CONTENTS.

CHAPTER CVI.-p. 1.

THE AUTHOR

APOSTROPHIZES SOME OF HIS FAIR

READERS; LOOKS FARTHER THAN THEY ARE
LIKELY TO DO, AND GIVES THEM A JUST THOUGH

MELANCHOLY

EXHORTATION TO BE CHEERFUL

WHILE THEY MAY.

Hark how the birds do sing,

And woods do ring!

All creatures have their joy, and Man hath his :

Yet if we rightly measure,

Man's joy and pleasure

Rather hereafter, than in present is.

HERBERT.

In midst of plenty only to embrace

Calm patience, is not worthy of your praise;
But he that can look sorrow in the face

And not be daunted, he deserves the bays.
This is prosperity, where'er we find

A heavenly solace in an earthly mind.

HUGH CROMPTON.

CHAPTER CVIII. p. 31.

PERCY LODGE.

THAXTED GRANGE. RAPIN THE JE

SUIT AND SIR THOMAS BROWNE.

It seems that you take pleasure in these walks Sir.

Cleanthes. Contemplative content I do, my Lord;
They bring into my mind oft meditations
So sweetly precious, that in the parting

I find a shower of grace upon my cheeks,
They take their leave so feelingly.

MASSINGER.

INTERCHAPTER XIV.-p. 42.

CONCERNING INTERCHAPTERS.

If we present a mingle-mangle, our fault is to be excused, because the whole world is become a hodge-podge.

LYLY.

And sure there seem of human kind

Some born to shun the solemn strife;

Some for amusive tasks design'd

To soothe the certain ills of life,

Grace its lone vales with many a budding rose,
New founts of bliss disclose,

Call forth refreshing shades and decorate repose.
SHENSTONE.

CHAPTER CX.-p. 74.

A TRANSITIONAL CHAPTER, WHEREIN THE AUTHOR

COMPARES HIS BOOK TO AN OMNIBUS AND A SHIP, QUOTES SHAKESPEARE, MARCO ANTONIO DE CAMOS, QUARLES, SPENSER, AND SOMEBODY ELSE, AND

INTRODUCES HIS READERS TO SOME OF THE HEA

THEN GODS, WITH WHOM PERHAPS

NOT ACQUAINTED BEFORE.

THEY WERE

We are not to grudge such interstitial and transitional matter as may promote an easy connection of parts and an elastic separation of them, and keep the reader's mind upon springs as it were.

CHAPTER CXII. p. 86.

HUNTING IN AN EASY CHAIR. THE DOCTOR'S BOOKS.

That place that does contain

My books, the best companions, is to me

A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;

And sometimes for variety I confer

With Kings and Emperors, and weigh their counsels,
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,

Unto a strict account, and in my fancy
Deface their ill placed statues.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.

CHAPTER CXIII.—p. 92.

THOMAS GENT AND ALICE GUY, A TRUE TALE, SHOWING THAT A WOMAN'S CONSTANCY WILL NOT ALWAYS HOLD OUT LONGER THAN TROY TOWN, AND YET THE WOMAN MAY NOT BE THE PARTY WHO IS MOST

IN FAULT.

Io dico, non dimando

Quel che tu vuoi udir, perch' io l'ho visto
Ove s'appunta ogni ubi, e ogni quando.

DANTE.