SIC OPORTET AD LIBRUM PRÆSERTIM MISCELLANEI GENERIS LEGENDUM ACCEDERE LECTOREM UT SOLET AD CONVIVIUM CONVIVA CIVILIS. CONVIVATOR ANNITITUR OMNI

BUS SATISFACERE ET TAMEN SI QUID APPONITUR QUOD HUJUS AUT ILLIUS PALATO NON RESPONDEAT, ET HIC ET ILLE URBANE DISSIMULant, et alia FERCULA PROBANT, NE QUID CONTRISTENT CONVIVATOREM."

ERASMUS.

Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars, London.

DISASTERS IN RETIREMENT.

"Thise bachelers singen, alas!

Whan that they find any adversitee

In love, which n'is but childish vanitee.

And trewely it sit wel to be so,

That batchelors have often peine and wo."

"What do you think of marriage?

I take't as those that deny purgatory;

It locally contains or heaven, or hell;
There's no third place in't,"

CHAUCER.

WEBSTER.

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