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CROW quills.-LADY LUXBOROUGH's Let- disposition is altered and changed with milk, ters, p. 73.

as the moisture and sap of the earth doth change the nature of that tree or plant that

MATTHEW HENRY'S pen. - THORESBY, it nourisheth. Wherefore the common byvol. 2, p. 151.

word of the common people seemeth to be grounded upon good experience, which is,

"YE fools that wear gay cloaths, love to be this fellow hath sucked mischief even from the teat of the nurse."-Euphues.

gaped at,

What are you better when your end calls on you?

Will gold preserve ye from the grave? or jewels?

Get golden minds, and fling away your trappings.

Unto your bodies minister warm raiment, Wholesome and good: glitter within, and spare not."

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Maid in the Mill, Act iii. Sc. ii.

"HE should talk of many matters, not always harp upon one string; he that always singeth one note, without descant, breedeth no delight: he that always playeth one part breedeth loathsomeness to the ear. It is variety that moveth the mind of all men." -Ibid.

"SUCH gross questions are to be answered with slender reasons, and such idle

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COCKCHAFFERS he thinks might be as grateful food as locusts, and their grub as delicious as the groogroo, or palm caterpillar.-DARWIN's Phytologia, p. 364.

WATER rats in America destroyed in great numbers by the tape-worm. Could some of these diseased American rats, he asks, be imported into this country, that they might propagate their malady?—Ibid. p. 583.

THE broad-bottomed Adm. the diodoCaptis, the heavy behinds.

KEEPING a folly.

ONE may say of certain authors, with Garasse, Doc. Curieuse (p. 21), “Qu'il est permis à un chacun de s'immoler à la risée publique; leurs fautes ne sont préjudiciables qu'à eux-mêmes; leurs chimères n'ont aucune suitte; elles pourront servir de divertissement et de recréation aux gens d'honneur après un estude serieux."

Among the writers who lead him to make these remarks, he includes Copernicus.

CARDAN'S notion of three orders of spirits or minds, which, combining with matter, form beasts, men, and prophets; and why there can be no prophet near the poles, and must be many in Judea.-Ibid p. 25. Vanini's notion, p. 32. Plato's remark, p. 56.

"LORSQUE Cardan escrivoit ces sornettes, pas fort esloigné d'asnerie.”—Ibid.

il n'estoit p. 26.

"POUR moy, je dis que la plus grande folie qui soit au monde, c'est de s'écarter du grand chemin."-Ibid. p. 29.

AN Irish gentleman just now sentenced to be hanged, as he richly deserved, said, "This is an extremely awkward business!" |

CARDINAL DU PERRON'S extraordinary memory has been accounted for by the fact

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for all substantives, and he knew another who had in like manner forgotten all adjectives.—Ibid. p. 279.

"PIOUS and ponderous men." Cobbler of Aggávam, 3.

HIS "sadness is a kind of mirth,
So mingled as if mirth did make him sad,
And sadness merry."

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Two Noble

Kinsmen, act v. sc. iii.

THE age of all horses is dated from the 1st of May.

CUSTOM of female inheritance in Lesbos. (Calcutta Magazine, vol. 3, pp. 267, 339.)

"HANDSOME is, as handsome does ;" therefore is one of the ugliest fellows I know.

THE Ascrodupetes believed that the first of the human race was not Adam, but Barbeloth. Or did they believe that this was Adam's proper name ?-GARASSE, p. 232.

EUNOMIAN baptism, to be dipt three times in warm water, head downward, and waist deep, "pour estre baptisé à profit."—Ibid.

RAMON LULLS said to have said that a man might be made.—Ibid. p. 234.

THE Doctor's shoemaker held his custom by cornage tenure.

MR. FARELL, who was G. Taylor's schoolmaster, lay down on the grass one day, and fell asleep. A hairy grub crawled over his face, and was found resting on one of his eyes. When he was awakened, the eye was inflamed, and he lost the sight of it by this extraordinary cause.

