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Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth,
Thirty days to each affix;

Every other thirty-one

Except the second month alone.

Common in Chester County, Penn., among the Friends.

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"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley," Latimer cried at the crackling of the flames. Play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." 1

There is a garden in her face,

Where roses and white lilies show;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow.
There cherries hang that none may buy,

Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.

An Howres Recreation in Musike. (1606. Set to music by Richard
Alison. Oliphant's "La Messa Madrigalesca," p. 229.)

Those cherries fairly do enclose

Of orient pearl a double row;

Which when her lovely laughter shows,

They look like rosebuds filled with snow.

A vest as admired Voltiger had on,

Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won,
Whose artful colour pass'd the Tyrian dye,

Obliged to triumph in this legacy.2

Ibid.

The British Princes, p. 96. (1669.)

When Adam dolve, and Eve span,

Who was then the gentleman ?

Lines used by John Ball in Wat Tyler's Rebellion.3

1 I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be

put out. -2 Esdras xiv. 25.

2 The oft-quoted lines,

A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on,

Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won,

have been ascribed to Blackmore, but suppressed in the later editions of his

poems.

3 HUME: History of England, vol. i. chap xvii, note 8.

Now bething the, gentilman,
How Adam dalf, and Eve span.1

MS. of the Fifteenth Century (British Museum),

Use three Physicians,

Still-first Dr. Quiet;

Next Dr. Mery-man,

And Dr. Dyet.2

Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum (edition of 1607).

The King of France went up the hill
With twenty thousand men;

The King of France came down the hill,
And ne'er went up again.

Pigges Corantoe, or Newes from the North.

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2 See Swift, page 293.

AGRICOLA: Proverbs, No. 254.

3 A quarto tract printed in London in 1642, p. 3. This is called “Old Tarlton's Song."

4 As early as 1691, Benjamin Harris, of Boston, advertised as in press the second impression of the New England Primer. The oldest copy known to

be extant is 1737.

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His wife, with nine small children and one at the breast, following him to the stake.

Martyrdom of John Rogers. Burned at Smithfield, Feb. 14, 1554.2

And shall Trelawny die?

Here's twenty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why.

1 It is said that in the earliest edition of the New England Primer this prayer is given as above, which is copied from the reprint of 1777. In the edition of 1784 it is altered to "Now I lay me down to sleep." In the edition of 1814 the second line of the prayer reads, "I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep."

2 The true date of his death is Feb. 4, 1555.

Robert Stephen Hawker incorporated these lines into "The Song of the Western Men," written by him in 1825. It was praised by Sir Walter Scott and Macaulay under the impression that it was the ancient song. It has been a popular proverb throughout Cornwall ever since the imprisonment by James II. of the seven bishops, - one of them Sir Jonathan Trelawny.

Mater ait natæ, dic natæ, natam
Ut moneat natæ, plangere filiolam.

The mother to her daughter spake :
"Daughter," said she, "arise!
Thy daughter to her daughter take,
Whose daughter's daughter cries."

A Distich, according to Zwingler, on a Lady of the Dalburg
Family who saw her descendants to the sixth generation.

A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.
Poem spoken by Mr. Eusden at a Cambridge Commencement.1
Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand no worthy action done."

Author unknown,3

The gloomy companions of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspira Letters of Junius. Letter vii. To Sir W. Draper.

tion.4

I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter. Letter zii. To the Duke of Grafton. The Americans equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop. Letter III. The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute. 6

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Letter xxxvii. City Address, and the King's Answer,

1 It was printed for the second time, in London, 1714.

2 In the Preface to Mr. Nichols's work on Autographs, among other albums noticed by him as being in the British Museum is that of David Krieg, with James Bobart's autograph (Dec. 8, 1697) and the verses,

Virtus sui gloria.

"Think that day lost whose descending sun

Views from thy hand no noble action done."

Bobart died about 1726 He was a son of the celebrated botanist of that name. The verses are given as an early instance of their use.

8 This is found in Staniford's "Art of Reading," third edition, p. 27 (Boston, 1803).

4 See Burke, page 412.
5 See Choate, page 588.
See Clarendon, page 255.

Private credit is wealth; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.

Letters of Junius. Letter xlii. Affair of the Falkland Islands. 'Tis well to be merry and wise,

"Tis well to be honest and true;
'Tis well to be off with the old love
Before you are on with the new.

Lines used by Maturin as the motto to " Bertram," produced

at Drury Lane, 1816.

Still so gently o'er me stealing,

Mem'ry will bring back the feeling,

Spite of all my grief revealing,

That I love thee,— that I dearly love thee still.

Opera of La Sonnambula.

Happy am I; from care I'm free!

Why ar' n't they all contented like me?

It is so soon that I am done for,

I wonder what I was begun for.

Opera of La Bayadère.

Epitaph on a child who died at the age of three weeks (Cheltenham Churchyard).

An Austrian army, awfully array'd,

Boldly by battery besiege Belgrade;
Cossack commanders cannonading come,
Deal devastation's dire destructive doom;
Ev'ry endeavour engineers essay,

For fame, for freedom, fight, fierce furious fray.

Gen'rals 'gainst gen'rals grapple,

gracious God!

How honors Heav'n heroic hardihood!

Infuriate, indiscriminate in ill,

Just Jesus, instant innocence instill!

Kinsmen kill kinsmen, kindred kindred kill.

Labour low levels longest, loftiest lines;

Men march 'midst mounds, motes, mountains, murd'rous

mines.

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