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[611.] Ibid.

[612.] Paus. Hist. of Greece, B. ix. c. xxiii. 3.

[613.] Stanley’s Hist. of Philos., Pt. V. c. ii. p. 157, Lond. 1701. Cf. Pliny, Nat. Hist., xi. 18.

Vide Pierius, Hieroglyph., p. 261–5. Populus regi suo obseques; Rex; Regnum; Grata eloquentia; Poeticæ amœnitas; Futuri seculi beatitudo; Dulcium appetitus; Diuturnæ valetudinis prosperitas; Meretrix; Exoticæ disciplinæ; Prophetarum oracula, etc.

[614.] Lives of the Saints, xii. 106.

[615.] Quot. in N. and Q., x. 500. This story is not in the Fem. Monarchie of 1609, printed for Jos. Barnes.

[616.] Theatr. Ins., p. 21–2. Topsel’s Hist. of Beasts and Serpents, p. 645, 905.

[617.] N. and Q., vi. 480.

[618.] Gay’s Pastorals, v. 107–8.

[619.] Chambers’ Book of Days, i. 752.