The Biglow Papers

Epigraph

MELIBŒUS-HIPPONAX.


THE

BIGLOW PAPERS,

EDITED,

WITH AN INTRODUCTION, NOTES, GLOSSARY,
AND COPIOUS INDEX,

By HOMER WILBUR, A.M.

PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN JAALAM, AND (PROSPECTIVE) MEMBER OF
MANY LITERARY, LEARNED, AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES,
(for which see page xlvii.)

The ploughman’s whistle, or the trivial flute,
Finds more respect than great Apollo’s lute.
        Quarles’s Emblems, B. II. E. 8.

Margaritas, munde porcine, calcâsti: en, siliquas accipe.
        Jaa. Car. Fil. ad Pub. Leg. § 1.