Do as I say, not as I do.

This proverbial expression was in common use among the Italian monks in the Middle Ages. It occurs in the Decameron of Boccacio thus: "Ils croient avoir bien répondu et être absous de tout crime quand ils ont dit, Faites ce que nous disons et ne faites pas ce que nous faisons." The germ of the words thus put into the mouths of the friars of his day, Boccacio no doubt found in the language of our Saviour recorded in Matthew xxiii. 2, 3:-"The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' seat; all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say and do not.”

Mr. Longfellow, in his New England Tragedies, puts into the mouth of Captain Kempthorne, back in the times of Quaker persecution, a now familiar phrase. He speaks of

A solid man of Boston;

A comfortable man, with dividends,

And the first salmon, and the first green peas.

Aubrey in his Letters, speaking of the handwriting of the poet Waller, says :-"He writes a lamentable hand, as bad as the scratching of a hen." Probably suggested by the "gallina scripsit" of Plautus.

The phrase masterly inactivity, first used by Sir James Mackintosh in his Vindicia. Gallicæ, finds a prototype in the Horatian expression, "strenua nos exercet inertia," (Epist. lib. I., xi. 28,) and in the words of Isaiah, "their strength is to sit still "(xxx. 7).

From Don Quixote we have Honesty is the best policy. From Gil Blas, (Smollet's trans.,) comes Facts are stubborn things. From Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, (P. iii. Sec. 3, Mem i. Subs. 2,) Comparisons are odious. From Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Dark as pitch, and Every tub must stand on its own bottom. From Shakspeare, Fast and loose (Love's Labor Lost, iii. 1.); Main chance (2 Henry IV. i. 1); Let the world slide (Taming of the Shrew, Induc. i.). From Burns, (Epistle from Esopus to Maria,) Durance vile.

CHRISTMAS Comes but once a year.-THOMAS TUSSER, 1580.
It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.

Originally written,

It is an ill wind turns none to good.-THOMAS TUSSER.
Look ere thou leap.-TUSSER.

And

Look before you ere you leap.-BUTLER: Hudibras, o. 2.
Bid the devil take the hindmost.-Hudibras, c. 2.
Count the chickens ere they're hatched.-Hudibras, c. 3.
Necessity, the tyrant's plea.-MILTON.-Paradise Lost, B. iv.
Peace hath her victories, &c.-IBID: Sonnet xvi.
The old man eloquent.-IBID: Tenth Sonnet.
On the light fantastic toe.-IBID: L'Allegro.

The devil may cite Scripture for his purpose.

SHAKSPEARE: Merchant of Venice.

Assume a virtue though you have it not.-Hamlet.
Brevity is the soul of wit.-Hamlet.

The sere, the yellow leaf.-Macbeth.

Curses not loud, but deep.-Macbeth.

Make assurance doubly sure.-Macbeth.

Thereby hangs a tale.-As You Like It.

Good wine needs no bush.-As You Like It.

Though last, not least, in love.-Julius Cæsar.

Food for powder.-First Part Henry IV.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.-Troilus and Cressida.
And made a sunshine in a shady place.-SPENSER: Fairy Queen.
Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new.

DR. JOHNSON: Prologue at the opening of the Drury Lane Theatre, 1747. To point a moral or adorn a tale.-IBID: Vanity of Human Wishes. Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.-IBID: London.

Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no fibs.

GOLDSMITH: She Stoops to Conquer. And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.—IBID: Retaliation. Winter lingering chills the lap of May.-IBID: The Traveller.

Of two evils I have chose the least.-PRIOR.

His (God's) image cut in ebony.-THOMAS FULler.

Richard's himself again.-COLLEY CIBBER.

Building castles in the air.

Originally written,

Building castles in Spain.-SCARRON.

Hope, the dream of a waking man.-BASIL.

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast.

CONGREVE: The Mourning Bride.

Earth has no rage like love to hatred turned.-IBID.

Let who may make the laws of a people, allow me to write their bal

lads, and I'll guide them at my will.-SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.

When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war. Originally,

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.

NAT LEE: Play of Alexander the Great, 1692.

Westward the course of empire takes its way.-BISHOP BERKELEY.

No pent-up Utica contracts your powers,

But the whole boundless continent is yours.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Originally,

J. M. SEWALL: Epilogue to Cato, 1778.

Out of minde as soon as out of sight.-LORD Brooke.

Through thick and thin.-DRYDEN: Absalom and Achitophel.

He whistled as he went for want of thought.-IB.: Cymon and Iphigenia.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied.-IB.: Absalom & Achitophel
None but the brave deserve the fair.-IBID: Alexander's Feast.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.-POPE: Essay on Criticism.
In wit a man; simplicity, a child.-IBID: Epitaph on Gay.

I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.-IB.: Prologue to the Satires.
Damns with faint praise.-IBID: Prologue to the Satires.

