Note [16],] [Page 246].
Ye Sun-born Virgins! on the road of truth.
See the Fragments of Parmenides:—
......κοῦραι δʹ ὁδὀν ἡγεμόνευον,
ἡλἱαδες κοῦραι, προλιποῦσαι δὠματα νυκτός,
εἰς ϕάος............
Note [17],] [Page 291].
The Scholar-Gypsy.
“There was very lately a lad in the University of Oxford, who was by his poverty forced to leave his studies there; and at last to join himself to a company of vagabond gypsies. Among these extravagant people, by the insinuating subtilty of his carriage, he quickly got so much of their love and esteem as that they discovered to him their mystery. After he had been a pretty while exercised in the trade, there chanced to ride by a couple of scholars, who had formerly been of his acquaintance. They quickly spied out their old friend among the gypsies; and he gave them an account of the necessity which drove him to that kind of life, and told them that the people he went with were not such impostors as they were taken for, but that they had a traditional kind of learning among them, and could do wonders by the power of imagination, their fancy binding that of others; that himself had learned much of their art, and when he had compassed the whole secret, he intended, he said, to leave their company, and give the world an account of what he had learned.”—Glanvil’s Vanity of Dogmatizing, 1661.
Note [18],] [Page 299].
Thyrsis.