement ount mys lours sceals. Don a Loundres le xx iu^r de Feu'er lan du rengne le Roy Richard secounde quinzisme. [In dorso.] Lendentur de x li paye a mest' Joh[=n] Barnet p^r Morlee et Louel. * * * * * SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE. _Shakspeare Emendations._--As this is the age of Shakspeare emendations, I beg to propose the following for the consideration of the numerous readers of "N. & Q." I am the more emboldened to do so, as I find several marginal corrections made from time to time are verified by the manuscript corrections in MR. COLLIER'S folio of 1632. These proposed are not, however, there, or I would not have troubled you, though it is many months since I first altered the reading of my copy. {52} _Taming of the Shrew,_ Act V. Sc. 2.--On the exit of Katharina to "fetch" in the disobedient wives, Lucentio remarks: "_Luc._ Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder. _Hort._ And so it is. I wonder what it bodes. _Pet._ Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life, _An awful_ rule, and right supremacy; And, to be short, what not that's sweet and happy." For "an awful rule" I propose to substitute _and lawful rule_, as agreeing better with the text and context; indeed, the whole passage indicates it. Petruchio means that the change in Katharina's temper and conduct bodes love, peace, law, and order, in contradistinction to awe or fear. The repetition of the conjunction _and_ also makes the harmony of the language more equal; "and love, and quiet life, and lawful rule, and right supremacy," rings evenly to the ear. Considering the number and character of the emendations in MR. COLLIER'S volume, I have the less hesitation in proposing this one. The language of Shakspeare is, as we know it, for the most part so clear, harmonious, distinct, and forcible, that I think we are justified in considering any obscure, inconsistent, or harsh passage, as having met with some mishap either in hearing, transcribing, or in printing. Some months ago, and certainly before MR. COLLIER'S volume of corrections appeared, I forwarded to "N. & Q." (it never appeared) a correction from _Antony and Cleopatra_, Act V. Sc. 2., where Cleopatra, contemplating suicide, says it is--