_Epitaph on Sir Henry St. George_, Garter Principal King of Englishmen [_sic_ in MS.], from a MS. in the Office of Arms, London (see Ballard MSS., vol. xxix.):
"Here lie a knight, a king, a saint, Who lived by tilt and tournament. His namesake, George, the dragon slew, But, give the herald king his due, He could disarm ten thousand men, And give them arms and shields again. But now the mighty sire is dead, Reposing here his hoary head; Let this be sacred to the mem'ry Of knight St. George and of King Henry"
_Newton and Milton._--Has it been observed that Sir Isaac Newton's dying words, so often quoted,--
"I am but as a child gathering pebbles on the seashore, while the great ocean of truth still lies undiscovered before me."
are merely an adaptation of a passage in _Paradise Regained_, book iv.:
"Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As _children gathering pebbles_ on the shore."
_Eternal Life._--In the _Mishna_ (Berachoth, ch. ix. s. 5) the doctrine of a future eternal state is clearly set forth in a passage which is rendered by De Sola and Raphall:
"But since the Epicureans perversely taught, there is but one state of existence, it was directed that men should close their benedictions with the form [Blessed be the Lord God of Israel] from eternity to eternity."
A like explicit declaration of such future state occurs again in the _Mishna_ (Sanhedrin, ch. xi. s. l.).
_Inscriptions in Books._--The following are taken _literatim_ from the margins of an old black-letter { 123} Bible. From the numerous errors we may suppose they were copied from dictation by a person unacquainted with Latin.
"Quanto doctiores tanto te gesas submiseias."
"Forasmuch as y^u art y^e better learned, By so much y^u must carry thy self more lowly." ------ "Si deus est animus nobis ut carmina dicunt, Sic tibi pricipus (bus?) sit pura mente colendus."
"Seing y^t God is, as y^e poets say, A liveing soul, lets worship him alway." ------ "Tempora (e?) felici multa (i?) numerantur amici, Cum fortuna perit nulus amicus erit."
"In time of prosperity friends will be plenty, In time of adversity not one among twenty."
On the title-page, "John Threlkeld's Book:"