Shakspeare among actors who read him _not_ as if they understood him,
but who are--

"Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

G. BLINK.

* * * * *

MINOR QUERIES.

_As throng as Throp's Wife._--As I was busy in my garden yesterday, a
parishioner, whose eighty-two years of age render her a somewhat
privileged person to have a gossip with, came in to speak to me. With a
view to eliciting material for a Note or a Query, I said to her, "You
see I am _as throng as Throp's wife_;" to which she replied, "Aye, Sir,
and _she_ hanged herself in the dishcloth." The answer is new to me; but
the proverb itself, as well as the one mentioned by "D.V.S." (No. 24. p.
382.) "As lazy as Ludlum's dog, &c.," has been an especial object of
conjecture to me as long as I can remember. I send this as a pendant to
"D.V.S.'s" Query, in hopes of shortly seeing the origin of _both_ these
curious sayings.

J.E.

Ecclesfield, Sheffield, April 19. 1850.


_Trimble Family._--In a MS. account of the Fellows of King's I find the
following:--