CHAPTER LXXXVIII.-p. 120.

AN INCIDENT WHICH BRINGS THE AUTHOR INTO A

FORTUITOUS RESEMBLANCE WITH THE PATRIARCH

OF THE PREDICANT FRIARS. DIFFERENCES

BE

TWEEN THE fact and thHE FABLE; AND AN APPLICATION WHICH, UNLIke those THAT ARE USUALLY

APPENDED TO ESOP'S FABLES, THE READER IS

LIKELY NEITHER TO SKIP NOR TO FORGET.

Diré aqui una maldad grande del Demonio.

PEDRO DE CIEÇA DE LEON.

CHAPTER LXXXIX.-p. 124.

A CHAPTER CHARACTERISTIC OF FRENCH ANTIQUARIES, FRENCH LADIES, FRENCH LAWYERS, FRENCH

JUDGES, FRENCH LITERATURE, AND FRENCHNESS

IN GENERAL.

Quid de pulicibus? vitæ salientia puncta. COWLEY.

Voulant doncques satisfaire à la curiosité de touts bons compagnons, j'ay revolvé toutes les Pantarches des Cieux, calculé les quadrats de la Lune, crocheté tout ce que jamais penserent touts les Astrophiles, Hypernephelistes, Anemophylaces, Uranopetes et Ombrophozes.

RABELAIS.

CHAPTER XCI.-p. 157.

THE AUTHOR

DISPLAYS A

LITTLE MORE OF SUCH

READING AS IS SELDOM READ, AND SHOWS THAT LORD BYRON AND AN ESSEX WIDOW DIFFERED IN OPINION CONCERNING FRIDAY.

Si j'avois dispersé ceci en divers endroits de mon ouvrage, j'aurois évité la censure de ceux qui appelleront ce chapitre un fatras de petit recueils. Mais comme je cherche la commodité de mes lecteurs plutôt que la mienne, je veux bien au depens de cette censure, leur épargner la peine de rassembler ce que j'aurois dispersé.

BAYLE.

CHAPTER XCII. p. 173.

CONCERNING PETER HOPKINS AND THE INFLUENCE OF

THE MOON AND TIDES UPON THE HUMAN BODY. A

CHAPTER WHICH SOME PERSONS MAY DEEM MORE CURIOUS THAN DULL, AND OTHERS MORE DULL

THAN CURIOUS.

A man that travelleth to the most desirable home, hath a habit of desire to it all the way; but his present business is his travel; and horse, and company, and inns, and ways, and weariness, &c., may take up more of his sensible thoughts, and of his talk and action, than his home. BAXTER.

WHEREIN MENTION IS MADE OF LORD BYRON, RONSARD, RABBI KAPOL AND CO. IT IS SUGGESTED

THAT A MODE OF READING THE STARS HAS BEEN

APPLIED TO THE RECOVERY OF OBLITERATED RO

MAN INSCRIPTIONS AND IT IS SHOWN THAT A MA

THEMATICIAN MAY REASON MATHEMATICALLY, AND YET LIKE A FOOL.

Thus may ye behold
This man is very bold,
And in his learning old
Intendeth for to sit.

I blame him not a whit

For it would vex his wit,

And clean against his earning

To follow such learning

As now a-days is taught.

DOCTOUR DOUBBLE-ALE.

CHAPTER XCVI.—p. 217.

A MUSICIAN'S WISH EXCITED BY HERSCHEL'S TELE

SCOPE.

SYMPATHY BETWEEN PETER HOPKINS AND

HIS PUPIL. INDIFFERENTISM USEFUL IN ORDINARY
POLITICS, BUT DANGEROUS IN RELIGION.

Noi intendiamo parlare alle cose che utili sono alla umana vita, quanto per nostro intendimento si potrà in questa parte comprendere; e sopra quelle particelle che detto avemo di comporre. BUSONE DA GUBBIO.

CHAPTER XCVII.-p. 229.

MR. BACON'S PARSONAGE. CHRISTIAN RESIGNATION.

TIME AND CHANGE. WILKIE AND THE MONK IN

THE ESCURIAL.

The idea of her life shall sweetly creep

Into his study of imagination;

And every lovely organ of her life

Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit,

More moving delicate, and full of life,

Into the eye and prospect of his soul,
Than when she lived indeed.

SHAKESPEARE.