ee. Inscribed "NOTARIUS SUM."

_Eighth side._ A man forging a sword, or scythe-blade: he wears a large
skull-cap; beats with a large hammer on a solid anvil; and is inscribed
"FABER SUM."

Sec. CXXI. TWENTY-SECOND CAPITAL. The Ages of Man; and the influence of
the planets on human life.

_First side._ The moon, governing infancy for four years, according to
Selvatico. I have no note of this side, having, I suppose, been
prevented from raising the ladder against it by some fruit-stall or
other impediment in the regular course of my examination; and then
forgotten to return to it.

_Second side._ A child with a tablet, and an alphabet inscribed on it.
The legend above is

"MECUREU^s DNT. PUERICIE PAN. X."

Or, "Mercurius dominatur pueritiae per annos X." (Selvatico reads VII.)
"Mercury governs boyhood for ten (or seven) years."

_Third side._ An older youth, with another tablet, but broken. Inscribed

"ADOLOSCENCIE * * * P. AN. VII."

Selvatico misses this side altogether, as I did the first, so that the
lost planet is irrecoverable, as the inscription is now defaced. Note
the o for e in adolescentia; so also we constantly find u for o;
showing, together with much other incontestable evidence of the same
kind, how full and deep the old pronunciation of Latin always remained,
and how ridiculous our English mincing of the vowels would have sounded
to a Roman ear.

_Fourth side._ A youth with a hawk on his fist.

"IUVENTUTI DNT SOL. P. AN. XIX."
The son governs youth for nineteen years.

_Fifth side._ A man sitting, helmed, with a sword over his shoulder.
Inscribed

"SENECTUTI DNT MARS. P. AN. XV."
Mars governs manhood for fifteen years.

_Sixth side._ A very graceful and serene figure, in the pendent cap,
reading.

"SENICIE DNT JUPITER, P. ANN. XII."
Jupiter governs age for twelve years.

_Seventh side._ An old man in a skull-cap, praying.

"DECREPITE DNT SATN UQ^s ADMOTE." (Saturnus usque ad mortem.)
Saturn governs decrepitude until death.

_Eighth side._ The dead body lying on a mattress.

"ULTIMA EST MORS PENA PECCATI."
Last comes death, the penalty of sin.

Sec. CXXII. Shakspeare's Seven Ages are of course merely the expression
of this early and well known system. He has deprived the dotage of its
devotion; but I think wisely, as the Italian system would imply that
devotion was, or should be, always delayed until dotage.

TWENTY-THIRD CAPITAL. I ag