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 416 THE HISTORY OF A I am inclined to think that 'Ecce sponsus venit' should be considered to be the motto of the whole series, and that the first part should be catalogued as ' I [i.e. Prima] Tuba Pulchritudinis,' etc. This is certainly supported by the general arrangement of the engraved title-page, and by the fa<5l that ' Ecce sponsus venit ' appears in exactly the same way as the running head-line to both parts. Coming now to the second part viz. the lexicon we find a clear statement of its origin and objeft on page 13 of the essay. Quia cum tota vis praedicationis meae, testimonijs verbi Divini nitatur, in cujus expositione significationes vocum plures adhibeo, quam quae in Lexicis Hebr^eis reperiuntur: potent animum legentis subire dubitatio, ne varietas haec significationum e cerebro meo excogitata sit, sine funda- mento veritatis, & praeter vocum naturam. . . . Propterea in testimonium veritatis, quod omnia a me candide, & syncere agantur, adjunxi Dictionarium hoc a doctissimo viro Valentino Schindlero collectum, quod in epitomen contractum, imprimendum curavi : quoniam exemplaria priora non facile ubique parari possint. Et quinque hae dialecti tanquam vectes tabernaculi, in uni veritatis compage, quinquaginta tabulas totidem capitum primae tubae meae confirmabunt. There is then, on the surface, no mystery about the c Spiraculum Tubarum.' Nor can Alabaster and his publisher be blamed for desiring to tap the purses of the profane as well as those of the initiated by re-issuing, a couple of years later, some of the unsold sheets of the second part as a lexicon pure and simple, with a fresh title-page and intro- duftory note. This latter contains, once more, a