1805.] ' \ -37 ) ' 



ExiraBs from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters, 



DR. WILLIAM BROOME. 



IN an original letter to hijji from Mr.Pope, 

 d?.ted Auguiv 39, 173O' ^^^ giving 

 him an account of Elijah Fcnton's ileatri, 

 was this curious palTage. " I condole 

 with you from my heart, on the Ids of fo 

 worthy a man, and a friend to uf both. 

 Now he is gone I mtift tell you, h'? has 

 done you many a good f'ffice, ard let your 

 cliaradter in the fairtft light to fome, who 

 eiiher mifto' k. you, or knew you not. I 

 doubt not he has d. ne the fame, for me. — 

 Adieu ! Let us love his memory, ar.d 

 pioiit by liis eximfi*." 



EPITAPH ON AN ASS, 



The Milanefe author of " Vjyaged'Ef- 

 pagne fait en Y AnnCt 1755, tr'.nflited 

 into French from the I;nlian, by Perede 

 Livoy,Barnabite, Paris, a vols. 8vo. 17725 

 at p. loi cf vol. ii. givcs a very in?,enti us 

 and epigrarr.matical e|.it'a,.:i in. Iiaiim up- 

 on the aft, which carried his baggage, 

 among whicii were his books, and iiy fall, 

 ing ii.to a ditch, was drowned, by which 

 means his books w re fpiiled. He had 

 the afs buried and made the following epi- 

 taph upon it ; but the beauty and 

 poignancy is not prefirvid in any of the 

 tranflnticns. It was in his paflage be- 

 tween Vsllalolid and Salamanca. 



Qui d'un pigro afinel ripofan I'ofl'a, 

 Che non ufo a poitar di Iibri il pondo 

 CadJe, e man nella vioina folTa, 

 Seco traenJa tutll i libii a! fondo. 

 Deh ! pidogier, 'chai piz^icore, et pofld 

 Pi traftinar volumi per lo tnondo, 

 Non tl venga, per die! la lantafia 

 Di mai fidare agli afin libraria. 



C'ygit maltre baudet, d'in^olente me- 

 moirc, 

 Oui, de livrus poitant un trop pefjnt fardeaii, 

 fcritj C.I l«s lauflaat dans un foffe plein d' 

 eau, 

 Pour dernier trait de fon hiftoire. 

 O vous 1 de vos livres jaloux, 

 Voyageurs, qui croirier perdre la Tramon- 

 tane 

 S'iU n'etoicnt par tout avec vous, 

 Cardez-vous d'en charger un Ane, 



On m'avertit, que cet'e Epltaphe etant 

 «-'! Italien, ne fcioit pas comnnuicnient 

 in!endLie; c'ett pourquoi j'en fjs euElpag. 

 nul une autre que voici : 



Aqui yace fcpultado 



Un Biirricho dcditliardo 



Que tacniioen fa'al noy 



jt'(ibrt:«.iio, fe motiu^ 



Por traen libros atados. 

 Que quedaron bien mojados: 

 tpor efl'o no uego a fcr 

 En Salamanco Bachiller. 



D'un Ane ici c'eft le Tombeau, 

 Glorieux de porter de livres une charge. 

 Am bord de cette fofle il marchaic trop a« 



large, 

 Et culbutant, peric en les fauflant dans 

 I'eau ! 



II aMoit avec gravite j 



Mais maiheur a qui le pied manque ! 



Sa^s cet 'echoc il eut ete 



Fait Bachelisr de Salamanque. 



PHYSICIANS. 



In the remoteft agts, the Egyptians had 

 no other phyficians than their priefts. 

 This cufiom c.bfainel likewife amongd 

 the Syrians and Hebrews. Ala firft ufed 

 the affilt.irce of proper phyficians, and 

 was repioved for it: 2 Chron. xvi, 12. 

 The lame cuftom prevailed in India and 

 all over the Eail. The ancient Tartars 

 and Mongculs had no other phyficians 

 than their priclis: and we find it fo at 

 prefcnt among all the lavage nations of 

 Siberia, and even in America. — Account 

 of the Nations of the RuJJian Empire. 



JOHN STRYPE. 



In one of the letters of Dr. Samuel 

 Knight, canon cf Ely, dated Bluntlham, 

 near St. Ives, March 24, I733> 'S the fol- 

 lowing paffage relating to Strype, the an- 

 tiquary. 



" I made a vifit to old father Strype 

 when in town lift : he is turned of ninety, 

 yet very brifk and well, only a decay of 

 fight and memory. He would lain have 

 induced me to undcr;ake Archbiftiop 

 Bancr..f;'s Life j but I have no ftomach to 

 it, having no great opiiiion of him, on 

 more accounts ihan one. He had a greater 

 inveteracy againft the Puritans than an/ 

 of his predcccflors. 



•' Mr. Strype told me, that he had 

 great materials toward* the life of 

 old Lord Burghley, and Mr. Fox, the 

 martyro'ogiit , which hs vvilhed he could 

 have fiiiilhed j but molf of his papers are 

 in chsraflers : his grandlbn is learning to 

 deciplier them.'" 



EDWARD FOX, BISHOP OF HERE- 

 FORD, 1535. 



How greatly he was in favour with 



Hemy the Vllltli, may be difcovered by 



part of a lettsr wrote by Richard Paife, 



z deaik 



