In fine, as Prospero did undoubtedly point to the dissolution of the globe and all that it contained, it is quite clear that it could in such case leave neither "cloud" nor "vapour," nor anything else behind it. The simple question then remains: Is the word _rack_, as elsewhere used by Shakspeare and his contemporaries, logically applicable there? A LOOKER-ON. Dawlish, Aug. 16. 1851. _Wolken Zug, English Term corresponding to._--Coleridge (_Death of Wallenstein_, Act V. Sc. 1.) gives the lines-- "Fast fly the clouds, the sickle of the moon Struggling, darts snatches of uncertain light." as a translation of "---- schnell geht Der Wolken Zug: die Mondessichel wankt Und durch die Nacht zuckt ungewisse Helle." In a note on this passage he says: "The words _wanken_ and _schweben_ are not easily translated. The English words by which we attempt to render them are either vulgar or pedantic, or not of sufficiently general application. So 'der Wolken Zug,' the draft, the procession of clouds, the masses of the clouds sweep onward in swift _stream_." On reading this, it struck me that the English word _rack_ exactly expresses the meaning of "der Wolken Zug." Malone, in his note on the _Tempest_, Act IV. Sc. 1., says: "_Rack_ is generally used for a _body of clouds_, or rather for _the course of clouds in motion_." I add a few instances of the use of this word, many of which are collected in the note I have referred to. In _Antony and Cleopatra_-- "That which is now a horse, even with a thought The _rack_ dislimns." In Fletcher's _Faithful Shepherdess_-- "shall I stray In the middle air, and stay The sailing _rack_." In Dryden's tenth _Æneid_-- "the doubtful _rack_ of heaven Stands without motion." The term _scud_, used by sailors, seems to express the same idea. X. Z. RICHARD ROLLE OF HAMPOLE. (Vol. iv., pp. 49. 116.) The productions of the writer known by the name of the Hermit of Hampole have been hitherto much neglected: they afford copious illustrations of ancient manners, and are very valuable in a philological point of view. I would especially name the _Speculum Vitæ, or Mirrour of Life_, of which I possess two MSS. in entirely distinct dialects. Your Cambridge correspondent has shown that the Metrical Sermons contain interesting passages also illustrative of manners and as the extracts he has made have given occasion to some glossarial Queries from an Oxford correspondent, J. E., should they not be more satisfactorily answered by C. H., to whom they are addressed, perhaps the following attempt to resolve them may not be unacceptable. 1. By the _devenisch_ most probably the _Danish_ is meant, which we find elsewhere written _Deniske_, _Daniske_, and _Danske_.