There was a singular mania in this century for chronograms, or making up dates out of words, which will be best explained in the annexed example. Jas. Hilton, Esq., has by dint of vast trouble and research, been enabled to collect a large quantity of these, and his book[F. 104] (of which only a very limited number were printed) will well repay the perusal of the curious. Chronogramma. Anno 1628. obiit _Georg_IV_s_ DVX _B_VC_k_I_ngha_MI_æ_ Malignant characters that did portend [67.] Duke-murthering Fate & his untimely end, Constrain'd to die, that would have liv'd & fought Xantippus like, but that fell Felton brought Vncertaine quick[F. 105] to a certaine end. Vaine are designes, where one doth of his freind Vsurpe too much, him you doe countermine In breife the world applaudes this last designe. It was his death, but now hee's dead & gone Ill having heard of many, _felt_ but _one_. The date 1628 can be easily made by adding the Roman numerals, which are represented by the capital letters. [Footnote 104: Brit. Mus. Catalogue, 11905, a. a. 8. Hilton, Jas., Chronograms; Lond., 1882, 8vo.] [Footnote 105: Life.] All things have savour, though some very small, [5.] Nay, a box on the eare hath no smell at all. [17.] One having a scoulding Wife, swore he would drown himself. She followed him desiring him to forbear, or at least to let her speak with him. Speak quickly then, says he: Pray Husband, if you will needs drown your self, take my counsel to goe into a deep place; for it would grieve my heart to see you long a dying; with that the Fellow came back again and went to the Indies. [52.] _Coomes_ of _Stapforth_ hearing that his wife was drowned comming from market went with certaine of his friends to see if they could finde her in the River; he, contrary to all the rest, sought his wife against the streame: which, they perceiving, said, He lookt the wrong way. And why so? (quoth he) Because (quoth they) you should look down the streame, and not against it. Nay (quoth he) I shall never finde her that way: for she did all things so Contrary in her lifetime, that now she is dead, I am sure she will goe against the streame. I've known many men [12.] Know each other now and then Yet never the knowledge could get Of any Man before Though known many a score, That ever knew himself yet. [4.] Doctor _Fuller_ overtook one M^r _Woodcock_ upon the Road, falling into Discourse in a facetious manner, ask'd him what difference there was between a Woodcock and an Owl, (supposing Mr _Woodcock_ had not known him). He wittily replyed, _That an Owl was Fuller in the Head, Fuller in the Face, Fuller in the Eyes, Fuller in the Neck, and Fuller all over_. _On Anne Angel marrying a Lawyer._ Anne is an Angel, but what if she bee. [67.] What is an Angel, but a Lawyer's fee.