"Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steedes, Towards Phoebus' lodging such a wagoner As Phaeton would whip you to the west, And bring in cloudie night immediately. Spred thy close curtaine, Love-performing night, That run-awayes eyes may wincke, and Romeo Leape to these armes, vntalkt of and vnseene." Your readers will no doubt exclaim, is not this question already settled for ever, if not by MR. SINGER'S substitution of _rumourer's_, at least by that of R. H. C., viz. _rude day's_? I must confess that I thought the former so good, when it first appeared in these pages, that nothing more was wanted; yet this is surpassed by the suggestion of R. H. C. As conjectural emendations, they may rank with any that Shakspeare's text has been favoured with; in short, the poet might undoubtedly have written either the one or the other. But this is not the question. The question is, did he write the passage as it stands in the first folio, which I have copied above? Subsequent consideration has satisfied me that he did. I find the following passage in the _Merchant of Venice_, Act II. Sc. 6.: "---- but come at once, For the close night doth play the run-away, And we are staid for at Bassanio's feast." Is it very difficult to believe that the poet who called the departing _night_ a _run-away_ would apply the same term to the _day_ under similar circumstances? Surely the first folio is a much more correctly printed book than many of Shakspeare's editors and critics would have us believe. H. C. K. ---- Rectory, Hereford. The Word "_clamour" in "The Winter's Tale_."--MR. KEIGHTLEY complains (Vol viii., p. 241.) that some observations of mine (p. 169.) on the word _clamour_, in _The Winter's Tale_, are precisely similar to his own in Vol. vii., p. 615. Had they been so in reality, I presume our Editor would not have inserted them; but I think they contain something farther, suggesting, as they do, the A.-S. origin of the word, and going far to prove that our modern _calm_, the older _clame_, the Shakspearian _clamour_, the more frequent _clem_, Chaucer's _clum_, &c., all of them spring from the same source, viz. the A.-S. _clam_ or _clom_, which means a band, clasp, bandage, chain, prison; from which substantive comes the verb _claemian_, to clam, to stick or glue together, to bind, to imprison. If I passed over in silence those points on which MR. KEIGHTLEY and myself agreed, I need scarcely assure him that it was for the sake of brevity, and not from any want of respect to him. I may remark, by the way, on a conjecture of MR. KEIGHTLEY'S (Vol. vii., p. 615.), that perhaps, in _Macbeth_, Act V. Sc. 5., Shakspeare might have written "till famine _clem_ thee," and not, as it stands in the first folio, "till famine _cling_ thee," that he is indeed, as he says, "in the region of conjecture:" _cling_ is purely A.-S., as he will find in Bosworth, "_Clingan_, to wither, pine, to cling or shrink up; marcescere." H. C. K.