be most
_kindly_ practised of all others."--_Id._, p. 301.

"Respice et plange: first, 'Look and lament' or mourn; which is indeed
the most _kindly_ and natural effect of such a spectacle."--_Id._, vol.
ii. p. 130.

"Devotion is the most proper and most _kindly_ work of
holiness."--_Id._, vol. iv. p. 377.

Perhaps the following will be thought so apposite, that I may be spared the
labour, and the reader the tedium of perusing a thousand other examples
that might be cited:

And there is nothing more _kindly_ than for them that will be touching,
to be touched themselves, and to {544} be touched home, in the same
_kind_ themselves thought to have touched others."--_Id._, vol. iv. p.
71.[1]

W. R. ARROWSMITH.

(_To be continued._)

[Footnote 1: _Kindly_ is quite a pet word with Andrewes, as, besides the
passages quoted, he employs it in nearly the same sense in vol. iii., at
pp. 18. 34. 102. 161. 189. 262. 308. 372. 393. 397.; in vol. i., at pp.
100. 125. 151. 194. 214.; in vol. ii. at pp. 53. 157. 307. 313. 338. The
same immortal quibbler is also very fond of the word _item_, using it, as
our cousins across the Atlantic and we in Herefordshire do at the present
day, for "a hint."]

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DEVONIANISMS.

_Miserable._--_Miserable_ is very commonly used in Devonshire in the
signification of _miserly_, with strange effect until one becomes used to
it. Hooker the Judicious, a Devonshire man, uses the word in this sense in
the _Eccl. Polity_, book v. ch. lxv. p. 21.:

"By means whereof it cometh also to pass that the mean which is virtue
seemeth in the eyes of each extreme an extremity; the liberal-hearted
man is by the opinion of the prodigal _miserable_, and by the judgment
of the _miserable_ lavish."

_Few._--Speaking of broth, people in Devon say a _few broth_ in place of a
little, or some broth. I find a similar use of the word in a sermon
preached in 1550, by Thomas Lever, Fellow of St. John's College, preserved
by Strype (in his _Eccles. Mem._, ii. 422.). Speaking of the poor students
of Cambridge, he says:

"At ten of the clock they go to dinner, whereas they be content with a
penny piece of beef among four, having a _few pottage_ made of the
broth of the same beef, with salt and oatmeal, and nothing else."

_Figs, Figgy._--Most commonly _raisins_ are called _figs_, and plum-pudding
_figgy_ pudding