_Feltham's Works, Queries respecting._--
"He that is courtly or gentle, is among them _like_ a merlin
after Michaelmas in the field with crows."--_A Brief Character
of the Low Countries_, by Owen Feltham. Folio, London, 1661.
What is the meaning of this proverb?
As a confirmation of the opinion of some of your correspondents, that
monosyllables give force and nature to language, the same author says,
page 59., of the Dutch tongue,--
"Stevin of Bruges reckons up 2170 monosillables, which being
compounded, how richly do they grace a tongue."
Will any of your correspondents kindly inform me of the titles of Owen
Feltham's works. I have his _Resolves_, and a thin folio volume, 1661,
printed for Anne Seile, 102 pages, containing _Lusoria, or Occasional
Pieces; A Brief Character of the Low Countries_; and some _Letters_. Are
these all he wrote? The poem mentioned by Mr. Kersley, beginning--
"When, dearest, I but think of thee,"
is printed among those in the volume I have, with the same remark, that
it had been printed as Sir John Suckling's.