les._--In Beaumont and Fletcher's _Boadicea_, Act 3.
Sc. 1. (Edinbugh, 1812), I meet with the following lines in Caratach's
Apostrophe to "Divine Andate," and which seem to corroborate Mr. C.
FORBES'S theory (No. 16. p. 228.) on the employment of monosyllables by
Shakspeare, when he wished to express violent and overwhelming emotion:
at least they appear to be used much in the same way by the celebrated
dramatists whom I quote:

"Give us this day good hearts, good enemies,
Good blows on both sides, wounds that fear or flight
Can claim no share in; steel us both with anger,
And warlike executions fit thy viewing.
Let Rome put on her best strength, and thy Britain,
Thy little Britain, but as great in fortune,
Meet her as strong as she, as proud, as daring!
And then look on, thou red-eyed God; who does best,
Reward with honour; who despair makes fly,
Unarm for ever, and brand with infamy!"

C.I.R.

Feb. 16.

_To endeavour oneself_ (No. 8. p. 125.).--"G.P." thinks that the verb
"endeavour" takes a middle voice form in the collect for the second
Sunday after Easter, in the preface to the Confirmation Service, and in
the Form of Ordering of Priests: but in these instances is it any thing
more than the verb neuter, implying that we should endeavour ourselves
to follow, &c.?

In Shepherd's _Elucidation of the Book of Common Prayer_ (2 vols. 8vo.
Lord. 1817), under the head of the Confirmation Office, it is stated
relative to the persons to be confirmed (vol. ii. p. 312.), "that they
solemnly engage evermore to endeavour faithfully to perform their part
of that covenant."

C.I.R.

_Evelyn's Sculptura._--In a copy of Evelyn's _Sculptura_, 3rd edit.,
with Memoir of the Author's Life, 8vo. London, 1759, I find the
following memorandum, in pencil, prefixed to the Memoirs:

"By Dr. Warton of Winchester, as he himself informed me in
1785."

An autograph resembling "J. Chelmar" is on the fly-leaf. As I do not see
this Memoir ascribed to Dr. Warton in any list, to which I have access,
of his writings, perhaps the Memoir is not generally, or at all, known
to be by him, and I therefore send the memorandum to you to be winnowed
in your literary threshing-floor, by those who have better means and
more leisure to ascertain its value.

J.M.

Oxford, Feb. 5.

_William Baxter._--I do not know whether William Baxter is authority for
anything. When you see a word quoted from one of the languag