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"AND whoso trusteth a foe reconciled Is for the most part always beguiled." Ibid. p. 40.

Liking for Names-sake

“For though no cause be found, so nature frames,

Men have a zeal to such as bear their names." Ibid. p. 98.

"A THOUSAND times I mind you in my dreams,

And when I wake, most grief it is to me That never more again I shall you see.” Ibid. p. 123. "FEW hate their faults, all hate of them to hear,

And faultiest from fault would seem most

clear."-Ibid. p. 368.

"EST enim nescio quid naturâ insitum nationibus aliis longè à nostris moribus ingeniisque alienum; atque ut Falerni vini sapor alius est quam Taracinensis, ita michi' videntur homines ab ipsâ in quâ nascuntur terrâ, saporem, ut ita dixerim, naturæ ingeniorumque traxisse." - LEON. Aretine, Epist. tom. 2, p. 101.

I am under the impression that in the word michi here, Southey thought he had a similar word to miching, see suprà, p. 329, and in turning to his copy of LEON. ARETINE'S Letters before me, I find his well-known mark against the word. I suspect he had in his mind the word Micha, on which see Du CANGE in v.

The word michi, however, is here simply the pedantic form of mihi. I give the following from NOLTINI, as the work may not be in every one's

hands.

"Absurda etiam est consuetudo pronunciantium H per CH, ut miCHi pro mihi, niCHil pro nihil; id quod ab Leonardo Aretino profectum est, qui consonantis C adjectionem in ejusmodi vocabulis serio defendere est adnixus, L. 8. Ep. 2. ad Antonium Grammaticum. Voss. Art. Gr. 149. A quo quidem tempore monachi ita non solum pronunciarunt, sed etiam scripserunt, ut codices complures manibus ipsorum exarati satis testantur, qui michi, nichil scriptum exhibent." Lexicon Lat. Ling. Anibarbarum, H. p. 70. Ed. 1780.-J. W. W.

-"Ir grieves me to behold The learned wits left all forlorn to whom

whilome it was told

Maecenas was revived again; yet grieve I

more to see

The loathed lozell to profane that sacred mystery.

Each vulgar wit that what it is could never yet define,

In ragged rhymes, with lips profane, will call the learned nine

To help him utter forth the spawn of his unfruitful brain;

Which makes our peerless poesy to be in such disdain

That now it skills not whether Pan do pipe, or Phoebus play,

Tom Tinker makes best harmony to pass the time away."

NICCOLS. M. for Mag. Induction.
Vol. 3, p. 552.

"WHO doth to sloth his younger days engage

For fond delight, he clips the wings of fame;
For sloth, the canker-worm of honour's
badge,
Fame's feathered wings doth fret."

Ibid. p. 567.

"IL y a bien peu de mauvaises opinions que je n'aie leües ou oüi dire; et toutefois je n'en suis de rien pire pour cela, et n'en sens en moi aucune inquiétude d'esprit, et ne voudrois ceder à homme vivant d'être mieux persuadé de la vertu, de Dieu, et de toutes bonnes choses, ni d'être plus homme de bien que moi, ni d'avoir l'âme moins troublée et passionnée que j'ai."-CARD. D'OSSAT, vol. 1, p. 81.

"MEDIA sequi inter ancipitia teterrimum est."-TACITUS.2

"Il mezzo dell'operare riesce l'estremo del nuocere."

? The real words are spoken of Fabius Valens, "Quod inter ancipitia deterrimum est, dum media sequitur, nec ausus est satis, nec providit."-Hist. lib. iii. c. 40. J. W. W.

"Il y a deux sortes de gens, qui ne ju- | Car qui ne quiert le loup jusques au boys, gent point sainement des afaires du monde, Il vient menger les moutons en la plaine." les ignorans, et les gens trop subtils; les uns, JEAN MAROT, p. 87. parce qu'ils ne savent rien, et les autres, parce qu'ils se piquent trop de savoir."AMELOT DE LA HOUSSAIE.

"LES chapeaux rouges ne sont pas pour les têtes vertes."-Ibid. But this was not allowed at Rome.

"EN une grande partie des afaires de ce monde, autant a de puissance l'opinion, que la verité même."-Ibid. vol. 5, p. 35.

Amelot says there is a book entitled Opinio Regina Orbis.

"Is God merciful and shall men be cruel? Is the master meek and mild, and shall the servant be fierce and furious? shall he give the lamb in his scutcheon, and they the lion ?"-FEATLEY. Clavis Mystica, p. 9.

"SED tantam hominis esse imperitiam et tam stupendam asinitatem (non enim possum aliter vocare) putavi nunquam.”— CASAUBON. Epist. p. 359.

"NEQUE ignorabam quam benigna materia sit, in eos dicere, quos impudentia plus quam canina, omnibus bonis reddit exosos." -Ibid. p. 434.

