_"Incidis in Scyllam," &c._ (Vol. ii., p. 85.).--MR. C. FORBES says he
"should be sorry this fine old proverb should be passed over with no
better notice than seems to have been assigned to it in Boswell's
_Johnson_," and then he quotes some account of it from the _Gentleman's
Magazine_. I beg leave to apprise MR. FORBES that there is no notice
whatsoever of it in Boswell's _Johnson_, though it is introduced (_inter
alia_) in a note of _Mr. Malone's_ in the later editions of Boswell; but
that note contains in substance all that MR. FORBES'S communication
repeats. See the later {142} editions of Boswell, under the date of 30th
March, 1783.