Sir Hugh Wake, Lord of Deeping in Lincolnshire and Blyseworth in Northamptonshire, married Joane, daughter and co-heiress of John de Wolverton. (See Kimber and Johnson's Baronetage, 3 vols. 1771.)
Broctana.
Bury, Lancashire.
"Words are given to man to conceal his thoughts" (Vol. vi., p. 575.).—This saying may be anterior to Dr. South's time, as the first number of The World, under the assumed name of Adam Fitz-Adam, Thursday, January 4, 1753, begins with the following:
"At the village of Arouche, in the province of Estremadura (says an old Spanish author), lived Gonzales de Castro, who from the age of twelve to fifty-two years was deaf, dumb, and blind."
After relating the sudden restoration of his faculties, "Fitz-Adam" proceeds:
"But, as if the blessings of this life were only given us for afflictions, he began in a few weeks to lose the relish of his enjoyments, and to repine at the possession of those faculties, which served only to discover to him the follies and disorders of his neighbours, and to teach him that the intent of speech was too often to deceive."
It may serve to probe the matter of age to ask, Who was "the old Spanish author" alluded to? Also, where may be found the hexameter line—
"ὅς χ' ἕτερον μὲν κεύθει ἐνὶ φρεσὶν ἄλλο δὲ βάζει."
equivalent to the common expression, "He says one thing and means another," and of which the maxim attribute to Goldsmith, Talleyrand, the Morning Chronicle, and South, seems only a stronger form?