_Sheridan and Vanbrugh._--Could any of your readers inform me as to the following? I find printed in Sheridan's _Dramatic Works_ by Bohn, a copy of Sir John Vanbrugh's play of _The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger_. It is, with a very few omissions, an exact reprint, but bears the title of _A Trip to Scarborough, or Miss in her Teens_. No comment is made, or any mention of Vanbrugh. O. O. _Quotation from an old Ballad._-- "Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But, why did you kick me down stairs?" In what old ballad or poetic effusion may the above forcibly expressive, though not remarkably elegant, lines be found? A short time ago they were quoted in _The Times'_ leading article, from which fact I suppose them to be of well-known origin. NREDRA NAMB. Replies. PRINCESSES OF WALES. (Vol. iii., p. 477.) The statement of Hume, that Elizabeth and Mary were created Princesses of Wales, rests, I am disposed to think, on most insufficient authority; and I am surprised that so illustrious an author should have made an assertion on such slender grounds, which carries on the face of it a manifest absurdity, and which was afterwards retracted by the very author from whom he borrowed it. Hume's authority is evidently Burnet's _History of the Reformation_; (indeed, in some editions your correspondent G. would have seen Burnet referred to) in which are the following passages (vol. i. p. 71., Oxford edition, 1829): "The King, being out of hopes of more children, declared his daughter (Mary) Princess of Wales, and sent her to Ludlow to hold her court there, and projected divers matches for her." Again, p. 271.: "Elizabeth was soon after declared Princess of Wales; though lawyers thought that against law, for she was only heir presumptive, but not apparent, to the crown, since a son coming after he must be preferred. Yet the king would justify what he had done in his marriage with all possible respect; and having before declared the Lady Mary Princess of Wales, he did now the same in favour of the Lady Elizabeth." Hume's statement is taken almost verbatim from this last passage of Burnet, who, however, it will be observed, does not say "created," but "declared" Princess of Wales; the distinction between which is obvious. He was evidently not aware that Burnet afterwards corrected this statement in an Appendix, entitled, "Some Mistakes in the first Portion of this History communicated to me by Mr. William Fulman, Rector of Hampton Meysey, in Gloucestershire." In this is the following note, in correction of the passages I have quoted (Burn. _Hist. Ref._, vol. iv. p. 578.):