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MILTON IN IRELAND (11 S. iii. 328). It
is to be feared that the evidence in favour
of Milton having ever been in Ireland is on
a par with that of Shakespeare's visit to
Scotland. Or rather, one should say that
there is far less evidence for the former
than for the latter theory. If Milton was
in Ireland (which none of his biographers
seems ever to have been aware of), it mus
have been during his residence in Bucking
hamshire after leaving college, or during the
time when he acted as Cromwell's Latin
secretary. Among publications credited to
his pen while secretary appears a work
entitled ' Observations upon the Articles o1
Peace with the Irish Rebels, on the Letter
of Ormond to Col. Jones, and the Repre-
sentation of the Presbytery at Belfast,"
London, 1649, 4to. Possibly the mention
of Belfast in Milton's writings may have
given rise to the notion that he was once
there. It will require, Jiowever, much
stronger evidence than has hitherto been
forthcoming to establish as a fact that he
ever set foot in Ireland. SCOTUS.
FISHING IN FRESH WATER IN CLASSICAL TIMES (US. iii. 249, 350, 393). Somebody may like to be reminded of the use Shake- speare made of the episode referred to by PROF. BENSLY :
Cleopatra. Give me mine angle ; we '11 to the
river : there,
My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finn'd fishes ; my bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws ; and, as I draw them up, I '11 think them every one an Antony, And say " Ah, ha ! you 're caught."
Charmian. 'Twas merry when You wager' d on your angling : when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.
Cleopatra. That time, Outlines !
I laugh' d him out of patience.
'Ant. and Cleo.,' II. v. 10-19.
ST. SWITHIN.
S. S. W. (ante, p. 350) misses the point of his Antony fish story. I do not believe that the water near Alexandria is fresh; but be that as it may, Cleopatra's trick on Antony was to have a salt fish, i.e., a salted fish, put on his hook. The story is told in Shakespeare's ' Antony and Cleopatra,' II- v. ISAAC HULL PLATT.
Wallingford, Pa.
ANANIAS AS A CHRISTIAN NAME (US. iii. 266, 333, 395). L. L. K.'s reply is curious. The^ Puritans did not require to study the ' Acta Sanctorum ' in order to identify the Ananias whom your correspondent
refers to as a saint of the Roman Catholic
calendar. He is, of course, one of the
"Three Children," Ananias (Hananiah),
Mishael, and Azariah, otherwise known
as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, whom
L. L. K. will find in his Bible (Daniel
i.-iii.) and Prayer Book (Order for Morning
Prayer), without having recourse to the
tomes of the Bollandists.
D. O. HUNTER BLAIR. Fort Augustus.
In the Prayer Book, the alternative to the * Te Deum' at Morning Prayer is the
- Benedicite,' commonly used in Lent. This
canticle ends with an invocation of the Three Children," thus: "O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless ye the Lord." The name would thus be quite familiar to English Churchpeople. G. W. E. R.
CORONATION BIBLIOGRAPHY (11 S. iii. 345). The following may be added to the notes given at the above reference :
' A Faithful Account of the Processions and Ceremonies in the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of England : exemplified in that of their late sacred Majesties King George the Third
and Queen Charlotte embellished with
elegant engravings.' Edited by Richard Thom- son. 8vo, London, 1820.
' Peter Parley's Visit to London during the Coronation of Queen Victoria.' Square 12mo, London, 1839.
The latter work was described at 9 S. yii. 346, 437 ; some copies were issued with the plates coloured. W. B. H.
- NICHOLAS NICKLEBY ' : SUPPRESSIONS IN
'PICKWICK' (11 S. iii. 244, 313, 392). The words about Mr. Pickwick's portrait are these : " Which portrait, by the by, he did not wish to have destroyed when he grew a few years older." Sorely the meaning! is simple enough. We like the portraits which are painted in our youth or middle age, because we are conscious that our looks do not improve as we grow 1 older.
DlCKENSIAN.
THE COLLAR OF SS (11 S. iii. 361, 413). In the second column of p. 363, 11. 11, 12, the dates of the deaths of the " three Dukes of Somerset three times renowned " should tiave been given as 1455, 1464 (battle of Eexham), and 1471.
It seems worth mentioning that Collars of SS, though nowhere mentioned in the text of Shakespeare, are twice found in ' the order of Coronation " (of Queen Anne Bullen) in ' Henry VlH.,' IV. i.
W. A. Cox.
