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This is a very common and current practice: men presume it lawful enough to say over whatever they hear; to report anything, if they can quote an author for it. "It is not," say they, "my invention; I tell it as I heard it: sit fides penes authorem; let him that informed me undergo the blame if it prove false."
In Devonshire and Cornwall it is still considered ominous if a hare crosses a person on the road. See Carew's Survey of Cornwall, p. 22. Mr. Carew had a stone-ring of this kind in his possession, and the person who gave it to him avowed, that "he himself saw a part of the stick sticking in it," but "Penes authorem sit fides," says Mr. Carew. The same superstition still exists in Devonshire.
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