Any reader who will take a quantity of disputed passages in Shakspeare, and happens to be ignorant of what has been suggested by others, will discover that, in most of the cases, if he merely tries his skill on a few simple permutations of the letters, he will in one way or another stumble on the suggested words. Let us take, for example, what may be considered in its way as one of the most incomprehensible lines in Shakspeare--"Will you go, _An-heires_?" the last word being printed with a capital. Running down with the vowels from _a_, we get at once an apparently plausible suggestion, "Will you go _on here_?" but a little consideration will show how extremely unlikely this is to be the genuine reading, and that Mr. Dyce is correct in preferring _Mynheers_--a suggestion which belongs to Theobald, and not, as he mentions, to Hanmer. But what I maintain is, that _on here_ would be the correction that would occur to most readers, in all probability to be at once dismissed. MR. COLLIER, however, says "it is singular that nobody seems ever to have conjectured that _on here_ might be concealed under _An-heires_;" and it would have been singular had this been the case, but the suggestion of _on here_ is to be found in Theobald's common edition. Oddly enough, about a year before MR. COLLIER'S volume appeared, it was again suggested as if it were new. Let us select a still more palpable instance (_Measure for Measure_, Act II. Sc. 1.): "If this law hold in Vienna ten years, I'll rent the fairest house in it after threepence a _bay_." If this reading be wrong, which I do not admit, the second change in the first letter creates an obvious alteration, _day_, making at least some sort of sense, if not the correct one. Some years ago, I was rash enough to suggest _day_, not then observing the alteration was to be found in Pope's edition, and MR. COLLIER has fallen into the same oversight, when he gives it as one of the corrector's new emendations. I regard these oversights as very pardonable, and inseparable from any extensive attempt to correct the state of the text. All Shakspearian conjectures either anticipate or are anticipated. Mr. Dyce being _par excellence_ the most judicious verbal critic of the day, it will scarcely be thought egotistical to claim for myself the priority for one of his emendations--"_Avoid thee_, friend," in the _Few Notes_, p. 31., a reading I had mentioned in print before the appearance of that work. This is merely one of the many evidences that all verbal conjecturers must often stumble on the same suggestions. Even the MS. corrector's alteration of the passage is not new, it being found in Pope's and in several other editions of the last century; another circumstance that exhibits the great difficulty and danger of asserting a conjecture to be absolutely unknown. J. O. HALLIWELL