dat tibi regna Venus.' Johnson says of this castle:'It is so nearly entire, that it might have easily been made habitable, were there not an ominous tradition in the family, that the owner shall not long outlive the reparation.

He therefore carries on the resemblance one step further, 'Cerberus haec ingens latratu regna trifauci Personat.'

Ah, I remember'Tu cum parentis regna per arduum'; but what a devil of a design!

Et querimur genus infelix, humana labare Membra aevo, cum regna palam moriantur et urbes.

quatuor regna quæ nunc dicuntur subesse Imperio Persarum, habétque famam terræ nobilis, et ad occidentem sui iungitur Regno Turciæ.

Hinc ad occidentem sui, iuncta est regio Georgiæ, quæ modo constat diuisa in duo regna: Nam pars superior, quæ iungitur Mediæ, reseruauit sibi nomen Georgiæ, sed inferior pars dicitur regnum Abchaz.

Ambo hæc regna, et regis eorum, sunt de fide Christiana, et homines ita deuoti vt ad minus semel in hebdomada communicent sacramentis, iuxta ritum Græcorum confectis.

Sunt et aliæ terre, et Insulæ, et patriæ latæ, et spatiosæ, continentes in se multa regna, et reges, et gentes diuersas, de quibus nunc per singula pertractare non est consilij.

Excepto ergò duntaxat districtu Imperij Persiæ, et potestate Soldani, omnes sæpè pertractatæ terræ, regiones, regna et Insulæ descendendo tam par Aquilonem, quam ad

Saturnia regna [Lat.], Saturnian age; golden time, golden age; bed of roses, fat city

honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time; Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna [Lat.], Arcadia^, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone^. V. be pleased &c 829; feel pleasure, experience pleasure &c n.; joy; enjoy oneself, hug oneself; be in clover &c 377, be in elysium &c 981; tread on enchanted ground; fall into raptures, go into raptures.

After the Aeneid, the epic style must be of this fashion: Ibant ovscuri sola sub nocte per umbram Perque domos Ditis vacuas et inania regna: Quale per incertam lunam sub luce maligna Est iter in silvis, ubi caelum condidit umbra Jupiter, et rebus nox abstulit atra colorem.

'Tis not to be denied, the world alters every day, Ruunt urbes, regna transferuntur, &c. variantur habitus, leges innovantur, as Petrarch observes, we change language, habits, laws, customs, manners, but not vices, not diseases, not the symptoms of folly and madness, they are still the same.

"Esse aliquos manes, et subterranea regna, Et contum, et Stygio ranas in gurgite nigras, Atque una transire vadum tot millia cymba, Nec pueri credunt, nisi qui nondum aere lavantur.

7. de pulchritudine regna et imperia totius terras et maris et coeli oportet abjicere si ad ipsum conversus veils inseri.

Pontifex Romanus prorsus inermis regibus terrae jura dat, ad regna evehit ad pacem cogit, et peccantes castigat, &c. quod imperatores Romani 40.

Romani olim putabant fortunam regna et imperia dare:

] [Footnote 4: "Che quello 'mperador che là su regna Perch' i' fu'ribellante

The lapides Pyrrhae (I. 41) refer of course to the creation of man; Saturnia regna is, in Epicurean lore, the primitive life of the early savages; furtum Promethei (I. 42) must refer to Epicurus' explanation of how fire came from clashing trees and from lightning.

la fertilità de' terreni, che troppo alletta gli strani, ed i barbari,l' invidia, che regna fra gli stessi roma gnuoli.

Curit acuens mortalia corda, Nec torpere gravi passus fua Regna Veterno.

Mora nulla: solutus avernus Exspuit infandas acies; fractumque remugit, Divulsa compage, solum: Nabathaea receptum Regna dedere sonum, Pharioque in littore Nercus Territus erubuit: simul aggemuere dolentes Hesperiæ valles, Libyaeque calentis arenae Exarsere procul.

Ad piceas trudarque umbras, atque infera regna!

Hic autem amoena regna, et dulcis quies; Ubi serenus ridet æternum dies.

And so we returned to the Saturnia regna of "the good old times," and the Duke was credibly reported to have said that he "kept the worst drawing-room in Europe."