FLORAL DIRECTORY.
Southernwood. Artemesia Aproxanum.
Dedicated to St. Francis Assissium.
October 5.
St. Placidus, &c. A. D. 546. St. Galla, 6th Cent.
THE ASS.
The cantering of Tim Tims[340] startles him who told of his “youthful days,” at the school wherein poor “Starkey” cyphered part of his little life. C. L. “getting well, but weak” from painful and severe indisposition, is “off and away” for a short discursion. Better health to him, and good be to him all his life. Here he is.
THE ASS
No. 2.
(For Hone’s Every-Day Book.)
Mr. Collier, in his “Poetical Decameron” (Third Conversation) notices a Tract, printed in 1595, with the author’s initials only, A. B., entitled “The Noblenesse of the Asse: a work rare, learned, and excellent.” He has selected the following pretty passage from it. “He (the Ass) refuseth no burthen, he goes whither he is sent without any contradiction. He lifts not his foote against any one; he bytes not; he is no fugitive, nor malicious affected. He doth all things in good sort, and to his liking that hath cause to employ him. If strokes be given him, he cares not for them; and, as our modern poet singeth,