"A dismal Storm of Hail fell upon this Town, and some other adjacent ones, w'ch did considerable damage both to the Windows and Corn. Many of the stones measured six inches in circumference. It broke almost all the South and West Windows both of this House and my Vicarage House at Stillington. "L. Sterne." "In the year 1741-- "Hail fell in the midst of Summer as big as a Pidgeon's egg, w'ch unusual occurrence I thought fit to attest under my hand. "L. STERNE." These two accounts of hailstorms are supposed to be only quizzes upon prodigious entries of the same sort made by Vicar Walker in 1698. And that this latter is so is evident, from the concluding words being the same as in Walker's memorandum. Sterne is characteristically exhibited in the subjoined account by the successor of the "reverend joker": "In the year 1764, during the Incumbency of Mr. Lawrence Sterne, the Vicarage House was burnt down. Tho' frequently admonished and required to rebuild the Vicarage House, he found means to evade the performance of it. He continued Vicar till he died, in March, 1768. Andrew Cheap was appointed his successor, and was advised to accept a composition for Dilapidations from the Widow. A Suit was instituted for Dilapidations, but after a time (the Widow being in indigent circumstances) sixty pounds were accepted. "In April, 1770, the New House was begun, and finished in May, 1771. "Total amount of Suit and Building the House, 576_l._ 13_s._ 5_d._ "ANDREW CHEAP, Vicar." ALFRED GATTY. READINGS IN SHAKSPEARE, NO. IV. "Of government the properties to unfold, Would seem in me to affect speech and discourse; Since I am put to know, that your own science Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice My strength can give you: Then, no more remains: But that, to your sufficiency as your worth, is able; And let them work. The nature of our people, Our city's institutions, and the terms For common justice, you are as pregnant in, As art and practice hath enriched any That we remember: There is our commission, From which we would not have you warp." Opening of _Measure for Measure_. In Mr. Knight's edition, from which the foregoing passage is printed and pointed, the following note is appended to it: "We encounter at the onset one of the obscure passages for which this play is remarkable. The text is usually pointed thus:-- "'Then no more remains But that to your sufficiency, as your worth is able, And let them work.' "It is certainly difficult to extract a clear meaning from this; and so Theobald and Hanmer assume that a line has dropped out, which they kindly restore to us, each in his own way."