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And evil shuns, and longs for estimation 
In stealth, or wealth, or ruining a nation; 
It matters not, so he becomes notorious 
Or rich enough to be known by the finger 
nthe Rialto. But, as “time will hurry us,” 
And ‘art is long,” we must contrive to bring her 
Some shorter way about, nor worry us 7 
And our poor brains to fiddle-strings, by thinking 
How loug wed live without a meal or drinking. 
This thieving love in great men is ambition, 
The great and wisest only steal the surest, 
And,when they want more land, theysend a mission 
'Tovsay they'll take it; this way is the pwrest,— 
Instead of taking it before their wish on 
‘The subject’s known. Thus rich men to the poorest, 
‘Thus kings to.kings, and lords to commoners, 
Go on as far as mankind domineers. 
ae when our fathers wore their painted skins, 
stead of modern fashions, and ate dcorns, 
With Becchy mash for their sauce, they broke their 
shins, 
Each other’s shins, and fought like very dragons, 
To set the best red ochre to paint grins 
Ofidols and sea-monsters, and such Dagons; 
The finest berries and the richest mast 
They stole; and fought and died for, till the last. 
And tho? we had not dived for pearls and gold 
Ont of the earth and sea, to deck their hair 
And pockets, yet the ladies had what told 
In love as well, and served to make them fair,— 
They painted high, and then they dar’d not scold 
So much as now, in virtue rich and rare, 
And numbers true to the same spouse, and never 
Expected pin-money, but obey’d for ever. 
Nor did they give, nor were they given, in marriage, 
But took and taken by the law of power, 
That rules the sons of fortune; not to disparage 
Our modern rites,—a rent-roll and a dowe1 4 
Country estates,—a house in town,—a carriage,— 
And change of pire and fashions every hour, 
With feasting of the daintiest and most savoury, 
Known to all such who know the art of knavery. 
That king of all-wise robbers, Solomon, 
What says he on the subject we are treating ? 
Furtive dulciores et panis absconditus 
Suavior,—which means that living and that eating 
Of what others earn is always sure to come 
More cheap and sweet than that of his own 
ak 
And now I’lf haste to show yon, tho’ you kuow it, 
The thief’s more perfect than he loves to show it. 
‘That man’s most perfect when he does confess, 
Hepes ene of his sins before he dies, 
None will deny. He has no chance the less 
Of Beaphlng Heaven. Thieves pour repentant 
sighs, 
And own, with bitter tears, they did transgress, 
Before that fatal man the last knot ties; 
And blest are they, for “justice sake,” who suffer, 
A short end is the happiest, tho’ the rougher. 
I’ve often heard the art most. vilely slander’d, 
By those who have not soul to taste its beauties ; 
Were it so bad, ’twould ne’er be made the standard 
Of taste, for gallant men to pay their duties 
To ladies fair, who, if their hearts have wander’d, 
They say they’re sfolen, to prove how true their 
suit is; 
Nor do I know the lady thus call’d thief, 
Who took not much more pleasure in’t than 
(Cetera 
ief. 
esunt.) 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
SINGULAR CASE of @ CORNEOUS EXCRES- 
CENCE in the HUMAN SUBJECT. 
fb aloe Rodriguez, a packer or 
warehouseman, in the city of 
Mexico, was tall and stout, with an 
athletic constitution. He was _ ob- 
served to keep his head constantly 
wrapped up with a handkerchief, as 
if to conceal some large lupia or wen, 
or some other deformity. 
One day, when at his labour, near 
Singular Case of a Corneous Excrescence. 
395 
a heap of sugar hogsheads, a barrel 
rolled down from the top of the pile, 
and struck him on the head. He fell 
to the ground senseless, with a great 
effusion of blood, and was conveyed 
to the Hospital of St. Andrew, where 
a large and hard substance was dis- 
covered on the right side of his crown, 
or top of the head. In its circum- 
ference it was about fourteen inches, 
and divided into two branches, at a 
little distance from its base, forming 
twotarge crooked horns, whose extre- 
mities, some inches in length, bent 
back under the ear. One of them, the 
highest, was found to be broken off, 
about two-thirds, from its origin or 
root; the other, at the distance of 
three inches from its root, had a much 
smaller branch appended to it, which 
protruded sideways down to the mid- 
dle of the cheek. By means of a cir- 
cular interval the person could easily 
reach at his ear. The whole lump 
was of a horny nature, and the surface 
was like that of ram’s horns, striated 
and full of knots, as if formed of 
successive layers. A fragment that 
was burnt yielded a scen@like animal 
substances of the same kind; when 
submitted to the action of fire. 
’ The violence of the blow from the 
barrel had rent and detached one of 
the horns in several places, and this 
gave rise to the bleeding. Though 
near, this enormous excrescence had 
no adherence with the bones of the 
cranium, ‘The eye-lids and forehead 
had been sweiled and pufied up, so 
that the person could but half open his 
right eye. 
To the above may be added analo- 
gous instances, which seem no less 
remarkable, and are equally circum- 
stantial and satisfactory. 
In 1599, De Thou saw in the pro- 
vince of Le Maine, a peasant named 
Francois Trouillet, aged thirty-five, 
who had on the right side of his fore- 
head a horn, chamfered or fluted lon- 
gitudinally, spreading out and curving 
to the left, till the point came7in con- 
tact with the cranium. This protru- 
sion would have inflicted a wound, if 
he had not submitted, from time to 
time, to the operation of cutting it. 
But this was always attended with 
extreme pain; and even roughly hand- 
ling this excrescence’ excited un- 
easiness. 
This peasant had retired into the 
woods, to conceal this disagreeable 
deformity from the world ; but one pe 
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