Envy.—­“Of all the spies that are,” says Mr. Owen Feltham, “envy is the most observant and prying.  When the physicians to Frederick were relating what most would sharpen the sight, some were for fennel, and some for glasses, and others for other matters; the noble Actius did assure them, there was nothing that would do it like envy.  Whatsoever man does ill, by it is magnified, and multiplied; his failings are all watched, drawn out, and blazed to the world; and under the pretence of good, he is oft led to the extremest issue of evil.  Like oil that is poured upon the roots of trees, which softens, it destroys and withers all the branches.  And being once catched, with scorn he is insulted on.  For envy is so unnoble a devil, that it ever tyrannizeth most upon a slip or low prostration, at which time gallant minds do most disdain to triumph.  The envious is more unhappy than the serpent:  for though he hath poison within him, and can cast it upon others, yet to his proper bosom it is not burdensome, as is the rancour that the envious keeps; but this most plainly is the plague, as it infects others, so it fevers him that hath it, till he dies.  Nor is it more noxious to the owner than fatal and detrimental to all the world beside.  It was envy first unmade the angels and created devils.  It was envy first that turned man out of Paradise, and with the blood of the innocent first dyed the untainted earth.  It was envy sold chaste Joseph as a bondman, and unto crucifixion gave the only Son of God.  He walks among burning coals that converses with those that are envious.  He that would avoid it in himself, must have worth enough to be humble and beneficent.  But he that would avoid the danger of it from others, must abandon their company.”

Extraordinary Whipping.—­During the minority of King James I. he was at Stirling Castle, under the tuition of the celebrated Buchanan.  It is reported that Buchanan’s reverence for his royal pupil, did not prevent his giving him a severe whipping when he persisted against remonstrance, in disturbing him whilst he was reading.  Historians do not tell us how the royal pupil supported this chastisement.  Swift says, “Heirs to titles and large estates, have a weakness in their eyes, and are not able to bear the pain and indignity of whipping.”  P.T.W.

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Erratum in page 2—­the line quoted from Montgomery should be “The parrots swung like blossoms on the trees.”

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