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"EXCEEDING witty and integrate: you did so aggravate the jest withal."-Ibid. p. 270.

"A PROUD and spangled sir, That looks three handfulls higher than his foretop;

Savours himself alone, is only kind

And loving to himself; one that will speak
More dark and doubtful than six oracles;
Salutes a friend as if he had a stitch,
Is his own chronicle, and scarce can eat
For registring himself."-Ibid. p. 282.

"ONE

Can change and vary with all forms he sees,
Be any thing but honest; serves the time;
Hovers betwixt two factions, and explores
The drifts of both, which with cross face,
he bears

To the divided heads, and is received
With mutual grace of either."

THE Solemn Address.

Ibid. p. 283.

"Two lips wagging, and never a wise word."—Ibid. p. 334.

"EASTERN DESPOTISM.-The lady of Mr. Macneil, the physician to the mission, was one day in the Zenanah, in Persia, when she observed one of the princes, a boy of ten years of age, with a handkerchief tied over his eyes, groping about the apartment. Upon inquiring what he was doing, he said, that as he knew that when the Shah, his father, died, he should have his eyes put out, he was trying to see what he could do without them."-ALEXANDER'S Travels.

"THE sinister application

Of the malicious, ignorant, and base Interpreter; who will distort and strain The general scope and purport of an author To his particular and private spleen."

"We esteem it

A most dishonest practice in that man
Will seem too witty in another's work."

BEN JONSON, Poetaster, vol. 2, p. 512.

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Character of Cornish pigs.-WORGAN'S Cornwall, pp. 155-7.

Mr. Grey, near Bath, has crossed his, which have China blood in them, with the wild boar of Jamaica.-Ibid. p. 156.

Nothing has answered so well as the cross between the Quartley sow and the grey boar; the produce seems to have every merit.-Ibid.

"Je voudrois que l'Ignorance

S'exposât moins hardiment; Je voudrois que la Science

Se montrât discrètement,
Avec moins de suffisance
Et plus de discernement."

Ibid. p. 368.

"LET not that offend you, worthy reader,

Pig perfection.-Essex Survey, vol. 2, p. If I be honest, and that all the cheat 341.

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Be of myself, in keeping this light heart." BEN JONSON. New Inn. vol. 5, p. 336.

"No more of Love's ungrateful tyranny; His wheel of torture, and his pits of birdlime,

His nets of nooses, whirlpools of vexation, His mills to grind his servants into powder." Ibid. p. 420.

"WHEREAS it becomes men to vent their amorous passions at their pleasure, we poor souls must rake up our affections in the ashes of a burnt heart."-Flavia in Albumazar, Old Plays, vol. 7, p. 154.

"Now am I for a hunting match. Yon thickets

Shelter a boar, which spoils the ploughman's hope;

Whose jaws with double sword, whose back is arm'd

With bristled pikes; whose fume inflames the air,

And foam besnows the trampled corn. This beast

I long to see come smoaking to a feast." Fuimus Troes. Ibid. p. 388.

"UNTIL I see him I am drunk with thirst, And surfeited with hunger of his presence." Lady Frampul in the New Inn, BEN JONSON, vol. 5, p. 428.

"BEFORE you judge, vouchsafe to understand."

BEN JONSON. Prologue to the
New Inn.

"HE that first ascends to a mountain's top
Must begin at the foot."

MIDDLETON. Old Plays, xi.
Mayor of Quinborough, p. 140.

"THE plumage that steals half the rainbow's
dies,
Throws off the peltings of the angriest skies."
Chameleon, vol. 2, p. 41.

"WHEN words are melted in the furnace
glow

Of fiery mood, quick, let the torrent go."
Ibid.

"Si dica

Che bel fin fa chi ben amando muore."
Pietro Aretino. Op. Burl. vol. 2, p. 229.

"CH' a chi non cerca bene, bene,
La ragion delle cose, avviene spesso
Ch' è piglia il ben per male, e'l mal per bene."

Bronzino Pittore. Ibid.

p.

"IT ought never to be forgotten that it is not to the head alone, but to another part held in less reverence by the public, that the regular hexagonal cells of the bee owe both substance and form.-Goethe, ibid. p. 94.

LOVE sometimes transferable, like Purgatory stock.

SOME of the Fathers saw the cross in everything. "For observe," says JUSTIN MARTYR, in his Apology (§ 72) how impossible it is that anything in the world should be regulated, or any mutual intercourse carried on, without employing this figure. The sea cannot be navigated, unless this symbol, as the mast and yard-arm of the sail, remains firm in the ship. Without an instrument in this form, the land cannot be ploughed; neither can they who dig exercise their labour, nor handicraftmen 265. pursue their occupations, without implements which are fashioned in like manner. The human figure also differs from those of irrational animals in no respect but this, that it is erect, and hath the hands extended; and in the countenance also hath the nose reaching downward from the forehead, by which we are able to breathe. This again shows no figure but that of the cross."

"Voi sapete, la ragione Vuol essere ajutata, che so io." Ibid.

"¿QUE cosa hay en la tierra que no tenga Crecientes y menguantes, vaya y venga?" BALBUENA, vol. 3, p. 137.

"¡O cielos! ¿ si el trabajo dilatado

Por tantos años desta historia mia

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Selim I. was the first Turk who shaved! his beard, contrary to the Koran and to custom. When the mufti reprimanded him, he answered, that he did it to prevent his visier's having anything to lead him by. Bacon quoted Apoll. No. 162.

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