sons to whom they were addressed, than they have been by one, at the foot of Skiddaw, who is never more contentedly employed than when learning from the living minds of other ages; one who would gladly have this expression of respect and gratitude conveyed to him; and who trusts that when his course is finished here, he shall see him face to face. Here is a book with which Lauderdale amused himself, when Cromwell kept him prisoner in Windsor Castle: he has recorded his state of mind during that imprisonment by inscribing in it, with his name, and the dates* of time and place, the Latin word Durate, and the Greek Οιστέον καὶ ἐλπιστέον...Here is a memorial of a different kind inscribed in this "Rule† of Penance of St. Francis, as it is ordered for religious women.".. "I beseech my deare mother humbly to accept of this exposition of our holy rule, the better to conceive what your poor child ought to be, who daly beges your blessing. Constantia Francisco.".. And here in the Apophthegmata, collected by Conrad Lycos *The date is 22 Oct. 1657. The book is the Pia Hilaria Angelini Gazai, of which an edition in two volumes, 12mo. was that year published in London by R. Pepper, of Christ's College, Cambridge. + Douay, 1644. thenes, and published after drastic expurgation, by the Jesuits, as a common place book, some Portugueze has entered a hearty vow* that he would never part with the book, nor lend it to any one... Very different was the disposition of my poor old Lisbon acquaintance, the Abbé, who, after the old humaner form, wrote in all his books (and he had a rare collection) Er libris Francisci Garnier, et amicorum. SIR THOMAS MORE. How peaceably they stand together,.. Papists and Protestants side by side! MONTESINOS. Their very dust reposes not more quietly in the cemetery. Ancient and Modern, Jew and Gentile, Mahommedan and Crusader, French and English, Spaniards and Portugueze, Dutch and Brazilians, fighting their old battles, silently now, upon the same shelf: Fernam Lopez and Pedro de Ayala; John de Laet and Barlæus, with the historians of Joam Fernandes Vieira; Fox's Martyrs and the Three Conversions of Father Persons; Cranmer and Stephen Gardiner; Dominican and Franciscan; Jesuit and Philosophe (equally mis * Faço voto a Jesu Christo da naō largar este livro da maō e emprestalhe a alguem. Anno Dni. 1664. named); Churchmen and Sectarians; Round heads and Cavaliers! Here are God's conduits, grave divines; and here Is nature's secretary, the philosopher: And wily statesmen, which teach how to tie The sinews of a city's mystic body; Here gathering chroniclers; and by them stand DONNE. Here I possess these gathered treasures of time, the harvest of so many generations, laid up in my garners: and when I go to the window there is the lake, and the circle of the mountains, and the illimitable sky. SIR THOMAS MORE. Felicemque voco pariter studiique locique! MONTESINOS. meritoque probas artesque locumque. The simile of the bees, Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes, has often been applied to men who have made literature their profession; and they among them to whom worldly wealth and worldly honours are objects of ambition, may have reason enough to acknowledge its applicability. But it will bear a happier application and with equal fitness for, for whom is the purest honey hoarded that the bees of this world elaborate, |