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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.

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"IL y a deux sortes de gens, qui ne jugent point sainement des afaires du monde, les ignorans, et les gens trop subtils; les uns, 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 doknoιoopía quam multos perdidit, et perdit quotidie."-J. SCALIGER. Epist. 10, p. 87.

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Car qui ne quiert le loup jusques au boys, Il vient menger les moutons en la plaine." JEAN MAROT, p. 87.

"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.

Ir the dwarfs offered the choice of a shield or a sword of their fabric, which ought to be chosen?

"QUE ceux qui ne peuvent pas découvrir par le raisonnement l'évidence des vérités de la Religion, conçoivent au moins du respect pour elle, en voïant le caractère de COMMON words, started into a new sig- ceux qui la méprisent, ou qui la combatent." nification.-Ibid. No. 60. -LA BRUYERE, tom. 2, p. 421.

"Ir," 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 | "THE usage I have had, I know would make Than the desire that raised it.” Wisdom herself run frantic through the

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Ibid. Pigmalion.

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.

"THE wild ivy

streets,

And Patience quarrel with her shadow."

Ibid.

"THE Devil, and

This fellow are so near, 'tis not yet known Which is the eviler angel." Ibid.

“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,

Spreads and thrives better in some piteous vol. 1, p. 750. Elizabeth. Speaker not

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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.

"He hath faith enough to save himself, and charity enough to believe that others may be saved, who are not in all points just of his belief."-Ibid. p. 14.

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

large,

As they came all to see, and to be seen." BEN JONSON. Underwoods, vol. 9, p. 35. "EXTEND a reaching virtue."-Ibid. p. 42.

"THE ignoble never lived; they were awhile Like swine, or other cattle here on earth:

Their names are not recorded on the file Of life that fall so." Ibid. p. 41.

"It will be a commendable thrift to spare myself the labour of that accuracy."-PATRICK'S Parable of the Pilgrim, p. 1.

"THEY fancied themselves engaged against sin, whilst they were buffeting a contrary opinion. There was no heat, but they took it for divine, though it were of their own kindling: and so they were but all on fire, they never doubted but it was from heaven."-Ibid. p. 10.

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