1808.] 
ancient Romans, altho’ they wanted our 
easy conservation of wit by printing, they 
would have committed it to Bree: lest 
injurious time might ‘deprive it of due 
eternity,’ 
* “BISHOP JEWEL, 
It is related of this prelate that he had 
so improved his memory by. art, as to be 
able to repeat verbatim any thing he had 
written after once reading it. He usually 
began to commit his sermon fo memory 
at the ringing of the bell, and “ hard bar- 
barous names and strange words,” he 
could after twice reading repeat back- 
wards and forwards. ‘To ‘such perfection 
indeed did he arrive in this art, that he 
soon repeated ‘the “whole gospel, ” by 
devoting to it only one hour in the day, 
CORYATE’S CRUDITIES. 
Ben Jonson was one of the wits that 
assisted in ushering this book into the 
Last of New Publications. 
world. He wrote a character of the 
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‘<Try and trust Roger, was the word, but new 
Honest Tom ‘Tell-truth puts down Rogers 
How ? 
Of travel he discourseth so at large, 
Marry he sets it out at his own charge 3 
And therein, (which is worth his valour ton,} 
Shews he dares do more, than Paul’s church 
yard durst do, 
Come forth thou bonny bouncing book then, 
daughter 
Of Tom of Odcombe, that odd jovial author, 
Rather his son] should have called thee, why? 
Yes thou wert born out of his travelling thigh, 
As well as from his brain, and claimest 
there 
To be his Bacchus as his Pallas: be 
Ever his thighs male then,and his brains she.”? 
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