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THOMAS NABBES - FLECKNO-CASAUBON - UNDERHILL.

To save against March to make flea to refrain.

Beatum illum, qui non vidit mala patriæ que parant duo genera hominum, Jesuitæ rò sv

Where chambers is sweeped, and wormwood | γιον γένος, et οἱ ἐν τοῖς ἡμετέροις Ἰησειτί

is strown,1

No flea for his life dare abide to be known."

TUSSER.

[A Black Guard.-What?] "SINCE my Lady's decay I am degraded from a cook, and I fear the devil himself will entertain me but for one of his black guard, and he shall be sure to have his roast burnt."-THOMAS NABBES. Microcosmus.2

LOVTEC habemus enim et nos Jesuitas."CASAUBON'S Epist. p. 880.3

[An Enemy's Account of Parnell the
Quaker.]

SEWELL'S account of this poor youth bears with it but too convincing marks of truth. The case is very differently stated by an enemy. "In Colchester jail,” he says, "within this last two years, Parnell the Quaker would needs fast forty days and nights as Christ did: who after he had

[Initiation of the Boys of the Tonga Islands fasted eight or nine days, suffered some

in Cruelty.]

In one of the battles in the Tonga Islands, as described in Mr. Mariner's most interesting book, the wounded "were stuck with spears, and beaten about with clubs by boys, who followed the expedition to be trained to the horrors of war, and who delighted in the opportunity of gratifying this ferocious and cruel disposition."—Vol. 1, p. 102.

[Ring and Sarazen.]

FLECKNO Seems to indicate the Moorish origin of these sports. At Rome he speaks of "a solemn justing, or running at Ring and Sarazen." I do not remember to have seen this word elsewhere, yet so it must have been called in Italy at that time.Relation of Ten Years' Travels, p. 26.

[Jesuits-not confined to the Romish Faith.] “Amisimus nuper, vel præmisimus potius Bongarsium, virum omni laudatione majorem.

1 When I was a child, it was a common thing in Shropshire to put bunches of dried wormwood between the ticking and the mattress.-J. W. W. 2 See GIFFORD's Note. BEN JONSON's Works, vol. 2, p. 169.-J. W. W.

food to be applied to him, but his body by fasting having lost its power of reception and concoction he died. And after he was laid in his grave, a man- -Quaker, (how many more than one I cannot say,) waited by his grave until the end of three days, expecting his resurrection, but James not rising, the poor man ran mad upon it, and so continued many weeks, but at last got loose both from his madness and quaking, through God's mercy to him."-UNDERHILL'S Hell Broke Loose, p. 36.

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COUNT RZEVUSKI-R. D. ALONSO-CARTWRIGHT.

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History of several excellent Women," and by an Epistle Dedicatory "to the Ladies that are religious and good-humoured, both in a single and a married state." In this epistle, Timothy says to the ladies, "The Atheist that disbelieves an heaven, may look in your faces, and see a great deal of it there."

"She was the daughter of an ambassador," he says, in the sermon, "I mean the Reverend and Excellent Dr. Samuel Annesley, your late pastor. When we speak of him, so many were his graces, and so flourishing his soul, that we open a box of ointment that yields a grateful smell and perfumes us all.”

Mrs. Dunton kept a diary which "would have made a very considerable folio." It was mostly written in a short hand of her own invention, and at her death she desired that all her papers might be burnt.

[Levelling Fraternity.]

THE extent to which the levelling principle was carried in the French armies, is shown by a thorough-paced soldier of the revolutionary school, when he describes kis own entrance into the service as a conscript. "Ce qui me surprit et m'étonna d'abord, c'est ce mélange des diverses classes de la société qu' avait préparé la sagesse de la loi. La même chambrée rassemblait les fils du laboureur, de l'artisan et du commerçant; le même lit réunissait le fils du noble à celui du plébéien. C'était vraiment là que les hommes n'étaient jugés que ce qu'ils valaient." He proceeds to say, that “ camarade de lit" is a sacred name among the soldiers, "qu'il établit entre deux hommes une vraie fraternité d'armes."-Memoires d'un soldat fait prisonnier à la bataille de Baylen, t. 1, p. 8.

