_Lass mich den Stunde gedenken, und jedes kleineren umstands. Ach, wer ruft nicht so gern unwiederbringliches an! Jenes süsse Gedränge der leichtesten irdischen Tage, Ach, wer schätzt ihn genug, diesen vereilenden Werth! Klein erscheinet es nun, doch ach! nicht kleinlich dem Herzen; Macht die Liebe, die Kunst, jegliches kleine doch gross._ GOETHE. CHAPTER LXXXVI.—p. 99. PETER HOPKINS. REASONS FOR SUPPOSING THAT HE WAS AS GOOD A PRACTITIONER AS ANY IN ENGLAND; THOUGH NOT THE BEST. THE FITTEST MASTER FOR DANIEL DOVE. HIS SKILL IN ASTROLOGY. _Que sea Medico mas grave Quien mas aforismos sabe, Bien puede ser. Mas que no sea mas experto El que mas huviere muerto, No puede ser._ GONGORA. CHAPTER LXXXVII.—p. 111. ASTROLOGY. ALMANACKS. PRISCILLIANISM RETAINED IN THEM TO THIS TIME. I wander 'twixt the poles And heavenly hinges, 'mongst eccentricals, Centers, concentricks, circles and epicycles. ALBUMAZAR. CHAPTER LXXXVIII.—p. 120. AN INCIDENT WHICH BRINGS THE AUTHOR INTO A FORTUITOUS RESEMBLANCE WITH THE PATRIARCH OF THE PREDICANT FRIARS. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE FACT AND THE FABLE; AND AN APPLICATION WHICH, UNLIKE THOSE THAT ARE USUALLY APPENDED TO ESOP'S FABLES, THE READER IS LIKELY NEITHER TO SKIP NOR TO FORGET. _Diré aqui una maldad grande del Demonio._ PEDRO DE CIEÇA DE LEON. CHAPTER LXXXIX.—p. 124. A CHAPTER CHARACTERISTIC OF FRENCH ANTIQUARIES, FRENCH LADIES, FRENCH LAWYERS, FRENCH JUDGES, FRENCH LITERATURE, AND FRENCHNESS IN GENERAL. _Quid de pulicibus? vitæ salientia puncta._ COWLEY. CHAPTER XC.—p. 144. WHEREIN THE CURIOUS READER MAY FIND SOME THINGS WHICH HE IS NOT LOOKING FOR, AND WHICH THE INCURIOUS ONE MAY SKIP IF HE PLEASES. _Voulant doncques satisfaire à la curiosité de touts bons compagnons, j'ay revolvé toutes les Pantarches des Cieux, calculé les quadrats de la Lune, crocheté tout ce que jamais penserent touts les Astrophiles, Hypernephelistes, Anemophylaces, Uranopetes et Ombrophores._ RABELAIS. CHAPTER XCI.—p. 157. THE AUTHOR DISPLAYS A LITTLE MORE OF SUCH READING AS IS SELDOM READ, AND SHOWS THAT LORD BYRON AND AN ESSEX WIDOW DIFFERED IN OPINION CONCERNING FRIDAY. _Si j'avois dispersé ceci en divers endroits de mon ouvrage, j'aurois évité la censure de ceux qui appelleront ce chapitre un fatras de petit recueils. Mais comme je cherche la commodité de mes lecteurs plutôt que la mienne, je veux bien au depens de cette censure, leur épargner la peine de rassembler ce que j'aurois dispersé._ BAYLE. CHAPTER XCII.—p. 173. CONCERNING PETER HOPKINS AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE MOON AND TIDES UPON THE HUMAN BODY. A CHAPTER WHICH SOME PERSONS MAY DEEM MORE CURIOUS THAN DULL, AND OTHERS MORE DULL THAN CURIOUS.