"And as they more esteeme that merth Than dread the night's _annoy_, So must we deeme our dayes on erth But hell to heauenly joye." _Good morrowe_; see Farr's _Select Poetry, &c._, p. 38. "High heaven, in mercy to your sad _annoy_, Still greets you with glad tidings of immortal joy." _Christian year_, "Christmas Day." H.G.T. _Culprit, Origin of the Word_ (Vol. ii., p. 475.).--See Stephen's _Commentaries on the Laws of England_, iv. 408. note (_p_). C.H. COOPER. Cambridge, Dec. 14. 1850. Passage in Bishop Butler (Vol. ii., p. 464.).--The "peculiar term" referred to by Bishop Butler is evidently the verb "to Blackguard." It is for this reason that he inserts the condition, "when the person it respects is present." We may abuse, revile, vituperate an absent person; but we can only "blackguard" a man when he is present. The word "blackguard" is not recognised by Johnson. Richardson inserts it as a noun, but not as a verb. L. _Wat the Hare_ (Vol. ii., p. 315.).--Your correspondent K. asks what other instances there are of _Wat_ as the name of a _hare_? I know of one. On the market-house at Watton the spandrils of an Elizabethan doorway have been placed, taken from some old building in the town. This has a _hare_ on one side, a _ton_ on the other,--a rebus of the town name Watton. H.H. _The Letter Yogh_ (Vol. ii., p. 492.).--_Yerl_ for _Earl_, and _yirth_ for _earth_, &c., are, to this day, quite common in Scottish orthoepy among many of the lower classes. G.F.G. _Did Elizabeth visit Bacon at Twickenham Park?_ (Vol. ii., pp. 408. 468.).--To this question your correspondent J.I.D. replies with a quotation from Nicols (edition of 1823), who dates her visit in 1592 or 1593. I had looked into Nichols's first edition (1788) without finding the subject mentioned; and I am now inclined to think, as at first, that it is altogether a misapprehension. Sir Francis Bacon, in _His Apologie in Certaine Imputations concerning the late Earl of Essex, written to the Right Hon. his very Good Lord the Earle of Devonshire, Lord-lieutenant of Ireland_. Lond. 1604, in 16mo. pp. 74., says, at p. 32.:-- "A little before that time, being about the middle of Michaelmas terme, her Maiestie had a purpose to dine at my Lodge at Twickna[m] Parke, at which time I had (though I professe not to be a poet) prepared a Sonnet, directly tending and alluding to draw on her Maiesties reconciliation to my Lord," &c. &c. This I conceive to have reference to an intention of Elizabeth, rather than to an accomplished fact. At p. 14. of this work, Bacon says he had sold Twickenham park some time ago to Reynold Nicholas. I consider Lysons to have been the first author who mentions the subject and at _Environs_, vol. iii. (1795), p. 565., there is a note: "From the information of the Earl of Orford." And I therefore conclude it to have been some mistake of Lord Orford's. YOUR FORMER CORRESPONDENT. Dec. 27. 1850.