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thing I tell thee. And _another_ thing I tell thee. But _this_ thing I tell thee. And _all_ things I tell thee." It is not impossible that [Greek: exereo] may be a compound of [Greek: ek], "one," and [Greek: ereo], "I speak." There is in the Hindostanee an analogous form of expression, _Ek bat bolo_, "one word speak." This is constantly used to denote, speaking plainly; to speak decidedly; one word only; no display of unnecessary verbiage to conceal thought; no humbug; I tell thee plainly; I speak solemnly--once for all; which is precisely the meaning of [Greek: exereo] in all the passages where it occurs in Homer: _e.g._ _Il._ i. 212. (where it is employed by Minerva in her solemn address to Achilles); _Il._ viii. 286., _Od._ ix. 365. (where it is very characteristically used), &c. The word _ace_ (ace of spades, &c.) I suppose you will have no difficulty in identifying with the Sanscrit _ek_ and the Greek [Greek: eis], the _c_ sometimes pronounced hard and sometimes soft. The Sanscrit _das_, the Greek [Greek: dek-a], and the Latin _dec-em_, all signifying _ten_, on the same principle, have been long identified. J. SH. Bombay. * * * * * SAMUEL ROWLANDS, AND HIS CLAIM TO THE AUTHORSHIP OF "THE CHOISE OF CHANGE." Mr. T. Jones in "NOTES AND QUERIES" (Vol. i., p. 39.), describing a copy of _The Choise of Change_ in the Chetham Library, unhesitatingly ascribes its authorship to the well-known satirist, Samuel Rowlands, whom he says, "appears to have been a Welshman from his love of Triads." Mr. JONES'S dictum, that the letters "S.R.," on the title-page "are the well-known initials of Samuel Rowlands," may well, I think, be questioned. Great caution should be used in these matters. Bibliographers and catalogue-makers are constantly making confusion by assigning works, which bear the initials only, to wrong authors. _The Choise of Change_ may with much more probability be given to a very different author. I have a copy of the edition of 1598 now before me, in which the name is filled up, in a cotemporary hand, S[imon], R[obson]. And I find in Lowndes' _Bibliographer's Manual_, that the work in question is entered under the latter name. The compiler adds,--"This piece is by some attributed to Dr. Simon Robson, Dean of Bristol in 1598; by others, most probably erroneously, to Samuel Rowland." An examination of the biography of Dr. Robson, who died in 1617, might tend to elu
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