the Magyars_, 8vo. London, 1830; _Specimens of Polish Poets_, 1827;
_Servian popular Poetry_, 1827; and a _Cheskian Anthology_, 1832.

H.H.W.


"_Speak the Tongue that Shakspeare spoke_" (Vol. ii., p. 135.).--The
lines about which X. asks, are

"We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakspeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held," &c.

They are in one of Wordsworth's glorious "Sonnets to Liberty" (the
sixteenth), and belong to _us_, and not to the New-Englanders.

G.N.


_Countess of Desmond_ (Vol. ii., pp. 153. 186.).--In reply to K., I have
an impression that Horace Walpole has a kind of dissertation on the _Old
Countess of Desmond_, to whom his attention was directed by her being
said to have danced with Richard III. Having no books at hand, I cannot
speak positively; but if K. turns to Walpole's _Works_, he will see
whether my memory is correct. I myself once looked, many years ago, into
the subject, and satisfied myself that the great age attributed to _any_
Countess of Desmond must be a fable; and that the portrait of her (I
think, at Windsor) was so gross an imposition as to be really that of an
old man. I made a "Note"--indeed many--of the circumstances which led me
to this conclusion; but they are at this moment inaccessible to me. I