Transcriber’s Note:
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GLEANINGS
FOR THE CURIOUS
FROM THE
Harvest-Fields of Literature.
A MELANGE OF EXCERPTA,
“So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: andit was about an ephah of barley.” Ruth 2:17.
“I have here made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of myown but the string that ties them.”—Montaigne.
Prefatory.
I am not ignorant, ne unsure, that many there are,before whose sight this Book shall finde small grace,and lesse favour. So hard a thing it is to write orindite and matter, whatsoever it be, that should be ableto sustaine and abide the variable judgement, and toobtaine or winne the constant love and allowance ofevery man, especially if it containe in it any novelty orunwonted strangenesse.—Raynald’s Woman’s Book.
ivBid him welcome. This is the motley-minded gentleman.
—A fountain set round with a rim of old, mossy stones, andpaved in its bed with a sort of mosaic work of variously-coloredpebbles.
—A gatherer and a disposer of other men’s stuff.
A running banquet that hath much variety, but little of a sort.
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen thescraps.
There’s no want of meat, sir; portly and curious viands areprepared to please all kinds of appetites.
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