"_Crowns have their compass_," _&c._ (Vol. iv., p. 428.).--In the well-known lines attributed to Shakspeare, and quoted in the above volume, the third stands thus: "Of more than earth can earth make none partaker." I find that Quarles has borrowed this in his _Emblems_, book i. Emblem vi.: "Of more than earth can earth make none possest." HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia. {377} _Ampers_ & (Vol. ii., pp.230. 284.; Vol. viii., pp. 173. 223. 284.).--Allow me to thank both [Phi]. and MR. HENRY WALTER for their replies to my Query; but I am unhappily no wiser than MR. LOWER was after [Phi].'s first response. What on earth "et-per-se" or "and-per-se-and" can mean, I am at a loss to imagine. Why should _et_ be called "_et_ by itself?" Until this Query is answered, I am as much in the dark as ever. While I am upon the matter, I would farther ask this mysterious _Ampers and_, "who gave thee that name?" May it find a proxy to answer for it! C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. Birmingham. The origin of this expression is, explained in Vol. ii., p. 318. With regard to the orthography of the word, it seems to me that, if the etymon be followed, it ought to be written _and-per-se-and_; if the pronunciation, _ampussy and_. L. _Throwing Old Shoes for Luck_ (Vol. vii., p. 411.).--There is an old rhyme still extant, which gives an early date to this singular custom: "When Britons bold, Wedded of old, Sandals were backward thrown, The pair to tell, That, ill or well The act was all their own." An octogenarian of my acquaintance informs me that he heard himself thus anathematised when, leaving his native village with his bride, he refused to comply with the extortionate demands of an Irish beggar: "Then it's bad luck goes wid yer, For my shoe I toss, An ye niver come back, 'Twill be no great loss." CHARLES REED. _Ennui_ (Vol. vii., p. 478.).--It is a curious fact that in _English_, properly so called, we have no word to express this certainly un-English sensation, which we are obliged to borrow from our friends across the channel. _They_ repay themselves with "comfortable," which is quite as characteristically wanting in their vocabulary: so they lose nothing by the exchange. Were we disposed to supply the gaps in our language, by using our own native words (which is much to be desired), we might find a sufficient (and I believe the only) synonyme in the Bedfordshire folk-word _unked_: at any rate, it is near enough for us, for we neither require the word nor the feeling it is meant to designate. E. S. TAYLOR. * * * * * Miscellaneous. BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. FORD'S HANDBOOK OF SPAIN. Vol. I. AUSTIN CHEIRONOMIA. REV. E. IRVING'S ORATIONS ON DEATH, JUDGMENT, HEAVEN, AND HELL. THOMAS GARDENER'S HISTORY OF DUNWICH. MARSH'S HISTORY OF HURSLEY AND BADDESLEY. About 1805. 8vo. Two Copies. NICEPHORUS CATENA ON THE PENTATEUCH. PROCOPIUS GAZAEUS.