_Aristotle's Checks v. Aristotle's Ethics._-- "Only, good master, while we do admire This virtue, and this moral discipline, Let's be no stoicks, nor no stocks, I pray; Or so devote to Aristotle's _checks_, As Ovid be an outcast quite abjur'd." _Taming of the Shrew_, Act I. Sc. 1. The following are instances of the use of the substantive _check_ by Shakspeare: "_Orlando._ A man that had a wife with such a wit, might say,--'Wit whither wilt?' "_Rosalind._ Nay, you might keep that _check_ for it, till you met your wife's wit going to your neighbour's bed." "_Falstaff._ I never knew yet, but rebuke and _check_ was the reward of valour." "_Antony._ This is a soldier's kiss; rebukable, And worthy shameful _check_ it were to stand On more mechanic compliment." "_Belarius._ . . . O, this life Is nobler, than attending for a _check_." "_Iago._ However, this may gall him with some _check_. "_Desdemona._ And yet his trespass, in our common reason . . . . is not almost a fault To incur a private _check_." These instances may show that the word in question was a favourite expression of the poet. It is true there was a translation of the Ethics of Aristotle in his time, _The _Ethiques_ of Aristotle_. If he spelt it _ethiques_, no printer would have blundered and substituted _checks_. Judge Blackstone suggested _ethicks_, but Johnson and Steevens kept to _checks_. And Johnson, in his _Dictionary_, _sub voce_ Devote, quotes the passage, but which, by a strange printer's misreading, is referred to "_Tim._ of Ath." instead of _Tam. of Sh._ in Todd's edit. of _Johnson's Dictionary_ (1818). W. N. Pall Mall. * * * * * EPITAPH AND MONUMENTS IN WINGFIELD CHURCH, SUFFOLK. I am not aware if the following epitaph has yet appeared in print; but I can safely assert that it really has a sepulchral origin; unlike those whose doubtful character causes them to be placed by your correspondent MR. SHIRLEY HIBBERD among the "gigantic gooseberries" ("N. & Q.," Vol. vii., p. 190.). I copied it myself from a gravestone in the churchyard of the village of Wingfield, Suffolk. After the name, &c. of the deceased is the following verse: "Pope boldly says (some think the maxim odd), 'An honest man's the noblest work of God;' If Pope's assertion be from error clear, The noblest work of God lies buried here."