"Here lies Jacob Bobart,
Nail'd up in a cupboard."
In the preface to Mr. Nichols' work on Autographs, among other albums noticed by him as being in the British Museum, is that of David Krieg, with Jacob Bobart's autograph, and the following verses:
"VIRTUS SUA GLORIA.
Think that day lost whose descending sun,
Views from thy hand no noble action done.
Your success and happyness
Is sincerely wished by
Ja. Bobart, Oxford."
Mr. Richardson's engraved portrait of Bobart the Elder is only a copy of Burghers' engraving, so highly spoken of by Granger, and cannot, therefore, be nearly so valuable as the latter.
Garlichithe.
"Putting your foot into it" (Vol. viii., p. 77.).—W. W. is certainly "Will o' the Wisp" himself. We must not allow him to lead us into Asia, hunting for the origin of a saying which is nothing more than a coarse allusion to an accident that happens day after day to every heedless or benighted pedestrian in England; but if a foreign origin must be found for this saying, let us travel to Greece rather than to Hindostan, and we shall see in the writings of Æschylus:
"Ἐλαφρὸν, ὅστις πημάτων ἔξω πόδα
Ἔχει, παραινεῖν νουθετεῖν τε τὸν κακῶς
Πράσσοντ'." κ.τ.λ.—Prom. Vinc. 271.