_Passages from Shakspeare._--May I beg for an interpretation of the two
following passages from Shakspeare:--

"_Isab._ Else let my brother die,
If not a feodary, but only he,
Owe, and succeed thy weakness."

_Measure for Measure,_ Act ii. Sc. 4.

"_Imogen._ Some jay of Italy,
Whose mother was her painting, hath betrayed him."

_Cymbeline_, Act iii. Sc. 4.

TREBOR.

King's College, London.


_Nursery Rhyme._--What is the date of the nursery rhyme:--

"Come when you're called,
Do what you're bid,
Shut the door after you,
Never be chid?"--Ed. 1754.

In Howell's _Letters_ (book i. sect. v. letter 18. p. 211. ed. 1754) I
find--