no sabe el preso que guarda, con ser su consejo proprio. CALDERON. Caballos de Absalon. THE trull in CALDERON's play, El Garrote mas bien dado, says "bien se sabe que yo barbada el alma naci." "LYCURGUS dedicated an image to Laughter, which he made a god, or at least would have to be worshipped for a god, to make the people merry at their public feasts and meetings."-HAKEWELL, p. 312. "No let, no stay, nor aught perturberance Shall cause me to omit the furtherance Of this my weighty charge." Apius and Virginia. Old Plays, vol. 12, p. 360. "EGO in re tantâ non ex animo loquar ?" TERENTIUS Xtn. Naaman, p. 11. "Go break me up the brazen doors of dreams, And bind me cursed Morpheus in a chain, And fetter all the fancies of the night." ROB. GREENE, vol. 1, p. 114. "Er siquis quærat, cur hæc proferre more mur, Tuta juvant; nulli delituisse nocet. Non duros ungues, morsusque verentur iniquos, Sub lare privato quæ sibi quisque canit. Hic mihi sum judex, hîc sum mihi lector, et unus Omnia; nec plausu si qua merentur, egent. Hic mea me positis dum pascunt otia curis, Quid possit voto plenius esse meo?" WALLIUS, p. 180. -"UT quimus quod aiunt; quando ut volumus non licet."- -TERENTIUS Xtn. Nehemias, p. 9. "PRODUNT animorum semina vultus."WALLIUS, p. 59. "PLOTINUS-animas quasdam esse dixit, quas non alieno vocabulo sulphuratas nominari posse existimabat, quod ob egregiam indolis morumque consensionem statim primo congressu altera alterius amore inordescat."-Ibid. p. 242. "CowSLIP water is good for the memory."-WEBSTER, vol. 1, ) p. 146. DR. GREGORIUS LAMPRECHTER, Chancellor of Wirtemberg, and afterwards of Charles the Fifth's Council, used to say that every prince should have two fools, one whom he might hear, and the other who might hear him. "Einen den er vexert, den andern der ihn vexert."-FLOGEL. Geschicte der Hofnarren, p. 7. THE Silesian baker. — Ibid. p. 5. Like the Poet Laureat of Trowbridge. FLOGEL thinks that in France the Court poet was also Court fool by virtue of his office. "Fou du Roi en titre d'office"-so that the epigram upon Cibber might in that country have been a mere truth.-Ibid. p. 4. FABLE that when Prometheus made a man, he took something from every beast to make up the heterogeneous compound; timidity from the hare, cunning from the fox, pride from the peacock, fierceness from the tiger, &c. Horace, lib. 1. Ode 16.— FLOGEL. Komisch Litterat. vol. 1, p. 103. “I REMEMBER asking the pilot the name of a very beautiful island, and the answer was 573, the number assigned to it in the hydrographical survey, and the only name by which it was known."--CAPT. HAMILTON. Men and Manners, vol. 2, p. 197. On the Mississippi. "HERE is overmuch wit in good earnest." GREENE, vol. 2, p. 112. "THE wine runs trillill down his throat, that cost the poor vintner many a stamp before it was made."-Ibid. PROPHECIES from arms, badges, and names. 850. "THE Egyptian mummies which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth: mummy is become merchandize; Mizraim cures wounds; and Pharaoh is sold for balsam."—SIR THOMAS BROWNE. Urn excellency of the creation of woman is deW. AUSTIN'S Hæc Homo; wherein the Burial. scribed. Dedicated to Mrs. Mary Griffith, 1639. Two portraits. Perhaps of the author and the lady. WHOLESOME luxuries, which are the magnalia of humble life, and the titirilitia of the great. RAM Runer.-"Runas acerbas, vel amaras," the magic Rune are called. Olaus Wormius, 2. CANNON and Ordnance. Odd, the double meaning of both words. "ET forte mi bisognera ragionar un poco piu diffusamente che non si conviene, ma questo sara quanto io posso dire."-Пl Cortegiano, vol. 1, p. 45. "VIDETE la musica, l'armonie della quale hor son grave, e tarde, hor velocissime et di novi modi, et nientedimeno tutte dilettano, ma per diverse cause."