And feared before night that your hair would want dressing;
But the ladies, all zeal, sent their wishes in air,
For a man of such spirit is ever their care.

"Attornies were puzzled how now they could sue you,
Underwriters, what premium they'd now take to do you;
While the sallow-faced Jew, of his monies so fond,
Thanked Moses he never had taken your bond."

Mr. Baldwin ascended in Lunardi's balloon, the latter being present at
the start, though not taking part in the voyage.

M.


_Concolinel_ (Vol. ii., p. 217.).--I have been many years engaged in
researches connected with {318} the _original_ music of Shakspeare's
Plays, but it has not been my good fortune to meet with the air of
_Concolinel_. The communication of your correspondent R. is of the
greatest interest, and I should be for ever grateful if he would allow
me to see the manuscript in question, in order that I might test the
_genuineness_ of the air "stated, in a recent hand, to be the tune of
_Concolinel_ mentioned by Shakspeare."

This air has double claims on our attention, as its existence, in any
shape, is placed amongst the "doubtful" points by the following note
extracted from the Rev. J. Hunter's _New Illustrations of Shakspeare_,
vol. i. p. 268.:--

"Concolinel. In the absence of any thing like sufficient