MR. SINGER has further charged me with "want of truth," in stating that the question remains "substantially where Steevens and Malone had left it." Wherein, I ask, substantially consists the difference? MR. SINGER has merely substituted his "wormwood wine" for Malone's vinegar; and before he can make it as palatable to common sense, and Shakspeare's "logical correctness and nicety of expression," as it was to Creed and Shepley, he must get over the "stalking-horse," the _drink_ UP, which stands in his way precisely as it did in that of Malone's more legitimate proposition. MR. SINGER overleaps the difficulty by a bare assertion that "to _drink_ UP was commonly used for simply to drink." He has not produced any parallel case of proof, with the exception of one from Mr. Halliwell's _Nursery Rhymes_. I adopt his citation, and shall employ it against him. _Drink_ UP can only be grammatically applied to a determinate total, whether it be the river Yssell or MR. HICKSON'S dose of physic. Shakespeare seems to have been well acquainted with, and to have observed, the grammatical rule which MR. SINGER professes not to comprehend. Thus: "I will drink, _Potions of_ eysell." Shaksp. _Sonnet_ cxi. and "Give me to drink mandragora," _Ant. and Cleop._, Act I. Sc. 5. are parallel passages, and imply quantity indeterminate, inasmuch as they admit of more or less. Now MR. SINGER'S obliging quotation from the _Nursery Rhymes_,-- "Eat UP your cake, Jenny, _Drink_ UP YOUR wine"-- certainly implies quite the reverse; for it can be taken to mean neither more nor less than the identical glass of wine that Jenny had standing before her. A parallel passage will be found in Shakspeare's sonnet (CXIV.): "_Drink up_ the monarch's plague, _this_ flattery:" {211} and in this category, on the rule exponed, since it cannot positively appertain to the other, must, I think, be placed the line of Hamlet,-- "Woo't _drink up_ eisell?" as a noun implying absolute entirety; which might be a _river_, but could not be grammatically applied to any unexpressed quantity. Now what is the amount and value of MR. SINGER'S proposition? He says: "In Thomas's _Italian Dictionary_, 1562, we have 'ASSENZIO, _Eysell_'[4]; and Florio renders that word [ASSENZIO, not _Eysell_?] by 'wormwood.' What is meant, however, is _wormwood wine_, a nauseously bitter medicament then much in use."