enough, I hope, to refute your second assertion which was, that women,
in the opinion of men, have little to do with literature. I may inform
you, that the _Iliad_ is to be dedicated to Earl Cowper, and the
_Odyssey_ to the Dowager Lady Spencer but this information need not be
extensively circulated."

J. YEOWELL.

50. Burton Street.

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SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE.

_"As You Like It."_--Believing that whatever illustrates, even to a
trifling extent, the great dramatic poet of England will interest the
readers of "N. & Q.," I solicit their attention to the resemblance between
the two following passages:

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players."

"Si recte aspicias, _vita haec est fabula quaedam_.
_Scena autem, mundus versatilis_: _histrio et actor_
_Quilibet est hominum--mortales nam proprie cuncti_
_Sunt personati_, et falsa sub imagine, vulgi
Praestringunt oculos: _ita Diis, risumque jocumque_,
_Stultitiis, nugisque suis per saecula praebent_.
. . . . . . . .
"Jam mala quae humanum patitur genus, adnumerabo.
_Principio_ postquam e latebris male olentibus alvi
Eductus tandem est, materno sanguine foedus,
_Vagit, et auspicio lacrymarum nascitur infans_.
. . . . . . . .
"Vix natus jam vincla subit, tenerosque coercet
Fascia longa artus: praesagia dire futuri
Servitii.
. . . . . . . .
"Post ubi jam valido se poplite sustinet, et jam
Rite loqui didicit, tunc servire incipit, atque
Jussa pati, _sentitque minas ictusque magistri_,
Saepe patris matrisque manu fratrisque frequenter
Pulsatur: facient quid vitricus atque noverca?
_Fit juvenis, crescunt vires_: jam spernit habenas,
Occluditque aures monitis, furere incipit, ardens
Luxuria atque ira: et temerarius omnia nullo
Consilio aggreditur, dictis melioribus obstat,
Deteriora fovens: _non ulla pericula curat_,
Dummodo id efficiat, suadet quod coeca libido.
. . . . . . . .
"_Succedit gravior, melior, prudentior aetas_,
Cumque ipsa curae adveniunt, durique labores;
Tune homo mille modis, studioque enititur omni
Rem facere, et nunquam sibi multa negotia desunt.
Nunc peregre it, nunc ille domi, nunc rure laborat,
Ut sese, uxorem, natos, famulosque gubernet,
Ac servet, solus pro cunctis soll