He also made an iron fly that, when at dinner, he was
able to make start from under his hand, and fly round the table.
--See De Bartas, 6me jour 1me semaine.
18. Hidden, from the Greek [Greek omitted].
19. A military term for a small mine.
20. The Armada.
21. The practice of drawing lots.
22. An account.
23. See Il. VIII. 18--
"Let down our golden everlasting chain,
Whose strong embrace holds heaven, and earth, and main."
--
Pope, Il. viii. 26.
24. An argument where one proposition is accumulated upon another,
from the Greek [Greek omitted], a heap.
25. Alluding to the second triumvirate--that of Augustus, Antony, and
Lepidus. Florus says of it, "Respublica convulsa est lacerataque."
26. Ochinus. He was first a monk, then a doctor, then a Capuchin friar,
then a Protestant: in 1547 he came to England, and was very
active in the Reformation. He was afterwards made Canon of
Canterbury. The Socinians claim him as one of their sect.
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