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the whole, we are disposed to regard 'Legendary Lore' as the best portion of the work.

Starlight Stories. By Hob. Illustrated by Dorothy Hilton. (De La More Press.)

THIS collection of fairy stories is readable and agreeable. The illustrations of Dorothy Hiltonthose in colour especially-render the volume containing them attractive.

Author and Printer. By F. Howard Collins. (Frowde.)

THIS useful little book, in praise of which we spoke warmly at 10th S. iii. 379, has speedily reached a

second edition. It is a work of composite labour, the best correctors of the press having assisted in its compilation. To printers, compositors, &c., it should be invaluable; and there are few writers who will not be thankful for its information or its

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To our own regret, and to that of many of our readers, a familiar name must vanish from our columns. After an illness extending over three months. Mr. Everard Home Coleman, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.S., &c., the oldest member of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society, died on Sunday last at his residence, 71, Brecknock Road, N. Born in 1818, the deceased gentleman was the son of an officer in the H.EIC.S. He was educated at Christ's Hospital in the Charles II. Mathematical School. By special appointment of William IV., he joined the Admiralty, where he remained five years, serving fifty years under the Board of Trade as Assistant Registrar of Shipping and Seamen, from which position he was pensioned over seventeen years ago. Owing to an accident in early life, Mr. Coleman was prevented from qualifying for the navy. A full account of his observations and experiences at Christ's Hospital, which he entered in June, 1827, appeared in The City Press for 16 Oct., 1901. The names customarily employed were those of his godfather, the famous surgeon Sir Everard Home. Up to his last disqualifying illness Mr. Coleman took an active delight in 'N. & Q.' He was a contributor to the First Series, though his earliest article cannot be traced. The list of his contributions to the Ninth Series fills nearly seven columns of the General Index to that series. He seems to have formed with special diligence extra indexes to names and contributions in earlier series.

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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-FEBRUARY. MESSRS. BAER & Co., of Frankfort, send us a districts. It offers many books of interest to the catalogue of 'Rheinland-Westfalen' and adjoining. traveller in an attractive region, dealing with the legends and poetry of the great river. Some English volumes are included, and the collection of literature concerning Cologne will repay attention. Germans are celebrated for their interest in "views," which are noticed in abundance in this catalogue. There are also several autographs of local princes and princesses to be had.

Messrs. Bull & Auvache send us two catalogues. In the first we find the Coverdale Bible, a good copy, 1407., and Nicolson's second edition of Coverseveral copies of Cranmer's version of the Bible, dale's New Testament, 81. 8s. There are also including 1541, price 28/.; another, 1549, 147. 14s. and a third, 1562, 12. A clean sound copy of Matthewe's version is priced 14. 14s.; Tyndale's by Jugge, also scarce, 1553, 16. The woodcuts New Testament, 1552, 187.; and the second edition include the devil with a wooden leg. The second important collection of Liturgies and Liturgical Works. Among other catalogue contains an items are The English Dialect Dictionary, 6 vols., 67. 15s.; Rymer and Sanderson's Foedera, Conventiones, Literæ,' 20 vols., 1727-35, 81. 8s. ; the Abbots

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ford edition of Scott, 4l. 15s.

Mr. John Jeffery has some curious chapbooks, old maps, and pamphlets. The subjects treated comprise slavery and the West Indies, 1832; the Corporation of London, 1847; the unemployed, 1816; the National Debt, 1833; John Wilkes, 1767; and The Result of the late Elections,' 1831.'

