Oxford, April 16. 1850.
_Horns._--For answer to the third Query of "L.C." (No. 24. p. 383.), I
subscribe the following, from Coleridge:--
"Having quoted the passage from Shakspeare,
"'Take thou no scorn
To wear the horn, the lusty horn;
It was a crest ere thou wert born."
_As You Like It_, Act iv. sc. 2.
"I question (he says), whether there exists a parallel instance of a
phrase, that, like this of 'Horns,' is universal in all languages, and
yet for which no one has discovered even a plausible origin."--_Literary
Remains_, vol. i. p. 120. Pickering, 1849.