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FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS:

A COLLECTION OF

PASSAGES, PHRASES, AND PROVERBS

TRACED TO THEIR SOURCES IN

ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE

BY JOHN BARTLETT.

"I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but

the thread that binds them is mine own."

NINTH EDITION.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

1905.

_Copyright, 1875, 1882, 1891, 1903,_

BY JOHN BARTLETT.

UNIVERSITY PRESS:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

THIS EDITION

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO

THE MEMORY OF THE LATE ASSISTANT EDITOR,

REZIN A. WIGHT.

PREFACE.

"Out of the old fieldes cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere,"

And out of the fresh woodes cometh al these new flowres here.

THE small thin volume, the first to bear the title of this collection,

after passing through eight editions, each enlarged, now culminates in

its ninth,--and with it, closes its tentative life.

This extract from the Preface of the fourth edition is applicable to the

present one:--

"It is not easy to determine in all cases the degree of familiarity that

may belong to phrases and sentences which present themselves for

admission; for what is familiar to one class of readers may be quite new

to another. Many maxims of the most famous writers of our language, and

numberless curious and happy turns from orators and poets, have knocked

at the door, and it was hard to deny them. But to admit these simply on

their own merits, without assurance that the general reader would readily

recognize them as old friends, was aside from the purpose of this

collection. Still, it has been thought better to incur the risk of erring

on the side of fulness."

With the many additions to the English writers, the present edition

contains selections from the French, and from the wit and wisdom of the

ancients. A few passages have been admitted without a claim to

familiarity, but solely on the ground of coincidence of thought.

I am under great obligations to M. H. MORGAN, Ph. D., of Harvard

University, for the translation of Marcus Aurelius, and for the

translation and selections from the Greek tragic writers. I am indebted

to the kindness of Mr. DANIEL W. WILDER, of Kansas, for the quotations

from Pilpay, with contributions from Diogenes Laertius, Montaigne,

Burton, and Pope's Homer; to Dr. WILLIAM J. ROLFE for quotations from

Robert Browning; to Mr. JAMES W. MCINTYRE for quotations from Coleridge,

Shelley, Keats, Mrs. Browning, Robert Browning, and Tennyson. And I have

incurred other obligations to friends for here a little and there a

little.

It gives me pleasure to acknowledge the great assistance I have received

from Mr. A. W. STEVENS, the accomplished reader of the University Press,

as this work was passing through the press.

In withdrawing from this very agreeable pursuit, I beg to offer my

sincere thanks to all who have assisted me either in the way of

suggestions or by contributions; and especially to those lovers of this

subsidiary literature for their kind appreciation of former editions.

Accepted by scholars as an authoritative book of reference, it has grown

with its growth in public estimation with each reissue. Of the last two

editions forty thousand copies were printed, apart from the English

reprints. The present enlargement of text equals three hundred and fifty

pages of the previous edition, and the index is increased with upwards of

ten thousand lines.

CAMBRIDGE, March, 1891.

