Nero to rise again, and be Antichrist: or to come again like Arthur, or Sebastian. 1466. 28. Maximilian's attempt on Bruges frustrated by his forgetting that it was leap year, and going a day too soon. 29. The usurer, and his account, kept in black stones. 39. Auctor. 41. Removal of B. monks from Lubec. 45. A pretty story of the Turk and singing birds. 49. Saxon Suttees. 51. It seems Eleemon's name was Phanias. 63. A bad neighbourhood. 66. Asses. 71. Diogenes, how he would have had his corpse disposed of. 82. Music its own reward. 89. Agesilaus cracked a louse at the altar. 103. Funerals at Marseilles, without mourning. 105. Virgil and Livy in danger from Caligula. 106. Præ invidiâ he shaved those who had fine hair. 109. Theophrastus the Phil. envied the longevity of a raven. 137. Question of the Rhodians de matulâ to Minerva Lindia, brazen ones were in use. 145. Oath of the Aselepiad physicians. 161. Sforza used friars for spies. 162. Effect of Church music on S. Augustine. 165. Seditious custom in the Valais. 33. Memory improved by a wound in the invited in Scotland, and at Milan. head. 1 Southey thought this the most perfect of all Common Place Books. His copy (now before me) is the enlarged one by Theodore's son, James Zuinger. It is the general store house to which all second hand quotations in our old Divines may be traced.-J. W. W. 208. History of the forged inscription at Cintra. But it is not likely that Emanuel was privy to the trick. 223. Case of voluntary apparent-death like that which Dr. Oliver has recorded. 255. Phalantus, an heroic and oracular story of hair-hunting. 270. Cæsarian operation performed by a sow-gelder on his own wife. A. D. 1500. 271. Fostering reversed in Cato's family; for his wife used to suckle her slaves' infants, "quo benevolos eos ex educationis consortio erga filium redderet." Fathers nursed the babe in the Isle of Cyrnus. Parents at Thebes allowed to sell their children, not to expose them. The Romans disliked hired or servile nurses, "cùm ingenuitas à matre solâ, non patre proficiscatur.” 275. The Selenetidæ, oviparous women, who hatched giants, five and ten times the size of men who were of woman born. 278. The Gordii elected the fattest man for king. for it, so were the Picards, and the Parisian women affected it, and used to say Masie, for Marie. 383. Maximilian's late developement of mind. 407. Fish sacrificed to Atergatis. 416. S. Bernard thought it indecent for a monk to snore. Babylonians sleeping in water. 418. Miraculous return from Jerusalem. Galen's breath was odoriferous. 420. Aratus," instante prælio, præ timore excrementa emittere solebat." 423. Herpiæ, a few families near M. So 281. Alexander in the odour of a civet-racte who had the secret of making themcomplection. 284. P. Paul II. wished to take the name of Formosus, and was greatly mortified that the Cardinal objected to it, because of the evil fate of this predecessor so called. 291-3. Macrocephali. selves appear incombustible. A Dervise by exhibiting the same power saved himself and his brethren from execution. 431. The Romans concluded supper with lettuces as soporific. 300. Witold Duke of Lithuania, first ordered all his subjects that he alone might display a beard. Afterwards shaved both head and beard, and forbade them on pain of death to shave or shear either. 302. The Celtiberians washed their bodies wild, and were therefore doggish. and teeth with urine. High price of thistles (carduos lactucarum) at Rome, Carthage, and Corduba. White poppy, toasted and eaten with honey. 314. A fine story of Pescara; because of his renown and his generosity, a generous enemy struck aside the match, which should have fired a gun against him, with certain aim. 340. The Sabæans fumigate with asphaltum and goats-beard,to counteract the debilitating effect of their perfumed atmosphere. 348. Attempt to stink out a Hussite garrison. Reflection in a fog, as on a mountain. 382. A priest goes to light a candle at a cat's eyes, as a G. Gurton. Basil, his voice was feeble, till it became strong, like a swan's, at his death. Rhotacism. The Greeks called this defect in speech Phisidizing, because the r was changed into s. The Eretrians were noted Corsicans eat dogs, both domestic and Gregory III. enjoined Boniface to make the Germans leave off eating horse flesh. 432. Grubs eaten by the Romans. Fish reduced to powder by the Babylonians. Achilles bred up upon the marrow of bears and wild boars, and the inwards of lions. 433. Zoroaster lived in the deserts twenty years upon cheese, so kept that it did not appear to grow old. Astomi, the mouthless people. A man who lived on sunshine alone. 