PROVERBIAL SAYINGS AND THEIR ORIGINS—PLAGIARISMS AND PARALLEL PASSAGES

In a note to Boswell's *Life of Johnson* (Lond. 1816. 8vo.), iv. 196., the following lines are ascribed to their real authors:— To *Joh. Baptista Mantuanus* (Leipz. 1511. 4to), Eclog. i.:— "Id commune malum, semel insanivimus omnes." To *Philippe Gaultier*, who flourished in the last half of the 12th century (Lugduni, 1558. 4to. fol. xlij. recto):— "Incidis in Scillam cupiens vitare Charybdim." At the conclusion of the same note, the authorship of "Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris," is said to remain undiscovered; but it appears to be a corrected form of a line in Albertus ab Eyb's *Mar…