"I do not like thee, Doctor Fell,"

is merely a version of the 33d epigram of the first books of those by
the witty Roger de Bussy, Comte de Rabutin:--

"Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas,
Je n'en saurois dire la cause,
Je sais seulement une chose;
C'est que je ne vous aime pas."

Lastly, Prior's epitaph on himself has its prototype in one long
previously written by or for one John Carnegie:--

"Johnnie Carnegie lais heer,
Descendit of Adam and Eve,
Gif ony con gang hieher,
I'se willing gie him leve."

S.W. SINGER

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FOLK LORE.

_Easter Eggs_ (No. 25. p. 397.).--The custom recorded by Brande as being
in use in the North of England in his time, still continues in
Richmondshire.

_A Cure for Warts_ is practised with the utmost faith in East Sussex.