Referring to the Sentences of Publius Syrus, published, with the additional Fables of Phaedrus, from the Vatican MSS., by Angelo Mai, I found the line thus given: 

  “Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.”

The same idea, I believe, occurs in Ovid.  Query whether it is not a thought naturally presenting itself to the mind, reflected by memory, confirmed by experience, and which some Mimic author has made proverbial by his terse, gnomic form of expression.

S.H.

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Parallel passages.

I take the liberty of sending you several parallel passages, which may probably appear to you worthy of insertion in your valuable paper.

1.

  “There is a tide in the affairs of men,
  Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.”

Shakspeare:  Julius Caesar.

  “There is an hour in each man’s life appointed
  To make his happiness, if then he seize it.”

Beaumont and Fletcher:  The Custom of the Country.

“There is a nick in Fortune’s restless wheel
For each man’s good—­”

Chapman:  Bussy d’Ambois.

2.

“The fann’d snow,
That’s bolted by the northern blast thrice o’er.”

Shakspeare:  A Winter’s Tale.

“Snow in the fall,
Purely refined by the bleak northern blast.”

Davenport:  The City Nightcap.

3.

“Like pearl
Dropt from the opening eyelids of the morn
Upon the bashful rose.”

Middleton:  The Game at Chess.

“Together both, ere the high lawns appeared
Under the opening eyelids of the morn,
We drive afield.”

Milton:  Lysidas.

4.

  “Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
  That in a spleen enfolds both heaven and earth,
  And ere a man hath power to say—­Behold! 
  The jaws of darkness do devour it up.”

Shakspeare:  Midsummer Night’s Dream.

  “Nicht Blitzen gleich, die schnell vorueber schiessen,
  Und ploetzlich von der Nacht verschlungen sind,
  Mein Glueck wird seyn.”

Schiller:  Die Braut von Messina.

G.

Greenock.

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ERRORS CORRECTED.

I.—­Sharon Turner’s Hist. of England (Lond. 1814. 4to.), i. 332.

“The Emperor (Henry VI.) determined to extort an immoderate ransom; but, to secure it, had him (Richard Coeur de Lion) conveyed to a castle in the Tyrol, from which escape was hopeless.”—­Note “104.  In Tiruali.  Oxened.  MS.”

Ibid. p. 333: 

    “He (Richard) was removed from the dungeon in the Tyrol
    to the emperor’s residence at Haguenau.”—­Note “109.  See
    Richard’s Letter to his Mother.  Hoveden, 726.”