7 MAY 1881, Page 15

" PEACE WITH HONOUR."

[TO ME EDITOR OF THE .4 SPECTATOR."] SIRS I see in yours of April 30th that Mr. C. F. Pollock attributes the .origin of the now familiar phrase, " Peace with honour" to Mr. Swinburne. The same phrase may be found lathe following speech, which Shakespeare puts into the month of Volumnia, in his play entitled Coriolamis, Act. iii., sc. 2.

" If it be honour, in your wars, to seem The same you are not (which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy), how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in pease With honour, as in war, since that to both It stands in like request ?"

am, Sir, &c.,

[Nine other correspondents send us the same quotation.—En. Spectator.]