THERE is iron enough in the blood of forty-two men to make a ploughshare weighing about twenty-four pounds.-Ibid. And brass enough in Mr. face. brain. THE Abbé Galiani derives all crimes from animal destruction; thus treachery from angling and ensnaring, and murder from A chesnut tree at Tortworth planted (so hunting and shooting. He asserts that the said) A. D. 800, made a boundary in Steman who would kill a sheep, ox, or any un-phen's reign, 1135, and then called the great 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, Declineth anger, persuades clemency, Doth sweeten mirth, and heighten piety. And is to a body, often, ill-inclined, No less a sovereign cure than to the mind." BEN JONSON, vol. 8, p. 238. "BEAUTY That asks but to be censured by the eyes, And in those outward forms all fools are wise." Ibid. p. 283. COURT DE GEBELIN's Etymon of Etymology, vol. 3, p. 19, given in Cambro-Britan. vol. 1, p. 367. 66 CHE fra noi vaglia a far la cose chiare, 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 AGNOLO FIRENZUOLA, Op. Buri. "CH'A questi gran poeti dan le forme Da far sonetti petrarchevolmente." MAURO, Ibid. p. 223. 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 impossible, and if they could get them, yet they could not measure them because of their leaping out. Upon which he set a mulet upon the city of 7000 rubles.-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 153. CHALCONDYLAS says, 66 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. "He wore not the perriwig of other men's wits." Triana, or a threefold Romanza of Mariana, Paduana, Sabina, written by THOMAS FULLER, D. D. 1662. "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. | tion."—AMADIS, liv. xxiii. p. 66. 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, 68. 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. "IL s'est trouvé des hommes, à qui la seule veuë de la médecine faisoit l'opéra AFFECTIONS and dreams of dogs: "mais tout cecy se peut rapporter à l'estroicte cousture, de l'esprit et du corps, s'entrecommuniquans leurs fortunes."-Liv. xxiii. D'AMADIS, p. 66. SIGHS, "Mudo idioma de los tristes "ADOLESCENS fui olim, Ungr var ek fordum, Hava-Mál. Edda, vol. 3, p. 89. Ibid. p. 93. BE not too wise. HEAR, with Alexander, the answer the musician gave him: "Absit, o rex, ut tu meliùs hæc scias, quàm ego."-BEN JONSON, vol. 9, p. 155. "THERE are no fewer forms of minds than of bodies amongst us. The variety is incredible. Some are fit to make divines, some poets, some lawyers, some physicians; some to be sent to the plough, and trades. There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting."-Ibid. p. 176. "THERE was not that variety of beasts in the ark, as is of beastly natures in the multitude."-Ibid. p. 186. "NE' piccioli suggetti è gran fatica: Ma qualunque gli esprime ornati e chiari, Non picciol frutto del suo ingegno coglie." Rucellai, Le Api. P. Ital. xxiii. p. 147. 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. Giants. CATTABRIGA, Fallalbacchio. PULCI, vol. 3, p. 35. Barigazzo.-Orl. Inn. vol. 4, p. 152. Horses. KNIGHT of the Sun, vol. 2, p. 12; vol. 6, p. 246. His horse Cornelin, pp. 378, 541-2. P.61. Rondart the next best in the world, which Rositles won when he slew the giant Mandraqui: "Il estoit si fort et si grand, qu'autre que luy n'eust pu porter le geant, ny soustenir ce grand corps, et ces grosses et pesantes armes." Vol. 3, p. 24-5, 226. CORNEN carries double on an occasion. P. 227, 235-6. That which Lugande provided for the Prince of Dace. Vol. 4. p. 184. Zephyr. MATTAFELLONE was Gans, the good horse of a bad master.-Cont. of Orl. Fur. p. 345. SISIFALTO, Agramanti's.-See Orl. Inn. tom. 4, p. 85. BRIGLIADOR.-Orl. Fur. tom. 1, p. 246. Batolda, Brandimartes. -Ibid. tom. 3, p. 364. A STORY of horses running wild with fear. -ELLIS's Original Letters, vol. 1, p. 217. SWORDS. Tassale, Agesilan of Colchos. -AMAD. vol. 11, p. 672. ALTACHIARA was Ulaviers.- Orl. Inn. tom. 1, p. 182. Tranchera, Agricans.-Ibid. tom. 2, p. 26. Rodamonte had Nimrod's, but it has no name.-Ibid. tom. 4, p. 38. MUSIC. 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