̓Αλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ἴσως ἐξωτερικωτέρας ἐστὶ
OKELEWS-ARIST. Pol. p. 8, 1. 1, § 5.
"AFFLICTION, when I know it, is but this,
A deep alloy, whereby man tougher is

To bear the hammer; and the deeper still We still arise more image of his will." Verses upon an Honest Man's Fortune, BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Vol. 10, p. 468.

D.D. DESCRIBED by Ennius.-ERASMUS, Adagia, p. 153.

THE variety, or rather uncertainty, of some seeds is remarkable, as contrasted with the invariable character of others. Fruits and flowers, e. g., compared with the oak, elm, cedar, and other trees.

ACCIDENTAL defects may be propagated in trees and in animals; but query whether it be not only by grafts in the former?

TURNER the artist has seventeen cats, all without tails, kittened by a favourite who accidentally had lost hers.

"SUCH servants are oftenest painful and good,

That sing in their labour, as birds in the wood." TUSSER, p. 252.

AN executioner complained, "Qu'il demeuroit en une meschante ville, et qu'il y avoit long temps qu'il n'avoit pendu ni fouetté personne."-BOUCHET, vol. 2, p. 97.

ODOROUS plants in a chamber occasion dreams.—Ibid. p. 197.

MELANCHOLY men likely to predict what is to come.-Ibid. p. 200.

A STORY of resetting eyes that have been plucked out, on Guicciardini's authority! And a goat's eye instead of a human one, if the real one has been injured. You will not see with this, but it will live and retain its beauty, though not its use!—Ibid. p. 344-5.

RONSARD against learned women.—Ibid.

p. 481.

SOCRATES' choice of a wife.-Ibid. p. 482.

THERE are some who say that new-born infants cry, not for pain, nor the sense of sudden cold, "mais que c'est qu'ils se plaignent de nos premiers parents, et que le fils crie A. A. comme se plaignent de Adam, et la fille E. E. comme se plaignant et voulant dire Eve."-Ibid. p. 495.

"Hic nimis vivax queritur caducæ Damna senectæ."

M. ANT. FLAMINIUS, l. 1, c. 42.

“QUIPPE Imperia et aliæ res terrenæ, similes sunt cœlestibus; sicut et res maritimæ rebus terrestribus. Unde inventus

piscis episcopus, vitulus et calamarus (?); quandoquidem omnes ab ordine rationis primæ, seu divinæ ideæ, quod Verbum æternum est, dependent."-CAMPANELLA. De Mon. Hisp. p. 12.

"QUIA et Deus ipse rem omnem creavit in numero.”—Ibid. p. 14.

"I CAN wear a horn, and blow it not."Damon and Pithias, Old Plays, vol. 1, p. 238.

"THERE is no instance of any man whose history has been minutely related, that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour."-JOHNSON. CROKER'S Boswell, vol. 1, p. 11.

Vieyra is one, and (in my own knowledge) C. C. another.

Douza had a pet hedgehog, and Lipsius wrote a poem upon its death.-Douza, p.

669.

STERCULUS, a god mentioned by Pru

"GOOD Jove! what a pretty foolish thing it is to be a poet.-Chloe in the Poetaster. BEN JONSON, vol. 2, p. 469.

"To play the fool by authority, is wisdom."-Ibid. p. 479.

"To play the fool wisely, is high wisdom."-Ibid. p. 480.

CUPID, the little greatest god.

THE Dance of Cupid.—Tancred and Gismunda, Old Plays, vol. 2, p. 162.

"WHY this indeed is physic! and outspeaks The knowledge of cheap drugs, or any use Can be made out of it! more comforting Than all your opiates, juleps, apozęms, Magistral syrups, or—"

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dentius. Lactantius also names him, "qui Control ourselves, ourselves we shall constercorandi agri rationem primus induxit."

"COGLI viola, o gelsomino, croco, E Rosa condannata a viver poco." CHIABRERA, Vol. 2, p. 196.

THE Italians had a sword-dance,—“ il ballo della spada." Chiabrera (vol. 2, p. 139) has a sonnet to a lady who danced it.

IN proportion as we think we can trol."

LLOYD'S London, p. 58.

"'TIS pleasanter to paint effects, Than flounder in the dark abyss of causes." Ibid. p. 74.

HERACLIDES held that man fell from the

moon.

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