_Vorrei, disse il Signor Gasparo Pallavicino, che voi ragionassi un poco piu minutamente di questo, che non fate; che in vero vi tenete molto al generale, et quasi ci mostrate le cose per transito._ IL CORTEGIANO. CHAPTER LXXVIII.—p. 43. AMATORY POETRY NOT ALWAYS OF THE WISEST KIND. AN ATTEMPT TO CONVEY SOME NOTION OF ITS QUANTITY. TRUE LOVE THOUGH NOT IN EVERY CASE THE BEST POET, THE BEST MORALIST ALWAYS. _El Amor es tan ingenioso, que en mi opinion, mas poetas ha hecho el solo, que la misma naturaleza._ PEREZ DE MONTALVAN. CHAPTER LXXIX.—p. 53. AN EARLY BEREAVEMENT. TRUE LOVE ITS OWN COMFORTER. A LONELY FATHER AND AN ONLY CHILD. Read ye that run the aweful truth, With which I charge my page; A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. COWPER. CHAPTER LXXX.—p. 59. OBSERVATIONS WHICH SHEW THAT WHATEVER PRIDE MEN MAY TAKE IN THE APPELLATIONS THEY ACQUIRE IN THEIR PROGRESS THROUGH THE WORLD, THEIR DEAREST NAME DIES BEFORE THEM. —Thus they who reach Grey hairs, die piecemeal. SOUTHEY. CHAPTER LXXXI.—p. 64. A QUESTION WHETHER LOVE SHOULD BE FAITHFUL TO THE DEAD. DOUBTS ADVANCED AND CASES STATED. O even in spite of death, yet still my choice, Oft with the inward all-beholding eye I think I see thee, and I hear thy voice! LORD STERLINE. CHAPTER LXXXII.—p. 71. THE DOCTOR IS INTRODUCED, BY THE SMALL POX, TO HIS FUTURE WIFE. Long-waiting love doth entrance find Into the slow-believing mind. SYDNEY GODOLPHIN. CHAPTER LXXXIII.—p. 76. THE AUTHOR REQUESTS THE READER NOT TO BE IMPATIENT. SHEWS FROM LORD SHAFTESBURY AT WHAT RATE A JUDICIOUS WRITER OUGHT TO PROCEED. DISCLAIMS PROLIXITY FOR HIMSELF, AND GIVES EXAMPLES OF IT IN A GERMAN PROFESSOR, A JEWISH RABBI, AND TWO COUNSELLORS, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN. _Pand._ He that will have a cake out of the wheat, must tarry the grinding. _Troilus._ Have I not tarried? _Pand._ Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. _Troilus._ Have I not tarried? _Pand._ Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. _Troilus._ Still have I tarried. _Pand._ Aye, to the leavening: but here's yet in the word hereafter, the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too; or you may chance to burn your lips. TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. CHAPTER LXXXIV.—p. 83. A LOOP DROPT IN THE FOREGOING CHAPTER IS HERE TAKEN UP. _Enobarbus._ Every time Serves for the matter that is then born in it. _Lepidus._ But small to greater matters must give way. _Enobarbus._ Not if the small come first. SHAKESPEAR. CHAPTER LXXXV.—p. 86. THE DOCTOR'S CONTEMPORARIES AT LEYDEN. EARLY FRIENDSHIP. COWPER'S MELANCHOLY OBSERVATION THAT GOOD DISPOSITIONS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE CORRUPTED THAN EVIL ONES TO BE CORRECTED. YOUTHFUL CONNECTIONS LOOSENED IN THE COMMON COURSE OF THINGS. A FINE FRAGMENT BY WALTER LANDOR.