GEORGE STEPHENS.

Stockholm.

_The disputed Passage in the "Tempest"_ (Vol. ii., pp. 259. 299. 337.).--I
am the "COMMA" which MR. COLLIER claims the merit of having removed, and I
humbly protest against the removal. I adhere to the reading of the folio of
1632, except that I would strike out the final _s_ in labours. The passage
would then read:

"But these sweet thoughts so refresh my labour
Most busy least, when I do it."

That is, the thoughts so refresh my labour, that I am "most busy least" (an
emphatic way of saying least busy), "when I do it," to wit, the labour. MR.
HICKSON is ingenious, but he takes no notice of--

COMMA.

_Viscount Castlecomer_ (Vol. ii., p. 376.).--S.A.Y. asks whether Lord
Deputy Wandesford (not Wanderforde) "ever took up this title, and what
became of it afterwards?" He never did; for on the receipt of the patent,
in the summer of 1640, Wandesford exclaimed, "Is this a time for a faithful
subject to be exalted, when his king, the fountain of honours, is likely to
be reduced lower than ever." A few months afterwards he died of a broken
heart. We are told that he concealed the patent, and his grandson was the
first of the family--apparently by a fresh creation in 1706--who assumed
the title. The neglect of sixty-six years, perhaps, rendered this
necessary: Beatson does not notice the first creation. The life of this
active and useful statesman, the friend and relative of Strafford, was