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Macaulay's _Hist. of England_ (1st ed.), ii. 476:--
"But the iron stoicism of William never gave way: and he
stood among his weeping friends calm and austere, as if he
had been about to leave them only for a short visit to his
hunting-grounds at Loo."
"... non aliter tamen
Dimovit obstantes propinquos,
Et populum reditus morantem,
Quam si clientum longa negotia
Dijudicata lite relinqueret,
Tendens Venafranos in agros,
Aut Lacedaemonium Tarentum."
Hor. _Od._ iii. v. 50-56.
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"De meretrice puta quod sit sua filia puta,
Nam sequitur leviter filia matris iter."
These lines are said by Menage (_Menagiana_, Amstm. 1713. 18mo., iii.
12mo.) to exist in a Commentary "In composita verborum Joannis de
Galandia."
F.C.B.
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WILLIAM BASSE AND HIS POEMS.
Your correspondent, the Rev. T. Corser, in his note on William Basse,
says, that he has been informed that there are, in Winchester College
Library, in a 4to.
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