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Messrs. Myers & Co. send two catalogues. That devoted to Engraved Portraits includes a very scarce portrait of Thomas Paine, 27. 2s.; Mrs. Jordan in The Country Girl,' 12s. 6d.; Macadam, the roadmaker, standing astride on two posts, with bags of sovereigns" under each arm, 58.; and a scarce portrait of Sir Humphry Davy, 17. 10s. Those interested in Vanishing London (and who is not?) Messrs. Myers's Catalogue of Views of London and can pass a pleasant half-hour over the perusal of its Vicinity, including Montague House, Bloomsbury; Sir Paul Pindar's House, in Bishopsgate; Buckingham House; Carlton House; NorthumberBridewell Palace; Buckingham Palace, when land House; election scene at Covent Garden; Cato Street, Edgware Road, the scene of the conspiracy; the Marshalsea Prison; old views of the Strand, Regent Street, &c.

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Mr. Ludwig Rosenthal, of Munich, sends us the fourth part of his latest Catalogue of Catholic Theology, which includes headings from Marca to Rosellis. As usual, he offers several fine incunabula and MSS., such as a Martyrologium RomanoSeraphicum,' of about the middle of the thirteenth century, in red, blue and black (1000 m.); and an original MS. on the ritual of the Armenian Church, 'Mashtots' (500 m.). There is abundance of fine We find also 36 vols. of Missals noted here. Fathers of the English Church, 1843-51 (120 m.), and several Psalters.

Mr. Chas. J. Sawyer offers the fine classical library of the late James Bailey, of Trinity College, Cambridge, a friend of Porson and Wakefield, some of whose annotations are in the books. Among interesting items are the Eschylus

"ex. off. H. Stephani," 1557; a Paris Catullus of 1534; a Euripides of 1544 (the third edition of the dramatist); an edition of Valla in Gothic type, unknown to Lowndes; and several other specimens of early presses of great value.

Mr. A. Russell Smith has a very interesting Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, at very low prices. Among the few more expensive items we note Bartolozzi, Carlini, and G. Cipriani, representing the three arts of painting, engraving, and sculpture, a magnificent engraving, 12.; and a portrait of Sacheverell, 17. 1s. Under Robert Emmet is a folio broadside, nearly half being occupied by an engraving of the interior of the court, and Emmet pleading, "If the French land in Ireland," &c., Dublin, 1803, very rare, 21. 28.

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Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co. have a splendid copy of Daniell's rare work, African Scenery and Animals, 30 beautifully coloured plates; a set of the publications of the Ethnological Society, the Anthropological Society, and the Anthropological Institute, exceedingly rare, 251.; and a set of The Athenæum, 1828-1901, 42. We cannot object to the comment, The Athenæum needs no recommendation." Burton's Arabian Nights,' very scarce, is 311. 10s.; Lycett's 'Australia,' 16. 16s.; a set of the Delphin Classics, 15.; an extra-illustrated copy of Burnet's History of his Own Time,' 1724-34, 35-; Caxton's Golden Legend, 1520. very rare, 21. and a choice set of Coleridge. Pickering, 1836-53, 187. 18s. Under Cornwall we find Carew and Pol: whele. There are a number of first editions of

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Dickens. Books on the drama include the 'Memoirs of Charles Mathews,' further illustrated by 200 fine portraits, and with 28 autograph letters, 1838-9, 52. 10s. A fine uncut copy of Boydell's "History of the Thames,' 1794-6, 127. 128. Other general items include Nichols's Literary Anecdotes,' 17 vols., 97. 98. Hodgson's 'Northumberland,' very rare, 361.; Sir Joshua Reynolds,' large paper, Graves, 95.; and a long set of Ritson, 1783-1833, 287. 10s. There are also choice works under Furniture.

