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a green fur cap on his head and a pipe in his hand. 

 He came for half-an-hour, but very frequently stopped a 

 whole hour. His conversation was extremely sprightly 

 and pleasant. He used to laugh most heartily, and dis- 

 played a serenity and openness of countenance, which 

 proved how much his soul was susceptible of amity and 

 good-fellowship. 



A merrier man, 



Within the limit of becoming mirth, 

 I never spent an hour's talk withal : 

 His eye begets occasion for his wit : plans 

 For every object that the one doth catch, 

 The other turns to a mirth-moving jest 

 Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) 

 Delivers in such apt and gracious words, 

 That aged ears play truant at his tales, 

 And younger hearings are quite ravished ; 

 So sweet and voluble is his discourse. 



Love's Labour Y Lost. 



In him was that happy mixture of politeness and 

 cheerfulness which Sir J. E. Smith speaks of as almost 

 peculiar to Frenchmen in the decline of life he might 

 have added Swedes at all ages. ' He was an excellent 

 companion, pleasant in conversation, full of strong hits 

 of fancy, and seasonable and entertaining stories ; but 

 at the same time suddenly roused to anger and boister- 

 ous ; the sudden effervescence of this fiery passion sub- 

 sided, however, almost at the very moment of its birth, 

 and he immediately became all plain good nature again. 

 His friendship was sure and invariable. Science was 

 generally its basis. The ambition of Linnaeus knew no 

 bounds; but it never extended beyond the regions of 



