Feb. 10. 1852. _Bow-bell_ (Vol. v., pp. 28. 140.).--Your correspondent W. S. S. is, I think, right in supposing _Bow-bell_ to be almost synonymous with _Cockney_. I quote a passage from the _London Prodigall_, which had once the honour of being attributed to Shakspeare. "_Enter Sir Lancelot Weathercock Young Flowerdale, &c._ (Sir Arthur Green-hood, Oliver, &c., had been on the stage before.) "_Lan._ Sir Arthur, welcome to Lewsome, welcome, by my troth. What's the matter, man? why are you vext? _Oli._ Why man, he would press me. _Lan._ O fie, Sir Arthur, press him? He is a man of reckoning. _Wea._ I that he is, Sir Arthur, he hath the nobles. The golden ruddocks he. _Ar._ The fitter for the warrs: and were he not in favour With your worships, he should see, That I have power to press as good as he. _Oli._ Chill stand to the trial, so chill. _Flow._ I marry shall he, presse cloth and karsie, White pot and drowsen broth: tut, tut, he cannot. _Oli._ Well, Sir, though you see vlouten cloth and karsie, chee a zeen zutch a karsie coat wear out the town sick a zilken jacket, as thick a one as you wear. _Flow._ Well sed, vlitan vlattan. _Oli._ A and well sed _cocknell_, and _boe-bell_ too. What doest think cham aveard of thy zilken coat, no fer vere thee." Page iv. RT. Warmington. _Cou-bache_ (Vol. v., p. 131.).--In MR. SINGER'S note on the word _cou-bache_, in the enumeration of the cognate words which would appear to contradict the usual interpretation, he would seem to have forgotten the Greek Βήσσα, which confirms it, and has precisely the meaning of a shaded mountain valley, and certainly belongs to the same tribe of the Indo-Germanic languages as the pure Saxon bæccha. RICHARD F. LITTLEDALE. _White-livered_ (Vol. v., p. 127.).--The expression _white-livered_ had its origin in the auspices taken by the Greeks and Romans before battle, in which the examination of the liver and entrails of the victim formed an essential part. If the liver were the usual shape, and a blood-red colour, the omen was favourable; if pale or livid, it was an augury of defeat. The transition from the victim to the inquirer was easy, and a dastard leader, likely to sustain disgrace, was called "a man of a white liver." RICHARD F. LITTLEDALE. Dublin. "_Experto crede Roberto_" (Vol. v., p. 104.).--Your correspondent W. L. may perhaps find the origin of the above phrase in the following epitaph copied from the floor of Exeter College Chapel, Oxford: "Quam subito, quam certo, experto crede Roberto Pride AUX, Fratri Matthiæ minori Qui veneno infæliciter com[-] [-]Esto intra decem horas Misere expiravit. Sept. 14, 1627." What is the meaning of the capitals? Close by is the following: