For though knights are not more needed now to protect the husbandmen against wastours and wicked men

Renege; affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks / With every gale and vary of their masters,

Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner before a prince.

Concerning the Tree which yields the Gamboge, By Profeſſor J[ames] A. Murray. … The tree which yields the true gamboge is, by the natives on the coaſt of Coromandel, called Gokathu, and Bokathu; by Dr. König, it is name Guttæfera vera, and Arbor polygama fructu ceraſiformi eduli. … This tree grows in Siam and Ceylon: in the months of June and July, the natives break off ſome of the leaves and young ſhoots, and a yellow juice drops from the wound, of the conſiſtence of cream, which is collected in cocoa-nut ſhells, and afterwards dried by the ſun.