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"Good," said the visitor satirically; "that suits you except it should be 'occidentis partibus: our Sir Asinus comes from the west. And by my faith, I think I will in future dub you Sir Asinus, in revenge for calling me me, the most cheerful of light-hearted mortals the 'melancholy Jacques." "Come, come!" said the gentleman threatened with this sobriquet, "that's too bad, Jacques." "Jacques!
When North had raised himself to the Chiefship of the Common Pleas he chose the Western Circuit, "not for the common cause, it being a long circuit, and beneficial for the officers and servants, but because he knew the gentlemen to be loyal and conformable, and that he should have fair quarter amongst them;" and so much favor did he win amongst the loyal and conformable gentry that old Bishop Mew the prelate of Winchester, popularly known as Bishop Patch, because he always wore a patch of black court-plaster over the scar of a wound which he received on one of his cheeks, whilst fighting as a trooper for Charles I. used to term him the "Deliciæ occidentis, or Darling of the West."
Fecundiora igitur nemora lucosque, sicut Orientis secretis, ubi thura balsamaque sudantur, ita Occidentis insulis terrisque inesse, crediderim; quae vicini solis radiis expressa atque liquentia in proximum mare labuntur, ac vi tempestatum in adversa littora exundant.
A list of Roman officials, civil and military, throughout the empire has come down to us; in this list Notitia Dignitatem et Administratem, tam civilium quam militarium in partibus orientis et occidentis the portion which relates to the Wall is headed, Item per lineam Valli "Also along the line of the Wall." The following is a copy of this portion, as given by Dr.
The Church of Milan certainly had hymns in its Office and in its Office books then, for St. Paulinus in his life of St. Augustine wrote: "Hoc in tempore, primum antiphonae, hymni ac vigilae in Ecclesia Mediolanensi celebrari coeperunt; cujus celebritatis devotio usque in hodiernam diem, non solum, in Ecclesia Mediolanensi verum per omnes pene Occidentis provincias manet."
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