[302] The meaning is whether Tobit’s dog was to be called a comman cur
        (baty), or a greyhound, or a watch-dog.  The dog does not appear in
        the English version of the Apocrypha, but in the Vulgate.—­Tob.
        vi.  I. Profectus est autem Tobias et canis sequutus est eum, et
        mansit ... juxta fluvium Tiberis.—­xi. 9.  Tunc praecucurrit canis
        ... et quasi nuncius adveniens, blandimento suae caudae gaudebat.

    [303] Foot.

    [304] Thee.

    [305] Mad.

Wonderful was the temperance and moderation of the ancient Romans, yea greater then whats to be found amongs Christians even now.  They know[306] no more but on diet a day, and that sober enough.  At the first tyme that some Greeks came to Rome, and the Romans saw them, according to the custome of their country, eat thrise a day, they condamned them for the greatest gluttons that could be.

    [306 1] Knew, as on p. 91.

That story of the General (Fabritius) Roman is weill knowen:  who at his ennemies brought a wast sum of mony to bribe his fidelity to the commonwealth, they fand him busy stooving a pot of herbes to his supper, wheiron he answered them, that a man as he, that could be content wt sick a disch, could not readily be temted wt all their gold.  Also of him who being choosen Dictator they fetched him from the plough to his dignity, sick was their industry.

For a long tyme amongs the Romans old age was held such a ignominious thing that they could not get the scurviest coalsteeler in Rome that would act the person of a old man, not so much as in Comoedy.

For 500 years, and above, after the building of Rome, it [divorce][307] was not knowen for a man to put away his wife.  The first was one Spcius[308] Carvilius, who under the praetext of sterility divorced from his wife.

    [307] Interlined.

    [308] Spurius.

We most buy that infamous book of Miltones against the late King,[309] wt Claudius Salmasius answer.[310] Surely it shal stand as long as the world stands for a everstanding memorandum of his impudence and ignorance:  its nothing but a faggot of iniury (calomnies), theirs not on right principle either moral or politick to be found in it al; its penned by a pedant, a scoolmaster, on who deserved at the cheapest to be torn in peices by 4 horses.  Neither in our judgement, tho he deserves not to be refuted, hath Salmasius done so weill to the cause.

    [309] Iconoclastes, 1649.

    [310] Defensio Regia, by Claude de Saumaise, 1588-1653.

A Parisian Advocat cited some civil Laws of whilk he was not sure:  his Antagonist retorting that their ware not sick a Law nether in the C nor D,[311] he replied, if it be not their yet it sould be their tho.

    [311] Code nor Digest.

About the 12’ of December 1665 at Poictiers ware programmes affixed thorow the toune intimating that the Physitians Colledge would sit doune shortly, and that their Doyen Deacon, on Renatus Cothereau, a wery learned man in his lessons, Podagram hominum terrorem artuum que flagellum medicinali bettio acriter prosequeretur; hence it hath[312] this exclamation, accurite[313] itaque cives festinate arthici.