Chester.
"_Time and I_," &c. (Vol. vii., p. 181.).--Who was the author of this
adage? Lord Mahon gives it as a favourite saying of Mazarin (_History of
England_, vol. ii. p. 100., small edition). Mr. Stirling (_Cloister Life of
Charles V._, p. 151., 2nd edition) tells us that it was a favourite adage
of {586} that temporising monarch. Perhaps it was a well-known Spanish
proverb.