CROW quills.-LADY LUXBOROUGH's Let- disposition is altered and changed with milk, ters, p. 73. as the moisture and sap of the earth doth change the nature of that tree or plant that MATTHEW HENRY's pen. - THORESBY, it nourisheth. Wherefore the common byvol. 2, p. 151. word of the common people seemeth to be grounded upon good experience, which is, "YE fools that wear gay cloaths, love to be this fellow hath sucked mischief even from gaped at, the teat of the nurse."-Euphues. What are you better when your end calls on you? Will gold preserve ye from the grave? or jewels? Get golden minds, and fling away your trappings. "HE should talk of many matters, not always harp upon one string; he that always singeth one note, without descant, breedeth no delight: he that always playeth one part breedeth loathsomeness to the ear. It is variety that moveth the mind of all men.” Unto bodies minister warm raiment, BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Maid "SUCH gross questions are to be answered with slender reasons, and such idle that his mother longed for a library!-SALGUES, vol. 1, p. 56. THE Egyptians made all the elements male and female. Wind was male, a damp and relaxing air female. The sea, male; all other waters female. Only cultivated earth female, and only innocuous fire.SENECA. Nat. Quæs. 1. 3, § 14, t. 2, p. 557. "WOMAN, they say, was only made of man; Methinks 'tis strange they should be so unlike! It may be all the best was cut away BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Coxcomb, ""Tis an odd creature, full of creeks and windings; The serpent has not more: for she has all his, And then her own beside came in by her mother." Ibid. Wit at several Weapons, PLINY says that an owl's egg, eaten in an omelette, will cure a drunkard of his passion for wine.-SALGUES, vol. 1, p. 439. "UNE princesse d'Allemagne entreprit de rassembler un grand nombre de nains des deux sexes; elle les réunit en petits menages; elle essaye d'en multiplier l'espèce; mais ses vues furent trompées, ils ne produissèrent rien."-Ibid. p. 474. SOME, of whom S. Augustine speaks in his Civ. Dei, thought that at the resurrection all would rise males.—Ibid. vol. 3, p. 2. Ar the council of Mâcon (fifth century) it was debated whether Christ died for the female sex, and determined in the affirmative.-Ibid. GALL saw a man who had lost his memory for all substantives, and he knew another who had in like manner forgotten all adjectives.-Ibid. p. 279. "PIOUS and ponderous men." Cobbler of Aggávam, 3. HIS "sadness is a kind of mirth, So mingled as if mirth did make him sad, BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Two Noble Kinsmen, act v. sc. iii. To bear the hammer; and the deeper still D.D. DESCRIBED by Ennius.-ERASMUS, THE variety, or rather uncertainty, of some seeds is remarkable, as contrasted with the invariable character of others. Fruits and flowers, e. g., compared with the oak, THE age of all horses is dated from the elm, cedar, and other trees. 1st of May. CUSTOM of female inheritance in Lesbos. (Calcutta Magazine, vol. 3, pp. 267, 339.) "HANDSOME is, as handsome does ;" therefore is one of the ugliest fellows I know. THE Ascrodupetes believed that the first of the human race was not Adam, but Barbeloth. Or did they believe that this was Adam's proper name ?-GARASSE, p. 232. EUNOMIAN baptism, to be dipt three times in warm water, head downward, and waist deep, "pour estre baptisé à profit."-Ibid. RAMON LULLS said to have said that a man might be made.-Ibid. p. 234. THE Doctor's shoemaker held his custom by cornage tenure. MR. FARELL, who was G. Taylor's schoolmaster, lay down on the grass one day, and fell asleep. A hairy grub crawled over his face, and was found resting on one of his eyes. When he was awakened, the eye was inflamed, and he lost the sight of it by this extraordinary cause. ̓Αλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ἴσως ἐξωτερικωτέρας ἐστὶ ACCIDENTAL defects may be propagated in trees and in animals; but query whether it be not only by grafts in the former? TURNER the artist has seventeen cats, all without tails, kittened by a favourite who accidentally had lost hers. "SUCH servants are oftenest painful and That sing in their labour, as birds in the wood." AN executioner complained, "Qu'il demeuroit en une meschante ville, et qu'il y avoit long temps qu'il n'avoit pendu ni fouetté personne."-BOUCHET, vol. 2, p. 97. ODOROUS plants in a chamber occasion dreams.-Ibid. p. 197. MELANCHOLY men likely to predict what is to come.-Ibid. p. 200. A STORY of resetting eyes that have been plucked out, on Guicciardini's authority! And a goat's eye instead of a human one, if the real one has been injured. You will not see with this, but it will live and retain its beauty, though not its use!-Ibid. p. 344-5. |