Minor Notes.
_Epigrams by Coulanges and Prior._--Has the following coincidence been
noticed between an epigram of M. de Coulanges and some verses by Mat.
Prior?
"_L'Origine de la Noblesse._
"D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants,
La preuve en est connue,
Et que tous nos premiers parents
Ont mené la charrue.
"Mais, las de cultiver enfin
La terre labourée,
L'une a dételé le matin,
L'autre l'après-dinée."--(Published 1698.)
"_The Old Gentry._
"That all from Adam first begun,
None but ungodly Woolston doubts,
And that his son, and his son's sons
Were all but ploughmen, clowns and louts.
"Each, when his rustic pains began,
To merit pleaded equal right,
'Twas only who left off at noon,
Or who went on to work till night."