"It is lawful to desire a Bishoprick; neither can the unwillingness to accept it be, in a prudent account, adjudged the aptest disposition to receive it (especially if done in ceremony--(in Pontifical. Rom.)--just in the instant of their entertainment of it, and possibly after a long ambition.)"--_Life of Christ_, Ad Sect. IX. Part I. 2.; _Considerations upon the Baptism of Jesus_, p. 96. Lond. 1702. Fol. On more occasions than one I have hunted Roman Pontificals in vain, but I may have been unfortunate in the editions to which I had access. It cannot at all events have descended from remote antiquity, for "episcopari" is a comparatively modern word. St. Bernard uses it in his 272nd _Epistle_; but the Benedictine editors speak of it as an "exotic." RT. Warmington. _Hougoumont_ (Vol. iv., p. 313.).--The assertion of your correspondent A. B. R. I have met with before, but forget where: viz. that the proper designation of the château in question is _Goumont_, and that _Hougoumont_ is only a corruption of _Château Goumont_. This may be the case; but the Duke must not be charged with the corruption, for I have now before me a map of the Département de la Dyle, published "l'An 8 de la République Française, à Bruxelles, &c., par Ph. J. Maillart et Soeur," &c., in which the place is distinctly called _Hougoumont_. A. C. M. Exeter. _Call a Spade, a Spade_ (Vol. iv., p. 274.).--I have found two early, but unauthenticated, instances of the use of this saying, in a note by J. Scaliger on the _Priapeia, sive Diversorum Poetarum in Priapum Lusus_:-- "Simplicius multo est, ----, latinè Dicere, quid faciam? crassa Minervæ mea est." _Carmen_, ii. 9, 10. "Ἄγροικός εἰμι· τὴν σκάφην σκάφην λέγω;" Aristophanes.--"Unde jocus maximi Principis, Philippi Macedonis. Quum ii, qui prodiderant Olynthum Philippo, conquestum et expostulatum ad ipsum venissent, quod injuriosè nimis vocarentur proditores ab aliis Macedonibus: οἱ Μακεδόνες, inquit, ἀμαθεῖς καὶ ἄγροικοί εἰσι· τὴν σκάφην σκάφην λέγουσι."—J. Scaliger. For which note see the "Priapeia," &c., at the end of an edition of Petronius Arbiter, entitled, _Titi Petronii Arbitri Equitis Romani Satyricon. Concinnante Michaele Hadrianide. Amstelodami. Typis Ioannis Blaeu. M.DC.LXIX._ As I cannot at this moment refer to any good verbal index to Aristophanes, I cannot ascertain in what part of his works Scaliger's quotation is to be found. Burton, in his preface to the _Anatomy of Melancholy_ ("Democritus Junior to the Reader"), repeats the saying twice, _i.e._ in Latin and English, and presents it, moreover, in an entirely new form: