* 
820.] 
SERTORIUS. 
Sertorius is described by Plutarch, as 
imagining the first emigrations to 
America. ¢ bibs Sertorius, (says he, 
vol. ii. p. $18,) fearing the might of 
Sylia, fled . Africa, and thence - to 
Spain, he met with Andalusian shippers, 
who were just returned froin, the Fortu- 
nate Islands, ‘Thereupon he felt a vio- 
lent desire to go and reside in Chase 
regions, where le might dwell in peace-" 
ful independence, escaped from tyranny 
aud warfare. 
MEDLARS. 
The medlar, or mespilus germanica, 
is rarely praised as a dainty, but 1s pre- 
ferred when slightly tainted by frost. 
It requires a Dutch palate to relish med+ 
lars; for Linnaus, im his Academic” 
Ainenities, Says, that they pass for 
delicacies in “Holland; ‘and a Datch: 
traveller to Surinam, (F erm, vol, i. "Bi 
176,) vaunts, as an exquisite fruit, the 
scarlet mediars of Guyana. 
TOMB OF EZECHIEL. 
Benjamin of Tudela says, that within 
a few leagues of Bagdad, exists a superb 
mausoleum, containing a valuable: t- 
brary, which + is still called ms tomb of 
Ezechiel, and is visited not only by Jew- 
ish, but by Christian and Mahometan 
pilgrims. 
SALVATION OF SCENE A ANS. 
oi 
Basnage, (Histoire des Juifs, lib. iv. 
C. xxix.) quotes certain Rabbees who 
allow, 
rians ag be saved; ‘but who mai ntaip, 
that there is no chance of escaping dan- 
nation in the next world, for those Chris- 
tians who have thrust a_ strolling ie 
sician into the throne of the Almiginy. 
BON-MOT OF TASSO. 
The exemplary virtue and chastity of 
Laura towards. ‘Petra neh, drew. the ful- 
lowing bon-mot rom Alex. “Tasso: 
“Phat Petrarch: enjoyed her as rats 
do the drugs of an apothecary, by lick- 
ing the outsides of the bottles.’ RM fem. 
Vie. Pet. vol. ii. p. A78. re 
SINGULAR, et cee 
Thomas Cumb rw 
diocese of Lincola, b 
in the year 4450, ty 
funeral ; 
my Redemptur, and my. wretchid bodie 
to be bery'd in &chitte without any kyste, 
( iat is, a shroud without any ‘collin ») in 
the north yle of the paryshe kiyrke of 
Somerethy.—Ha. Mram. Lun, Epise. 
Lint. 
i WILD. 
of the 
ast. “oon made 
SCOTTISH OATITs 
The following singular eath, according 
that Serveto and the Antitrinita- . 
provides for his? 
Furst, if eve my sawle” to Gode'' 
Extracts from the Port folio of a Man of Letters. 
567 
to Skene, was formerly in use in Scot. 
land, and taken by their assisers or 
jurors: 
¢ We shall leil snith say, 
And no suith conceal, tor nothing we may, 
So far as we’re hiked upon this adsize, 
- Be God himself and our part of patadises 
“As we will to answer God upon 
The dreadful day of done.” 
Sui SPANISH INDOLENCE, 
Voiture, in a letter to a friend, says: 
<7 have no other excuse to make fer the 
length of time I’ve been a writing to you 
than indolence; for besides my own, I’ve 
, contracted that of the country ions L 
am, which surpasses, without doubt, all 
the kingdoms of Europe for laziness ; 5 sO 
conspicuous in the Spaniards that no 
constraint whatever wall oblige them to 
sweep away the dust from their own 
_doors, and when it rains, those whe 
carry bread from Madrid to the vilkiges, 
will not go, although they were sure of 
getting double the price. Whenthe corn 
is dear in Andalusia, and there is a 
plenty in Castile, they will not take the 
trouble to fetch it, though they are hiter- 
ally starving at boue < for want: if a 
countryman las here a hundred acres of 
dand, he will badly cultivate Sfty of them, 
# 
thinkirie it enough, leaving the other 
half eRe Their vines grow 
spontaneous of themselves, without being 
taken care of, though at the same time 
they have nothing at all tu do: the ferti- 
lity of the land is so great in Spain, that 
they seldom plough more than four 
inches deep; yet some reports say, the 
increase 15 as eighty to one; nevertheless, 
they are poor in the midst of abundance, 
in one of the finest states of Europe : the 
_ reason of which 1s, because they are o- 
thing but aset of rogues and vagabunds,” 
A SPANISH PROVERB. 
Tn a little old book, without date, 
printed in Latin, entiled, Spanish 
Proverbs,” is the following GURMArONe 
«Woman is the paratlise of the eye, the 
hell of the soul, the purgatory of the 
thoughts.”"—Vovlure. p. 47. 
members, and the limbo of the 
A CURIOUS SUIELD, 
Alphonso, duke of Calabria, made a 
present to Edward his son, of a golden 
shield, on which was engraven Giger ani-= 
mals; ; the first of which were astag, with 
this inseription, Deum time; is em- 
blemt was to remind him of his daty ta 
God, as the stag is said to be fearful of 
thunder and light ning: the second was 
astork, with ‘Parentes rev peres 
this was 
to aGmonish him with 
a. due respect 
tosvard 
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