"But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."--Shakspeare, _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 3. "Bring not every man into thy house."--_Ecclesias._ vi. 7. * * * * * "A man's attire, and excessive laughter, and gait, show what he is."--_Ecclesias._ xix. 30. "---- The apparel oft proclaims the man."--_Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 3. * * * * * "Unus Pellaeo juveni non sufficit orbis: AEstuat infelix angusto limite mundi, Ut Gyarae clausus scopulis, parvaque Seripho."--_Juv._ x. 168. "_Hamlet._ What have you, my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune, that she sends you to prison here? _Guildenstern._ Prison, my lord! _Ham._ Denmark's a prison. _Rosencrantz._ Then is the _world_ one. _Ham._ A goodly one, in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons; Denmark being one of the worst. _Ros._ We think not so, my lord. _Ham._ Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison. _Ros._ Why, then, your ambition makes it one; 'tis too narrow for your mind."--Shakspeare, _Hamlet_, Act II. Sc. 2. * * * * * {347} "Ad hanc legem natus es; hoc patri tuo accidit, hoc matri, hoc majoribus, hoc omnibus ante te, hoc omnibus post te, series invicta, et nulla mutabilis ope, illigat ac trahit cuncta." "_King._ ---- You must know, your father lost a father; That father lost--lost his; . . . . . . . . . . . To reason most absurd, whose common theme Is death of fathers, and who still hath cry'd, From the first corse, 'till he that died to-day, _This must be so_."--_Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 2. * * * * * "[Greek: Apo de tou me echontos]," &c.--_Ante_, Vol. viii., p. 372. "Besides this, _nothing_ that he so plentifully gives me."--Shakspeare, _As You Like It_, Act I. Sc. 1. J. W. F. Having observed several Notes in different Numbers of your interesting publication, in which sentences have been quoted from the works of ancient and modern authors that are almost alike in words, or contain the same ideas clothed in different language, I would only add, that those of your readers or correspondents who take an interest in such inquiries will find instances enough, in a work which was published in Venice in 1624, to fill several columns of "N. & Q." The volume is entitled _Il Seminario de Governi di Stato, et di Guerra_. W. W. Malta. * * * * * Minor Notes. _Vallancey's Green Book._--Perhaps your readers are not aware of the existence of the curious and interesting volume mentioned in the following cutting from Jones's last _Catalogue_ (D'Olier St. Dublin). It may therefore be worth making a note of in your columns: