[334] So Persius: "Pallidamque Pyrenen."--_Steevens._ [335] [He probably distributes among them some of his MSS. verses.] [336] "That your _hairs_ were golden threads," is the true reading; but Mr Reed allowed it to stand, "that your _hearts_ were golden threads," which is nonsense, or very near it. Shakespeare has the same expression in his "Rape of Lucrece"-- "Her _hair, like golden threads_, play'd with her breath." --_Collier._ [337] _i.e._, Go before. So in the 119th Psalm: "Mine eyes _prevent_ the night watches."--_Steevens._ Again, in the office of consecrating Cramp Rings: "We beseech thee, O Lord, that the Spirit which proceeds from thee may _prevent_ and follow in our desires," &c.--_Reed._ One of the Collects of the Church Service begins, "_Prevent_ us, O Lord, in all our doings."--_Collier._ [338] Alluding to the ancient aphorism, _Ingratus si dixeris, omnia dixeris._ [339] [Possibly the author had in his recollection Wimbeldon's "Godlie Sermon," preached at Paul's Cross in 1388, and "found out hyd in a wall;" printed in 1584.] [340] This is borrowed from the character of an Antiquary, in [Earle's] "Micro-Cosmographie, or a Piece of the World Discovered," 12º, 1628: "Printed books he contemnes as a novelty of this latter age; but a manuscript he pores on everlastingly, especially if the cover be all moth-eaten, and _the dust make a parenthesis between every syllable_." [341] [The antiquary was fortunate in the possession of what is still unknown in a complete state. Fragments, recovered from a palimpsest, have been printed by Cardinal Mai.] [342] [Old copy, _Girmanus_.] [343] A _gazet_, says Coriat (p. 286), "is almost a penny; whereof ten doe make a liver, that is, nine pence." Newspapers being originally sold for that piece of money, acquired their present name of _Gazettes_.--See Junius "Etymol." voce Gazette. [344] The manner of dating letters from abroad, before the alteration of the calendar, according to the reformation of it by Pope Gregory XIII. In "The Woman's Prize; or, the Tamer Tam'd," by Beaumont and Fletcher [Dyce's edit. vii. 194], Maria says to Petruchio, who had threatened to travel, in order to be rid of her-- "I do commit your reformation; And so I leave you to your _stilo novo_." --[Act. iv. sc. 5.] ACT IV., SCENE I. _Enter +Æmilia+ and +Angelia+, disguised._ +Æmi.+ Why, gentle boy, think what a happy bliss Thou shalt enjoy, before thou know'st what 'tis! +Ang.+ 'Twill be a dear experiment, to waste My prime and flower of youth, and suffer all Those liquid sweats to be extracted from me By the hot influence of consuming lust, Only to find how well you can express What skilful arts are hid in wickedness!