NOTES, 



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Devices of Leaders and Captains in the Civil Wars. 

 One Roundhead Captain bore for his device a rope 

 depending from a gallows, and the motto " Win and 

 wear it ! " Withers, the poet, displayed a sword and 

 a pen, with " Pro Rege et Grege" Captain Tyrrell, a 

 Buckinghamshire gentleman, figured an armed horse- 

 man, riding at full speed into a great fire, and the motto 

 " Sans craindre." See a long list of similar conceits in 

 the Supplement to " The Art of making Devices.'* 

 London. 4to. 1665. 



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The May-fly. Though called the May-fly, every 

 fly -fisher knows that this insect rarely rises in this 

 country till June. In the middle of the latter month it 

 is often seen still at the bottom of streams in the larva 

 state ; its appearance greatly depends upon the season. 

 The " Dun," a May-fly in miniature, seems more 