Mr. Albert Sutton, Manchester, has Agrippa's Trattato di Scientia d'Arme,' first edition, 1553, 10.; Bohn's extra volumes, 2. 10s.; The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayna,' 7 parts as issued, Benares, 1883, 17. 15s. (only a few printed for private circulation); Laing's Chronicle of the Kings of Norway,' 1844, 17. 48.; Quarles's Divine Poems,' 1664, 1. 48.; a complete set of the publications of the Type Facsimile Society, 6 portfolios. 4to, 10. 10s.; and Law's Hampton Court Palace,' 1. 14s. There are a number of interesting items under America, Angling (including the first edition of Hawkins's 'Walton and Cotton,' 1760, 21. 78. 6d.), Devonshire and Lancashire (where we find an account of 'The Surey Demoniack,' 1697-8, 31. 3s.). We note among general items a set of Household Words, of The Recreative Review, and several volumes of The Reasoner, edited by Holyoake.

edition of Dryden's 'Conquest of Granada,' blue morocco by Riviere, 1672, is 21.; Lavater's 'Of Ghostes and Spirites walking by Nyght,' 1572, 12. 12s.; Vair's Trois Livres des Charmes, Sorcelages, ou Enchantemens,' 1583, 31. 3s. (the rare first French edition); and a genuine copy of the second edition of Boccaccio, 1625, price 25. This is much rarer than that of 1620. The entry of the 'Decameron' at Stationers' Hall states: "Master William Jaggard, recalled by my lord of Canterburyes command." It is evident, however, that the prohibition was soon withdrawn. Under Oxford Presses we find Alfonso de Valdes's 'Dialogue of the Sack of Rome' and the 'Reglas Gramaticales,' 1586, 217. There is a long and interesting note as to these in the catalogue. Both have the Paris finding that the publication of Spanish Protestant imprint: "There can be no doubt that Barnes, books was very unpopular at the time, changed the imprint on part of the edition of the 'Grammar,' and placed the Paris imprint on the Dialogue. The following rarity heads the list of Incunabula : This is the first copy of the second edition offered 'Consolat del Mar,' Barcelona, 14 July, 1494, 120. for sale in modern times. Only two other copies France, and the other in the University Library of are known: one in the Bibliothèque Nationale of Cagliari, in Sardinia. This work "was the foundation of modern maritime law." When will some wealthy lover of books be found to purchase Mr. Voynich's unique collection of "unknown books" We note that the advertisement still appears at the back of the catalogue.

Notices to Correspondents.

We must call special attention to the following notices:

ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rules. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. When answering queries, or making notes with regard to previous entries in the paper, contributors are requested to put in parentheses, immediately after the exact heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to which they refer. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate."

ST. SWITHIN ("A poor thing, but mine own ").— Is it not an abbreviation of Touchstone's "A poor virgin, sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, lut mine own" (As You Like It,' Act V. sc. iv.)?

A. L. MAYHEW ("Man in the street "). The

given at 9th S. ii. 131.

E. LATHAM ("Oh for a blast of that dread horn!").- Marmion,' canto vi. stanza xxxiii. See also 'Rob Roy,' chap. ii.

Mr. Wilfrid M. Voynich sends us Short Cata-quotation from Emerson's 'Conduct of Life' was logue No. 16. Each of the four hundred and fifty items contains matter of interest. Among these we note a few: Freind's Prælectiones Chymica, 1726, is 16s. The work is a eulogy of Newton's principles, and was attacked in the Acta Eruditorum,' 1710, which attack the author replied to (Phil. Trans., xxvii. 330). The first edition of Paracelsus, 1578, is 17. 10s. Under China is the rare first edition of Baudier's 'History of the Court of the King of China,' 1635, 27. 10s. The first

NOTICE.

Editorial communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries ""-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Pub. lisher"-at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C.

LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1906.

CONTENTS.-No. 111.

