, I am fully determined, and fully _at a
point_ therein, howsoever my brethren do."--_Id._, p. 691.
"_Brad._ Sir, so that you will define me your church, that under it you
bring not in a false church, you shall not see but that we shall soon
be _at a point_."--_Id._, vol. vii. p. 190.
"_Latimer._ Truly, my lord, as for my part I require no respite, for I
am _at a point_. You shall give me respite in vain; therefore, I pray
you let me not trouble you to-morrow."--_Id._, p. 534.
"Unto whom he (Lord Cobham) gave this answer: 'Do as ye shall think
best, for I am _at a point_.' Whatsoever he (Archbishop Arundel) or the
other bishops did ask him after that, he bade them resort to his bill:
for thereby would he stand to the very death."--_Id._, vol. iii. pp.
327-8.
"'Et illa et ista vera esse credantur et nulla inter nos contentio
remanebit, quia nec illis veris ista, nec istis veris illa
impediuntur.' Let bothe those truthes and these truthes be beleued, and
we shall be _at appoinct_. For neither these truthes are impaired by
the other, neither the other by these."--_A Fortresse of the Faith_, p.
50., by Thomas Stapleton: Antwerp, 1565.
"A poore man that shall haue liued at home in the countrie, and neuer
tasted of honoure and pompe, is alwayes _at a poynt_ with himselfe,
when menne scorne and disdayne him, or shewe any token of contempt
towardes his person."--John Calvin's _CVIII. Sermon on the Thirtieth
Chap. of Job_, p. 554., translated by Golding: London, 1574.
"As for peace, I am _at a point_."--_Leycester Correspondence_, Camd.
Soc., p. 261.
W. R. ARROWSMITH.
(_To be continued._)
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FOLK LORE.
_Weather Rules._--The interesting article on "The Shepherd of Banbury's
Weather Rules" (Vol. vii., p. 373.) has reminded me of two _sayings_ I
heard in Worcestershire a few months back, and upon which my informant
placed the greatest reliance. The first is, "If the moon changes on a
Sunday, there will be a flood before the month is out." My authority
asserted that through a number of years he has never known this fail. The
month in which the change on a Sunday has occurred has been fine until the
last day, when the flood came. The other saying is, "Look at the
weathercock on St. Thomas's day at twelve o'clock, and see which way the
wind is, and there it will stick for t
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