and under-sheriffs observe, that they mean to return according to the
number of votes, _provided the sheriff does not direct otherwise_. Lord
Chancellor Jefferies went to Arundel on purpose to overawe the electors.
The seats were as much sought formerly as now. The members received
wages as low as Elizabeth's reign.

_Lucretius._--A summary of that part of the system of Lucretius, in
which he describes man emerging from barbarity, acquiring the use of
language, and the knowledge of various useful and polite arts, is
comprised in a few lines of a satire of Horace, lib. i. sat. iii. v. 97.
It has been ingeniously paraphrased by Dr. Beattie:


"When men out of the earth of old,
A dumb and beastly vermin crawled,
For acorns first and holes of shelter,
They tooth and nail and helter-skelter,
Fought fist to fist; then with a club,
Each learned his brother brute to drub;
Till more experienced grown, these cattle
Forged fit accoutrements for battle.
At last (Lucretius says, and Creech)
They set their wits to work on speech;
And that their thoughts might all have marks
To make them known, these learned clerks
Left off the trade of cracking crowns,
And manufactured verbs and nouns."

H.H.