Your correspondent on the subject of the lines said to have been repeated by Mary Queen of Scots on the scaffold, furnishes a translation of them in lieu of others, which he condemns; and his version has provoked me to try my hand at one, in which I have studied rhythm more than rhyme: the rhythm and the intensity of the ordinal. "Great God, I have trusted In peril on Thee! Dear Jesus, Redeemer, Deliver thou me! In my prison-house groaning, I long but for Thee; Languishing, moaning, Bow'd down on bent knee, I adore Thee, implore Thee, From my sins set me free." ALAN. _Aristophanes on the Modern Stage_ (Vol. iii., pp. 105. 250.).--Finding that no correspondent of yours, in answer to a Query which appeared some time back, viz.: "Whether any play of Aristophanes had ever been adapted to the modern stage," has yet mentioned the only two instances of which I am aware, I beg to refer the Querist to the _Plaideurs_ of Racine (an adaptation of the _Wasps_), and to a very ingenious modernisation of the _Birds_ by Mr. Planché, produced about four years since at the Haymarket as an Easter piece, under its original title. I cannot refrain from taking this opportunity of protesting, under your justly powerful auspices, against the use of the word "Exposition" in its French sense of _Exhibition_, now creeping into places where it could scarcely have been expected. AVENA. _The White Rose_ (Vol. iii., p. 407.).--The version which I have of the beautiful lines quoted by your correspondent is (I quote from memory): "If this fair rose offend thy sight It on thy bosom wear, 'Twill blush to find itself less white, And turn Lancastrian there." The succeeding couplet has equal merit: "But if thy ruby lip it spy As kiss it thou mayst deign, With envy pale 'twill lose its dye, And Yorkist turn again." C. I. R. The origin of the blush imparted to the rose is most beautifully described by Carey: "As erst in Eden's blissful bowers Young Eve surveyed her countless flowers, An opening rose of poorest white She marked with eye that beamed delight; Its leaves she kissed, and straight it drew From Beauty's lip the vermeil hue." J. A. DOUGLAS. _Mark for a Dollar_ (Vol. iii., p. 449.).--The origin of the sign of the dollar, concerning which T. C. inquires, is, I believe, a contraction of _scutum_, the same as _£_, formerly written _£i_, is of _libra_. The strokes through the S are merely the signs of contraction. K. P. D. E.