Dublin.
_Blackguard_ (Vol. vii., pp. 77. 273.).--I am not aware that the following
extract from Burton's _Anatomy of Melancholy_ has ever yet been quoted
under this heading. Would it not be worth the while to add it to the
extract from Hobbes's _Microcosmos_, quoted by JARLTZBERG, Vol. ii., p.
134. and again, by SIR J. EMERSON TENNENT at Vol. vii., p. 78.:
"The same author, Cardan, in his _Hyperchen_, out of the doctrine of
the Stoicks, will have some of these genii (for so he calls them) to be
desirous of men's company, very affable and familiar with them, as dogs
are; others again, to abhor as serpents, and care not for them. The
same, belike, Trithemius calls _igneos et sublunares, qui numquam
demergunt ad inferiora, aut vix ullum habent in terris commercium:
generally they far excel men in worth, as a man the meanest worm_;
though some there are _inferiour to those of their own rank in worth,
as the black guard in a princes court, and to men again, as some
degenerate, base, rational creatures are excelled of brute
beasts_."--_Anat. of Mel._, Part I. sec. 2. Mem. 1. subs. 2. [Blake,
1836, p. 118.]