WHO IS NOT CLERK OF THIS, OR ANY OTHER PARISH.

Κικέρων δὲ ἐνιότε πράγματα σπουδῆς
ἄξια γέλωτι καὶ παιδιᾳ κατειρωνευομενος
ΕΙΣ ΤΟ ΧΡΕΙΩΔΕΣ, δοκεῖ καὶ γελωτος οικεῖος
γεγονέναι, και φιλοσκώπτης.

Plutarchi Comparatio Demosthenis cum Cicerone.

Haec ego non rideo, quamvis tu

rideas; sed de re severissimâ, tecum,†

ut soleo, jocor,

Cicero, Epist. ad Familiar, Lib. vii. Epist. 11.

* Swift (Sir W. Scott's) vol. 13, p. 163.
Lector benevole.

DUBLIN.

MILLIKEN AND SON, GRAFTON-STREET,
BOOKSELLERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

LONDON: B. FELLOWES, LUDGATE STREET.

1836.

395.

Dublin Printed by J. S. FOLDS, 5, Bachelor's Walk.

SUPERNUMERARY MOTTOS.

TRES HOSCE LIBELLOS ALLOQUITUR, GRAVITER COMMOTUS,

Thou art too like the spirit of B-n:* down!
--and thy air,

Thou other cloth bound Tract,† is like the first:

A third is like the former :-
Why do you shew me this?

LECTOR.

MACBETH.

TER Conatus ibi, collo dare brachia circum,
Ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago.

VIRGIL.

Firm solid form thrice seeking to embrace,
Thrice was I tangled in a phantom chase :
Reader, your kind instructions I await.--

"Thrice baffled do you say ?-then ter-minate :

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Yes; never stare: my counsel is, have done :

"'Tis brief, and sound, and better than my pun."

"Since it is reasonable to doubt of most things, we should most of all doubt that reason of our's, which would demonstrate all things."Thoughts on various subjects, by Mr. Pope. Swift's Works by Sir W. Scott, vol. 13, p. 260.

* Banquo in the original.

+ Gold-bound brow, in the original.