in Sophoclis Antigonem affectio, ab Episcopo Vatsono tralatam: cum propter interpretis accuratum judicium. Qui tanti fecit optimo Tragicos, ut eosdem soleret cum Checo et Aschamo, omnibus aliis poetis anteferre; etiam Homero et Virgilio."

"Questa Medea di Dolce non è Medea di Seneca. Ma Thieste di Dolce è Thieste medesimo di Seneca. Solo coro nel fin è soperchievole."

"Gascoigni Jocasta, magnifice acta solemne ritu, et vere tragico apparatu. Ut etiam Vatsoni Antigone; cuive pompæ seriæ, et exquisita. Usque adeo quidem utraque ut nihil in hoc tragico genere vel illustrius vel accuratius."

"Jam floruerant prudentissimi Attici, Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles; jam florent Plato, Xenophon, Demosthenes, cum Euripides pangit Tragœdias. Nec excellentissimorum Atticorum, ullus vel prudentior Euripides, vel argutior, vel etiam elegantior. Nihil in eo nugarum, nihil affectationis, et tamen singula ubique cultissima."

"Erasmus talis Euripidis interpres, qualis Pindari Melancthon. Fœlix utriusque ad interpretandum dexteritas et fluens elocutionis facilitas. Plus in Erasmo diligentiæ; in Melancthone perspicuitas. Quam persequebatur, Camerarius, nec tamen assequebatur."

"Erasmi ferè jadicium acre, et serium nec dubium est, quin delectum adhibucrit in sapientissimis Tragœdiis eligendis exquisitum."

"Ut ferè fœminas; sic Comœdias et Tragœdias; qui unam omnimodo novit, omnes novit quodam modo. Saltem ex ungue, Leonem; ex clave, Herculem."

"Quattro Comedie del divino Pietro Aretino. Cioè Il Marescalco ò Pedante.—La Cortigiana.—La Talanta.—Lo Hippocrito.

"Habeo et legi: sed nondum comprare potui Il Filosofo: quæ tamen ipsius, Comœdia dicitur etiam exstare.

"Memorantur etiam duæ illius Tragœdiæ, L'Hortensia.—Tragœdia di Christo.

"Comedie, Dialoghi capricciosi, Le Lettere, e Capitoli dell' Unico: Historie del suo tempo. La quinta essenza del suo unico ingegno; e lo specchio di tutte l'arti Cortegiane.

"Due Comedie argutissime et facetissime di Macchiavelli Politico: La Mandragola.—La Clitia."

"IL LEGGERE NUTRISCA LO INGEGNO."

"Suppositi d'Ariosto: Comœdiam singulariter laudate à P. Jovio in Elogiis; cum Plautinis facilè contendens Inventionis, atque successus amenitate; si utriusque sæculi mores non inepte comparentur. Syncrisis ætatum necessaria, ad Comœdiarum, Historiarum, aliorumque Scriptorum excellentia in examinandam, atque judicandam solerti censura."

"Arciprologo quasi di tutte le Comedie, il primo dell' Aretino; et il terzo e quarto dello' stesso."

"Ut Comœdias, sic Tragœdias; qui tres aut quatuor intimè novit, novit ferè omnes. Tanti valet hic aureus libellus. Meo tandem judicio, Poetarum sapientissimus, Euripides: vel ipse Sophocle magis Attice nervosus et profundus, ut Seneca Latine."

"Ecce reliquiæ et fragmenta Menandri, Epicharmi, Alexidis, reliquiorumque Græcorum Comicorum. Cum toto Aristophane. Et fortasse senties nova veteribus non esse potiora. Nec usquam prudentiores Gnomas invenies, ne apud Theognidem quidem aut Isocratem.

"Placent etiam Comœdiæ quæ non sunt Comœdiæ; et Tragœdiæ quæ non sunt Tragœdiæ: Ut utriusque generis multæ egregiæ apud Homerum, et Virgilium in Heroicis; Frontinum et Polyænum in Strategematis; Stephanum in Apologia Herodoti: Rabelesium in Heroicis Gargantuæ: Sidneium in novissima Arcadiæ: Domenichum in Facetiis. Quomodo antiquorum unus Græcorum dixit:—Delicatissimos esse Pisces quæ non sunt Pisces, et carnes lautissimas quæ non sunt carnes. Da mihi Fabulas non Fabulas, Apologos non Apologos. Et sensi optima Apophthegmata quæ non sunt Apophthegmata: Optima Adagia quæ non Adagia.

"Inutiliter Tragœdias legit qui nescit philosophicas sententias a Tyrannicis distinguere. Alia scholarum doctrina, alia regnorum disciplina. Politico opus est judicio ad distinguendum prudentissimas sententias à reliquis. Nec semper Tyrannus barbarus: nec semper poeta, aut philosophus sapiens: solertis judiciis fuerit, non quis dicat, set quia dicatur respicere, et undique optima seligere."

"Euripidis Jocastæ apud Gascoignum summa ferè Tragœdiarum omnium."

"No finer or pithier Examples than in ye excellent Comedies and Tragedies following, full of sweet and wise discourse. A notable Dictionarie for the Grammer."

"Ut de hac Terentii tralatione sentirem honorificentius; fecit Aldus exquisita editio."

I thought these notes worth transcribing, not only as showing the attention paid by the learned students of this time to the drama, as well ancient as modern, but more especially for the mention made of the Jocasta of George Gascoigne, and the Antigone of Sophocles, translated, as he says, by Watson, Bishop of Worcester, and not by Thomas Watson, as Warton supposed. It may be doubted whether this translation was into English; but Harvey seems to imply that it was acted, as well as the Jocasta. Bishop Watson was celebrated for his dramatic skill, in his Latin tragedy of Absalon, by Roger Ascham, who says,—

"When M. Watson, in St. John's College at Cambridge, wrote his excellent Tragedie of Absalon, M. Cheke, he, and I, had many pleasant talkes togither, in comparing the preceptes of Aristotle and Horace with the examples of Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca.... M. Watson had another maner of care of perfection, with a feare and reverence of the judgement of the best learned: who to this day would neuer suffer yet his Absalon to go abroad, and that onelie bicause (in locis paribus) Anapæstus is twise or thrise used instead of Iambus."

In a volume in the Bodleian Library marked Z. 3., Art. "Selden," is "The Life of Howleglas," printed by Copland: at the bottom of the last page is the following MS. note:

"This Howleglasse, with Scoggin, Skelton, and (L——zario——?) given me at London of M. Spenser, xx Decembris, 1578, on condition yt I shoold bestowe ye readinge on them, on or before ye first day of January immediately ensuinge: otherwise to forfeit unto him my Lucian in fower volumes. Whereupon I was ye rather induced to trifle away so many howers as were idely overpassed in running through ye aforesaid foolish bookes; wherein methought yt not all fower together seemed comparable for fine and crafty feates with Jon Miller, whose witty shiftes and practises are reported among Skelton's Tales."

Mr. Malone, from whose memoranda I copy this, says, "I suspect it is Gabriel Harvey's handwriting."

I have a copy of the Organon of Aristotle in Greek, which bears marks of Gabriel Harvey's diligent scholarship. It is copiously annotated and analysed by him when a student at Cambridge, and he has registered the periods at which he completed the study of each part.

S. W. SINGER.

Mickleham, Aug. 15. 1851.

THE ANTIQUITY OF KILTS.

This has been the subject of many discussions, and has recently found a place in the columns of "NOTES AND QUERIES." I do not