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Lxirais from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
GUY EARL OF WARWICK. 
ISHOP MNicholfon fays, in the En- 
AY glith Hiftorical Library, that the 
Life of the famous Earl Guy was. firtt 
written by Walter of Exeter, a Domi- 
nican Friar, about the year :301. The 
obfervation appears to have been firlt 
made by Bale. A copy of the book, in 
old French verfe, is, or was afew years 
ago, remaining among the Norfolcian Ma- 
nufcripts in the Herald’s Office. The 
ftory feems to have been invented in che 
way of compliment to Guy de Beaw- 
champ, then Earl of Warwick. 
SATIRE, 
That the. antient fatyrifts were not en- 
tirely unknown to the learned of the 
twelfth century in England, appears from 
the fecond Differtation prefixed to Mr. 
Warton's Hiftory of Englith Poetry.— 
John Hanvill, a monk of St. Alban’s, 
about 1190, who wrote a book intitled 
Architrenius, even charaéterifes. the dif- 
ferent merits of the Satires both of Ho- 
race and Perfius. 
£¢ Perfius in Flacci pelago decurrit, et audet 
Mendicaffe ftyium fatyra, ferraque cruentus 
Rodit, et ignorat polientem pectora limam.” 
Juvenal is alfo cited by feveral writers 
of the middle ages, among whom he had 
frequently the name of Ethicus. And it 
is not to be forgoiten that his tenth Satire 
is quoted by Chaucer in Troilus and Cre- 
feide. 
- SERVANTS. 
The cufom ftill retained by fome of 
the City Companies for the waiters at 
their public dinners to wear ribands on 
their left arms, is curioufly iluftrated by 
Hentzner in the Fugitive Pieces, vol. il, ° 
p- 300 —“ The Englith are lovers of 
fhow, liking to be followed wherever they 
go by whole troops of fervants, who 
wear their mafters’? arms in filver, faftened | 
to their left arms.” 
SURNAMES. 
Tn the Cambridge Chronicle of Satur- 
day, Auguf 1, 1772, is an advertife- 
ment faid to have been taken from the 
Can:erbury Journal, which beggars the 
lift of furnames lately enumerated by a 
Cortefpondent : 
“© Mary Scaredevil, widow of the late 
William Scaredevil, c€ Maidirone, doesy 
by the affiftance of the Almighty, intend 
to carry on tne bufinefs. of whitefmith, 
and-hopes for- the favours and recommen- 
dations of the gentlemen and Jadies whom 
the late William Scaredeqvil had the plea- 
fare to ferve, which will be gratefully 
acknowledged by their moft humble fer- 
vant, Mary SCAREDEVIL.” 
ARCHBISHOP CRANMER. 
The portraits of Archbifhup Cranmer, 
fome with beards and fome withcut, are 
thus accounted for by Holland in the He- 
woroyice t—=§§ Dum vixit Henricus rex, 
hic notter preful derafus et imberbis evat ¢ 
at poft mortem regis, barbam alebat pro- 
lizam, ufque ad obitum, prout hic depin- 
gitur.” : 
THE ROYAL LIBRARY OF FRANCE, 
About 1683,anaccurate review was made 
of this vatt collection, and then it was found 
to contain 10,942 manulerips and 40,000 
printed volumes. In 1782,. the manu- 
{cripts amounted to fifty, and the printed 
volumes to above two hundred thousand ; 
and the prints, plates, medals, antiques, 
charts, maps, genealogies, and charters, 
had been incveafed proportionably. Ite 
exact contents at the prefent day feem 
hardly known ; but the great acceffions 
it received during every period of the Re- 
volution, leave little doubt upon the mind 
but that both in the number and quality 
of its contents it muft now be the very fir 
in Europe. 
AN UNCOURTLY ANSWER REWARDED. 
Philip II. of Spain once loft himéfelf 
at night, as he was hunting, and coming 
to a {mall houfe with his train, devoured 
allthe meat, &cc. which the indigent maf- 
_ter could fupply him with. Belides, the 
royal party made continual murmuring 
at the poor man’s negative catalogue of 
food and accommodations. The King, 
at his departure, defired his hoft to make 
any requeft of him, and the favour fhould 
be immediately conterred on him,. The 
man, without hefitation, replied, « All 
I afk of Your Majefty is, that you'll ne- 
ver come and fup and lie at my houfe- 
again.” The King, delighted with the 
fimplicity and bluntnefs of his anfwer, 
left a good purie of piltoles with his ato. 
nifhsd iandlord. 
THE PUNNING PHILOSOPHER, 
A perfon of talents was once much 
prefled for a reafon, as he was a man of 
{mall fortune, why he did not enter into 
fome profefion, and not waite his abili- 
ties in general and unprodudtive reading. 
« I would rather,”” replied the fage, ** be 
a Spediator, an Infpector, or an Objerver 
in lite,—nay an Idler, a Rambler, a Loun- 
ger, a Loiterer, than make any efay in 
life as a Schemer or an Adventurer, as the 
World appears to me to be too much like 
an Olla Podrida to {uit my talie. 
4D2 A SINGULGR 
