Note (return) — SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

Shakspeare, who was a minute observer of the anatomical and physiological varieties of the human frame, did not allow this dissimilarity to pass unnoticed; and, moreover, he starts a query that has never been satisfactorily answered, from his time to the present; viz. "Canst thou tell why one's nose stands i' the middle of one's face?"4 And his nice discrimination about noses extends also to shape and colour.—from the "Red-nosed innkeeper of Dav'ntry,"5 and the "Malmsy-nosed knave, Bardolph,"6 to him in Henry V., "whose nose was sharp as a pen!"