{1} “Mauth” is Manx for dog, I am told.{2} It is easy to bear the misfortunes of others.{3} In the third volume of his essays.{4} “I remember I went into the room where my father’s body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a-beating the coffin and calling ‘Papa,’ for I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.”—STEELE, The Tatler, June 6, 1710.{5} Longmans.{6} I like to know what the author got.{7} Salmon roe, I am sorry to say.{8} “Why and Wherefore,” Aytoun.{9} Fersitan legendum, “Help Thou.”{10} I know, now, who Miriam was and who was the haunter of the Catacombs. But perhaps the people is as well without the knowledge of an old and “ower true tale” that shook a throne.{11} Cannot the reader guess? I am afraid that I can!{12} Edinburgh, 1685. |
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