Hieronymus, a Peripatetic of the highest character, out of all the numerous compositions of Isocrates, picked out about thirty verses, chiefly iambics, but some also anapaests.

The female portion of such assemblages, for the most part, consists of poor Salopian strawberry-carriers, many of whom have walked already at least four miles, with a troublesome burden, and for a miserable pittanceegg-women, with sundry still-born chickens, goslings, and turkey-poutsand passing milk-maidens, peripatetic under the yoke of their double pail.