fut défendu sous peine de mort de la jouer dans leurs troupes, parce
qu'il faisoit fondre en larmes, deserter Ou mourir ceux qui
l'entendoient, tant il excitoit en eux l'ardent désir de revoir leur
pays. ROUSSEAU.

The maladie de pays is as old as the human heart. JUVENAL'S little
cup-bearer,

Suspirat longo non visam tempore matrem,
Et casulam, et notes tristis desiderat hoedos.

And the Argive, in the heat of battle,

Dulces moriens reminiscitur Argos.

NOTE o.

_Say why VESPASIAN lov'd his Saline farm_.

This emperor, according to Suetonius, constantly passed the summer
in a small villa near Reate, where he was born, and to which he would
never add any embellishment; _ne quid scilicet oculorum consuetudini
deperiret_. SUET. in Vit. Vesp. cap. ii.

A similar instance occurs in the life of the venerable Pertinax, as
related by J. Capitolinus. Posteaquam in Liguriam venit, multis agris
coemptis, tabernam pater-nam, _manente forma priore_, infinitis
ædificiis circun-dedit. Hist. August. 54. And it is said of Cardinal
Richelieu, that, when he built his magnificent palace on the site of
the old family chateau at Richelieu, he sacrificed its symmetry to