the cryer to proclaim, as its best recommendation, that it had a good
neighbourhood. PLUT. in Vit. Themist.

NOTE b.

_And, thro' the various year, the various day,_

Horace commends the house, 'longos quæ prospicit agros.' Distant
views contain the greatest variety, both in themselves, and in their
accidental variations. GILPIN.

NOTE c.

_Small change of scene, small space his home requires,_

Many a great man, in passing through the apartments of his palace,
has made the melancholy reflection of the venerable Cosmo: "Questa è
troppo gran casa à si poco famiglia." MACH. Ist. Fior. lib. vii.

"Parva, sed apta mihi," was Ariosto's inscription over his door in
Ferrara; and who can wish to say more?

"I confess," says Cowley, "I love littleness almost in all things. A
little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company,
and a very little feast." Essay vi.

When Socrates was asked why he had built for himself so small a
house, "Small as it is," he replied, "I wish I could fill it with
friends." PHÆDRUS, 1. iii. 9.