"Nauigation or rowynge nigh to the lande, in a _clame_ water, is expedient for them that haue dropsies, lepries, palseyes, called of the vulgar people, takynges, and francies. To be carried on a rough water, it is a violent exercise," &c. H. C. K. ---- Rectory, Hereford. _Shakspeare Suggestions_ (Vol. viii., p. 124.).--Icon asks--"Has any one suggested 'Most busy, when least I do.' The 'it' seems mere surplusage?" The same suggestion, nearly _verbatim_, even to the curtailment of the "it," may be found in this present month's number of _Blackwood's Magazine_, p. 186. But ICON will also find the same reading, _with an anterior title of nearly three years_, together with some good reasons for its adoption, in "N. & Q.," Vol. ii., p. 338. And he may also consult with advantage an illustrative quotation in Vol. iii., p. 229. In the original suggestion in "N. & Q.," there is no _presumption of surplusage_: the word "it" is understood in relation to _labours_; that word being taken as _a collective singular_, like _contents_, and other words of the same construction. The critic in Blackwood disclaims consulting "N. & Q.;" and it is, no doubt, a convenient disclaimer. He follows the herd of menstrual Aristarchi, by hailing, with wondering admiration, the substitution of _ethics_ for _checks_! And he shows his fitness for the task he has undertaken, by stating {170} that "Mr. Singer _alone_ had the good taste to print it (ethics) in his text of 1826." Mr. Halliwell, however, in a recent pamphlet, states that-- "This _new emendation_ has not only been mentioned in a great variety of editions, but _has been introduced into the text by no fewer than five editors_, the first, I believe, in point of time, being the Rev. J. Rann, who substituted ethics into the text as early as 1787." A. E. B. Leeds. _Critical Digest._--Your readers have seen no more welcome announcement than that contained in p. 75. of your present volume, that this project of a work, bringing into one view the labours of preceding editors and commentators, is in good hands and likely to be brought to bear. On the _form_ of such a work it is perhaps premature to offer an observation; but, to be perfect, it ought to range with that remarkable monument of a lady's patient industry, Mrs. Cowden Clarke's _Concordance_. On the _materials_ to be employed, all your readers have such an interest in the subject as to warrant them in making suggestions; and it will be well to do so before the plans are fully matured.