[29] Bk. I. or Bk. IV.
[30] “Amo dormire. Sed nunquam dormio post nonas horas nam episcopus sum et volo dare bonum exemplum fidelibus.” App. Sid. Epistol., Bk. III., Epist. 26. (Libermach’s edition. Berlin, 1875.) It has the true ring of the fifth century.
[31] So Herrick, in his famous epigram on Buggins. A learned prelate of my acquaintance would frequently quote this.
[32] The same lines occur in several other poets. Notably Tupper and Montgomery.
[33] See “Private Memoirs of the Court of Geo. III. and the Regent,” by Mrs. Fitz-H⸺t.
[34] See further, The Morning Star of England, in “Stirrers of the Nations Series,” by the Rev. H. Turmsey, M.A. Also Foes and Friends of John of Gaunt, by Miss Matchkin.
[35] “Latin Proses,” 3s. 6d. net. Jason and Co., Piccadilly.
[36] Now doing his duty to the Empire nobly as a cattle-man in Minnesota.
[37] Everyone will remember the striking article on this author in The Christian Home for July, 1886. It was from Lambkin’s pen.
[38] Lambkin was, when he wrote this letter, fully twenty-six years of age.