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 Lastly, “in quibus vitiatum temperamentum, Lien Major the washhous exceed ye kitchin.”

P. 54. It is difficult to believe that the passage which follows, “ Mas a vigore spiritus higher sett, unde Bastards brave men, quia magno fervore geniti vetito concubitu ” is not a reflection of Shakespeare’s bastard, Faulconbridge, a character which Harvey may have seen represented, even by its creator himself, at any time in the eighteen previous years.

P. 50. But perhaps the quaintest entry is one speaking of some rather controvertible anatomical assertions which he thus records “ W. H., a little staggerum in these.”

Lastly, “ in quibus vitiatum temperamentum, Lien Major the washhous exceed ye kitchin.”

And a little farther on, speaking of some idle controversy of previous writers, he describes it “est de lana capriâ,” which is obviously a note jotted down from the Horatian line, “ Alter rixatur de lana sæpe caprinâ.” In an excellent account of the signs of asphyxia, he says: