SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE. _Meaning of "Delighted" in some Places of Shakspeare._--I am sorry to be obliged to differ so often in opinion with H. C. K., but as we are both, I trust, solely actuated by the love of truth, he no doubt will excuse me. My difference now with him is about "_delighted_ spirit," by which he understands the "tender _delicate_ spirit," while I take it to be the "_delectable_" or "_delightful_ spirit." As I think this is founded on the Latin, I beg permission to quote the following portion of my note on Jug. ii. 3. in my edition of Sallust: "_Incorruptus_, [Greek: aphthartos] , _i. e._ incapable of dissolution, the _incorruptibilis_ of the Fathers of the Church. In imitation probably of the Greek verbal adjective in [Greek: tos], as [Greek: hairetos], [Greek: streptos], etc., the Latins, especially Sallust, sometimes used the past part. as equivalent to an adj. in _bilis_: comp. xliii, 5.; lxxvi. 1.; xci. 7.; Cat. I. 4., {438} 'Non _exorato_ stant adamante viae;' Propert. IV. 11. 4., 'Mare scopulis _inaccessum_;' Plin. _Nat. Hist._, XII. 14. It is in this sense that _flexus_ is to be understood in Virg. _AEn._, v. 500." The same employment of the past part. is frequent in our old English writers, and I rather think that they adopted it from the Latin. The earliest instance which I find in my notes is from Golding, who renders the _tonitrus et inevitabile fulmen_ of Ovid (_Met._ III. 301.): "With dry and dreadful thunderclaps and lightning to the same, Of deadly and _unavoided_ dint." In Milton I have noticed the following participles used in this sense: _unmoved_, _abhorred_, _unnumbered_, _unapproached_, _dismayed_, _unreproved_, _unremoved_, _unsucceeded_, _preferred_. But as Milton was addicted to Latinising, I will give some examples from Shakspeare himself: "Now thou art come unto a feast of death A terrible and _unavoided_ danger."--_1 Hen. VI._, Act IV. Sc. 5. "We see the very wreck that we must suffer, And _unavoided_ the danger now, For suffering so the causes of our wreck."--_Rich. II._, Act II. Sc. 1. "All _unavoided_ is the doom of destiny."--_Rich. III._, Act IV. Sc. 4. "Inestimable stones, _unvalued_ jewels."--_Ib._, Act I. Sc. 4. "Tell them that when my mother went with child Of that _insatiate_ Edward."--_Ib._, Act III. Sc. 5. "I am not glad that such a sore of time Should seek a plaster by _contemned_ revolt."--_King John_, Act V. Sc 2. "The murmuring surge That on the _unnumber'd_ idle pebbles chafes."--_Lear_, Act IV. Sc. 6. "O, _undistinguished_ space of woman's will."--_Ib._ I could give instances from Spenser and even from Pope, but shall only observe that when we say "an _undoubted_ fact" we mean an _indubitable_ one. THOS. KEIGHTLEY.