"MIROR esse qui, quicquid somniant, verum esse sibi persuadent: ac benè nobiscum ageretur si nec aliis persuadere vellent. Hæc δοκησισοφία quam multos perdidit, et perdit quotidie."-J. SCALIGER. Epist. 10, p. 87.

แ "CERTE in omni re prius quod benè gestum sit, scire debemus, quam benè gerere possumus."—Ibid. Epist. 58. p. 171.

"NULLUS est liber paulo vetustior, ex cujus sterquilinio aurum non colligas."Ibid. Epist. 73, p. 204.

"MARCHEZ de cueur doncques loyaulx Francoys;

"NAM in omni se omnium interest, non solum ut sui unusquisque, sed etiam ut aliorum rationem habeat."―J. SCALIGER, Ep. 271, p. 518.

"EXTOL not thyself in the counsel of thine own heart :-thou shalt eat up thy leaves, and lose thy fruit, and leave thyself as a dry tree."-Ecclesiasticus, vi. 2, 3.

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says STEELE," that a little mirth and diversion are what recreate the spirits upon those occasions; but there is a kind of sorrow from which I draw a consolation that strengthens my faculties and enlarges my mind, beyond any thing that can flow from merriment."- Guardian, No. 5.

COMMON words, started into a new signification.-Ibid. No. 60.

"IF," says LIGHTFOOT, (vol. 6, p. 179) "I were to make a threefold wish, as Austin once did, I cannot tell what to wish for to more profit and advantage, than to know God as he is, the Devil as he is, and ourselves what we are."

LIGHTFOOT says (vol. 6, p. 236), "there is no grace, but there is a false coin minted by the Devil to dissemble it."

"HE that desires to be undone, and cares not to be prevented by God's restraining grace, shall find his ruin in the folly of his own desires, and become wretched by his own election."-J. TAYLOR, tom. 3, p. 274.

"OUT of this life I can carry nothing but my good works: I will not add unto my evil ones that of vain glory. I will take heed wherein I set my heart; since the accomplishing of what I wish, may be a punishment of my desires."-Ibid. p. 437.

"CELUI qui n'a égard en écrivant qu'au goût de son siècle, songe plus à sa personne qu'àu ses écrits."—La Bruyere, vol. 1, p.

41.

"IL y a dans quelques hommes une certaine médiocrité d'esprit qui contribue à les rendre sages."—Ibid. vol. 2, p. 123.

"LEs esprits capables d'envisager plusieurs choses à la fois sont raisonnables; ceux qui n'en voïent qu'une sont entêtés et opiniâtres quoiqu'ils se croïent fermes et constans."-Ibid. p. 318.

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"THE very hope that cheers us is more vain Than the desire that raised it."

Ibid. Pigmalion.

66 MULTIQUE in sapientiâ supercilii virum."―JUSTIN Martyr, Baronius, vol. 2, p. 86.

"LIKE leaves on trees his bones began to shake,

And on his head each hair rose like a stake, And from his brow the sweat began to pour, Like rain from heaven, in a gentle shower."

From some verses sent me by one THOMAS LILLEY, of Birmingham, Dec. 20, 1825.

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"NEITHER our preaching, nor our praying to God are only sufficient, but withal we must do our endeavours and help each other; since for the driving away of a dog there is (as the countryman saith) some virtue in a stone, if it be conjoined with St. John's Gospel."— Parliamentary History,

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Ir is a good remark of Lord Waldegrave, that "the transition from pleasure to business is both shorter and easier, than from a state of total inaction."-P. 9, Memoirs.

NEWS. "I commend it to your lordship as men do fish, for the freshness, not for certainty."-SIR THOMAS ROSE to STRAFFORD, Letters, vol. 1, p. 356.

"DELAYS are wisdom, where Time may more easy ways of safety show." LORD BROOKE, p. 104.

“SELF murther is an ugly work of fear." Ibid.

"NEVER make a defence or apology before you be accused;" a rule, said Charles the First to Strafford, "that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lover." And for an author too, say I.

"STALE reversions,

Glean'd from the rags and frippery of wit." Ro. RANDOLPH, Verses prefixed to his Brother's Poems.

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PEOPLE who seem to think "they could not be saved unless they make an ugly face." Ibid. p. 77.

"THERE are a company of men in the world who despise any thing which they understand easily, and imagine there is no great matter in it, if it be presently intelligible. They admire that most which they do not comprehend; and conceive there is some mystery and depth in it, if it be difficult to be explained.”—Ibid. p. 146.

Is it not "unreasonable to imagine, that when all other things are suffered to grow to their height and utmost perfections, the spirit of man only should ever remain a dwarf, or rather continue a child, and never be unloosed from its swadling bands ?"— Ibid. p. 347.

"THE time, I believe, hastens, when my "Do boast their loves and braveries so at knowledge shall be so clear, that faith shall

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find no employment, and hope shall receive a discharge, and charity shall be left alone in its full strength."-Ibid. p. 348.

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