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These works have been extremely valuable in the course of this inquiry; they are more especially valuable just now in enabling me to trace home to him the authorship of the first six books of the Annals; these works were 15 in number, namely 1. Historia Disceptativa de Avaritia; 2. Two books of Historiae Convivales; 3. An essay De Nobilitate; 4. Ruinarum Urbis Romae Descriptio; 5.
XII. No Non-juror shall be capable of being a Member. The Morality of this little Club is guarded by such wholesome Laws and Penalties, that I question not but my Reader will be as well pleased with them, as he would have been with the 'Leges Convivales' of Ben. Johnson, the Regulations of an old Roman Club cited by Lipsius, or the rules of a Symposium in an ancient Greek author.
Ben Jonson wrote Leges Convivales that were 'engraven in marble over the chimney in the Apollo of the Old Devil Tavern, Temple Bar; that being his Club Room. Jonson's Works, ed. 1756, vii. 291. 'To-day deep thoughts with me resolve to drench In mirth, which after no repenting draws. MILTON. 'The Club shall consist of four-and-twenty.
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