The "Winter's Tale."

As Mr. Payne Collier is making inquiries as to the origin of Shakspeare's *Winter's Tale*, perhaps he will allow me to call his attention to an oversight he has committed in his edition of Greene's *Pandosto*, in the series called *Shakspeare's Library*. In a note to the introduction, p. ii., Mr. Collier says, "Some verbal resemblances and trifling obligations have been pointed out by the commentators in their notes to the Winter's Tale. One of the principal instances occurs in Act IV. Sc. 3., where Florizel says: "'The gods themselves, Humbling their deities to love, have taken The shapes of…