80 "triples light as air/' 



merriment, touch upon the uncertainties of our frail and fleeting 

 nature, his cheeks would be softened down to a curve as puri- 

 tanical as the most remarkable of the canting age of Oliver 

 Cromwell. Ah ! 



" Thus from hour to hour we ripe and ripe ;" 



and thus from hour to hour may we continue, cheerful and serious 

 by turns, as we accidently meet in our daily " line of march ;" 

 for cheerfulness and seriousness, in such cases are ours, form the 

 genuine exchange of rich, old-fashioned English friendship, which 

 finishes at one time only to be renewed another, and which con- 

 tinues, with undiminished sincerity, to the end. 



J. R. B. 



"TRIFLES LIGHT AS AIR.' 



What trifles will amuse and occupy the mind when it has little 

 or nothing to do! of all trifles the following may be considered 

 the most trifling, and yet vanity or presumption has culled it for 

 the Museum. It is a sort o( lusus, vel ludulus mnitisy vcl scri- 

 bendi. It occurs on the back of the title, " Dictionarium Ety- 

 mologicum, Philologicum, Phraseologicumque, &c. &c.," but to 

 avoid other terminal cums, it is as well to set it forth vulgo—^^ A 

 Latin Dictionary," of the date of 1664. 



•' John C-ytc is my name, 

 Eni;land is my nation, 

 Holberton my dwelling place, 

 In Heaven my habitation." 



Here is a valuable synonymous distinction between dwelling 

 and habitation. It shews a reading different from the common of 

 ray school days, and less Christian. It was with us_that is, as 

 far as the last line goes, 



** And Christ is my salvation." 



Under the above, with the date of 1705, appears " This is the 

 writing of John C-yte, jun." and, following it, in the erect 

 Elizabethan, half- text. Chancery-capital, hand 



" John C-yte, his book and writin. Amen. 

 This is the writin of John C-yte the eldar." 



Again, in the writmg of John, jun., is the following promis- 

 cuous, leap-frog sort of verse, valuable for two important consi- 

 derations ; first for the just, though sanguinary, abhorrence of 

 theft; and, secondly, for the reasonable inference that a velvet 



