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A number of rats were introduced under this cover, and hot coals were heaped upon the vessel, till the rats, rendered furious by the heat, gnawed into the very bowels of the victim, in their agony to escape. The rats were sent by the Governor himself. Vide Letter of the Commissioners to Sonoy, apud Bor, viii. 640, 641. The whole letter is a wonderful monument of barbarity.

A number of rats were introduced under this cover, and hot coals were heaped upon the vessel, till the rats, rendered furious by the heat, gnawed into the very bowels of the victim, in their agony to escape. The rats were sent by the Governor himself. Vide Letter of the Commissioners to Sonoy, apud Bor, viii. 640, 641. The whole letter is a wonderful monument of barbarity.

A note drawen out of a very ancient booke remaining in the hands of the right worshipfull M. Thomas Tilney Esquire, touching Sir Frederike Tilney his ancestor, knighted at Acon in the Holy land for his valour, by K. Richard the first, as foloweth. Pertinuit iste liber prius Frederico Tilney de Boston, in comitatu Lincolniae militi facto apud Acon in terra Iudeae anno Regis Richardi primi tertio.

Gervase, p. 1645. Chron Wint. MS. apud Spell. As the bishops and parochial clergy lived apart with their families, and were more connected with the world, the hopes of success with them were fainter; and the pretence for making them renounce marriage was much less plausible.

Ne caementorum quidem apud illos aut tegularum usus: materia ad omnia utuntur informi et citra speciem aut delectationem. Quaedam loca diligentius illinunt terra ita pura ac splendente, ut picturam ac lineamenta colorum imitetur.

Alonzo Ramirez wished to have the right of burial in the new monastery, but the nobles of Toledo looked on his request as unreasonable. See Foundations, chs. xv. and xvi. See Way of Perfection, ch. viii.; but ch. v. of the previous editions. Ch. xxvii. section 10. St. John xiv. 23: "Ad eum veniemus, et mansionem apud eum faciemus." See section 6. Titus ii. 5: "Sobrias, domus curam habentes."

Mirum, quantum illi viro nuncianti haec fidei fuerit; quamque desiderium Romuli apud plebem exercitumque, facta fide immortalitatis, lenitum sit."

"The harbour of Constantinople, which may be considered as an arm of the Bosphorus, obtained in a very remote period the denomination of the Golden Horn. The curve which it describes might be compared to the horn of a stag, or, as it should seem, with more propriety to that of an ox." Gib. c. 17; Strab. 1. x. Ion apud Plut. Herod. ix. 82. Plut. in Vit. Arist. Leader of ten men.

Tertullian de Anima, C. 49, thence calls them Incubatores fanorum. Lib. XI. p. 108. Paris, fol. 1620. Ibid. lib. XVI. p. 761. De situ orbis, lib. I. cap. 1. Plutarch apud Agis et Cleomen. There was a similar oracle in the neighbourhood of Thalame, not fur from Aetylum, sacred to Ino. Strabo, lib. VI. p, 284. Pausanias, 1, 35. De vita Apoll. Thyan, 11. 37. Strabo, lib. xvii. p. 801. Anian. Exped.

The second and third books of the Elegies, though they show some technical advance, and are without the puerilities which here and there occur in the Cynthia, are on the whole immensely inferior to it in interest and charm. There is still an occasional line of splendid beauty, like the wonderful Sunt apud infernos tot milia formosarum;