_O felice colui, che intender puote Le cagion de le cose di natura, Che al piu di que' che vivon sono ignote; E sotto il piè si mette ogni paura De fati, e de la morte, ch'è si trista, Ne di vulgo gli cal, nè d'altro ha cura._ TANSILLO. CHAPTER XXIII. P. I.—p. 213. ROWLAND DIXON AND HIS COMPANY OF PUPPETS. _Alli se ve tan eficaz el llanto, las fabulas y historias retratadas, que parece verdad, y es dulce encanto._ * * * * * _Y para el vulgo rudo, que ignorante aborrece el manjar costoso, guisa el plato del gracioso extravagante;_ _Con que les hartas de contento y risa, gustando de mirar sayal grossero, mas que sutil y candida camisa._ JOSEPH ORTIZ DE VILLENA. CHAPTER XXIV. P. I.—p. 226. QUACK AND NO QUACK, BEING AN ACCOUNT OF DR. GREEN AND HIS MAN KEMP. POPULAR MEDICINE, HERBARY, THEORY OF SIGNATURES, WILLIAM DOVE, JOHN WESLEY, AND BAXTER. Hold thy hand! health's dear maintainer; Life perchance may burn the stronger: Having substance to maintain her She untouched may last the longer. When the Artist goes about To redress her flame, I doubt Oftentimes he snuffs it out. QUARLES. CHAPTER XXV. P. I.—p. 254. _Hiatus valde lacrymabilis._ Time flies away fast, The while we never remember How soon our life here Grows old with the year That dies with the next December! HERRICK. CHAPTER XXVI. P. I.—p. 258. DANIEL AT DONCASTER; THE REASON WHY HE WAS DESTINED FOR THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, RATHER THAN HOLY ORDERS; AND SOME REMARKS UPON SERMONS. _Je ne veux dissimuler, amy Lecteur, que je n'aye bien préveu, et me tiens pour deüement adverty, que ne puis eviter la reprehension d'aucuns, et les calomnies de plusieurs, ausquels c'est éscrit désplaira du tout._ CHRISTOFLE DE HERICOURT. CHAPTER XXVII. P. I.—p. 272. A PASSAGE IN PROCOPIUS IMPROVED. A STORY CONCERNING URIM AND THUMMIM; AND THE ELDER DANIEL'S OPINION OF THE PROFESSION OF THE LAW. Here is Domine Picklock My man of Law, sollicits all my causes, Follows my business, makes and compounds my quarrels Between my tenants and me; sows all my strifes And reaps them too, troubles the country for me, And vexes any neighbour that I please. BEN JONSON. CHAPTER XXVIII. P. I.—p. 278. PETER HOPKINS. EFFECTS OF TIME AND CHANGE. DESCRIPTION OF HIS DWELLING-HOUSE. _Combien de changemens depuis que suis au monde, Qui n'est qu' un point du tems!_ PASQUIER. CHAPTER XXIX. P. I.—p. 284. A HINT OF REMINISCENCE TO THE READER. THE CLOCK OF ST. GEORGE'S. A WORD IN HONOR OF ARCHDEACON MARKHAM. There is a ripe season for every thing, and if you slip that or anticipate it, you dim the grace of the matter be it never so good. As we say by way of Proverb that an hasty birth brings forth blind whelps, so a good tale tumbled out before the time is ripe for it, is ungrateful to the hearer. BISHOP HACKETT.