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 conjurgium.”—Ibid. p. 564. 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 That I am lost in my own web of thought." "You have the gift of impudence; be thank- ment. WHETHER nature recurs to her types of mind as well as of body. French in Charles the Sixth's age, in the religious wars, and in the revolution. Spaniards of Numantia and Zaragosa. English of Charles the First, and now.-French and Gauls, P. HEYLYN. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Wild "2 Keeper. For any thing I see he's in his right wits. i. e. in Greek. ARISTOPHANES plays upon the double sense in the Eccles. v. 1101. J. W. W. "1 Keeper. Thou art an ass. In's right | serving to have been writ by a quill plucked wits, goodman coxcomb? from the wing of Fame.-P. 170. As though any man durst be in his right wits and be here! It is as much as we dare be that keep 'em." "THERE's no skill In being good; but in not being thought ill." Ibid. Queen of Corinth, act iii. sc. i. ACCORDING to Baptista Porta and the ancients, the lion among beasts most resembles the man, the leopard the woman. Among birds, the resemblance to man is found in the eagle, and in the partridge to the woman. Among reptiles, man's likeness is found in the dragon, woman's in the viper.-L. 1, | c. 13. 51. VICES are diseases.-Ibid. p. 248. A TIME when men "were led by implicit faith in all the objects of knowledge as well as in all the objects of faith."—Ibid. p. 409. CONCERNING the causes of diseases and remedies," in quo postremo cardine, hactenus sudatum parum, sectum nihil multum verò promissum, plurimumque neglectum, exspectatum dudum, et erratum ubique invenio.”—VAN HELMONT, p. 9. KNOWLEDGE required in medicine.-Ibid. p. 9. A PHYSICIAN must be born, not made. EFFECTS of nutrition.-BAPT. PORTA, p. Obedience is due to him, and more than obedience-honour-such honour as to a - Ibid. parent-"Medicus enim Mediator inter vitæ Principem et mortem."-Ibid. p. 11. SIR G. MACKENZIE thought that labouring animals expected the sabbath, and required it. See his Essays, p. 45. Ibid. p. 46, Why different nations have chosen different days. HERBERT, p. 121, see. CABBALISTS have observed that the Hebrew word signifying man, doth by a transposition of letters signify likewise benediction: and the word signifying woman, makes up malediction.—Ibid. p. 75. PENNANT says, that in the Highlands midwives give new-born babes a small spoonfull of earth and whiskey, as the first food they taste.-Pinkerton, vol. 3, p. 51. "To talk of Amphialus, who never was, is the same thing as to talk of Alexander : only Amphialus cannot be stained with cruelty, vanity, and drunkenness as Alexander is."-SIR G. MACKENZIE, p. 123. "NON enim me Amicus dierum fur, nunquam Bacchus, aut synposia detinebant, qui vina tunc nondum ferrem, sed continuus labor, per insomnes ex ordine noctes, comitabatur mea desideria."-Ibid. p. 12. DEPENDANCE throughout the system of nature. Thus about the Shetlands and Orkneys, the sea fowl "follow the small fish, which are their ordinary food; hence the more fish, the more fowl; and when the fish forsake this and the other place, the fowls likewise do so within a short time.”— BRAND'S Orkneys, &c. PINkerton, vol. 3, p. 744. HEREDITARY leeches in Ireland. - VAN HELMONT, p. 13. THOMPSON, who is deservedly mentioned with respect in Clarkson's History of the Abolitionists, and who kept a public house at Bristol, after he became a religious man, SIR G. MACKENZIE speaks of subjects de- used, when he was made angry, instead of |