"_They that touch pitch_," &c.--A few Sundays since the clergyman that I "sit under," quoting in his discourse the words "they that touch pitch will be defiled," ascribed them to "the wisest of men." A lady of his congregation (who was, I fear, more critical than devout) pounced upon her pastor's mistake, and asked me on the following Monday if I also had noticed it. I denied that it was one; but she laughed at my ignorance, produced a Shakspeare, and showed me the words in the mouth of Dogberry (_Much Ado about Nothing_, Act III. Sc. 3.). However, by the help of a "Cruden," I was able to find the same expression, not indeed in Solomon, but in the son of Sirach (ch. xiii. v. 1.). If Shakspeare's appropriation of this passage has not been noticed before, may I request the insertion of this note? It may possibly prevent other learned divines from falling into the common (?) mistake of thus quoting Dogberry as "the wisest of men." E. J. G. Preston. _Pasquinade._--In May last was placed on Pasquin's statue in Rome the following triglot epigram, of which the original Latin was borrowed from "NOTES AND QUERIES." As it is not probable that the Papal police allowed it to remain long before the eyes of the lieges of his Holiness, allow me to lay up in your pages this memorial of a visit to Rome during the "Aggression" summer. "Cum Sapiente Pius nostras juravit in aras, Impius heu Sapiens, desipiensque Pius. "When a league 'gainst our Faith Pope with Cardinal tries, Neither _Wiseman_ is Pious, nor _Pius_ is Wise. "Quando Papa' o' Cardinale Chiesa' Inglese tratta male, Que Chiamo quella gente, Piu? No-no, ni Sapiente. ANGLUS." The Italian version will of course be put down as _English_-Italian, and therefore worse than mediocre; but I wished to perpetuate, along with the sense of the Latin couplet, a little _jeu d'esprit_ which I saw half obliterated on a wall at Rovigo, in the Lombardo-Venetian territory; being a play on the family name and character of Pius IX.: "Piu?--No-no: ma stai Ferette;" which may be read, "Pious?--Not at all: but _still_ Ferette." A. B. R. _Two Attempts to show the Sound of "ough" final._-- 1. Though from rough cough, or hiccough free, That man has pain enough, Whose wound through plough, sunk in slough Or lough begins to slough. 2. 'Tis not an easy task to show How _o_, _u_, _g_, _h_ sound; since _though_ An Irish _lough_ and English _slough_, And _cough_ and hic_cough_, all allow, Differ as much as _tough_, and _through_, There seems no reason why they do. W. J. T. Queries. CAN BISHOPS VACATE THEIR SEES?