edition of my book upon Mark. Some
progress I have made in the gospel of St. Luke, but I can print
nothing but at my own cost: thereupon I wholly give myself to reading,
scarce thinking of writing more; for booksellers and printers have
dulled my edge, who will print no book, especially Latin, unless they
have an assured and considerable gain."

These writings and even the fragments have been justly appreciated by
posterity, and a recent edition of all Lightfoot's works in many
volumes have received honours which their despairing author never
contemplated.

FOOTNOTES:

[128] Dr. Edmund Castell offers a remarkable instance to illustrate
our present investigation. He more than devoted his life to
his "Lexicon Heptaglotton." It is not possible, if there are
tears that are to be bestowed on the afflictions of learned
men, to read his pathetic address to Charles II., and forbear.
He laments the seventeen years of incredible pains, during
which he thought himself idle when he had not devoted sixteen
or eighteen hours a day to this labour; that he had expended
all his inheritance (it is said more than twelve thousand
pounds); that it had broken his constitution, and left him
blind as well as poor. When this invaluable Polyglott was
published, the copies remained unsold in his hands; for the
learned Castell had anticipated the curiosity and knowledge of
the public by a full century. He had so completely devoted
himself to oriental studies, that they had a very remarkable
consequence, for he had totally forgotten his own language,
and could scarcely spell a single word. This appears in some
of his English Letters, preserved by Mr. Nichols in his
valuable "Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century," vol.
iv. Five hundred of these Lexicons, unsold at the time of his
death, were placed by Dr. Castell's niece in a room so little
regarded, that scarcely one complete copy escaped the rats,
and "the whole load of learned rags sold only for seven
pounds." The work at this moment would find purchasers, I
believe, at forty or fifty pounds.--The learned SALE, who
first gave the world a genuine version of the Koran, and who
had so zealously laboured in forming that "Universal History"
which was the pride of our countr