"The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks." Dr. Johnson found his reward not in vain solicitations to patrons, but in the fruits of his literary labours. The famous lines in Spenser's "Colin Clout's come home again,"[3] on the instability and hollowness of patronage, may occur to the reader: "Full little knowest thou, that hast not tride, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent. To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow. To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despaires," &c. F. [Footnote 3: In Mother Hubberd's Tale.--ED.] _Sir Anthony Fitzherbert, Chief Justice_ (Vol. viii., pp. 158. 276.).--In "A Letter to a Convocation Man," which was recently edited by a frequent contributor to your pages, the REV. W. FRASER, B.C.L., and is favourably mentioned by you, I find the following sentence, declaring that Sir Anthony Fitzherbert _was_ Chief Justice: "I must admit that it is said in the second part of Rolle's _Abridgment_, that the Archbishop of Canterbury was prohibited to hold such assemblies by Fitzherbert, Chief Justice, because he had not the King's licence. But he adds that the Archbishop would not obey it; and he quotes Speed for it."--P. 38. of original pamphlet, and p. 36. of Mr. Fraser's reprint. MR. FRASER merely refers to Sir Anthony Fitzherbert as being made judge of the Common Pleas in 1523, and does not enter into this question, which deserves investigation. M. W. R. "_To put a _spoke_ in his wheel_" (Vol. viii., pp. 269. 351.).--W. C.'s answer to G. K.'s inquiry is so very facetious, that I must confess I do not understand it. As to the meaning of the expression, I think there can be no doubt. Ainsworth interpreted "Scrupulum injecisti mihi, spem meam remoratus es." In Dutch, "Een spaak in t'wiel steeken," is "To traverse, thwart, or cross a design." See Sewel's _Woordenboek_. The effect is similar to that of _spiking_ cannon. And it is not improbable that _spoke_, known by the {577} ignorant to form part of the wheel, has been by them corrupted from _spike_: and that the act is, driving a _spike_ into the nave, so as to prevent the wheel from turning on its axle. Q. Bloomsbury.