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vpon all the Parables." The latter work has never appeared in an English dress, so far as I know; and we may thus reasonably NOTES:-Fonseca's Devout Contemplations,' 1629, 101- conclude that the expected encouragement Devout A West Indian Military Burial-ground, 104-Guineas, 105 from the publication of these Dekker's -"Marmor" and the Sea in Latin Poets Contemplations' was not realized. Sir John 'Sweet Content' - Townley House, Ramsgate, 106Strangwayes was the father-in-law of Sir St. Expeditus-Stevenson's New Arabian Nights,' 107. QUERIES:-" Pip"-"Pious founder" - The Waterloo Lewis Dive or Dyve, who married Sir John's She was the Campaign, 107-Sterne and Johnson at "the Cheshire Cheese"-Authors of Quotations Wanted-King: Joachin daughter Howarda in 1624. Cardoza-Century of Persian Ghazels,' 1851-Laconic widow of one Edward Rogers, of Bryanston. Letters-Dublin Records-Oxford University Volunteers The 'D.N.B.' gives a very comprehensive -Tatham's Life of Blake, 103-Ernest Augustus Stephen80:1 - Passow's Greek-German Lexicon - Novel: Title account of the leading events in the life of Wanted - Samuel Williams, Draughtsman-Jenkyn, Sir Lewis; and consulting Howell's 'Letters' Little John, &c.-Spinola's Whale-Hetman: Ataman, 109 -Portmanteau Words and Phrases - Dutch Epiphany in the edition of 1726, I find several references Custom-Poems of Early Years'-Vamphorn-Lustre to him. There is one letter in which Dyve is stated to have attended Prince Charles when he went to Madrid in connexion with what is known as the business of the Spanish marriage. The arrival of Charles and his companion Buckingham in that city was something of a mystery: the former passing himself off as Mr. John Smith, and the latter as Mr. Thomas Smith. By and by, however, the real character and mission of the travellers came to be known, and the little incident in which Dyve played a part I shall now quote in Howell's words (ed. 1726, P. 133):

Ware, 110.
REPLIES:-"Hoast," 110-"Jan Kees "-Rockefeller -
Death-birds in Scotland and Ireland, 111-Lincolnshire
Death Folk-lore-John Dyer, Poet - Semper Family-
Suppression of Duelling in England-"Bbl."-Archbishop
Kempe-Reginald Fitz Urse-Staines Bridge, 112-Major
Richard Cromwell, 1648-A Medley Finale to the Great
Exhibition,' 113-Tower of London-"Was you?" and
"You was "-"Brelan" - The Condado Diss.": an
Abbreviation-' Pancharis': 'Minerva,' 1735-" Pin-fire'
-Trafalgar, 114-Bacteria: Early Notice-Hafiz, Persian
Poet - Born with Teeth - Gobesius: Sheeter-Selling
Oneself to the Devil-Napoleon's Coronation Robe: its
Gold Bees - Mantegna's House, 115-"Quam nihil ad
genium, Papiniane, tuum!"-Pidgin or Pigeon English-
The Epicure's Almanack-Bowes Castle, Yorkshire, 118

-Fame-Rebecca,' a Novel, 117.

NOTES ON BOOKS:- The Enterlude of Youth '-'Swin

burne's Tragedies' -The Folk-lore of Women-Early

Lives of Charlemagne and the Monk of St. Gall'Brooches of Many Nations'-'Upper Norwood Athenæum'-Reviews and Magazines.

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"Devovt Contemplations Expressed In two and Fortie Sermons vpon all ye Quadragesimall Gospells Written in Spanish by Fr. Ch. de Fonseca Englished by I. M. of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. London Printed by Adam Islip Anno Domini 1629."

The work is printed in small folio of 648 pages, excluding the table at the end, the title-page, and two preliminary leaves. It is dedicated

"To the Two Noble Knights, Sir Iohn Strangvvayes, and Sir Levvis Dive; and Their Vertvovs Ladies, the Lady Grace Strangwayes, and Lady Howard Dive. In Acknowledgment of his own true Loue and Respect, Don Diego Pvede-Ser Dedicateth these his Indeavors."

"And now it was publickly known among the vulgar, that it was the Prince of Wales who was come; and the confluence of People before my Lord of Bristol's House was so great and greedy to see the Prince, that to clear the way, Sir Lewis Dives went out and took coach, and all the croud of People went after him: so the Prince himself a little after took coach, wherin there were the Earl of Bristol, Sir Walter Ashton, and Count Gondomar; and so went to the Prado, a place hard by, of purpose to take the Air, where they staid till the King pass'd by."

