Feltham's Works

"He that is courtly or gentle, is among them *like* a merlin after Michaelmas in the field with crows."—*A Brief Character of the Low Countries*, by Owen Feltham. Folio, London, 1661. What is the meaning of this proverb? As a confirmation of the opinion of some of your correspondents, that monosyllables give force and nature to language, the same author says, page 59., of the Dutch tongue,— "Stevin of Bruges reckons up 2170 monosillables, which being compounded, how richly do they grace a tongue." Will any of your correspondents kindly inform me of the titles of Owen Feltham's works. I have hi…