he renders it; perhaps I ought to have done so before I troubled
you. Possibly some of your readers may be disposed to coincide with me
in the "new reading;" and if not, so to explain it that it may be shown
it is my own obscurity, and not Shakespeare's, with which I ought to
cavil.

I have witnessed many representations of _Macbeth_, and in every
instance the passage referred to has been delivered as I object to it:
but that is not to be wondered at, for there are professed admirers of
Shakspeare among actors who read him _not_ as if they understood him,
but who are--

"Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

G. BLINK.

* * * * *

MINOR QUERIES.

_As throng as Throp's Wife._--As I was busy in my garden yesterday, a
parishioner, whose eighty-two years of age render her a somewhat
privileged person to have a gossip with, came in to speak to me. With a
view to eliciting material for a Note or a Query, I said to her, "You
see I am _as throng as Throp's wife_;" to which she replied, "Aye, Sir,
and _she_ hanged herself in the dishcloth." The answer is new to me; but
the proverb itself, as well as the one mentioned by "D.V.S." (No. 24. p.
382.) "As lazy as Ludlum's dog, &c.," has been an especial object of
conjecture to me as long as I can remember. I send this as a pendant to
"D.V.S.'s" Query, in hopes of shortly seeing the origin of _both_ these
curious sayings.

J.E.

Ecclesfield, Sheffield, April 19. 1850.

_Trimble Family._--In a MS. account of the Fellows of King's I find the
following:--

"1530.--Rich. Trimble, a very merry fellow, the fiddle of the
society, who called him 'Mad Trimble.' M. Stokes of 1531 wrote
this distich on him:--

'Os, oculi, mentum, dens, guttur, lingua, palatum
Sunt tibi; sed nasus, Trimbale, dic ubi sit?'

By which it appears he had a very small nose; and this day, July
13, 1739, I hear that there is one Mr. R. Trimble of an English
family, an apothecary at Lisburn in Ireland, who is remarkable
for the same."

As "NOTES AND QUERIES" circulate in Ireland, are there any of the family
of "Trimble" now in that country, and are they distinguished by any such
peculiarity?

J.H.L.

_The Word "Brozier."_--my brother Etonians will feelingly recollect the
word "Brozier," used by the boys for nearly a century to denote any one
who had spent his pocket-money; an event of very frequent occurrence
short