FOR THE CURIOUS

FROM THE

HARVEST-FIELDS OF LITERATURE.

A MELANGE OF EXCERPTA,

COLLATED BY

C. C. BOMBAUGH, A. M., M. D.

WITH STEEL-PLATE PORTRAIT.

"So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned:
and it was about an ephah of barley.".

RUTH II. 17.

"I have here made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of
my own but the string that ties them."-MONTAIGNE.

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Prefatory.

I am not ignorant, ne unsure, that many there are, before whose sight this Book shall finde small grace, and lesse favour. So hard a thing it is to write or indite any matter, whatsoever it be, that should be able to sustaine and abide the variable judgement, and to obtaine or winne the constant love and allowance of every man, especially if it containe in it any novelty or unwonted strangenesse.-RAYNALD'S WOMAN'S Book.

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