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CHAPTER XXIV. P. I.-p. 226.

QUACK AND NO QUACK, BEING AN ACCOUNT OF DR,

GREEN AND HIS MAN KEMP.

POPULAR MEDICINE,

HERBARY, THEORY OF SIGNATURES, WILLIAM DOVE,

JOHN WESLEY, AND BAXTER.

Hold thy hand! health's dear maintainer;

Life perchance may burn the stronger :

Having substance to maintain her

She untouched may last the longer.
When the Artist goes about
To redress her flame, I doubt
Oftentimes he snuffs it out.

QUARLES.

CHAPTER XXV. P. I.—p. 254.

Hiatus valde lacrymabilis.

Time flies away fast,

The while we never remember

How soon our life here

Grows old with the year

That dies with the next December!

HERRICK.

CHAPTER XXVI. P. I.-p. 256.

DANIEL AT DONCASTER; THE REASON WHY HE WAS DESTINED FOR THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, RATHER

THAN HOLY ORDERS; AND SOME REMARKS UPON

SERMONS.

Je ne vous dissimuler, amy Lecteur, que je n'aye bien préveu, et me tiens pour deüement adverty, que ne puis eviter la reprehension d'aucuns, et les calomnies de plusieurs, ausquels cest éscrit desplaira du tout.

CHRISTOFLE DE HERICOURT.

CHAPTER XXVII. P. I.—p. 272.

A PASSAGE IN PROCOPIUS IMPROVED. A STORY CON

CERNING URIM AND THUMMIM; AND THE ELDER
DANIEL'S OPINION OF THE PROFESSION OF THE LAW.

Here is Domine Picklock

My man of Law, sollicits all my causes,

Follows my business, makes and compounds my quarrels
Between my tenants and me; sows all my strifes
And reaps them too, troubles the country for me,
And vexes any neighbour that I please.

BEN JONSON.

CHAPTER XXVIII. P. I. p. 278.

PETER HOPKINS.

EFFECTS OF TIME AND CHANGE.

DESCRIPTION OF HIS DWELLING-HOUSE.

Combien de changemens depuis que suis au monde,
Qui n'est qu' un point du tems!

PASQUIER.

CHAPTER XXIX. P. I.-p. 284.

A HINT OF REMINISCENCE TO THE READER.

THE

CLOCK OF ST. GEORGE'S. A WORD IN HONOR OF

ARCHDEACON MARKHAM.

There is a ripe season for every thing, and if you slip that or anticipate it, you dim the grace of the matter be it never so good. As we say by way of Proverb that an hasty birth brings forth blind whelps, so a good tale tumbled out before the time is ripe for it, is ungrateful to the hearer.

BISHOP HACKETT.

CHAPTER XXX. P. I.—p. 289.

THE OLD BELLS RUNG TO A NEW TUNE.

If the bell have any sides the clapper will find 'em.

BEN JONSON.

AN

CHAPTER XXXI. P. I.—p. 302.

MORE CONCERNING BELLS.

Lord, ringing changes all our bells hath marr'd;
Jangled they have and jarr'd

So long, they're out of tune, and out of frame;
They seem not now the same.

Put them in frame anew, and once begin

To tune them so, that they may chime all in.

HERBERT.

CHAPTER XXXII. P. I.-p. 308.

INTRODUCTION TO CERTAIN

PRELIMINARIES

ESSENTIAL TO THE PROGRESS OF THIS WORK.

Mas demos ya el asiento en lo importante,

Que el tiempo huye del mundo por la posta.

BALBUENA.

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