for all substantives, and he knew another | To bear the hammer; and the deeper still who had in like manner forgotten all adjec- We still arise more image of his will." tives.-Ibid. p. 279. Verses upon an Honest Man's Fortune, BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, vol. 10, p. 468. "PIOUS and ponderous men." Cobbler of Aggávam, 3. His "sadness is a kind of mirth, BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Two Noble THE age 1st of May. D.D. DESCRIBED by Ennius.-ERASMUS, Adagia, p. 153. THE variety, or rather uncertainty, of some seeds is remarkable, as contrasted with the invariable character of others. Fruits and flowers, e. g., compared with the oak, of all horses is dated from the elm, cedar, and other trees. CUSTOM of female inheritance in Lesbos. (Calcutta Magazine, vol. 3, pp. 267, 339.) "HANDSOME is, as handsome does ;" therefore is one of the ugliest fellows I know. THE Ascrodupetes believed that the first of the human race was not Adam, but Barbeloth. Or did they believe that this was Adam's proper name ?-GARASSE, p. 232. EUNOMIAN baptism, to be dipt three times in warm water, head downward, and waist deep, "pour estre baptisé à profit."-Ibid. RAMON LULLS said to have said that a man might be made.-Ibid. p. 234. THE Doctor's shoemaker held his custom by cornage tenure. MR. FARELL, who was G. Taylor's schoolmaster, lay down on the grass one day, and fell asleep. A hairy grub crawled over his face, and was found resting on one of his eyes. When he was awakened, the eye was inflamed, and he lost the sight of it by this extraordinary cause. ̓Αλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ἴσως ἐξωτερικωτέρας ἐστὶ ACCIDENTAL defects may be propagated in trees and in animals; but query whether it be not only by grafts in the former ? TURNER the artist has seventeen cats, all without tails, kittened by a favourite who accidentally had lost hers. "SUCH servants are oftenest painful and good, That sing in their labour, as birds in the wood." TUSSER, p. 252. AN executioner complained, "Qu'il demeuroit en une meschante ville, et qu'il y avoit long temps qu'il n'avoit pendu ni foüetté personne."-BOUCHET, vol. 2, p. 97. ODOROUS plants in a chamber occasion dreams. Ibid. p. 197. MELANCHOLY men likely to predict what is to come.-Ibid. p. 200. A STORY of resetting eyes that have been plucked out, on Guicciardini's authority! And a goat's eye instead of a human one, if the real one has been injured. You will not see with this, but it will live and retain its beauty, though not its use!-Ibid. p. 344-5. RONSARD against learned women.—Ibid. p. 481. SOCRATES' choice of a wife.-Ibid. p. 482. Douza had a pet hedgehog, and Lipsius wrote a poem upon its death.-Douza, p. 669. STERCULUS, —a god mentioned by Prudentius. Lactantius also names him, “qui stercorandi agri rationem primus induxit.” "COGLI viola, o gelsomino, croco, THE Italians had a sword-dance,-" il ballo della spada." Chiabrera (vol. 2, p. 139) has a sonnet to a lady who danced it. |