_Shakspeare's Skull_.--As your publication has been the medium of many valuable comments upon Shakspeare, and interesting matter connected with him, I am induced to solicit information, if you will allow me, on the following subject. I have the _Works of Shakspeare_, which being in one volume 8vo., I value as being more portable than any other edition. It was published by Sherwood without any date affixed, but probably about 1825. There is a memoir prefixed by Wm. Harvey, Esq., in which, p. xiii., it is stated that while a vault was being made close to Shakspeare's, when Dr. Davenport was rector, a young man perceiving the tomb of Shakspeare open, introduced himself so far within the vault that he could have brought away the skull, but he was deterred from doing so by the anathema inscribed on the monument, of-- "Curs'd be he that moves my bones." This is given upon the authority of Dr. Nathan Drake's work on Shakspeare, in two vols. 4to. Now in this work much is given which is copied into the memoir, but I do not there find this anecdote, and perhaps some reader of "N. & Q." may supply this deficiency, and state where I may find it. I may be allowed to state, that Pope's skull was similarly stolen and another substituted. I annex Wheler's remark that no violation of the grave had, up to the time of his work, taken place. "Through a lapse of nearly two hundred years have his ashes remained undisturbed, and it is to be hoped no sacrilegious hand will ever be found to violate the sacred repository."--_History of Stratford-upon-Avon_, by R. B. Wheler (circa 1805?), 8vo. A SUBSCRIBER. _On a Passage in "Macbeth."_--MR. SINGLETON (Vol. vii., p. 404.) says, "Vaulting ambition, that _o'erleaps_ itself," is nonsense--the thing is impossible; and proposes that "vaulting ambition" should "rest his hand upon the pommel, and _o'erleap_ the saddle (sell)," a thing not uncommon in the feats of horsemanship. Did MR. SINGLETON never _o'erleap_ himself, and be too late--later than _himself_ intended? Did he never, in his younger days, amuse himself with a _soprasalto_; or with what Donne calls a "vaulter's sombersault?" Did he never hear of any little plunderer, climbing a wall, _o'erreaching_ himself to pluck an apple, and falling on the other side, into the hands of the gardener? "By like," says Sir Thomas More, "the manne there _overshotte_ himself." What was the _manne_ about? Attempting such a perilous gambol, perhaps, as correcting Shakspeare. To {overleap, overreach, overshoot} himself are merely, to {leap, reach, shoot}, over or beyond the mark himself intended. Q. Bloomsbury. P.S.--MR. ARROWSMITH reminds us of the old saw, that "great wits jump." He should recollect also that they sometimes _nod_. * * * * * Minor Notes.