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--John Vincey."
Then came the last entry, apparently, to judge by the style of
writing, made by some representative of the family in the middle of the
eighteenth century. It was a misquotation of the well-known lines in
Hamlet, and ran thus: "There are more things in Heaven and earth than
are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio."[*]
[*] Another thing that makes me fix the date of this entry
at the middle of the eighteenth century is that, curiously
enough, I have an acting copy of "Hamlet," written about
1740, in which these two lines are misquoted almost exactly
in the same way, and I have little doubt but that the Vincey
who wrote them on the potsherd heard them so misquoted at
that date. Of course, the lines really run:--
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.--L. H. H.
And now there remained but one more document to be examined--namely, the
ancient black-letter transcription into mediaeval Latin of the uncial
inscription on the sherd.


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