The doctor &c / by the late Robert Southey ; edited by his son-in-law, John Wood Warter.

  • Robert Southey
Date:
1865
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Credit: The doctor &c / by the late Robert Southey ; edited by his son-in-law, John Wood Warter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A caitiff, a cut-throat, a creeper in corners, A hairbrain, a hangman, or a grafter of homers ? A merchant, a maypole, a man or a mackarel, A crab or a crevise, a crane or a cockerell V Appius and Virginia. It may appear to some ridiculous Thus to talk knave and madman, and sometimes Come in with a dried sentence, stuft with sage. Webster. Etsi verd, qucs in isto opere desiderentur, recliils forsan qudm quivis alius, perspiciam ; et si meo plane voto stan~ dum/uisset, id, in tantd, quce hodie est librorum copid, vel plane suppressissem,vel in multos annos adhucpressissemj iamen aliquid amicis, aliquid tempori dandum; et cum Us qui aliquid fructus ex eo sperant, illud communicandum putavi. Hunc itaque meum qualemcunque laborem. Lec- tor candide, boni consule ; quod te facilh facturum conjido, si eum animum ad legendum altuleris, quern ego ad scri- bendum, veritatis nimirum aliisque inserviendi cupidum. Sennertus. \_PreJixed to Vol. VII. in the original Edition.'] PEELUDE OF MOTTOES. Well: we go on. Meric Casaubon. Ventri utinam pax sit, sic variante cibo. Venantius Fortunatijs. I had forgot one half, I do protest. And now am sent again to speak the rest. Dryden. Well said. Master Doctor, well said; By the mass we must have you into the pulpit. Lusty Juventus. Why this is quincy quarie pepper de watchet single go- by, of all that ever I tasted 1 Robert Greene. Alonso. Pry thee no more! thou dost talk nothing to me. Gonxalo. I did it to minister occasion to these gentle- men who are of such sensible and nimble lungs, that they always use to laugh at nothing. Tempest. Comme Von voit, d Vouvrir de la porte D'un cabinet royal, maint beau tableau, Mainte antiquaiUe, et tout ce que de beau Le Portugais des Indes nous apporte ; Aussi deslors que Vhomme qui medite, Et est sgavant, commence de s'ouvrir, Un grand thresor vient d se descouvrir, Thresor cachi aupuits de Democrite. Quatrains de Pibrac. Cum enim infelicius nihil sit Us ingeniis, ut recte J. Cces. Scaliger censet, quce mordicus sentiunt Majores nostros nihil ignorasse, mancipium alienarum opinionum nun- quam esse volui. Contra nec me puduit ab aliis discere, et quccdam ex Us in mea scripta transferre ; quod omnibus seculis ab omnibus viris doctis factitatum video, neminem- que adhuc inventum existimo, qui omnia, quce in publicum edidit, in suo cerebro nata esse gloriari potuerit. In- venient tamen, qui volent, in meis aliqua, eaque d veritate non aliena, quce in aliorum scriptis forsan non ita sunt obvia. VeriXm omnibus placereimpossibile s et, ut J. Cces. Scaliger ait Qui sevit, ab alto pluviam satis precatur ; At iter faciens imbribus imprecatur atris. Non scope Deus placet; et tu placere credis ? Ideoque invidorum obtrectationibus nihil motus, tomum sextum Doctoris in publicum edidi, ac septimum jam in manus sumam, et in eo quousque D.O. M. placuerit, pro- gredtor. In quo ipso etiam etsi non pauca quce obtrecta- tioni malevolorum et invidorum obnoxia esse poterunt, dicenda erunt, proferam tamen ea libere. Sennertus. Tired of thee, my Opus ? that is impossible ! ouSj pLiiTTO? (Tov ytyoV oiihui wucrort. tSv [xh yoc.^ oiXXm Iffri ^roivTcav xXv^trixorli' \guroi, oc^rcov, fxovdtx^f, r^KyfifXMTW, rip.ru, xXoixoCvToiv, u.v'h^a.yotBiae.f, pA.Xri{, Cr^otTriyiats, (fetxvs. crev S’ lyiviP eiSs/j ptcrros Aristophanes. I desire the unlearned readers not to be offended for that I have in some places intermixed Greek and Latin— (and other tongues) with the English. For I have an especial regard unto young scholars and students, unto whom it is not possible to be expressed what great utility, benefit, and knowledge doth redound, of conferring one strange language with another. Neither is it to be doubted, but that such as are towards the discipline of good literature in divers tongues, may of such doings as this pick out as much utility and furtherance of their studies, as the unlearned shall take pleasure and fruit of the English for their use. Whoso careth not for the Latin may pass it over, and satisfy himself with the En- glish. Who passeth not on the Greek, may semblably pass it over, and make as though he see none such. There is in this behalf no man’s labour lost but mine, and yet not that all lost neither, if my good zeal and honest intent to do good to all sorts, be in good part interpreted and ac- cepted. Nicholas Udall. Truly for the Englishman to be offended with the ad- mixtion of Latin, or the Latin-man to dislike the powder- ing of Greek, appeareth unto me a much like thing, as if at a feast with variety of good meats and drinks furnished, one that loveth to feed of a capon should take displeasure that another man hath appetite to a coney ; or one that serveth his stomach with a partridge should be angry with another that hath a mind to a quail; or one that drinketh small beer, should be grieved with his next fellow for drinking ale or wine. Nicholas Udall. If food and amusement are wanted for the body, what does lie deserve who finds food and amusement for the mind? Gnomica. Mai voi, — seguitate il ragionamento del Dottore ; et mostrateci, come havete bona memoria ; che credo se sape- rete ritaccarlo ove lo lasciaste, non farete poco. Castiglione. If any complain of obscurity, they must consider, that in these matters it cometh no otherwise to pass than in sundry the works both of art and also of nature, where that which hath greatest force in the very things we see, is, notwithstanding, itself oftentimes not seen. The stateliness of horses, the goodliness of trees, when we behold them, delighteth the eye; but that foundation which beareth up the one, that root which ministereth unto the other nourishment and life, is in the bosom of the earth concealed ; and if there be at any time occasion to search into it, such labour is then more necessary than pleasant, both to them which undertake it, and for the lookers on. Hooker.
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