Note 47 — LECTURE III. THE PROVERBS OF DIFFERENT NATIONS COMPARED.

What may have become of this collection I know not; but it was formerly in Richard Heber’s library, (see the Catalogue, v. 9. no. 1697.) Juan Yriarte was the collector, and in a note to the Catalogue it is stated that he devoted himself with such eagerness to the bringing of it to the highest possible state of completeness, that he would give his servants a fee for any new proverb they brought him; while to each, as it was inserted in his list, he was careful to attach a memorandum of the quarter from which it came; and if this was not from books but from life, an indication of the name, the rank, and condition in life of the person from whom it was derived.