This letter is dated "Madrid, 27 Mar., 1623," and is addressed to "Sir Tho. Savage, Kt. and Bar."

In a letter without date, written by Howell "To Sir L. D. in Paris," there is an interesting reference to his forthcoming 'History of Naples' (p. 509) :

"I shall shortly by T. B. send you a new 'History of Naples,' which also did cost me a great deal of oil and labour."

This History of Naples' appeared in 1654,
and was dedicated by Howell" To the Right
Honourable and High-born Peer William
Lord Marquess of Hartford, &c."

Of the author of the present work, Christopher de Fonseca, I gather from the Following this dedication there is an address meagre account given in Moreri's Grand To the Reader,' the only notable remark in Dictionnaire Historique' (Amsterdam, 1740, it being an undertaking by the translator vol. iv.) that he was a native of Toledo, in that if the present venture receives sufficient Spain. Choosing a religious life, he entered encouragement, he "will hereafter furnish the Order of the Augustines in 1566, as I thee with the Labors of the same Author take it, and afterwards came to have the

Here is one of those touches which make

the whole world kin (p. 39):

reputation of being one of the ablest "Martial said of Homer That if he brought preachers of his time. He died in 1612. nothing along with him but the Muses, hee should Besides the work now under consideration, haue Tom Drummes' entertainment, and be shut Moreri mentions that Fonseca wrote a 'Life out of doores."-P. 277. of Christ' and a treatise on 'The Love of God, and suggests that he wrote others which are not specified. As stated above, he also produced a work on The Parables.' The treatise on The Love of God' was translated into English by Sir George Strode, and published in 1652. It may be noted that John Spencer, in his excellent collection of "Things New and Old,' 1658, frequently quotes from these 'Devout Contemplations.

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James Mabbe, the translator, is now generally accepted as having been the author of the commendatory lines in the Shakespeare Folio, 1623, subscribed "I. M." He was born in 1572, and matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, taking his M. A. degree on 17 October, 1598. He accompanied Sir John Digby when he went as ambassador to Madrid in 1611, and on his return in 1613 was made one of the lay prebendaries of Wells. It will have been noticed, in the dedication quoted above, that he subscribes himself "Don Diego Pvede Ser." This was a pseudonym for "James May-be"; and in his translation of Cervantes's 'Exemplarie Novells,' 1640, he subscribes himself in the I may further state that same way. Mabbe was also the translator of 'The Rogue; or, the Life of Guzman de Alfarache,'

1622. He died about 1642.

It would be out of place to say anything here regarding the author's religious opinions and beliefs. I may, however, remark that the discourses are all eminently practical, and give the impression that the preacher must have been a man of a somewhat austere temperament. One of his epigrammatic sayings is and if this were the place a goodly number might be quoted-"Salt in a Preacher is more necessary than Sugar," and of the former commodity he seems to have had more than enough in his mental constitution. Let me also say that, saving for a chance reference here and there, we might take Fonseca to have been one of those devout spirits who belonged to that great communion of which John Donne, George Herbert, and Richard Hooker were members.

In the following passage we have a reference to the fine old comedy entitled 'Jack Drums Entertainment' (not "Tom" as in the text), first published in 1601. The text of 1616 will be found reprinted in the excellent collection formed by the late Mr. Richard Simpson, and known as 'The School of Shakespeare' (vol. ii. p. 125):

"But the impatient man when the coller fits closer to his neck than he would haue it, thrusts in his fingers betweene, to stretch it wider and

make it more easie."

A disciple of Walton will appreciate this illustration (p. 109):—

"Theirs are like fishing rods, which when the fish bite not, continue strait & right, but if they nibble neuer so little at the bait, presently bow and

bend."

