"I do not so secure me in the error."—Act I. Sc. 3.
In Du Cange's Gloss. is the verb "Securare nudè pro securum reddere." In the "Alter Index sive Glossarium" of Ainsworth's Dictionary is the verb "Securo, as ... to live carelessly." In the "Verba partim Græca Latinè scripta, partim barbara," &c., is "Securo, as securum reddo."
The means of the hare in the fable for the race (that is, her swiftness) secured her; the defects of the tortoise (her slowness) proved her commodity.
F. W. J.
MANNERS OF THE IRISH.
The following are extracts from a MS. volume of the sixteenth century, containing, inter alia, notes of the Manners and Superstitions of the
Celtic Irish. Some of our readers may be able to elucidate the obscure references:
"The Irish men they have a farme,
They kepp the bread,