I was wrong in attributing it to Plautus, and should rather have called it _Plautine_. By a strange slip of the pen or the press, pericu_lum_ is put instead of pericu_lo_ in my note. Niebuhr has a very interesting essay on the interpolated scenes in Plautus, in the first volume of his _Kleine Historische und Philologische Schriften_, which will show why these scenes and passages, marked as supposititious in some editions, are now omitted. It appears that they were made in the fifteenth century by Hermolaus Barbarus. See a letter from him to the Bishop of Segni, in _Angeli Politiani Epistolæ_, lib. xii. epist. 25. To the parallel thoughts already cited may be added the following: "Ii qui sciunt, quid aliis acciderit, facile ex aliorum eventu, suis rationibus possunt providere." _Rhetoric. ad Herennium_, L. 4. c. 9. "I' presi esempio de' lor stati rei, Facendomi profitto l' altrui male In consolar i casi e dolor miei." Petrarca, _Trionfo della Castità_. "Ben' è felice quel, donne mie care, Ch' essere accorto all' altrui spese impare." Ariosto, _Orl. Fur._, canto X. S. W. SINGER. _The Saint Graal_ (Vol. iii., p. 413.).--I see that MR. G. STEPHENS states, that Mons. Roquefort's nine columns are decisive of Saint Graal being derived from Sancta Cratera. I am unacquainted with the word _cratera_, unless in Ducange, as meaning a basket. But _crater_, a goblet, is the word meant by Roquefort. How should _graal_ or _greal_ come from _crater_? I cannot see common sense in it. Surely that ancient writer, nearly, or quite, contemporary with the publication of the romance, Helinandus Frigidimontanus, may be trusted for the fact that _graal_ was French for "gradalis or gradale," which meant "scutella lata et aliquantulum profunda in quâ preciosæ dapes cum suo jure divitibus solent apponi." (Vide Helinand. ap. Vincentium Bellovacensem, _Speculum Historiale_, lib. 43. cap. 147.) Can there be a more apparent and palpable etymology of any word, than that _graal_ is _gradale_? See Ducange in _Gradale_, No. 3, and in _Gradalis_, and the three authorities (of which Helinand is not one) cited by him. A. N. _Skeletons at Egyptian Banquet_ (Vol. iii., p. 424.).--The _interpretation_ of this is probably from Jer. Taylor's own head. See, for the history of the association in his mind, his sermon on the "Marriage Ring." "It is fit that I should infuse a bunch of myrrh into the festival goblet, and, after the Egyptian manner, serve up a dead man's bones as a feast." Q. Q. _Sewell_ (Vol. iii., p. 391.).--Allow me to refer H. C. K. to a passage in the _Letters on the Suppression of the Monasteries_, published by the Camden Society, p. 71., for an example of the word _sewelles_. It is there said to be equivalent to _blawnsherres_. The scattered pages of Duns Scotus were put to this use, after he was banished from Oxford by the Royal Commissioners.