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MANY LITERARY, LEARNED, AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES,

James Russell Lowell

(_for which see page 227_.)

 

The ploughman's whistle, or the trivial flute,

Finds more respect than great Apollo's lute.

_Quarles's Emblems_, B. ii. E. 8.

 

Margaritas, munde porcine, calcasti: en, siliquas accipe.

_Jac. Car. Fil. ad Pub. Leg._ Section 1.