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XVIII. SIR THOMAS ELYOT. 433a cape of it,' &c. Life of Luther, by M. Michelet ; translated by W.•Hazlitt, 1846 ; p. 123.(D)From the' Confutac'ioun of Tyndale.''9. Thys is, &c. The passage is thus printed in Dr. Bosworth's :— editionof the Moeso-Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, Wyclif, and Tyndale Gospels 'Andthis is the recorde off Jhon, when the lewes sent prestes and levites fromJerusalem, to axe hym, What arte thou ? And he confessed, and denyednott, and sayde playnly, I am nott Christ. And they axed hym, Whatthen ? arte thou Helias ? And he sayde, I am nott. Arte thou a prophet? And he answered, Noo.' S. John i. 19-21.15. 7 woulde not. This must be taken along with the word smiifigfollowing. It means ' I would not draw attention to this, &c. except toshew you,' &c.19. The t07ie, a corniption of that one, i. e. the one ;just as the tother isfor that other. That was used as the neuter of the definite article by ouroldest writers.22. No aunswereth, &c. Here No should be Nay, as is easily seen bySee a long and exhaustive note upon this subject, and uponthe context.this very passage, in Marsh's Lectures (Lect. xxvi.) printed in the Student'sManual of the English Language, ed. Smith, pp, 414, 415, and 422-425.XVIILSIR THOMAS ELYOT.From 'The Go'vernour.^Cap. XVII. The preceding (sixteenth) Chapter also has some interestingremarks upon the exercises then most in use.It agrees tolerablyclosely with a passage in The Castle of Health, by the same author,which may be found in Chambers' Encyclopsedia of English Literature,vol. i. p. 70. A modernised edition of The Govemour was printed atNewcastle in1834, edited by A. T. Eliot.12. Galene, Claudius Galenus, the celebrated physician, born at Pergamuma.d. 130, died about a.d. 200; author of at least eighty-threetreatises on medical and philosophical subjects.20. Epaminondas, the celebrated Theban general and statesman, slainat the moment of victory at Mantinea, b.c. 362. The praise here given to'him for his running should rather have been given to Pelopidas. Bothseemed equally fitted by nature for all sorts of excellence; but bodilyexercises chiefly delighted Pelopidas, learning Epaminondas; and theone spent his hours in hunting and the Palaestra, the other in hearingFf