Perhaps it is not a new point in Scriptural exegesis, but our author does not hesitate to hint that the Patriarch Job was afflicted with the gout (p. 168): Iob calleth the Gout, a paire of Stockes.

The following collection of quaint and proverbial phrases I noted in reading the book, and I trust they may prove of interest :

"He made another statue of gold from top to toe."-P. 2.

"The Lyon preyes not vpon children and women, nor the Eagle vpon the lesser birds, nor your Irish Greyhounds vpon Shepheards curs nor foisting hounds."-P. 6.

"That they that were publike & scandalous Sinners did present themselues in a kind of soutage or coarse Sacke-cloath before the Bishop."-P. 9. Sauiour had beene bred vp) tooke it in such 'Nazareth (which was the place where our

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dudgeon."-P. 23.

"But when the enemic comes vpon them, more fearful, than hares, and betake them to their heeles."-P. 25.

"Iob complaineth, That his seruants would haue eaten him piecemeale."-P. 25.

"There is no Collirium that so opens the eyes of the soule, as miserie and trouble."-P. 27.

"Not like the Archisynagoguian, who desired him, That he would lay his hand vpon his

daughter."-P. 37.

"The Ribond or bend of Saluation, wherewith the bloud is stanched."-P. 39.

"As a Lieger- booke of Laws and Statutes."P. 40.

"Dauids souldiers fingers itcht, and would faine haue set vpon Saul, when they had him cub'd

vp in the caue."-P. 46.

"Your Bookes of Duell haue their eccho; the lye must be returned with a boxe on the eare; a boxe on the eare will require a bastonadoing; a bastonadoing the vnsheathing of the Sword, and the Sword death."-P. 50.

"But because their end was not to play bo-peepe with the Deuill, and to goe about to mocke him, but to serue their God, and to enjoy his favour, they did not care a fig for all his temptations.". P. 77. The Deuill now thought himselfe cocke-sure." "And therefore, bee it by hooke or by crooke."— P. 80.

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-P. 80.

"I terme it follie; for, as Man, hee [Christ] bad no reason to doe any such rash and inconsiderate action; and, as God, hee had no neede to play the Tumbler, and to flie in the aire."-P. 89.

"This is a short and cutted kind of speech."P. 99.

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Beeing one that wisht them all good, hugg'd them vnder his wing."-P. 101.

"King Balacks Messengers had so greased his [Balaam's] fists with good gold.”—P. 110.

"Whereas the Adulterer was by all adiudged to be a happie and a fortunate man, that by good hap he had escaped out of the hands of Iustice. either by flight, or greasing the Officers in the fist."P. 117.

"Nothing will down with them but quelqueschoses, made dishes, and pleasing sauces for the Palate."-P. 124.

"No man will spare his enemie, if he can catch him vpon the hip."-P. 130.

"He that pretends a Captains place, the gouernment of a Garrison Towne, or the keeping of a Fort, frets and fumes, when he knowes he hath done the State good seruice in the Warres, to see a Carpet Knight, that can better vse a Violl than a Sword, lead a measure with a Ladie than a Band of men, be preferred, and himselfe put by."

P. 163.

"Hug him in her armes, and spred out the lappet. of her garment for him."-P. 285.

"A Rogue that hath neuer a shoo to his foot, nor a rag to his tayle."-P. 291.

"For if the Deuill be still pulling him [the render vnto God, of his Hearers?"-P. 293. preacher] by the sleeue, what good crop can he

Royals, and let a greater scape scot-free."-P. 299. "They whip a young theefe for stealing but ten

would not step a foot out of doores to looke after "Herod desired to see our Sauiour Christ, but he him."-P. 325.

"The Nazarits would not wagge a jot, to goe see our Sauiour Christ, hauing so short a journey as they had to make."-P. 325.

"It vexed the Prophet, and made him grow wearie of them, that sitting lazing on their tayles at home in their houses, they should send to know his mind."-P. 325.

