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evils," &c. ; and what " Polyhistor saith : because there is not one to be found, wherein there is not some deceit," &c., followed exactly by Greene, p. 165. Primaudaye then quotes, " Diphilus sayd, nothing is hardlier found in all the world than a good wife. Whereunto that old proverbe agreeth, that a good wife (husband, Greene), a good mule, and a good goate are three naughtie beasts." Greene attributes the proverb to Diphilus, which may be correct. Primaudaye gives us next the retort of a noble Roman whose friend said "he had great cause to hold

himself happie he had a wife that was

faire, rich, and come of noble parentage ; he shewed them his foote, saying : My friends, you see that my shoe is very new, faire, and well made, but none of you can tell where- about it pincheth me (p. 484). Greene attributes this (pp. 165, 166) in the same words to " Salonina, the wife of Cethegus." Priraaudaye's next example is from Hesiod : " He that trusteth to a woman (said Hesiod) is as safe as he that hangeth by the leaves of a tree in the ende of Autumne when the leaves begin to fall. I remember yet three things which I have heard uttered in con- tempt of marriage when a yong man is

to be married, he must be arested. For truly I think we should flie up to heaven, if this arrest kept us not backe." Greene's 'Tritameron' has been up to this loyal to the fair sex, and he has had occasion several times to transpose the sexes, since Primau- daye is quoting depreciatory philosophy upon women. This last passage was too much to alter, so he transfers it (" Hesiodus affirms") to his * Farewell to Follie' (ix. 327-8), where he is upon the other lay.

One notable passage has been skipped, on p. 481 in Primaudaye, at the beginning of this chapter on marriage: " Thai es, one of the sages of Grecia, minding to shew that it was not good for a man to marry, when one asked him why he married not, being in the flower of his age, said it was not yet time. Afterward being growen to further age and demanded the same question, answered, that the time was past." Greene attributes this, in different words, to Diogenes, in 4 Never too Late ' (viii. 202). One other passage Greene misquotes of Augustus Csesar (Primaudaye, p. 486), who made a law, " being come to the empire," against those that did not marry or had no children after twenty-five years of age. Greene (iii. 166) says "when he was Censor," copying from four lines higher.

H. C. HART. (To be continued.)

SANATORIUM AT MIDHUEST. Relative to- the new * 4 Ed ward VII. 's Sanatorium" at Midhurst, in Sussex, which His Majesty is- expected to inaugurate this month, the sub- joined note may not be out of place. As a most healthy spot Midhurst has long been known ; but few localities can present a. better record than that attributed to this little Sussex township by The Dublin Chro- nicle of 1788. The village had then, in all,, only some 140 cottages or houses. Of the inhabitants, 78 were over 70 ; no fewer than 32 were 80 and upwards ; whilst 5 had passed their four-score years and ten, and were nearing the ripe age of 100. It is re- corded further that of the 78 septuagenarians- only 4 were unable to take part in some kind of business or occupation. May all the readers of ' N. & Q.' live to an equally active and green old age ! Though the record is one which dates back a hundred years and more, it may help, nevertheless, to cheer those who are destined to do battle against the dread disease of consumption under the shadow of the ancient home of the Montagues at Cowdray Park. B. W.

Fort Augustus.

MICHELL FAMILY. At 8 th S. ix. 37 H. S. K. inquired as to the parentage of Henry Michel. If the latter were a descendant of the " ancient family " whose representative Mary Catherine married, in 1752, Sir Bysshe Shelley, the name should be spelt Michell, according to various legal documents and letters in my possession. I am sorry that I cannot answer H. S. K.'s query, but I can tell him that the head of the family, seated at Stammerham in the parish of Horsham, was in the year 1647 Edward Michell, who- was probably son to the Edward Michell who erected a memorial tablet in Horsham Church to his "cousin" John Michell, of Stammerham, who had died 26 Nov., 1610, and was son of Avery and Mary Michell.

The Edward Michell of 1647 married Mary,, daughter of F. Middleton, by whom he had eight children : Katherine, Mary, Edward, John, Robert, Theobald, Walsing- ham, and Jane. Of these, Edward and John left no descendants, to my knowledge, and Robert was owner of Stammerham in the last quarter of the seventeenth century and the first quarter of the eighteenth. He died 1 Aug., and was buried 10 Aug., 1729, at Horsham, and was succeeded at Stammerham by Edward, the only surviving child of his first marriage with Mary, daughter of Thomas White. Edward Michell, however, outlived his father only a few months, dying