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![[576] [FORD (Simon)]. Grpeon’s Fiegce: or, the Sieur de Frisk. An Heroick Poem. Written on the cursory perusal of a late Book, call’d The Conclave of Physicians. By a Friend to the Muses. First Eprrion. Small gto. Calf. London, Sam. Smith, 1684. $3 38 A fine copy. Wrenn Library Catalogue, Vol. I, p. 176. Tue Source OF SHAKESPEARE’S LEGAL KNOWLEDGE. [577] FRAUNCE (Abraham). Tue Lawrers Loctxz, exemplifying the praecepts of Logike by the practise of the common Lawe. First Eprrion. Small 4to. Fine large copy in full red morocco gilt, g.e. London, William How, for Thomas Gubbin, and T. Newman, 1588. £52 I0s With the rare folding leaf “A generall Table of the whole Booke,” and the original blank leaf between the first and second books. Dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke in rhymed hexameters. Quotations from English and Latin poets appear in the text, and Fraunce appends Virgil’s second eclogue in the original and in his own hexametrical translation, afterwards reprinted at the end of the “Ivychurch,” as well as analyses of the Earl of Northumberland’s case and of Stanford’s crown pleas. | ” Dibdin, speaking of Fraunce’s “ Lawier’s Logike,” says:—“It is one of the most elegant and instructive volumes of Philology with which I am acquainted.” Quoting from the Halliwell-Phillipps Sale Catalogue :— “Tt is believed by Shakespearian critics that it was from this volume that Shakespeare acquired much of his legal knowledge. The following passage is a fair specimen of its style: ‘The like absurditye would it be for a man of our age to affectate such words as were quite worn out at heels and elbows long before the nativitie of Geffray Chaucer. The seconde is, when doubtful and ambiguous words bee used, as that ‘All the maydes in Camberwell, May dance in an egg-shell.’ Of a little village of London, where Camberwell may be taken for the well in the towne, or the towne itselfe. So the Mayre of Erith is the best Mayre next to the Mayre of London, where the towne, God knows, is a poor thing, and the Mayre thereof a seely fellow, yet it is the very next to London because there is none between.’ Further on the author gives a translation of Virgil’s 2nd Eclogue in English hexameters, and then proceeds to give a logical analysis of it.” [578| FREEMASONS. DESAGULIERS (John Theophilus). Tue Constitutions OF THE Free-Masons. Containing the History, Charges, Regulations, &c., of that most Ancient and Right Worshipful Fraternity. For the Use of the Lodges. Wath engraved frontispiece by John Pine and 6 pp. of musical score. First Eprrion. 4to. Large copy in the original calf binding. London, William Hunter, for John Senex and John Hooke. In the Year of Masonry 5723. Anno Domini 1723. £45 Containing Masonic songs in verse. (16 pp.). John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744), natural philosopher, was the son of Jean Desaguliers, pastor of a protestant congregation at Aitré. On the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685 his father fled to England, bringing his young son with him. Desaguliers became a great lecturer on hydrostatics, optics, and mechanics, the first to deliver lectures on learned subjects to the general public. His lectures were attended by the most learned men of the day, and were made interesting by skilful experiments. His lectures in Holland were equally successful. [ 108 |](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31805978_0114.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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