The cross,—“Not so! one hand is enough in a purse.”
The proverb, “It is a great way to the bottom of the sea.”
The cross,—“Not so! it is but a stone’s cast.”
The proverb, “The pride of the rich makes the labours of the poor.”
The cross,—“Not so! the labours of the poor make the pride of the rich.”
The proverb, “He runs far who never turns.”
The cross,—“Not so! he may break his neck in a short course.”
[37] It has been suggested that this whimsical amusement has been lately revived, to a certain degree, in the acting of charades among juvenile parties.
[38] Now the punning motto of a noble family.
[39] At the Royal institution there is a fine copy of Polydore Vergil’s “Adagia,” with his other work, curious in its day, De Inventoribus Rerum, printed by Frobenius, in 1521. The wood-cuts of this edition seem to me to be executed with inimitable delicacy, resembling a pencilling which Raphael might have envied.