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laids en leur essence, mais seulement en leurs accidens."-Ibid. p. 481.

In the Miracle Plays he was made as ugly as possible, hairy like a bear, with a bottle nose, and a tail.-COLLIER'S Stage, vol. 2, p. 263.

What beauty there is in hell, and why the Devil is to be respected.-Vide GARASSE, pp. 841-2.

COLLIER'S Stage, vol. 3, p. 96.

"YOUR ale is as a Philistine fox,-there's fire in the tail on't."-Merry Devil of Edmonton, Old Plays, vol. 5, p. 238.

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Pulei MM. T. 3, p. 328. Take away the beard, and how you mar the picture. Enobarbus. Suetonius. Nero. § 1.

SHEIKH JAMAL ODDIN EL SAWI, head of the Karenders, "who shave their chins and eyebrows." A woman of Sawah acted the part of Potiphar's wife towards him. Having no other escape, for she had entrapt him into an inner apartment, he asked permission to retire, and having a razor about him, he shaved off his beard and eyebrows. Upon which, horrified at his deformity, she

had him driven out of the house. Hence his sect followed the fashion.-IBN BATISTA's Travels, p. 11.

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LOGAN, quoted by TURNER, (ibid. p. 376), says of animals, that "in all their actions they

HORNED Woman.— - RUSSELL'S Tour in discover no sense of Deity, and no traces of Germany, vol. 1, p. 250.

BEARDS.

S. Paula Barbata. Acta SS. Feb. 3, 174.

Goat's beard fixed upon a sinner.-Ibid. March 2, 570.

J. Southcote's followers.

"Ducit opes animumque ferro."-HOR. De Guigues, vol. 2, p. 189.

religion.”—Sermons, vol. 1, p. 3. We cannot be sure of this.

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"ALL men are

"— we have divers that drive that trade Philosophers to their inches."-Ibid. p. 27.

now, poets, poetaccios, poetasters, poetitos, and all haberdashers of small wit-I presume.”—Induction to the Magnetic Lady.

COOKERY.

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we ever make the latter day
The scholar of the former; and we find
Something is still amiss that must delay
Our business, and leave work for us behind,

A trade from Adam.-B. J. Staple of As if there were no sabbath of the mind."

News.

"He holds no man can be a poet That is not a good cook, to know the palates And several tastes of the time. He draws all arts

Out of the kitchen, but the art of poetry,
Which he concludes the same with cookery."
Ibid. p. 256.

DANIEL. Ep. prefixed to Philotas.

LANDER, the African traveller, speaks of a wood-pigeon which had seen its mate caught and killed, lingering about the spot and wasting away in mourning the loss of her companion.-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 248.

THOSE wretched horses worked to death in this service. The affection, he says, of HAY tea, &c. show that cookery is good these poor brutes towards each other is for cattle.

"He will not woo the gentle ignorance so much. But careless of all vulgar censure, as not depending on common approbation, he is confident it shall superplease judicious spectators, and to them he leaves it to work with the rest, by example, or otherwise."-BEN JONSON. Magnetic Lady, Induction, vol. 6.

quite extraordinary.-Ibid. p. 269.

"EVERY one is a virtuoso of a higher or lower degree. Every one pursues a Grace, and courts a Venus of one kind or another."-SHAFTESBURY, vol. 1, p. 138.

"SICKNESS, be thou my soul's physician, Bring the apothecary Death with thee." NASH. Summer's Last Will.

Old Plays, ix. 55.

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"MARRIAGE Goddesses."-Ibid. P. 63.

"EVERY sickness is not unto death, and therefore the Lord hath appointed drugs for the maladies of the body. Altissimus creavit medicinam, says the Son of Sirach; the Most High hath created medicines, and a wise man will not despise them; therefore they chose an ill matter to commend who praised S. Agatha, that she would never take any remedy for the infirmities of her body. 'Habeo Dominum Jesum qui solo sermone restaurat universa: this was rash adventuring.""-B. HACKET's Sermons, p.

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the tabor,

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races.-ERASM. Adag. p. 167.

PROVERBS, that the children of great men degenerate, but that good sons never proceed from ill parents.-Ibid. p. 241-2.

SCALE of longevity.-Ibid. p. 255.

ERASMUS (Adagia, p. 361) says he had seen the Ice-worm in the Alps.

PLINY's winged Salamander.-ERASMUS

culo tanquam navigio ventis (?) immensa Adag. p. 361.

maria transisse."— MACROBIUS's Satur. 5, c. 21.

ALEXANDER drank out of a cup in this shape, and called Hercules's.-BEN JONSON, vol. 7, p. 318.

UNDER my guidance

"Though Pleasure lead,
Fear not to follow.
They who are bred
Within the Hill

Of Skill,

May safely tread

What path they will;

No ground of good is hollow."

Pleasure reconciled to Virtue.
Ibid. p. 323.

"Ir we here be a little obscure, 'tis our pleasure; for rather than we will offer to be our own interpreters, we are resolved not to be understood.”—Ibid. p. 373.

"TOM TICKLE-FOOT with his tabor."Ibid. p. 398.

A good name for a musician at a dance.

ANNOS, an Egyptian invented ovens.— Ibid. p. 397.

Δυσδαίμων εὐδαιμονία-infelix felicitas. Ibid. p. 406.

Acco was a remarkably silly woman, who used to converse with herself at the glass. Adag. p. 490.

"LONGIUS hæc ratio, puteoque petatur

ab imo;

Haurio si lenté, da veniam, alta latet."
COWLEY, Plant. 3. 167, p. 109.

Σφόδρ' ἐτὶν ἤμῶν ὁ βίος οἴνῳ προσφερής,
Ὅταν ἦ τὸ λοιπὸν μικρὸν, ὄξυς γίνεται.

Antiphanes. ERASM. Adag. p. 607.

Πρὸς γὰρ τὸ γῆρας ὥσπερ ἐργατήριον
"Απαντα τανθρώπινα προσφοιτά κακά.
Ibid.

"MORE copper has, in some years, been consumed in the pin trade than in the royal navy."―J. NICHOLS. FULLER'S Worthies, vol. 2. N. P. 492.

Dreams. THE proverb that "Dimidio "THIS must be an officer or nothing, he vitæ nihil felicis ab infelicibus," is not true. is so pert and brief in his demands: a pretty-ERASMUS' Adagia, p. 418. man! and a pretty man is a little o' this side nothing."-Ibid. p. 427.

WHEN any one greatly excelled another he was said "eum albis equis præcedere ;" either because white horses were used in

Nor his reasoning upon it.

Quod vide.

FEAST which is to be made at the restoration of the poor with wine from Adam's cellar.-BURTON, p. 670. See for the bill of fare.

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