[1028] See ante, ii. 413, and v. 91.
[1029] The relation, it should seem, was remote even for Scotland. Their common ancestor was Robert Bruce, some sixteen generations back. Boswell's mother's grandmother was a Bruce of the Earl of Kincardine's family, and so also was his father's mother. Rogers's Boswelliana, pp. 4, 5.
[1030] He refers to Johnson's pension, which was given nearly two years after George Ill's accession. Ante, i. 372.
[1031] Ante, p. 51.
[1032] He repeated this advice in 1777. Ante, iii. 207.
[1033] 'Of their black cattle some are without horns, called by the Scots humble cows, as we call a bee, an humble bee, that wants a sting. Whether this difference be specifick, or accidental, though we inquired with great diligence, we could not be informed.' Johnson's Works, ix. 78.
Johnson, in his Dictionary, gives the right derivation of humble-bee, from hum and bee. The word Humble-cow is found in Guy Mannering, ed. 1860, iii. 91:—'"Of a surety," said Sampson, "I deemed I heard his horse's feet." "That," said John, with a broad grin, "was Grizzel chasing the humble-cow out of the close."'
[1034] 'Even the cattle have not their usual beauty or noble head.' Church and Brodribb's Tacitus.
[1035] 'The peace you seek is here—where is it not? If your own mind be equal to its lot.' CROKER. Horace, I Epistles, xi. 29.
[1036] Horace, I Epistles, xviii. 112.