from print, and which would be easily confounded with _d_. Can Mr. White find an example of _dod_ for _doth_, where the word could not be doubtful to the compositor? The inability of foreigners to pronounce the _th_ was often made a source of fun on the stage. Puttenham speaks of _dousand_ for _thousand_ as a vulgarism. Shakspeare himself makes Caius say _dat_, and "by my _trot_"; and in Marston's "Dutch Courtezan," (Act ii. Sc. 1,) we find Francischina, (a Dutch woman,) saying, "You have brought mine love, mine honor, mine body, all to _noting_!"--to which her interlocutrix answers, "To nothing!" It is plain that Marston did not harden his _th_s into _t_s, nor suppose that his audience were in the habit of doing so. How did Ben Jonson pronounce the word? He shall answer for himself (_Vision of Delight_).-- "Some that are proper find signify o'thing, And some another, and some that are _nothing_." But perhaps he pronounced _thing, ting_? If _he_ did, Herrick as surely did not, for he has "Maides should say, or virgins sing, Herrick keeps, as holds, _nothing_," where the accent divides the word into its original elements, and where it is out of the question that he should lay the emphasis on a bit of broken English. As to the _h_s which Mr. White adduces in such names as _Anthony_ and such words as _authority_, they have no bearing on the question, for those words are not English, and the _h_ in them is perhaps only a trace of that tendency in _t_ to soften itself before certain vowels and before _r_, as _d_ also does, with a slight sound of _theta_, especially on the thick tongues of foreigners. Shakspeare makes Fluellen say _athversary_; and the Latin _t_ was corrupted first to _d_ and then to _dth_ in Spanish. The _h_ here has not so much meaning as the _h_ which has crept into _Bosporus_, for that is only the common change of _p_ to _f_, corresponding to _v_ for _b_. So when Mr. White reads _annotanize_ rather than _anatomize_, because the Folio has _annothanize_, we might point him to Minsheu's "Spanish Dictionary," where, in the earlier editions, we find _anathomia_. In _lanthorn_, another word adduced by Mr. White, the _h_ is a vulgarism of spelling introduced to give meaning to a foreign word, the termination being supposed to be derived from the material (horn) of which lanterns were formerly made,--like _Bully Ruffian_ for _Bellerophon_ in our time, and _Sir Piers Morgan_ for _Primaguet_ three centuries ago. As for _t'one_ and _t'other_, they should be _'tone_ and _'tother_, being elisions for _that one_ and _that other_, relics of the Anglo-Saxon declinable definite article, still used in Frisic.