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The role of marginal notes differs from text to text in this collection.
Please see the Transcriber's Notes for how they are rendered in this
text version.

Italics are used freely, and have been rendered using _underscore_
characters. Bold text is indicated as '=bold='. A super-imposed bar
spanning several letters, which is a conventional mode of abbreviation,
is denoted with '==' (eg. 'a==a'). The [oe] ligature is rendered as 'oe'.

Superscripted letters are indicated with a carat '^' as in 'K^t'. Where
multiple characters are superscripted, { } are used, as in 'M^{rs.}'

The text includes Greek and several instances of Hebrew, both of which
are transliterated, and denoted with '+' delimiters as '+greek+' or
+hebrew+.

The apothecary's symbol for 'ounce', occuring once, is rendered as [-3],
which it resembles. The letter m, with a macron, is rendered as [=m].

Please consult the more detailed notes at the end of this text.




                    THE ENGLISH LIBRARY

                        THE WORKS OF

                      SIR THOMAS BROWNE


                         VOLUME III




                       THE WORKS OF

                    SIR THOMAS BROWNE


                         Edited by

                       CHARLES SAYLE


                        VOLUME III


                         EDINBURGH

                        JOHN GRANT

                           1907




PREFATORY NOTE

In concluding the present edition of Sir Thomas Browne's works,
attention may be drawn to the reprint of the _Hydriotaphia_, from the
first edition of 1658. The copy collated was the one preserved in the
Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. In this, in addition to the
corrections made at the time of publication on the printed label
attached, there are a few others made by a contemporary hand, which
deserve consideration. Among these is the excision of a sentence
hitherto preserved in the text, and now relegated to the margin (p.
205). If further sanction were needed for the change indicated, it may
be gathered from the inscription on the title-page, 'Ex dono Auctoris.'
The text of the _Christian Morals_ of 1716 has been collated with the
copy in the same Library.

For the account of Birds and Fishes found in Norfolk (pp. 513-539),
Professor Alfred Newton generously placed his annotated copy at the
disposal of the editor. As those actual pages were in the press,
Professor Newton passed away, and Death has deprived us of the pleasure
of placing this volume in his hands. In this edition Professor Newton's
readings have been in the main followed, with the additional help of the
valuable recension, published by Mr. Thomas Southwell of Norwich, in
1902, to which every serious student of this treatise must always refer.

For further assistance in questions of identification, I am again
indebted to the kindness of Mr. W. Aldis Wright; and for one correction
to Mr. A. R. Waller.

Sir Thomas Browne's Latin treatises and his correspondence are not
included in these volumes. It was the determination of the original
publisher of this edition that they should be omitted; and indeed they
do not form the most characteristic part of Sir Thomas Browne's work.
His erudition, and the resources from which he drew, his amazing
industry, his marvellous diction, and natural piety--all these are
apparent to the general reader of his English text; and it is to such
that the present edition of Sir Thomas Browne's works, as they
originally appeared, will primarily appeal.

                                                              C. S.
_16th June 1907._




CONTENTS

                                                                    Page

  PREFATORY NOTE BY THE EDITOR,                                        v

  PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICA--

  THE SEVENTH BOOK:

      1. Of the Forbidden Fruit,                                       1
      2. That a Man hath one Rib less then a Woman,                    5
      3. Of Methuselah,                                                8
      4. That there was no Rain-bow before the Flood,                 11
      5. Of Sem, Ham, and Japhet,                                     15
      6. That the Tower of Babel was erected against a Second Deluge, 17
      7. Of the Mandrakes of Leah,                                   