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36 Mr. J. Pulteney,” then a quotation from Cicero and the imprint,—“London Printed by N.T. for John Holford Bookseller in the Pall Mall over against St. Alban's Street, 1680.” This volume is duodecimo size and the translation is rather colloquial. For our present purpose Chap. VIII is the most interesting. It is headed: “Of Loftiness drawn from Circumstances” and the text reads as follows: “when Sapho [sic] would express the disorders of love, she calls to mind all the accidents which are either inherent or consequential to this Passion, but singles out such chiefly, as declare the excessive violence thereof.

“Don’t you wonder how she brings together all these different things, the Soul, Body, Speech, Looks, etc., as if