Good reason and good skyll,
_They may garlyck pyll_,
Cary sackes to the myll,
Or pescoddes they may shyll,
Or elles go rost a stone?"
_Why come ye not to Courte?_ 103-109.
Without further elucidation of this pilling, the existing definitions are
pills which defy deglutition of
F.S.Q.
_A Recent Novel_ (Vol. i., pp. 231, 285.).--May I be permitted to correct
an error in a communication from one of your correspondents? ADOLPHUS (p.
231.) puts a Query respecting the title of a recent novel; and J.S. (p.
285) informs him that the title is _Le Morne au Diable_, by Eugene Sue. The
fact is, that "La Morne au Diable" is the principal scene of the events
described, and nothing more. The title is _L'Aventurier, ou la
Barbe-bleue_; and an English translation, styled the _Female Blue Beard, or
the Adventurer_, was published in 1845 by W. Strange, 21. Paternoster Row.
HENRY H. BREEN.
St. Lucia, W.I., Nov. 1850
_Tablet to Napoleon_ (Vol. i., p. 461.).--The form and punctuation given to
this inscription by C. suggest its true meaning. Napoleon is called the
Egyptian, the Italian, for reasons similar to those for which Publius
Cornelius Scipio obtained the name of "Africanus.
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