Now it may, perhaps, surprise MR. ARROWSMITH to be told that he has proved nothing--that not a single one of his instances is relevant. In this passage the verb is _neuter_ or _active_; in all of his quotations it is the verb _substantive_ we meet. Surely one so well versed, as we must suppose him to be, in general grammar, requires not to be told that this verb takes the same case after as before it, and that the governing case often follows. Indeed, he has recognised this principle by giving "This is the contents thereof" as one of his instances of "contents" governing a singular verb. Let him then produce an _exact_ parallel to "contents dies," or even such a structure as this, "the contents _is_ lies and calumnies," and then we may hearken to him. Till that has been done, my interpretation is the only one that gives sense to the passage without altering the text. An exact parallel to the sense in which I take "contents" is found in-- "But heaven hath a hand in these events, To whose high will we bound our calmly _contents_." _Rich. II._, Act V. Sc. 2. In conclusion, I must add that I still regard this emendatory criticism as a "game," the Latin _ludus_, as it gives scope to sagacity and ingenuity, but can rarely hope to arrive at certainty; and it does not, like questions of ethics or politics, involve important interests, and should never excite our angry feelings. As to "cogging and falsification," which MR. A. joins with it, they can have no just reference to _me_, as I have never descended to the employment of such artifices. THOS. KEIGHTLEY. P. S.--I have just seen H. C. K.'s observation on "clamour your tongues" in the _Winter's Tale_, and it really seems strange that he should not have read, or should have forgotten my view of it in "N. & Q.," which is precisely similar to his own. As to suspecting him of pilfering from me, nothing is farther from my thoughts. _Meaning of Delighted._--With reference to the word _delighted_ in Shakspeare, much discussed in "N. & Q.," may I remind you that we call that which carries (or is furnished, or provided with) wings, _winged_; that which carries wheels, _wheeled_; that which carries masts, _masted_; and so on. Why then should not a pre-Johnsonian writer call that which carries delight, _delighted_? It appears to me that this will sufficiently explain "delighted beauty;" and "the delighted spirit" I would account for in the same way: only remarking that in this case, the borne delights meant are delights to the bearer; in the other case, delights to all whom the bearer approaches. J. W. F. * * * * * Minor Notes. _Gray--"The ploughman homeward plods."_--On looking over some MSS. which I had not seen for years, I met with one of which the following is a copy: "A person had a paper folded with this line from Gray marked on it-- 'The ploughman homewards plods his weary way.'