* SUB-FOOTNOTE ON VARIANT 3 [Sub-Footnote i: "Susan stood for the representative of poor 'Rus in urbe.'

Apud Oxonienses bonis literis Haud leviter imbutus; In urbe hac

Passing some wayfarers on the road, he hears one of them whisper, "Hi Neronem persequuntur;" and another asks, "Ecquid in urbe novi de Nerone?"

Vix Roma egressus, villa novus advena, ruris Vicini dominum te "quid in urbe?" rogo.

Exclusion N. seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess; snugness &c adj.; delitescence^; rustication, rus in urbe [Lat.]; solitude; solitariness &c (singleness) 87; isolation; loneliness &c adj.;

Monachus in urbe, piscis in arido.

Tu juvenem, quo non formosior alter in urbe, Spernis, et insano cogis amore mori.

[d] Hic tunc Umbricius; Quando artibus, inquit, honestis Nullus in urbe locus, nulla emolumenta laborum, Res hodie minor est, here quam fuit, atque eadem eras Deteret exiguis aliquid: proponimus illue Ire, fatigatas ubi Daedalus exuit alas, Dum nova canities, [e] et pedibus me Porto meis, nullo dextram subeunte bacillo.

Italia quod Vergilius tuus de una Urbe dixit: 'Crudelis ubique Lucutus, ubique pavor, et plurima mortis imago.

Et totam licet aestimare Romam, Albanos quoque Tusculosque colles Et quodcunque iacet sub urbe frigus.

The pleasant village of CHINGFORD, in Essex, may be called a vignette of the topographer's "rus in urbe," it being only nine miles distant from the heart of London, and consequently almost within its vortex.

Bushy Park is an appendage to the palace and honour of Hampton Court; and though far from assimilating to that splendid pile, it is better fitted for rural enjoyment, whilst its contiguity to the metropolis almost gives it the character of rus in urbe.

Pancras is still, by courtesy, called a village, though its charms may be of the rus-in-urbe description.

I now am lodging at the rus- In-urbe of young Decius Mus.

X. Eutropi Breviarium ab Urbe Condita: recognovit Franciscus Ruehl.

ANDERSON, MAJOR GORDON Mistress and Maid 262 ARMSTRONG, H. Labour Notes 449 Rus in Urbe 428 BAIN, CAPT.

One of the Laws of the Twelve Tables was Hominem mortuum in urbe ne sepelito, neve urito, (neither bury nor burn a dead body in the city.)

'Non convivere licet, nec urbe tota Quisquam est tam propè tam proculque nobis.' Mart.

'Ducite ab Urbe Domum, mea Carmina, ducite Daphnim.' Virg.

RUS IN URBE XVIII.

CHAPTER XVII RUS IN URBE One or two of the men looked up as de Chavasse entered, but no one took much notice of him.

* * RUS IN URBE.

Rerum Ætate Nostra GestarumEt Novi Orbis Ignoti HactenusIllustratori Petro Martyri MediolanensiCæsareo SenatoriQui, Patria RelictaBella Granatensi Miles InterfuitMox Urbe Capta, Primum CanonicoDeinde Priori Hujus EcclesiæDecanus

It involves a painful "Rush in Urbe" to get through business in time to catch the 4.30 "express" back, a train which (theoretically) stops nowhere.

Believe me, dear Mr. Punch, Yours, respectfully, RUSS IN URBE.