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chusing her garments, counts no bravery i' th' world like de- 

 cency. The Garden and Bee-hire are all her Phi/sick and Chy- 

 rwrgery, and she lives the longer for't. She dares goe alone, 

 and unfolds sheepe i' th'night, and feares no manner of ill, be- 

 cause she meanes none: yet to say truth, she is never alone, 

 for she is still accompanied with old songs, honest thoughts, and 

 prayers, but short ones ; yet they have their efficacy, in that 

 they are not pauled with insuing idle cogitations. Lastly, her 

 dreames are so chaste, that shee dare tell them: only a Fridaie's 

 dreame is all her superstition : that shee conceales for feare of 

 anger. Thus lives she, and all her care is that she may die in 

 the Spring-time, to have store of flowers stucke upon her wind- 

 ing-sheet." Character 51. sign. L. 7. From the copy in the 

 Library of Sion College, London. 



Page 85. Tlte choice Songs, etc. 



The Song of Old Tom of Bedlam will be found in Percy's 

 " Reliques of Ancient English Poetry," vol. ii. p. 356. It is 

 also printed in Playford's " Antidote against Melancholy," 

 1669, 8vo. ; " and with the Music, composed by H. Lawes, in 

 " a work entitled Choice Ayres, Songs, and Dialogues, to the 

 " Theorbo-Lute and Base-Viol." fol. 1675. Hawkins. In the 

 volume of Ancient Songs already cited, pp. 261, 265, there are 

 two different songs, both called Tom of Bedlam, which are stated 

 to have been taken out of an old Miscellany, entitled " Le 

 " Prince d'Amour, or the Prince of Love, with a Collection 

 " of Songs, by the Wits of the Age." Lond. 1 660. 8vo. The 

 Editor adds however, that the above were inserted in the col- 

 lection in burlesque, on the love of the English for ballads on 

 the subject of madness. See Percy's Reliques vol. ii. p. 350 

 The song of " The Hunter in his Career" also mentioned in the 

 text, is reprinted for the first time in Mr. Pickering's edition of 

 the Complete Angler from a collection of old ballads, pub- 

 lished in 1725. In Walton's First Edition, this passage is 

 contained in the Third Chapter ; which is entitled " In Chap- 

 " ter 3, are some observations of Trouts, both of their nature, 

 " their kinds, and their breeding." 



Page 100. Aldrovandus. 



Ulysses Aldrovandus, a great Physician and naturalist, born at 

 Bologna in 1527 ; he wrote 120 books on several subjects, and 

 a Treatise " De Piscibus," published last at Francfort, 1640. 

 He died blind in an hospital at Bologna, in great poverty, 

 May 4, 1605. The passage alluded to in the text, is in his 

 " Serpentum et Draconum Historise," 1640. fol. Hawkins. 



Page 101. The observation of Du Bar tas. 



See No. 7 in the foregoing list, p. 58, col. 2, the last 20 lines. 



Page 105. Devout Lessius. 



Leonard Lessius, Professor of Divinity in the College of 



