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CHAPTER CXXXVIII.-p. 6.

DOUBTFUL PEDIGREE OF ECLIPSE. SHAKESPEAR (N. B. NOT WILLIAM) AND OLD MARSK. A PECULIARITY

OF THE ENGLISH LAW.

Lady Percy. But hear you, my Lord!
Hotspur. What say'st thou, my lady?
Lady Percy. What is it carries you away?
Hotspur. Why my Horse, my love, my Horse.

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Moreover there are many more things in the World than there are names for them; according to the saying of the Philosopher; Nomina sunt finita, res autem infinita; ideo unum nomen plura significat: which saying is by a certain, or rather uncertain, author approved: Multis speciebus non sunt nomina; idcirco necessarium est nomina fingere, si nullum ante erit nomen impositum.

GWILLIM.

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Quoiqu'il en soit, je ne tairai point cette histoire ; je l'abandonne à la credulité, ou à l'incredulité des Lecteurs, ils prendront à cet égard quel parti il leur plaira. Je dirai seulement, s'ils ne la veulent pas croire, que je les defie de me prouver qu'elle soit absolument impossible; ils ne le prouveront jamais. GOMGAM.

CHAPTER CXLI.-p. 39.

A SINGULAR ANECDOTE AND NOT MORE SAD THAN

TRUE,

Oh penny Pipers, and most painful penners
Of bountiful new Ballads, what a subject,
What a sweet subject for your silver sounds!

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.

CHAPTER CXLII.-p. 42.

A DEFECT IN HOYLE SUPPLIED. GOOD ADVICE GIVEN, AND PLAIN TRUTH TOLD. A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THE MEMORY OF F. NEWBERY, THE CHILDREN'S BOOKSELLER AND FRIEND.

Neither is it a thing impossible or greatly hard, even by such kind of proofs so to manifest and clear that point, that no man living shall be able to deny it, without denying some apparent principle such as all men acknowledge to be true. HOOKER.

CHAPTER CXLIII.-p. 47.

A FEEBLE ATTEMPT TO DESCRIBE THE PHYSICAL AND

MORAL QUALITIES OF NOBS.

Quant à moi, je desirerois fort sçavoir bien dire, ou que j'eusse eu une bonne plume, et bien taillée à commandement, pour l'exalter et louer comme il le mérite. Toutesfois, telle quelle est, je m'en vais l'employer au hazard.

BRANTOME.

CHAPTER CXLIV.-p. 74.

HISTORY AND ROMANCE RANSACKED FOR RESEM

BLANCES AND NON-RESEMBLANCES TO THE HORSE

OF DR DANIEL DOVE.

Renowned beast! (forgive poetic flight!)

Not less than man, deserves poetic right.

THE BRUCIAD.

. CHAPTER CXLV.-p. 101.

WILLIAM OSMER. INNATE QUALITIES. MARCH OF ANIMAL INTELLECT. FARTHER REVEALMENT OF THE

COLUMBIAN PHILOSOPHY.

There is a word, and it is a great word in this Book,* ¿πɩ TO AUTO,-In id ipsum, that is, to look to the thing itself, the very point, the principal matter of all; to have our eye on that, and not off it, upon alia omnia, any thing but it.— To go to the point, drive all to that, as also to go to the matter real, without declining from it this way or that, to the right hand or to the left. BP. ANDREWS.

*The New Testament which the Preacher had before him.

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