“They wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring, doubtful lustre of a jewel or stone, that can look up to a star, or to the sun itself; or how any should value himself because his cloth is made of a finer thread; for, how fine soever that thread may be, it was once no better than the fleece of a sheep, and that sheep was a sheep still for all its wearing it. They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be every where so much esteemed that even man, for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is; so that a man of lead, who has no more sense than a log of wood, and is as bad as he is foolish, should have many wise and good men serving him, only because he has a great heap of that metal; and if it should so happen that by some accident, or trick of law, which does sometimes produce as great changes as chance itself, all this wealth should pass from the master to the meanest varlet of his whole family, he himself would very soon become one of his servants, as if he were a thing that belonged to his wealth, and so were bound to follow its fortune. But they do much more admire and detest their folly who, when they see a rich man, though they neither owe him anything, nor are in any sort obnoxious to him, yet merely because he is rich, they give him little less than divine honours; even though they know him to be so covetous and base-minded that, notwithstanding all his wealth, he will not part with one farthing of it to them as long as he lives.”--Sir Thomas More, _Utopia_, book ii. Bishop Burnet’s Translation. XVII. “Thus to Achilles’ arms the maid restored.” Untouched “quoad Agamemnona.” The epithet of Homer is ἀπροτίμαστος. Il. xix. XVIII. “Afonso, Avíz, Nun’ Alvares, &c.” The exploits of all these worthies will be found recorded in my “Ocean Flower.” XIX. “Not thy Fidalgos--withered boughs, I ween.” Mina never would suffer an Hidalgo to join his band--himself a peasant by birth, and thoroughly despising the “higher orders.” From this general censure of the Fidalgo class, the Conde de Amarante, the Marquis de Saldanha, the present Conde de Villareal and Duke of Terceira, who served with distinction in the Peninsular War, are exceptions. The defence of the bridge of Amarante, from which the first-named Conde received his title, was a most brilliant exploit. XXI. “No, not more vain Antæus’ self to pierce.” See Pindar’s first Nemeonic, and Lucan, lib. iv. “Whose hissing heads struck off, still heads more grim, &c.” Non Hydra secto corpore firmior Vinci dolentem crevit in Herculem. Horat. _Carm._ iv. 4. XXV. “Oh, sacred source of sympathetic tears!” The “δακρυων πηγαι,” the “sacri fontes lachrymarum,” which even amongst enlightened Heathens seem to have been more regarded than by many modern Christians. XXVI. “The Imperial Boar.” Diocletian.