434. The Northerns used to buy large quantities of oil from Spain, till they were told lyingly, that this exported oil had been See ERASM, Adagia, sub. v. Eretriensium Rho.-J. W. W. used for bathing lepers in. The lard of the seal was then used instead. 1088. Jerome, how to teach the letters. Facility of the Dutch in acquiring lan 435. Pygmy houses of egg shells and fea-guages. thers. Burgundians so called because they dwelt in burghs; and burgi here said to be πúρуo in Greek " a communione ignis." Gothic letters disused in Spain by a decree of the Council of Toledo. 1090. The I and the f in certain parts of Narbonne and Piedmont, as among the Por 441. Unmarried girls among the Egyp-tuguese. tians not allowed to wear shoes. Thus they were kept at home, for it was unlawful to appear abroad bare-footed. The Chinese produce the same clausure in a worse way. 442. Vociferation a wholesome exercise. 463. A good story how the Devil pleaded an innocent man's cause. 1094. Lawyers and kings above the rules of grammar. Divines also. 1104. 1095. Peculiarities of pronunciation. Bilip the Macedonian called Philip. The Shibboleth of the Genoese, by which 472. A wolf in the Genevan territory, they were detected and so slain. killed thirty persons. 554. A dying devotee takes the buzzing of a bee for the sound of angel's voices. 566. The curious error that bodies killed by lightning do not putrify. 567. Hoger, Archbishop of Hamburgh, supposed to have risen from the dead. Abutabel's grave. The angel of death took Moses by the nose. 664. Originally in the Greek states, and long in some of them, slavery was not permitted. 665. Herrings driven from Inverness by a battle. When men are wicked enough to fight for what nature bestows so bountifully, this always happens,-it is here.-It is known that this is the case after a sea fight, and has been ascribed to the agitation in the water produced by the cannon. But have they a dislike to blood? I think not, all being carnivorous. 665. A. D. 1086. Tame fowl becoming wild, after a pestilence I suppose. Vol. 2. P. 1087. CHILPERIC attempted to add 0, "Coqui olim studebant nominum novi- 1095. A good error of the press in the decretal by which Pope Gelasius is made to commend the heretical verses of Sedulius, instead of the heroical. 1096. Seven poets of whom Lycophron was one, called Pleiades. 1100. The Sorbonni would have had qu in Latin pronounced k. 1101. The Pope's enjoined prayers in Latin, as a part of Roman policy,—the language of imperial law, now of religion,-of empire in both. 1102. When the Turkish Sultans meant to keep their faith, they spoke in Turkish, in some other tongue if they intended to break it. 1103. Clenard how he worked out his first knowledge of Arabic. pensile beds to induce sleep, he relied mainly | on temperance, exercise, and friction, for the preservation of health. 1241. King of Araca trying the odour of complection before he took his wives. 1243. A good miracle, whereby Basil converted a Jew. 1245. Galen. 1246. Maximilian's question to the physicians, QUOT ? A good story of granting a medical degree at Padua to an incompetent German. 1276. Music first learnt from birds. 1283. Dead and buried priests joining in the psalms. 1297. An alarum clock which struck fire and lighted a candle, made for Alciatus. 1312. When (Rabbi ?) Jonathan, the son of Uziel, was engaged in translating the Old Testament into Chaldee, any insect, that fled over him or the book before him, was instantly consumed by fire from heaven. 1332-3. Probable stories of attempted magic. 1333. Something like modern witchcraft noticed by the Council of Ancyra, when sorceresses went out to ride by night over the world with Diana, or with Herodias. 1334. Magdalene de la Cruz. I do not understand her story. 1338. A Pagan elevation from the ground. 1345. Adalides and Almogavares here said (by Laur. Valla) to have been diviners at first. 1346. Cæsar's ghost appearing to Cassius. 1348. Aerial men, their account of themselves to Cardan the father. 1361. An ordeal in which cold water was to scald the guilty. 1362. Arithmomantia. Lycophron the inventor of anagrams, or perhaps of looking for a mysterious signifiIcation in them. 1366. Two cases wherein death mistakes a man for his namesake. 1368. St. Adalbert's finger swallowed by a fish, it shone through him, like a torch, so that the fish was taken, and the relic found. 1370. Cælius Rhodiginus recollects in a dream where to find a passage (book and part of the page) in Pliny, which he had vainly looked for. 1371. Divination by clouds. 1372. Romantic story of the gigantic Moorish statue at Cadiz. 1371. Snow at Lisbon on the day of Cardinal Henrique's birth; Osorius represents it as emblematic of his purity. 1375. Daniel the Egyptian abbot; an infant speaks to remove a suspicion which filiated it upon the saint. 