DR. MAGINN

I cannot find the particular Number of NOTES AND QUERIES, but unless I am greatly mistaken, in one of them, a correspondent gave praise (I am the last to say it was not deserved) to DR. MAGINN for suggesting that *miching mallecho*, in *Hamlet*, Act III. Sc. 2., was from the Spanish *mucho malhecho*. I never heard of DR. MAGINN's opinion until I saw it in your pages; but if you happen to be able to refer to the Shakspeare I superintended through the press in 1843, vol. vii. p 271., note 9., you will see that I propose the Spanish word *malhecho* as the origin of "mallecho." I did not think thi…