Trochi in morem.

Like a top which is always turning round and changing its situation. The adage may be applied to persons of versatile dispositions, who have no fixed design, or intention, they will now be parsons, lawyers, soldiers; or as Andrew Borde describes our countrymen,

«I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here,
Musing in my mind, what raiment I shall wear;
For now I will wear this, and now I will wear that,
And now I will wear, I cannot tell what».

Borde lived in the early part of the sixteenth century; we are now doubtless changed, and become more steady. There are many other apothegms censuring this mutability of disposition, from which the following only is taken.