Nov. 10. 1849.] 
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the halves, or some small rectory, with the mother 
of the maids at length, a poor kinswoman, or a 
erackt chambermaid, to have and to hold during 
part i. sect. 2. mem. 3. subsect. 15. 
Burton is here referring to the Euphormio- 
nis Lusinini Satyricon, published anno 1617. 
It professes to be a satire, or rather A FURIOUS 
INVECTIVE, on the corrupt manners of the 
times, and is in four parts: the lst is dedi- 
cated to King James I. ; the 2nd to Robert 
Cecil; the 3rd to Charles Emanuel of Savoy ; 
the 4th to Louis XIII, King of France. 
The use that Burton makes of the name of 
Euphormio is any thing but happy. He was 
not a *‘trencher chaplain” but the slave of a 
rich debauchee, Callion, sent in company with 
another slave, Percas, to carry some all-potent 
nostrum to Fibullius, a friend of Callion, who 
was suffering from an attack of stone. Eu- 
phormio cures Fibullius, not by the drug with 
which he was armed, but by a herb, which he 
sought for and found on a mountain. Fibul- 
lius, to reward his benefactor, offers him as a 
wife a most beautiful girl, whom he introduces 
to him privately while in his sick room. Eu- 
phormio looks with no little suspicion on the 
offer; but, after a few excuses, which are 
overruled by Fibullius, accepts the lady as 
his betrothed, “ seals the bargain with a holy 
kiss,” and walks out of the room (to use his 
own words) “ et sponsus, et quod nesciebam 
— Pater,” page 100. The next mention of 
this lady [evidently the prototype of the 
“ erackt chambermaid,”] is in page 138. 
Callion had paid his sick friend Fibullius a 
visit, and, on the eve of his departure, had 
ordered Euphormio to ride post before him, 
and prepare the inhabitants of the districts 
through which he was to pass for his arrival. 
While Euphormio is on the horseblock in the 
act of mounting his steed, a rustic brings him 
a letter from Fibullius, and in conversation 
gives him such an account of his bride as 
forces upon him the reflection, that even the 
grim Libitina would be preferable, as a bride, 
to so confirmed a Thais, so fruitful a partner, 
as the protegée of Fibullius would be likely to 
prove. But, as these notes have, in spite of 
all my attempts at condensation, already grown 
to a most formidable size, I will not indulge 
in any moral reflections; but conclude by 
querying you, or any of your readers, to in- 
form me whether the personages mentioned 
in the Euphorm. Lus. Satyricon, such as 
t bermaid, t | Callion, Pereas, Fibullius, &c., are real cha- 
the time of his life.” — Burton, Anat. of Mel., _racters or not? as, in the former case, I am 
| inclined to think that the work might throw 
some interesting lights on the private man- 
ners and characters of some of the courtiers of 
the day. ‘“ No scandal against any of the 
maids of honour ”—of course. The phrase 
“ To the halves” (in the quotation from Bur- 
ton) means, inadequate, insufficient; we still 
talk of “‘ half and half” measures. Montanus 
inveighs against such ‘ perturbations, that 
| purge to the halves, tire nature, and molest 
the body to no purpose.”’— Burton, Anat. of 
Mel., part. ii. sect. 2. mem. 4. subsect. 6. 
MELANION. 
[The work referred to by our correspondent was 
written by Barclay, better known as the author of 
the Argenis. The First Part of the Satyricon, dedi- 
cated to James the First, was published, London, 
12mo. 1603; and with the addition of the 2nd 
Part, Paris, 1605. The best edition of the work 
(which, really in two parts, is made, by the ad- 
dition of the Apologia Euphormionis, &c. sometimes 
into five) is said to be the Elzevir 12mo., 1637. 
There are two editions of it cum notis variorum, 
Leyden, 1667 and 1669, 8vo., in two volumes. 
Of some of the editions (as that of 1628, 12mo. 
it is said, “ adjecta Clavi sive obscurorum et quasi 
enigmaticorum nominum, in hoc Opere passim 
occurrentium, dilucida explicatione.” The Sa- 
tyricon was twice translated into French ; and its 
literary history, and that of the Censura Eu- 
phormionis, and other tracts which it called forth, 
might furnish a curious and amusing paper. ] 
SERMONES SANCTI CAROLI BORROM AI. 
Sir,—I have been wanting to get a sight 
of the following work, “ Sermones Sancti 
Caroli Borromei, Archiepisc. Mediol. Edidit 
J. A. Saxius. 5 Tom. Mediol. 1747.” Can I 
learn through your columns whether the work 
is any where accessible in London? I sought 
for it in vain at the British Museum a twelve- 
month ago ; nor, though then placed in their 
list of Libri desiderati, has it yet been pro- 
cured. C. F. SEcrRETAN. 
LUTHER AND ERASMUS. 
Mr. Editor,—The following lines, written 
in a hand of the early part of the seventeenth 
century, occur on the fly-leaf of a copy of the 