"Being in that great danger as thou art, doost thou stand off, doost thou hang taile, and wilt not make a little more to come vnto thy Sauiour?". P. 325.

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Many men are like vnto your Ferrets or your Bloud-hounds, they go nosing and hunting after faults in other mens grounds."-P. 338. "Yet when their wits are thus a wooll-gathering."

"Philon saith, That he [Moses] was a King, a-P. 338. Lawgiuer, a Prophet, & a Priest. Gregorie Nazianzen, Saint Augustine, and Saint Hierome jumpe together in that point."-P. 209.

Elias in that furious whirlewind, in that terrible earthquake, and that fearefull fire, wrapt himselfe vp like a bottome of yarne, and lay close to the earth.”—P. 217.

"The pleasures hee tooke therein, clapt wings to his feet."- P. 219.

"The metaphor is taken from those that run, when as the one trips vp the others heeles."P. 224.

"What greater snare than that pit-fall which was prepared as a punishment for Tantalus, who standing vp to the chinne in water, could yet neuer come to quench his thirst."-P. 233.

Salonion commending a manly mettled woman, sayes. That she cloathed herselfe with Purple and with Silke."-P. 234. [John Boys in his 'Workes,' 1629 (p. 297), speaks of "a woman endued with manly courage and carriage."]

"But if what Vanitie will egge thee vnto, thou shalt be poore."-P. 236.

"What doth this poore Rogue make here, send him packing, that I may see him no more."P. 239.

"I am not so desperate as to cast my selfe wilfully away, when as I may sleepe in a whole skinne."-P. 247.

"When shee [Delilah] had her purpose she cared not a pin for him."-P. 277.

"But he [Shimei] no sooner saw him [David] flie from Ierusalem halfe naked, and with one shooe off (as they say) and another on."-P. 277.

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Art thou greater than our Father Iacob?' said the Samaritane woman; calling Iacob Father, as long as the Lewes power and prosperitie lasted; but no sooner downe the wind, but they wind their neckes out of the coller, acknowledging neither friendship nor kindred."-P. 277.

"And as the Cough of the lungs is eased with a clap on the back, so is the sinners heart, when Sinne hammers vpon it."-P. 279.

"Where that nose is taken to be somewhat of the longest, which goes nosing and senting after other mens liues and actions: and that of the shortest, which quickely takes snuffe, and frets and fumes at the wagging of a Feather."-P. 339.

"The Horse that carrieth himselfe well and handsomely with one bridle, it is needlesse to clap two."-P. 339.

"It is lost labour to correct a Scorner, and such a one as makes but a sport & Maygame of sin."P. 340.

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Lucian sayth, that our hart is a white, or marke whereat shafts be shot." - P. 341. "He that gouernes, must fix his eye vpon this White."P. 594.

"And albeit the washing of the hands was a verie light fault, yet one little and another little comes in the end to make a mickle."-P. 357.

"He beeing appointed by God to punish Adulterers & Murdrers, they might not tit him in the teeth."-P. 358. "Notwithstanding all this Absalon titteth him in the teeth."-P. 424.

"With this deceit he [Jacob] grieued both his father and his brother, but he was paid at length in his owne coyne."-P. 361.

"Thou sneezest, hee that is next vnto thee puts of his hat, not that that does hinder thy farther sneezing, but because it is a Tradition, and a receiued custome so to do."-P. 365.

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Of those that weare one of Linsey-woolsie."-
P. 365.
Their conscience was a verie Dung-mixen,
they were faire without, but foule within."-
P. 367.

"For that the people were much affectioned to this outward asperousnesse and strict - seeming course of life."-P. 367.

"Abhorring her former lewd life, shee turned ouer a new leafe."-P. 400.

"But the truth is, that Walls haue eyes as well as eares.”—P. 415.

"Others stickt not to say, the weakest still goes. to the wall."-P. 417.

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