Order is Heaven's first law.-IBID: Essay on Man.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.-IBID: Essay on Man.
Looks through nature up to nature's God.-IBID: Essay on Man.
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.-IBID: Essay on Man.
Who never mentions hell to ears polite.-IBID: The Epistles.
From seeming evil still educing good.-THOMSON: Hymn.
To teach the young idea how to shoot: IBID: The Seasons, Spring.
'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.

CAMPBELL: Pleasures of Hope.
And man the hermit sighed till woman smiled.-IBID.
Where ignorance is bliss

"Tis folly to be wise.-GRAY: Ode on Eton College.

Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.-IB.: The Progress of Poesy. Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.-BURNS: Tam O'Shanter.

As clear as a whistle.-BYROM: The Astrologer.

She walks the waters like a thing of life.-BYRON: The Island.

The cups that cheer but not inebriate.-CowPER: Task.

Not much the worse for wear.-IBID.

Masterly inactivity.-MACKINTOSH: 1791.

The Almighty Dollar.-WASHINGTON IRVING: Creole Village,

Entangling alliances.-GEORGE WASHINGTON.

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.-Benjamin Franklin.

The post of honor is the private station.-THOS. JEFFERSON.
Straws show which way the wind blows.-JAMES CHEATHAM.
A good time coming.-WALTER SCOTT: Rob Roy.

Face the music.-J. FENIMORE COOPER.

Churchyard Literature.

HIC JACET.

SACRUM MEMORIÆ.

EARTH'S highest station ends in HERE HE LIES!

And DUST TO DUST concludes her noblest song.

EMIGRAVIT is the inscription on the tombstone where he lies:
Dead he is not, but departed, for the Christian never dies.

A hieroglyph formed by the two first letters of the Greek word Christos, intersecting the Chi longitudinally by the Rho,-a palm-leaf, or a wreath of palm-leaves, indicating victory,-a crown, which speaks of the reward of the saints, an immortelle, or a vessel supporting a column of flame, indicating continued life, an anchor, which indicates hope,-a ship under sail, which says, "Heavenward bound," the letters Alpha and Omega, the Apocalyptic title of Christ,-the dove, the emblem of innocence and holiness, the winged insect escaping from the chrysalis, typical of the resurrection,-the cross, the Christian's true and only glory in life and death, by which he is crucified to the world, and the world to him,-these are the emblems that speak to the Christian's heart of faith, and hope, and love, and humility.

EPITAPHS OF EMINENT MEN.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS died at Valladolid, May 20, 1506, æt. 70. In 1513 his body was taken to Seville, on the Guadalquivir, and there deposited in the family vault of the Dukes of Alcala, in the Cathedral. Upon a tablet was inscribed, in Castilian, this meagre couplet, which is still legible :

A Castilla y Arragon

Otro mondo dio Colon.*

[To Castile and Aragon

Columbus gave another world.]

In 1536, the remains of the great navigator were conveyed to St. Domingo and deposited in the Cathedral, where they continued until a recent period, when they were finally disinterred, and removed to Havana. The inscription on the tablet in the Cathedral of St. Domingo, now obliterated, was as follows:

Irving gives the inscription thus:

Por Castilla y por Leon

Nuevo mundo hallo Colon.

Hic locus abscondit præclari membra COLUMBI
Cujus nomen ad astra volat.

Non satis unus erat sibi mundus notus, at orbem
Ignotum priscis omnibus ipse dedit;

Divitias summas terras dispersit in omnes,
Atque animas coelo tradidit innumeras;
Invenit campos divinis legibus aptos,

Regibus et nostris prospera regna dedit.*

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE died April 23, 1616, æt. 52, and Iwas buried in the chancel of the church of Stratford. The monument erected to his memory represents the poet with a thoughtful countenance, resting on a cushion and in the act of writing. Immediately below the cushion is the following distich :

Judicio Pylium; genio Socratem; arte Maronem :
Terra tegit; populus moret; Olympus habet.t

On a tablet underneath are inscribed these lines:

Stay, passenger: why dost thou go so fast?

Read, if thou canst, whom envious death hath placed
Within this monument,-Shakspeare; with whom
Quick Nature died; whose name doth deck the tomb
Far more than cost; since all that he hath writ
Leaves living Art but page to serve his wit:

and on the flat stone covering the grave is inscribed, in very irregular characters, the following quaint supplication, blessing, and menace :—

This spot conceals the body of the renowned Columbus, whose name towers to the stars. Not satisfied with the known globe, he added to all the old an unknown world. Throughout all countries he distributed untold wealth, and gave to heaven unnumbered souls. He found an extended field for gospel missions, and conferred prosperity upon the reign of our monarchs.

A Nestor in discrimination, a Socrates in talent, a Virgil in poetic art: the earth covers him, the people mourn for him, Heaven possesses him.