-Ibid. p. 53. CUVIER himself designed the patterns for the embroidery of his court and institute coats; invented all the costumes of the University, and drew the model for the uniform of the council, which drawing accompanied the decree by which it was established. In one of Webster's plays (vol. 1, p. 148), a ghost enters in his leather cassock, breeches, and boots. "AND, O contemptible physic! that dost take So long a study, only to preserve "TRUE, my lord, I myself have heard a very good jest; and have scorned to seem to have so silly a wit as to understand it." -Ibid. p. 182. "He had worn gunpowder in his hollow tooth, for the toothach."-Ibid. p. 247. "THE robin-redbreast and the nightingale Never live long in cages."—Ibid. p. 267. "PHYSICIANS are like kings, They brook no contradiction."-p. 292. "GIVE it me in a breath! They that think long, small expedition win, But musing much o' the end, cannot begin.” Ibid. p. 295. NORFOLK'S correspondence with the Bishop of Ross, Leicester, and Throckmorton was carried on by letters which were sent in ale bottles.—CAMDEN's Elizabeth, p. 132. "Ir makes me smile in scorn, That wise men cannot understand themselves, Nor know their own proved greatness." WEBSTER, Vol. 2, p. 150. Appius and Virg. "THE Hebrew conjugations, Pihel and Puhal, signify to do a thing diligently, earguished by the vowel points from the connestly, fervently, &c., and are only distinjugation Kal, which simply states that the thing is done."-ADAM CLARKE, Chron. Suc. of Sacred Literature, vol. 1, p. 23. CLEMENS ALEXANDRINUS advises white raiment, and condemns dies of every kind as useless and unbecoming.—Ibid. p. 119. He recommends women to wear shoes that should cover the upper part of the foot as well as the sole.-Ibid. TERTULLIAN says that the apostate angels when they fell in love with women, taught This refers to the folio edition. Southey thought very highly of J. Scott's works. They were reprinted at the Clar. press in 1826. J. W. W. them the use of gold and silver, the virtues of plants, and the power of incantations.Ibid. p. 135. ORIGIN thought that the bodies of the saints at the resurrection would be spherical.-Ibid. p. 163. As Mr. Clarke says of St. Jerome (Ibid. p. 485), "the tone of reflection varies as his own skilful hand draws forth the music of a well strung mind, or as he allows his intellect to be played on in submission to the higher, or wild, or rude performance of another." UPON a misinterpretation of Job xxv. 5, "Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight;" | it was affirmed by some of the old heretics (Priscellianists, I believe,), that the stars have rational souls, and are capable of sin. -CLARKE'S Ecc. Lit. vol. 2, p. 30. VICTOR, who wrote against Augustine, and held that unbaptized infants might be saved, asserted that the cause of their happiness or misery was "God's foreknowing what works they would have done had they lived, and rewarding them accordingly."— Ibid. vol. 2, p. 39. ELIZABETH'S accession, English exiles. "I knew one right well," says FULLER," whose father amongst them, being desperately diseased, was presently and perfectly cured with the cordial of this good news."-Ch. Hist. p. 52. THO. NEWTON translated from the Latin of Gul. Gratarolus, A Direction for the Health of Magistrates and Students, namely, such as be in their consistent age, or near thereunto. A.D. 1574. There are extracts from it in the British Bibliographer, vol. 2, p. 414. NIC. BYFIELD the Puritan died at fortyfour of the stone, after fifteen years' suffering. It weighs more than thirty-three | ounces, was fifteen and a half inches in measure about the edge, about the length above thirteen, about the breadth almost thirteen. -Wood's Athenæ. vol. 2, p. 326. HOPLOCRISMA spongus, or a sponge to wipe away the weapon salve; wherein is proved that the cure taken up among us, by applying the salve to the weapon, is magical and unlawful, a. D. 1631, by W. Foster. Dr. Richard Fludd answered him, "not without some scorn;" and Osborne also ridicules him in an Essay, “on such as condemn all they understand not a reason for."