5. There was a foldier that vaunted before Julius Cæfar of hurts he had received in his face. Julius Cæfar, knowing him to be a coward, told him : 'You were beft take heed, next time you run away, how you look back.' (Ibid.)

6. In Flanders, by accident, a Flemish tiler fell from the top of a house upon a Spaniard and killed him, though he escaped himself. The next of the blood profecuted his death with great violence against the tiler. And when he was offered pecuniary recompenfe, nothing would ferve him but lex talionis. Whereupon the judge faid to him, 'That if he did urge that kind of fentence, it must be that he should go up to the top of the house, and thence fall down upon the tiler.' (Ibid.)

7. In Chancery, one time, when the counsel of the parties fet forth the boundaries of the land in question by the plot, and the counfel of one part faid, We lie on this fide, my lord,' and the counsel of the other part faid, 'We lie on this fide,' the Lord Chancellor Hatton ftood up and said: 'If you lie on both fides, whom will you have me to believe? (Ibid.)

8. Sir Nicholas Bacon being Keeper of the Seal, when Queen Elizabeth, on Progrefs, came to his houfe at Redgrave and said to him, 'My lord, what a little house have you gotten!' faid, Madam, my house is small, but it is you that have made me too great for my house.' (Ibid.)

9. There was a gentleman that came to the tilt all in orange-tawny, and ran very ill. The next day he came all in green, and ran worse. There was one of the lookers-on asked another, 'What's the reason that this gentleman changeth his colours ?' The other answered: 'Sure, because it may be reported that the gentleman in green ran worse than the gentleman in the orange-tawny.' (Ibid.)

10. Henry Noel would fay, 'That courtiers were like fafting-days: they were next the holy-days, but in themfelves they were the most meagre days of the week.' (Ibid.)

11. Whitehead, a grave divine, was much efteemed by Queen Elizabeth, but not preferred, because he was against the government of Bishops. He was of a blind ftoical nature. He came one

day to the Queen, and the Queen happened to fay to him: 'I like thee the better, Whitehead, because thou livest unmarried.' He answered again: 'In truth, Madam, I like you the more for the fame cause.' (Ibid.)

12. There was a gentleman fell very fick, and a friend of his said to him: 'Surely you are in danger; I pray, fend for a physician.' But the fick man anfwered: It is no matter; for if I die, I will die at leifure.'

(Ibid.)

13. His Majefty [James I.], in his anfwer to the book of the Cardinal of Evereux (who had, in a grave argument of divinity, fprinkled many witty ornaments of poefy and humanity), said: 'That thefe flowers were like blue and yellow and red flowers in the corn, which make a pleasant fhow to those that look on, but they hurt the corn.' (Refufcitatio, 1661.)

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APT SAYINGS.

1. The nature of everything is best

confidered in the feed.

(Colours of

Good and Evil.)

2. When things are at the period [end] of ill they turn again. (İbid.)

3. That which it is good to be rid of is evil; that which it is evil to be rid of is good. (Ibid.)

4. I had rather know than be known. (Formularies and Elegancies.)

5. An inftrument in tuning. (Ibid.) 6. A youth fet will never be higher. (Ibid.)

7. As ambiguous as oracles. (Ibid.) 8. No wife fpeech, though easy and valuable. (Ibid.)

9. He lighteth well [of one that concludes his fpeech well].

(Ibid.) 10. Ceremonies and green rushes are for ftrangers. (Ibid.)

II. That which is forced is not forcible. (Ibid.)

12. I contemn few men, but moft things. (Ibid.)

13. Nothing is impoffible to a willing heart. (Ibid.)

14. He goes far that never turneth. (Ibid.)

15. He that never climbs never falls. (Ibid.)

16. Better is the laft fmile than the firft laughter. (Ibid.)

17. Early rifing hafteneth not the morning. (Ibid.)

18. Make not two forrows of one.

(Ibid.)

19. Such thoughts I would exile into my dreams. (Ibid.)

20. Pioneer in the name of Truth. (Ibid.)

21. A noxe teipfum-a chiding or difgrace. (Ibid.)

22. Those are great with you that are great by you. (Ibid.)

23. In actions as in ways the nearest be fouleft. (Ibid.)

24. The eye is the gate of the affec

tions, but the ear of the understanding. (Ibid.)

OF ATHEISM.

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this univerfal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince it. It is true that a little philofophy inclineth man's mind to