25 SEPTEMBER 1915, Page 15

A QUOTATION FROM MASSINGER.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—This quotation from Messinger may interest some of your readers. They are the words of Archidamus of Syracuse, spoken in a war with Carthage :— " Old stories toll us, There's a month call'd October, which brings in

Cold weather ; there are trenches too, 'tis rumour'd,

In which to stand all night to the knees in the water In gallants breeds the tooth-ache ; there's a sport too Named lying perdue, do you mark me 11 'Tis a game Which you must learn to play at." —Bondman, Act II., So. i.

The College, Durham.