[Religious Darkness of Portugal.] "THE religious and discerning reader of the Bible will not lament the exportation

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MEDJIRED-DIN-CALLENDER-MERLIN-REMESAL.

of a family wedded to all the worst errors | Against the eastern ray, translucent, pure,
of Popery, and whose subjects were on that With touch ætherial of Heaven's fiery rod,
account the most ignorant, the most cruel I drank."
Samson Agonistes.
and besotted in Christendom. He, setting
political and momentary advantages aside,
will rather rejoice that a more liberal sys-
tem than the former will soon be intro-
duced into Portugal. It is undeniable, that
wherever the new French influence has pre-
vailed, religious liberty has followed of
course."-Gospel Magazine, Dec. 1807.

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[Beauties of Nature.]

“Ainsi sen vindrent parmy la maistresse rue qui estoit toute tendue de riches aornemens, et les rues jonchées de belle herbe fresche et verte souef fleurant.”— Merlin, 1. ff. 173.

[Easy Arithmetic.]

"I BELIEVE," says ARBUTHNOT, "it would go near to ruin the trade of the nation, were the easy practice of arithmetic abolished: for example, were the merchants and tradesmen obliged to make use of no other than the Roman way of notation by letters, instead of our present."

[Cure for a Head-ache.]

"A VIOLENT head-ache, which seems to be a common complaint at Potosi, is cured there by putting the feet in hot water.”— PERAMAS, De sex Sac. p. 34.

[Town of Villa Real in Guatemala.]
"WHEN the town of Villa Real, in Gua-

"Et parum sanè fuit, quod illi honores divinos omnis ætas, omnis sexus, omnis conditio ac dignitas dedit, nisi quod etiam sacrilegus judicatus est, qui ejus imaginem in suâ domo non habuit, qui per fortunam vel potuit habere, vel debuit. Denique hodieque in multis domibus M. Antonini statuæ consistunt intertemala, was founded 1545, entregaron al Aldeos penates; nec defuerunt homines qui guazil Mayor las prisiones de la carcel, que somniis eum multa prædixisse, augurantes fu- fueron cinco pares de grillos, y unas esposas; tura et vera, concinuerunt. Unde etiam tem-y sa obligo a dar cuenta dellas cada y quando plum ei constitutum, dati sacerdotes Antonia- que se le pidiessen, y mandaron al dicho Alni, et sodales, et flamines, et omnia quæ de guazil Mayor que haga pones en la placa sacratis decrevit antiquitas."―JULIUS CAPI- defta villa una picota de madera. E que ponga en el cerro que esta junto desta villa en la salida hazia la sierra, una horea de madera, en la qual se executi la justicia.”—REMESAL, Hist. de Guatemala, p. 267.

TOLINUS.

[Pure Waters of Castaly.] "WHERE ever fountain or fresh current flow'd

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HARCOURT-BURGH-HALL-BACON - BERTOLACCI.

[Hasty Building of Missionary Settlements

in Guatemala.]

THE first missionary settlements were soon built. REMESAL says, "in four hours a house is made, and a whole village in two days. That of S. Domingo de Xenacahot, en los Zacatapeques de Guatemala, was built by P. F. Benito de Villacañas in one night, to occupy the ground against some Spaniards who were coming to make an estancia there next day."-Hist. de Chiapa y Guatemala, p. 508.

[Taking Possession of Guiana by Turf and Twig.]

"WHEN I had taken good view of the place," says HARCOURT," and found it commodious for many purposes, then, in the presence of Captain Fisher, divers gentlemen and others of my company, and of the Indians also, I took possession of the land, by turf and twig, in the behalf of our sovereign lord, King James: I took the said possession of a part, in the name of the whole continent of Guiana, lying between the rivers Amazons and Oroonoko, not being actually possessed or inhabited by any other Christian prince or state." — HARCOURT'S Voyage, Harl. Mis. p. 196.

[Tobacco.]

"THE tobacco that was brought into this kingdom in the year of our Lord 1610, was at the least worth sixty thousand pounds; and since that time the store that yearly hath come in, was little less."-Ibid. vol. 3, p. 193.

[Mr. Burgh's Utopian Romance.]

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America, in Nine Letters, from Mr. Vander Neck, one of the Senators of the Nation, to his Friend in Holland. With Notes by the Editor. 8vo."

Prince Arthur.

"Or which name," says HALL, "Englishmen no more rejoiced, than outward nations and foreign princes trymbled and quaked, so much was that name to all nations terrible and formidable."-P. 428.

