"But I am over-tedious in these toyes, which howsoever in some men's too severe censures they may be held absurd and ridiculous, I am the bolder to assert, as not borrowed from circumforanean rogues and gipsies, but out of the writings of worthy philosophers and physicians." BURTON.
THOMAS JOSEPH PETTIGREW, F.R.S. F.S.A. DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN,