Note 3 — III. THE SHERD OF AMENARTAS

Another thing that makes me fix the date of this entry at the middle of the eighteenth century is that, curiously enough, I have an acting copy of “Hamlet,” written about 1740, in which these two lines are misquoted almost exactly in the same way, and I have little doubt but that the Vincey who wrote them on the potsherd heard them so misquoted at that date. Of course, the lines really run:— There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.—L. H. H.