Two sheets of Hebrides came to me for correction to-day, F.G.[1211]

AUGUST 6.

I corrected the two sheets.  My sleep last night was disturbed.

Washing at Chester and here, 5_s_. 1_d_.

I did not read.

I saw to-day more of the out-houses at Lleweney.  It is, in the whole, a very spacious house.

AUGUST 7.

I was at Church at Bodfari.  There was a service used for a sick woman, not canonically, but such as I have heard, I think, formerly at Lichfield, taken out of the visitation.

The Church is mean, but has a square tower for the bells, rather too stately for the Church.

OBSERVATIONS.

Dixit injustus, Ps. 36, has no relation to the English[1212].

Preserve us, Lord, has the name of Robert Wisedome, 1618.—­Barker’s Bible[1213].

Battologiam ab iteratione, recte distinguit Erasmus.—­Mod.  Orandi
Deum, p. 56-144[1214].

Southwell’s Thoughts of his own death[1215].

Baudius on Erasmus[1216].

AUGUST 8.

The Bishop and much company dined at Lleweney.  Talk of Greek—­and of the army[1217].  The Duke of Marlborough’s officers useless.  Read Phocylidis[1218], distinguished the paragraphs.  I looked in Leland:  an unpleasant book of mere hints.

Lichfield School, ten pounds; and five pounds from the Hospital[1219].

AUGUST 10.

At Lloyd’s, of Maesmynnan; a good house, and a very large walled garden.  I read Windus’s Account of his Journey to Mequinez, and of Stewart’s Embassy[1220].  I had read in the morning Wasse’s Greek Trochaics to Bentley.  They appeared inelegant, and made with difficulty.  The Latin Elegy contains only common-place, hastily expressed, so far as I have read, for it is long.  They seem to be the verses of a scholar, who has no practice of writing.  The Greek I did not always fully understand.  I am in doubt about the sixth and last paragraphs, perhaps they are not printed right, for [Greek:  eutokon] perhaps [Greek:  eustochon.] q?

The following days I read here and there.  The Bibliotheca Literaria was so little supplied with papers that could interest curiosity, that it could not hope for long continuance[1221].  Wasse, the chief contributor, was an unpolished scholar, who, with much literature, had no art or elegance of diction, at least in English.

AUGUST 14.

At Bodfari I heard the second lesson read, and the sermon preached in Welsh.  The text was pronounced both in Welsh and English.  The sound of the Welsh, in a continued discourse, is not unpleasant.

[Greek:  Brosis oligae][1222].

The letter of Chrysostom, against transubstantiation.  Erasmus to the
Nuns, full of mystick notions and allegories.

AUGUST 15.

Imbecillitas genuum non sine aliquantulo doloris inter ambulandum quem a prandio magis sensi[1223].