R. BLAKISTON.

_"Clamour your tongues," &c._ (Vol. viii., p. 169.).--Surely, surely, the

"_clame_ water," in H. C. K.'s extract from _The Castel of Helthe_, and

which is set in an antithetical opposition to "a _rough_ water," is only

_calme_ water; by that common metathesis which gives us _briddes_ for

birds, _brunt_ for burnt, &c.

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