10 LOVERS MEINtfi, 



" Le ric home, cassador, 

 M'enneion, e'l buzacador. 

 Parian de volada, d'austor, 

 Ne jamais, d'armas, ni d'amor." 



The rich man, the chaser, 



Tires me to death ; and the adorer of buzzards. 



They talk of covey and hawk, 



And never of arms, nor of love. 



" Cassador," of course, afterwards becomes 

 "chasseur," and "austor" "vautour." But 

 after you have read this, and familiarized 

 your ear with the old word, how differently 

 Milton's phrase will ring to you, — " Those 

 who thought no better of the Living God 

 than of a buzzard idol," — and how literal it 

 becomes, when we think of the actual differ- 

 ence between a member of Parliament in 

 Milton's time, and the Busacador of to-day ; 

 — and all this freshness and value in the 

 reading, observe, come of your keeping the 

 word which great men have used for the 

 bird, instead of letting the anatomists blunder 

 out a new one from their Latin dictionaries. 



9. There are not so many nameable varie- 

 ties, I just now said, of robin as of falcon ; but 

 this is somewhat inaccurately stated. Those 



