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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. n. AUG. 13, 1904.

BURTON'S 'ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY (See 9 th S. xi. 181, 222, 263, 322, 441 ; xii. 2, 62, 162,

301, 362, 442 ; 10"' S. i. 42, 163, 203, 282.) I SHOULD be glad in a modified form to use Burton's reason'" because many good authors in all kinds are come to my hands since" tc excuse my turning back and dealing wit! some quotations which I passed over before. Vol. I. (Shilleto), p. 11, 1. 8 ; p. 1, 1. 10 <ed. 6, "I am a free man born." This was probably suggested by " ego scio me liberum factum," which in the 4 Apocolocyntosis follows the words that have just been citec by Burton.

P. 11, 9 ; 1, 12, " If I be urged." Cf. J. V Andrea, 'Menippus,' dial. 7, p. 17 (ed. 1617) 44 qui urges hominern liberum."

P. 15, n. 2, n. 4, n. 5 ; p. 3, n. i, n. k, n. 1. These three quotations from Heinsius, foi which Shilleto gives the reference 4 'Primerio,' ,re to be found (with a difference) about one-ninth through the epistle to Jacobus Primerius on the subject "An, & qualis viro literato sit ducenda uxor." See pp. 327, 328 of the 1629 (Elzevir) edition of the 'Laus Asini,' &c. " Aulse soleo " (1. 7 ; 41) is from the same place.

P. 15, 5; 3, 39, "macerate themselves.' From "Qui nimium se macerant," Heinsius, lib. cit., p. 328.

P. 15, n. 5 ; 3, n. 1, " Cyp. ad Donat." See cap. 9, "O si possis in ilia sublimi specula constitutus," &c.

P. 16, 8 ; 4, 25, " ne quid mentiar." Burton presumably took this not from the prologue to Plautus's 'Casina' (9 th S. xii. 363), but from Heinsius (lib. cit., p. 328).

P. 16, 11 ; 4, 29, " non tarn sagax observator AC simplex recitator." Cf. J. V. Andrea, sagacissimus observator, <k simplicissimus -annotator fuit."
 * Menippus,' dial. 4, "a Mundo, cuius ille

P. 18, 3; 5, 26, "yet hear that divine "Seneca, better aliud agere quam nihil" (cf. vol. ii. p. 80. n. 3 ; 265, n. t ; Part. II. sect. iii. mem. iv. ; Erasm., 'Colloq.,' 4 Conviv. Poet.,' half through ; Manningham's * Diary,' Camd. Soc., p. 132). See Pliny, Ep. i. 9, "Satius enim est, ut Atilius noster eruditissime simul t facetissime dixit, otiosum esse quam nihil agere."

P. 19, 2 ; 6, 2, "oop, oop" (WOTT, WO'TT). Not .part of the frogs' cry this, but Charon's.

P. 20, 4, and n. 3 ; 6, 30, and n. q, " in this scribbling age especially." "Libros Eunuchi igignunt, steriles pariunt." J. V. Andrea, 'Menippus,' dial. 84. p. 152. '" hoc scrip- turiente seculo, quo E. g., s. p."

P. 20, 13 ; 6, 39, " to be thought and held Polymathes and Polyhistors." 'Menippus,'

dial. 31, ad fin., " nam ut polimathes & poli- histores dicantur, in omnem togatam, arma- tam, solutam, ligatam, exoticam & misticam eruditionem irruunt."

P. 20, 15 ; 6, 40, " to get a paper-kingdom." ' Menippus,' dial. 39, p. 70, ** & regnum car- taceum magno supercilio occupant."

P. 20, 20 ; 6, 45, 4< They will rush into all learning, togatam, armatam," &c. See last note but one.

P. 20, 21 ; 6, 46, " rake over all Indexes" 4 Menippus,' dial. 31, p. 56, 44 Nam ut ex indicibus librorum tumultuarie collecti," &c.

P. 20, 22 ; 6, 47, " cum non sint re vera doctiores, sed loquaciores." See 4 Menippus,' dial. 39, ad fin., " non raeliores illos aut rerum certiores esse aliis, sed lubriciores ac loqua- ciores."

P. 20, 28 ; 7, 4, " As Apothecaries we make new mixtures every day, pour out of one vessel into another." 4 Menippus,' dial. 31, p. 56, '* B. Sed velut e magno dolio minuta multa replentur, ita magna eruditionis priscee volumina in libellos minutos discinduntur, laceranturque. A. Si ita sit, quos chymicos credidi, transfusores saltern sunt." Cf. Sterne, 4 Tristram Shandy,' vol. iv. ch. i., in 6-vol. ed. (1782), 44 Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pour- ing only out of one vessel into another ? " Sterne's unacknowledged indebtedness in this passage surprised Dr. Ferriar, and was pro- nounced by Mr. Traill to be " the most extra- ordinary instance of literary effrontery ever met with." Certainly Sterne has here done more than look over the hedge, but Burton is scarcely the sole claimant of the stolen lorse.

P. 21, n. 4; 7, n. c, 44 E Democriti puteo." For the origin of the phrase see Cicero, Acad. Prior.,' ii. 10, 32 ("Naturam accusa, quse in profundo veritatem, ut ait Democritus, penitus abstruserit "), and Diog. Laert., 9, 72 ei/ fiv0$ $ (Ur)0ia). Prof. J. S. Reid remarks on the passage of Cicero that the ordinary rendering 44 well ' ; for (3v0os is far DO noted that Lactantius ( 4 Inst.,' iii. 28, 13) las "Democritus quasi in puteo quodam sic alto, ut fundus sit nullus, veritatem iacere demersam."
 * oo weak, and suggests " abyss." It may

P. 22, 14 ; 8, 2, " magno conatu nihii agimus." Cf. Terence, * Haut. Tim.,' 621 IV. i. 8), and Bacon, 'Essays,' 26.

P. 22, 28; 8, 15, "sine injuria." See Oamerarius, 'Symbol, et Emblem.,' cent. iii. H ; the words are the motto of the emblem, ^arnerarius quotes Lucretius, iii. 11, which Burton also gives, and uses the passage of "arro (iii. 16, 7) which we find in Burton.