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[Lord Bacon's Dictum of King Arthur's Acts.]

THIS first son, "the King, (in honour of the British race, of which himself was,) named Arthur, according to the name of that ancient worthy, King of the Britains, in whose acts," says BACON, "there is truth enough to make him famous, besides that

which is fabulous."

[Hebrew MSS. of the History of King Arthur in the Vatican.]

So generally popular were the romances of the Round Table, that a history of King Arthur, translated from the Spanish into Hebrew, exists among the manuscripts in the Vatican.-BERTOLACCI, vol. 1, p. 431.

[Origin of the Word "Sir," and its wide Use.]

PAPENHEIM has this curious note concerning the origin of the word "Sir," and its wide use.

"Mirus est plurium diversissimorumque

MR. BURGH, the political writer, pub-idiomatum consensus in usurpatione hujus lished, in 1760, a kind of Utopian romance, particulæ honorabilis Ser, significantis domientituled "An Account of the First Settlenum, sub levi quadam varietate. Sara Hement, Laws, Form of Government, and Po- | breis Dominam sonat, ut notum ex Scriptulice, of the Cessares, a People of South ris. Serapis, Ægyptiorum deus, sic dictus

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uxore

quasi Dominus Apis. Arabes Ismaelitæ a pastoritiæ vitæ professione Sarracenos dici se voluerunt, quasi Dominos ovium; esto imperitius quidam a Sara Abrahæ tractum nomen velint, cui ex opposito et per contemptum Agarenorum appellationem objiciunt. Moschis, suus magnus dux sive Dominus Czar dicitur. Teutones vero, cum

quibus communes radices plurimas retinent Longobardi, idem Ser usurpant, ut notum est Belgis, ex antiquæ nobilitatis nominibus Franci Sire Ser-sanders, Ser-jacobs, &c.

et cum addito Messire; hoc suis curionibus et Clericis, istud soli Regi nunc per excellentiam tribuentis." -Acta Sanctorum, April, t. 3, p. 922.

[Increase of Cattle in the Falkland Islands.]

"THE Spaniards carried a few head of cattle to the Falkland Islands. In the year 1780 they had increased to eight hundred, and in 1795, when Azara wrote his account of the quadrupeds, there were more than six thousand. In these miserable islands, where the cattle were left wholly to themselves, being neither sheltered nor foddered, they learnt to clear away the snow, and get at the herbage beneath it."-AZARA, Quadrupedes, t. 2, p. 359.

[The Talking Robin Red-breast.]

"DR. PHOENIX caused a robin red-breast which he had in a cage, to be brought into the dining-room, where it entertained us, whilst at dinner, with singing and talking many pleasant things, as, 'Sweet lady' 'Is the packet come?'-'What news from England?' and several such expressions, which the Doctor's lady had taught it. The smallness of this bird renders its talking the more remarkable: and, perhaps, madam, this robin red-breast is one of the greatest rarities in Ireland, if not in the whole world; and I believe Dr. Phoenix thinks so, for, as small as this bird is, he

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told me he would not sell it for twenty guineas; and I do think, were it sold to the worth of its pleasant chat, it would yield a

thousand.". JOHN DUNTON'S Conversation in Ireland, p. 622.

[Sir William Temple's Opinion of the Spaniards.]

WRITING, in 1669, to Lord Arlington, SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE said, "he should neither increase nor lessen the faults of the Spaniards, which," he adds, "your lordship has so much reason to censure and reproach nor should I be less amazed at them, but that I look upon them as the usual distractions of weak and diseased bodies. 'Tis certain, they have deserved so little of us, that we have no reason at all to concern ourselves in their interests or dangers, unless we find they will have very strong and necessary consequences upon our own; and in that case, our growing angry with them will only serve to hurt ourselves; and we had better help them to mend their faults, than force them, by despair or hardships, to increase them." - SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE's Works, vol. 2, p. 204.

[State of the Low Countries in 1670.] "THE Constable is gone for Spain, and left his government, (the Low Countries,) much as he held it: nor can I judge whether it came from his natural temper, or some contracted indispositions, for his health has been of late the cover for it; but these six or eight months past, he has been obstinate to hear nothing of business, returning all that was offered by his nearest officers with queire matarme? Do you wish to kill me?' and passing his time with his virginals, his dwarfs, and his graciosoes."— Ibid. vol. 2, p. 224.

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