-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 573. WM. WHATELY, vicar of Banbury, who laid the foundation of Puritanism there, published, A. D. 1624, A Care - cloth, or Treatise of the Cumbers and Troubles of Marriage.—Ibid. p. 639. Names. FAUNT the Jesuit "altered his Christian name of Arthur, because, as his kinsman tells us, (W. Burton, in his Description of Leicestershire, p. 10,) no kalendar saint was ever of that name." He assumed that of Laurence.-FULLER'S Church History, p. 213. CLASSIFICATION of ships from A 1, to 0 1. Report on Manufactures, 1833, p. 232. SCRIMANSKY and George Stone were bears in the days of the bear garden.-GREY, Hudibras, vol. 1, p. 127. SACKERSON, whom Master Slender had seen loose twenty times, and taken him by the chain.—Merry Wives of Windsor, act i. sc. 1. IN one of Wolsey's inventories, is one bed called the Infantelage, and another called the Sun.-ELLIS's Original Letters, vol. 2, p. 15. HERCULES d'Este. A son of the Count de Furstenberg killed at the battle of Censolles, is called Vulcan by P. Jovius. But the editor of Brantome supposes that this must mean Wolfgang.Ibid. vol. 5, p. 4. sum abbreviare, imò abrumpere planè, prætermisso eo, quod et tunc quam maximè scriptum volui, nunc otii plusculum nactus, nescio quàm nervosè, verbosè certè decrevi pertractare."-CRANMER to Osiander. CRANMER's Remains, vol. 1, p. 303. THE once celebrated physician, Sirenus ANDREA DONA had a gallery called La Sammonicus, prescribes the fourth book of Temperance. Ibid. p. 60. the Iliad to be laid under the patient's head, for a quartan ague.-Preface to GREY'S DR. AKAKIA, whose portrait is in the Hudibras, p. xliii. town hall at Chalons, sur Marne. HERR! Denck an David Ps. 131, V. 1. und Elisabeth 1809. An innkeeper at Ulm thus notified his piety and his name on a slate-coloured gilt stone crucifix.-DowNE's Letters, vol. 2, p. 44. MARIA GLORIOSA, a bell at Erfurth, said to be the largest in Europe.-Ibid. p. 443. AMAIMON, according to Reginald Scott, is king of the east; but, according to Randle Holme, his dominion is on the north side of the infernal gulf. Barbatos is a great countie or earl; he is like a sagittary, and hath thirty legions under him.-SHAKSPEAR, (BOSWELL) N. vol. 8, p. 91. "ONE of the first calico printers in France came to England expressly in search of ideas for next spring. He has visited all the shops in London, and has gone home well satisfied. I went to Paris three weeks ago for the same purpose."-JAMES THOMSON, Report on Manufactures, 1833. P. 240. SAYING of Francis the First about a fine woman, a fine horse, and a fine greyhound. -BRANTOME, vol. 2, p. 406. In the island of Desolation, South Georgia, and South Shetland, the seals have already been almost destroyed.-P. 515, Report of Manufactures, &c. 1833. MEN of whom the best that can be said is, that they are "of the better sort of beasts."-HENRY MORE, Th. W. p. 88. "It was said of one who, with more industry than judgment, frequented a college library, and commonly made use of the worst notes he met with in any author, that he weeded the library."-FULLER, Holy State, p. 149. COMMUNICATING with the dead by keeping their memory alive.—ADAM LITtleton, p. 62, Funeral Sermon. DR. BEALE made "rests for water on the body of Kentish codlin trees, and caused water to be frequently poured into those cavities. The effect was, that the apples grew to an extraordinary size, but were very insipid, and many of them had parts in appearances much like the pulp of lemons. Some he suffered to hang on the tree as long as they would, and these became full of spots of the colour of earth, or like the rottenness of an apple."—Abr. Phil. Trans. vol. 1, p. 335. Suckling gooseberries. Holder's classification of the elements of speech.-Ibid. p. 352. A way of dwarfing men, by anointing -THIS point which at that time, "coactus then back bones in their very infancy with |