"THY bodies bolstered out with bumbast

and with bags,

Thy rowles, thy ruffs, thy cauls, thy coifs, thy jerkins, and thy jaggs,

Thy curling and thy cost, thy friesling and thy fare

To court, to court, with all those toyes, and there set forth such ware."

GEORGE GASCOIGNE.

"WITH Sweet enticing bait I fisht for many a dame,

great service in chronic cases. It consisted in a person's walking on tip-toe, and stretching his hands as high above his head as he could, keeping the whole body also as much upon the stretch as might be. In this condition the patient was to walk as far as he was well able, all the while moving about both hands as much as he could in all directions.

GREGORIA GARCIA. Origen de los Indios. The mariner's compass was known to Adam, the angelic doctor St. Thomas, and with him toda la Escuela de los Teologos, teaching that he knew all things which God has made, and all arts, crafts, and sciences,and better than any one else. Vide p. 13. This Glorioso Doctor he calls him presently, where he proves that Noah knew everything also. They twain were the great encyclopædists of the old world, and Ephraim Chambers and Dr. Abraham Rees of the new.

PIERRE d'automne. Dr. Dove made some, and when making it, as it blackened and thickened said, "Verily this must be the true pissasphaltum."

PIG-CASE, for making brawn,-to keep the pig in.

THE pigtail of the field, a small strip in grass.

PITYLISMA,1 a name of one of the exercises described by the ancient physicians as of

On turning to Fas. Econ. Hippocrat. in v. TITUλois, I find these words: -"Inter corporis gymnasia recenset Galenus, lib. de San. tuendâ 2." I have not Galen at hand.-J. W. W.

not allow his own vermin to be molested, saying that they had no other paradise than the present existence, and that it was cruel to deprive them of it.

I SHOULD like to see the tales which Jean Pierre Camus, Bishop of Bellay, wrote to inspire horror and disgust for love.

CHAMBERLAYNE, who wrote the Angliæ Notitia, had notice given upon his monument, that he had caused some of these books, wrapt in cere-cloth, to be buried with him, as they might possibly be of use to a remote

age.

JOHN ZEPHANIAH HOLWELL (of the Black Hole) published Dissertations on the Origin, Nature, and Pursuits of intelligent Beings, &c. 1788; wherein he argues that men are fallen angels, condemned to suffer in human bodies for the sins committed in their former state.

HORTENSIUS the orator used to irrigate his fine plane trees with wine, of which he left at his death 10,000 casks!

NICHOLAS VAUGUELIN, Seigneur des Ivetaux, a French poet, and preceptor to Louis XIII. retired to a handsome house in the Fauxbourg St. Germaine, where, fancying that happiness was to be found in a pastoral life, he habited himself as a shepherd, and his mistress, who was a player on the harp, as a shepherdess, and led imaginary

flocks along the walks in his garden, singing pastoral songs to his paramour's harp.-See

MORERI.

JOHN AVENTINE, the Bavarian historian, published in 1532 (Ratisbon) a work upon the art of conversing and counting by the fingers.

Ar Littleburne, in Kent, aged 86, the wife of S. Maple, who had a single lock of hair growing from her head measuring 7 feet 9 inches.-M. Magazine, July, 1814.

SQUASHES and pumpkins certainly degenerate if grown near gourds; the latter even communicate an emetic quality to their neighbours. In like manner melons will degenerate if planted near squashes and pumpkins. An action was brought against a gardener in Charles II.'s time for selling cabbage-seed instead of cauliflower-seed. On trial it appeared that both had been planted near each other by the purchaser, and to this error, the gardener contended, was owing the degeneracy of the true seed which he had sold. He was cast, but later discoveries show that he was right.

WILLY CALVERT, lying flat on his face, and Isabel and Kate, one on each side, trying to kiss him. John Ponsonby exhibited a similar scene here upstairs. An infant St. Anthony in point of persecution, though not of temptation.1

PETERSBURGH. In the coldest and brightest weather, you see an infinite multitude of little shining darts or spiculæ flying in all directions through the sky. They seem to be about a quarter of an inch in length; they have not more thickness than the finest hair, and their golden colour, glancing as they shoot through the deep azure sky, has

This is a domestic scene, and the names will be familiar to many readers.-J. W. W.

JAMES BOWDOIN, Governor of Massachusetts, a philosopher and statesman, wrote treatises to " prove by phenomena and Scripture the existence of an orb which surrounds the whole material system, and which may be necessary to preserve it from that ruin to which, without such a counterbalance, it seems liable, by that universal principle in matter, gravitation." He supposes that the blue expanse of the sky is a real concave body encompassing all visible nature, that the milky way and the lucid spots in the heavens are gaps in this orb, through which the light of exterior orbs reaches us, and that thus an intimation may be given of orbs on orbs, and systems on

2 Δὴξ γάρ ἐστιν εἴδος σκώληκος ἐγγινομένου Evdov úlov. Schol. in Hes. 'Epv. kai 'Hμɛp. v. 418.-J. W. W.

systems innumerable, and inconceivably grand.

F. MARTENE says that some abbesses formerly confessed their nuns, but their excessive curiosity carried them such lengths that there arose a necessity for checking it.

MR. JAMIESON tells us that among the ancient Scandinavians the manner of extolling a person was to call him or her, not the flower of the family, but the leek of the family.

IN Rees's Cyclopædia it is very gravely said, under the word Abbé, that the abbés are a numerous and useful body,-persons of universal talents and learning,-held in esteem and respect by people of various descriptions, and particularly by the female sex, to whom they are devoted!

'Akakia, a purple bag filled with earth or sand, and borne by the Greek emperors and princes in the left hand, to remind them of mortality.

ACIDALIUS edited a treatise entitled, Mulieres non esse Homines, to appease the ladies, he said; the author was right, for women certainly more resembled angels.

AGYEI, posts or obelisks, sacred to Apollo, or Bacchus, or Mercury, with sometimes a head of one of them, placed in the vestibule of houses for their security, and as Steph. Byz. says, serving like our directing posts, which is most likely.

ALLUMÉE, a term in heraldry, when the eyes of a beast are drawn red or sparkling.

THE Guernsey lily (Amaryllis Sarniensis), a native of Japan, became naturalized in Guernsey by the shipwreck of a vessel returning from Japan. Some bulbs being cast on shore, took root in the sand, and Mr. Hatton, the governor, observing the beauty of the flower, propagated it."

WORTHY is this book to be written with indelible ink upon incombustible paper of

amianthus.

SIR EDMUNDBERRY GODFREY, "I find murdered by rogues," or "By Rome's rude finger die."

PILATE'S question, "Quid est veritas," makes the best answer, "Est vir qui adest."

ELURUS, the Egyptian God of the Cats, -a man with a cat's head. Sir Thomas1 might have sat for him.

AGLA.-CYCL. the initials of "thou art

strong in the eternal God." This word the Jews applied to the Deity, and wrote it in the three angles, and the middle of two triangles laid one above the other, which they called the shield of David, saying it was a security against wounds, would extinguish fire, and do other wonders.

A splendid cat belonging to the cat's Eden of Greta Hall.-J. W. W.

PALUMBULA, a Latin term of endearment, but so was Anaticula. Odd that in vulgar life this last should so long have been preserved.

THE mite was anciently thought the limit of littleness, but we are not now surprised to be told of animals twenty-seven millions of times smaller than a mite! A mite! how vastly swifter does it run than a race-horse! Cyclopædia.

Animalculæ have been discovered equal in size only to twenty-seven ten thousand billion parts of a cubic inch! And Leeu

2 See Third Series, p. 628.-J. W. W.