chesnut tree; bore in 1759 nuts which produced young trees.-Ibid. ONION Soup the best of all restoratives after fatigue. Ibid. The three gold-shoemakers of Britain.Cambro-Britan. vol. 2, p. 437-8. "I HAVE heard of a man, who having given half of his estate to mend highways, for the good of his country, said he would CONSTITUTIONS are perhaps as different willingly give the other half, that England as faces. "MUSIC removeth cares, sadness ejects, "BEAUTY That asks but to be censured by the eyes, COURT DE GEBELIN'S Etymon of Etymology, vol. 3, p. 19, given in Cambro-Britan. vol. 1, p. 367. 66 had never a ship, nor a merchant, nor a dissenter belonging to it."-CATO's Letters, vol. 1, p. 251. THERE was a mad monk at Heidelberg, who was for knocking every man on the head that did not like Rhenish wine.-Ibid. p. 282. DRUMS and trumpets make men bold. And Marshal Biron, one of the bravest men that ever lived, died like a coward for want of them.-Ibid. vol. 3, p. 278. GILES FLETCHER says that John Basilowitz sent to the city of Moscow to provide for him a measure full of fleas, for a medicine. They answered that it was impossi - CHE fra noi vaglia a far la cose chiare, ble, and if they could get them, yet they Senza tanto stencarsi lo 'ntelletto." MOLZA, Op. Burl. tom. 1, p. 317. "E CHI sa che 'l suo nome entro la Torre "Ma se gli è antico, e se l'usar le genti "CH'A questi gran poeti dan le forme could not measure them because of their leaping out. Upon which he set a mulct upon the city of 7000 rubles.-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 153. CHALCONDYLAS says, "that when Constantinople was taken by the Turk, the Romans said that all the destruction brought upon the Greeks by the barbarians, was but a judgment upon them for the destruction of Troy."-Ibid. p. 326. This if said, was said in jest. "WHEN we denominate a man mad, or a fool, we mean only that he is more so than most other of his species, for all men at times have a mixture of both."-Ibid. vol. 4, p. 215. "MADNESS too is undoubtedly to be learned and acquired by habit and exercise, as well as covetousness, pride, ambition, love, desire of revenge, and other qualities, all which carried beyond a certain degree, become madness."-Ibid. "MADNESS is a superabundance of vital spirits, which must burst their vessel, if they do not overflow, or are let out by tapping; but which way soever they find their evacuation, they generally ferment first, and make a terrible combustion within."-Ibid. p. 420. WM. CHARLESLEY killed by Bow bell, 13 April, 1604.-MALCOLM's London, vol. 2, p. 156. A MOTHER and daughter both christened Britannia, are buried in Bow Church. The former was daughter of Thomas Cole, Esq. and wife of Matthew Howard of Thorpe in Norfolk.- Ibid. p. 158. January 7th, 1771. "MRS. THORPE, pew opener, and searcher of the parish of St. George the Martyr, aged 100 years and upwards, and her son, aged seventy, were found dead together in the same room. The son had never been separated from the mother from the day of his birth;-and in death were not divided."—Ibid. p. 306. AMONG the accounts of Christ Church, St. Katharine, Aldgate, under the year 1564, this entry occurs, "Paide for a booke with eight quire of paper, for to wright in the maryages, christnings, and burials, and binding, 6s. 8d."- MALCOLM's Londinium, vol. 3, p. 309. Also in the same year, "Paid for an hour glass that hangeth by the pulpitt, when the preacher doth make a sermon, that he may know how the hour passeth away."-Ibid. p. 309. A. D. 1380. "JOHN NORTHAMPTON, then mayor, compelled the fishmongers to acknowledge that their occupation was no craft, and therefore unworthy to be reckoned among the other mysteries."—Ibid. vol. 4, p. 426. Giants. CATTABRIGA, Fallalbacchio. Ma qualunque gli esprime ornati e chiari, COMMEMORATION of Handel. "The king expressed his wonder that the full fortes of so vast a band, in accompanying the singers, had never been too loud even for a single voice; when it might so naturally have been expected, that the accompaniments even of the softest pianos in such plenitude, would have been overpowering to all vocal solos. He had talked, he said, both with musical people and with philosophers upon the subject, but none of them could assign a reason, or account for so astonishing a fact." —Dr. Burney, Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 19. Barigazzo.-Orl. Inn. vol. 4, p. 152. Paracelsus says, "nihil refert an Deus, an diabolus, angeli an immundi spiriti ægro opem ferant, modo morbus curetur, Lib. i. de Occult Phil." He proves, and contends, that many diseases cannot otherwise be cured: "incantatione orti, incantione curari debent." BURTON. Anat. p. 221. "SUIDAS says there was a great book of old, of Solomon's writing, which contained medicines for all manner of diseases, and lay open still as they came into the temple: but Hezekiah caused it to be taken away, because it made the people secure, to neglect their duty in calling and relying upon God, out of confidence on those remedies." -Ibid. p. 223. "NULLUM medicamentum efficax, nisi medicus etiam fuerit fortis imaginationis," this was the opinion of Damascen the Arabian. The physician must have faith to inspire it; and, as Galen holds, "spes et confidentia plus valent quam medicina."—Ibid. p. 229. "THERE is an old general mentioned in history, who had but one left of what every body else has commonly two, and yet with one leg, one arm, one eye, and one ear, he was, for a drunken man, the best officer of his day."-WOLFE, Letters. CARDAN comforted himself with this,that the star Fomahant would make him immortal; and that after his decease, his books should be found in ladies' studies.Ibid. p. 347. PHYSIC in England little used in Burton's time.-Ibid. p. 358. The devil its author.-Ibid. p. 359. Boring the skull to let out fumes.-Ibid. p. 384-5. Drinking wine, &c. when wholesome.Ibid. p. 385-7. Love is a species of melancholy.-Ibid. p. 403. "DE admirando amoris affectu dicturus, ingens patet campus et philosophicus. Valleriola."-Ibid. p. 404. "GIVE me leave to season a surly discourse with a more pleasing aspersion of love matters."-Ibid. The part affected in man is the liver.Ibid. p. 429. Of all causes of love, "the remotest are stars."-Ibid. p. 443. Love's tortures.-Ibid. p. 505-6-12. To be cured like madness.-Ibid. p. 534. Remedies, p. 568. "Febris hectica uxor, et non nisi morte evellenda." SCALIGER quoted.-Ibid. p. 560. "When it is not conjugium but conjur BURTON (280) likens Scripture to "angium."—Ibid. p. 564. apothecary's shop, wherein are all remedies for all infirmities of mind, purgatives, cordials, alteratives, corroboratives, lenitives, &c." THE three Salernitan doctors who cure all diseases, are Dr. Merriman, Dr. Diet, and Dr. Quiet.-Ibid. p. 298. Sir John Harrington's advice to his wife was noways to the Doctor's taste. "Be in my house as busy as a bee, Having a sting for every one but me." BURTON, p. 300. Ibid. p. 586. Arguments for matrimony. "I HAVE been in love myself, but never found yet That it could work such strange effects." MASSINGER, Bashful Lover, vol. 4, p. 354. DULLMAN GRAINGER has said, and Dullman John Nichols saith he has said it judiciously, that "Fuller was unhappy in having a vein of wit, as he has taken uncommon pains to write up to the bad taste |