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Voluptates
commendat rarior
usus.
usus.
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_For seldom use commends the pleasure.
_ Voluptates commendat rarior
usus. Juvenal, _Sat. _ xi. ad fin.
_Nor fear or wish your dying day. _ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes.
Mart. X. xlvii. 13.
112. _To the Earl of Westmoreland. _ Mildmay Fane succeeded his father,
Thomas Fane, the first earl, in March, 1628. At the outbreak of the
Civil War he sided with the king, but after a short imprisonment made
his submission to the Parliament, and was relieved of the sequestration
of his estates. He subsequently printed privately a volume of poems,
called _Otia Sacra_, which has been re-edited by Dr. Grosart.
_For seldom use commends the pleasure.
_ Voluptates commendat rarior
usus. Juvenal, _Sat. _ xi. ad fin.
_Nor fear or wish your dying day. _ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes.
Mart. X. xlvii. 13.
112. _To the Earl of Westmoreland. _ Mildmay Fane succeeded his father,
Thomas Fane, the first earl, in March, 1628. At the outbreak of the
Civil War he sided with the king, but after a short imprisonment made
his submission to the Parliament, and was relieved of the sequestration
of his estates. He subsequently printed privately a volume of poems,
called _Otia Sacra_, which has been re-edited by Dr. Grosart.
