"Cy guer pison tuit Apolin."
Can Iklynton again be the place where such an ornament was made? Ickleton, in Cambridgeshire, appears to have been of some note in former days, as, according to Lewis's Topog. Hist., a nunnery was founded there by Henry II., and a market together with a fair granted by Henry III. As it is only five miles from Linton, it may have formerly borne the name of Ick-linton.
C.I.R.
"I'd preach as though" (Vol. i., p. 415.).—The lines quoted by Henry Martyn are said by Dr. Jenkyn (Introduction to a little vol. of selections from Baxter—Nelson's Puritan Divines) to be Baxter's "own immortal lines." Dr. J. quotes them thus:—
"I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men."
Ed. S. Jackson.
May 18.
"Fools rush in" (Vol. i., p. 348.).—The line in Pope,
"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread,"