3. and him that is instar omnium, Nevisanus the lawyer, Sylva nuptial, almost in every page.

When the general had returned thanks to God for his preservation and success, he sent notice of his arrival to the king, who sent Diego de Sylva y Menesis, Lord of Portugalete, and many other gentlemen, to conduct him honourably to court, which they did through a prodigious concourse of people, eager to see the man who had made so wonderful a voyage, and whom they had long thought dead.

In a later age, the Centuries of the "Sylva Sylvarum" afford a curious comment on the Aphorisms of the "Novum Organum.

"Non mediocres enim tenebræ in sylva, ubi hæc captanda: neque eon, quo pervenire volumus semitæ tritæ: neque non in tramitibus quædam objecta, quæ euntem retinere possent.

He ordered the fortifications of his capital to be repaired with all diligence, provided it with every necessary for sustaining a long siege, and received into the town a garrison of 2,000 Spaniards, under Don Philip de Sylva.

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SYLVA.

She was then invited to Bucharest by the Queen of Roumania, "Carmen Sylva."

Like his friend Samuel Pepys, Evelyn was a man of very catholic tastes, and wrote on a multitude of subjects, including history, politics, education, the fine arts, gardening, and especially forestry, his "Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees," 1664, being, after the "Diary," his most famous work.

DON RODORIGO DE SYLVA, in love with the same lady.

I swear I would: But, sir, I grieve to be the messenger Of more unhappy news; she must be married This day to one Don Roderick de Sylva, Betwixt whom and her brother there has been.

I was so, Until my mother died, whose name, de Sylva, I chose, (our custom not forbidding it)

"Carmen Sylva!"

How easy it is to divine the æstheticism of any one signing, "Carmen Sylva.

Evelyn, the author of "Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees," dwells with fond admiration, and a pleasing egotism, on the charms of his own beautiful and highly cultivated estate at Wooton in the county of Surrey.

[007] Had Evelyn only composed the great work of his 'Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees,' &c. his name would have excited the gratitude of posterity.

And surely while Britain retains her awful situation among the nations of Europe, the 'Sylva' of Evelyn will endure with her triumphant oaks.

'Master Evelyn': the well-known author of 'Sylva,' translated the first book of Lucretius, 'De Rerum Natura.' TO HIS WORTHY FRIEND SIR THOMAS HIGGONS, UPON HIS TRANSLATION OF 'THE VENETIAN TRIUMPH.'

His slight pause and eloquent gesture was the all-embracing word "Nature" came in answer to his call, were exactly repeated unconsciously years later by the Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva).

CARMEN SYLVA, the nom-de-plume of Elizabeth, queen of Roumania; lost an only child, and took to literature for consolation; has taken an active interest in the elevation and welfare of her sex; b. 1843.

Hunter's Evelyn's Sylva, p. 500. 139.

But like the loveliest, frailest things We prize on earth, thou canst not last; For scarce thine hour its sweetness brings To soothe, and bless us, e'er 'tis past; And night, dull cheerless night destroys Thy tender light, and peaceful joys. SYLVA.