1382. A preacher on the Epiphany, who did not know whether "vir fuerit, aut femina; sed quisquis extiterit, a nobis est summo timore hic dies custodiendus." Somewhat of the same kind said concerning angels. 1385. S. Vicelinus joins from his grave in the singing. 1386. John the Baptist's head. An Arian Emperor could not remove it; but it went with Theodosius. 1387. Dead Bishops subscribing the Nicene Creed. “eâ horâ quâ Monothelitarum hæresis in Synodo damnabatur, multa aranearum telæ de cœlo in medium populum deciderunt; in testimonium, sordes hæreticæ pravitatis depulsas esse." 1389. In Tundal's vision, an Irish king was seen, who had an intermittent purgatory. One and twenty hours he was at rest, but the other three he was in fire up to the navel, and above it had a cilice on, which was no doubt of purgatorial texture: “quia legitimi conjugii maculavit sacramentum,” therefore he was mid deep in fire; the cilice was "quod jussit comitem interfici juxta S. Patricium, et prævaricatus est jusjurandum." All his other crimes had been forgiven him. 1391. Anselm the day on which he died, seen in a bed of glory. 1392. A dove brings a crown of gold from heaven to St. Margaret, and places it on her head during her martyrdom. 1393. An earthly purgatory suffered by all who fell in a great battle near Worms. 1396. The Host. Udo Bishop of Magde- | picans mulierem in ecclesiâ loqui Paulus burg miraculously put to death. A noble vetat, respondit." transubstantiation story. 1396. Penetrability of matter. The devil gets a man out of prison by squeezing him through the door, "non sine gravi pressurâ." 1397. This same person was carried to hell, and there he saw that all who were clothed in purple and gold were tormented "perenni incendio," for all that shone like purple and gold, proved "ignem et incendium esse," and in the most intense degree he brought away his hand almost consumed with St. Antony's fire, from approaching it. 1398. Johannes Antonius Campanus, Bishop of Arezzo, a laureate by nativity, &c. 1399. Joan of Arc's mother dreamt that she was brought to bed of fulgur, lightning, or a thunder bolt? Galeacius first (of the Sforzas ?) so named because the cocks were crowing when he was born, and he cried as loudly as any of them. 1400. Hesiod's relics. 1433. Orestes'. 1405. St. Benedict cuts for the stone in dreams. 1414. A fatalist story from Olaus, which might make a poem. Ed 1418. King Edward's ring, and ceremony of Kings of England blessing rings on Easter Eve, as amulets against epilepsy. ward the Confessor-I suppose Polydore V. means by Edward III. The model of Henry VII.'s tomb (not VIII.'s) helped to kill Leo X. 1424. The ghost of the old woman in the chimney corner, which always announced a death in the family. A girl was dangerously ill once when she appeared, but the girl recovered, and a hale person died. This too might be told in verse. 1493. A Persian miracle against interment, as profaning the earth; and a Greek epigram thereon. 3 c 1503. Jordan, the Dominican General, being asked whether it was better always to pray, or always to read the Scriptures, replied, an vero nescis, assidentem mensæ non modo comedere, sed alterius quoque bibere solere ?" Bernard repented that he had injured his health by too much abstinence. 1504. Idle questions in theology well censured. 1510. A miraculous Pagan image, bearing just the same relation to Popish images as the reliques of the heathen to those of the Papists. 1511. Plutarch and the Jews! He supposed their religion to be the worship of Bacchus under another name! 1512. Hilarion could scent to what devil or to what vice any one was subject. 1514. Cunegunda, wife of the Emperor Henry II. made the devil carry enormous marble stones for building the cathedral at Bamberg. For the other workpeople a sack of money stood open, from which every one paid himself, and no one could take more than the just wages of his labour. 1515. St. Bernard killed flies by excommunicating them. 1520. Because dancing was an abomination at Geneva, the devil dealt with a girl there, and gave her a sort of load-stone (virga ferrea), which compelled every one whom she touched with it to dance. When she was brought before the judges she laughed at them, and said they could not put her to death, "neque unquam voluit resipiscere, donec ad mortem damnata est." Then she was dreadfully frightened, and said the devil her master had deceived her. 1520. A notion that butter cannot be made if a certain verse of the psalm, which says "Bodinus, nemo jam rusticus nescit," be said over the churn. 1522. Spreading the plague. A truth? or like the calumnies relating to the Jews? "Dubito." 1522. A magician who could kill any three |