We Listen With Deep Interest To What

Cincinnatus Was Ploughing His Four Jugera Of Land Upon The Vaticanian Hill, The Same That Are Still Known As The Quintian Meadows, When The Messenger Brought Him The Dictatorship, Finding Him, The Tradition Says, Stripped To The Work.

The First (barbers) That Entered Italy Came Out Of Sicily And It Was In The 454 Yeare After The Foundation Of Rome. Brought In They Were By P. Ticinius Mena As Verra Doth Report For Before That Time They Never Cut Their Hair. The First That Was Shaven Every Day Was Scipio Africanus, And After Cometh Augustus The Emperor Who Evermore Used The Razor.

Made Up Of The Glories Of The Most Precious Gems, To Describe Them Is A Matter Of Inexpressible Difficulty. For There Is Amongst Them The Gentler Fire Of The Ruby, There Is The Rich Purple Of The Amethyst, There Is The Sea-green Of The Emerald, And All Shining Together In An Indescribable Union. Others, By An Excessive Heightening Of Their Hues Equal All The Colours Of The Painter, Others The Flame Of Burning Brimstone, Or Of A Fire Quickened By Oil.

Truth Comes Out In Wine.

In Wine There Is Health (in Vino Sanitas)