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

PAGE

ADAMS, CHARLES F. 678

ADAMS, JOHN 429

JOHN, _note_ 529, 530

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY 312, 458

ADAMS, SARAH FLOWER 606

ADDISON, JOSEPH 297

ADY, THOMAS 684

ÆSCHINES 810

ÆSCHYLUS 695

AGRICOLA, _note_ 686

AKENSIDE, MARK 391

ALANUS DE INSULIS, _note_ 5

ALDRICH, JAMES 639

ALI BEN TALEB 767

ALLEN, ELIZABETH A. 668

ALPHONSO THE WISE 768

AMELIA, PRINCESS 676

AMES, FISHER, _note_ 283

ARCHILOCHUS, _note_ 216

ARIOSTO, _note_ 552

ARISTIDES, _note_ 438

ARISTOPHANES, _note_ 731

ARISTOTLE, _note_ 267, 853

ARMSTRONG, JOHN 672

ARNOLD, MATTHEW 665

ARNOLD, SAMUEL J., _note_ 388

ARRIANUS, _note_ 704

ATHENÆUS 766

AVONMORE, LORD, _note_ 531

BACON, FRANCIS 164

BACON, LADY ANNE, _note_ 7

BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES 654

BAILLIE, JOANNA 674

BANCROFT, GEORGE, _note_ 531

BARBAULD, MRS. 433

BARÈRE, BERTRAND 804

BARHAM, R. H. 676

BARKER, THEODORE L. 682

BARNFIELD, RICHARD 175

BARRETT, EATON S. 676

BARRINGTON, GEORGE 445

BARROW, ISAAC, _note_ 299

BARRY, MICHAEL J. 680

BASSE, WILLIAM, _note_ 179

BAXTER, RICHARD 670

BAYARD, CHEVALIER, _note_ 21

BAYLE, PETER, _note_ 604

BAYLY, T. HAYNES 581

BEATTIE, JAMES 428

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER 197

BEAUMONT, FRANCIS 196

BEAUMONT, JOHN, _note_ 478

BEE, BERNARD E. 860

BELL, ROBERT, _note_ 330

BELLAMY, G. W. 682

BELLINGHAUSEN, VON MÜNCH 806

BENTHAM, JEREMY 856

BENTLEY, RICHARD 284

BENTON, THOMAS H. 858

BERKELEY, BISHOP 312

BERNERS, JULIANA, _note_ 182

BERRY, DOROTHY, _note_ 484

BERTAUT, JEAN, _note_ 100

BERTIN, MADEMOISELLE, _note_ 811

BETTELHEIM, A. S., _note_ 170

BICKERSTAFF, ISAAC 427

BLACKER, COLONEL 588

BLACKMORE, RICHARD, _note_ 685

BLACKSTONE, SIR WILLIAM 392

BLAIR, ROBERT 354

BLAMIRE, SUSANNA 673

BLAND, ROBERT, _note_ 191

BOBART, JACOB, _note_ 688

BODINUS, _note_ 418

BODLEY, SIR THOMAS 368

BOETHIUS, _note_ 618

BOILEAU 799

BOLINGBROKE 304

BOOTH, BARTON 306

BORBONIUS, _note_ 321

BOURDILLON, FRANCIS W. 669

BRACTON 857

BRAINARD, JOHN G. C. 677

BRAMSTON, JAMES 352

BREEN, H. H., _note_ 409

BRERETON, JANE 312

BRETON, NICHOLAS, _note_ 33

BROMLEY, ISAAC H. 681

BROOKE, LORD 35

BROUGHAM, LORD 527

LORD, _note_ 426

BROWN, JOHN 380

BROWN, TOM 286

BROWNE, SIR THOMAS 217

BROWNE, WILLIAM 201

BROWNING, ELIZABETH B. 620

BROWNING, ROBERT 643

BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN 572

BRYDGES, SIR S. EGERTON 674

BUFFON, _note_ 186

BULFINCH, SAMUEL G., _note_ 488

BUNN, ALFRED 561

BUNSEN, CARL JOSIAS, _note_ 770

BUNYAN, JOHN 265

BURCHARD, SAMUEL D. 679

BURKE, EDMUND 407

BURNET, GILBERT, _note_ 610

BURNS, ROBERT 446

BURTON, ROBERT 185

BUSSY DE RABUTIN, _note_ 286

BUTLER, SAMUEL 209

SAMUEL, _note_ 361

BYRD, WILLIAM, _note_ 22

BYROM, JOHN 351

BYRON, LORD 539

CALHOUN, JOHN C. 529

CALLIMACHUS 496

CAMPBELL, LORD, _note_ 418, 528

CAMPBELL, THOMAS 512

CAMDEN, WILLIAM 684

CAMBRONNE 810

CANNING, GEORGE 464

CAREW, THOMAS 200

CAREY, HENRY 285

CARLYLE, THOMAS 577

CARPENTER, JOSEPH E. 680

CARRUTHERS, ROBERT, _note_ 528

CATINAT, MARSHAL, _note_ 740

CATULLUS, _note_ 306

CENTLIVRE, SUSANNAH 671

CERVANTES 784

CHANNING, WILLIAM E. 655

CHAPMAN, GEORGE 35

CHARLES I., _note_ 398

CHARRON, _note_ 317

CHASE, SALMON P. 619

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY 1

CHERRY, ANDREW 453

CHESTERFIELD, EARL OF 352

CHILD, LYDIA MARIA 596

CHOATE, RUFUS 588

CHORLEY, HENRY F. 667

CHRISTY, DAVID 854

CHURCH, BENJAMIN, _note_ 513

CHURCHILL, CHARLES 412

CIBBER, COLLEY 295

COLLEY, _note_ 294

CICERO 705

CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE 255

CLARKE, JOHN, _note_ 568

CLARKE, MACDONALD 582

CLAY, HENRY, _note_ 505

CLEVELAND, GROVER 669

CODRINGTON, CHRISTOPHER, _note_ 295

COKE, SIR EDWARD 24

COLERIDGE, HARTLEY 677

COLERIDGE, S. TAYLOR 498

S. TAYLOR, _note_ 481

COLLINS, WILLIAM 389

COLMAN, GEORGE 454

COLTON, C. C. 675

CONGREVE, WILLIAM 294

CONSTABLE, HENRY, _note_ 484

CONSTANT, HENRY B. 806

COOK, ELIZA 654

COOPER, J. FENIMORE, _note_ 580

CORNUEL, MADAME, _note_ 740

COTTON, NATHANIEL 362

COWLEY, ABRAHAM 260

COWPER, WILLIAM 413

CRABBE, GEORGE 443

CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER P. 653

CRANFIELD, _note_ 210

CRASHAW, RICHARD 258

CRAWFORD, ANNE 673

CRISTYNE, _note_ 12

CROCKETT, DAVID 852

CROKER, JOHN W., _note_ 284

CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN 537

CURRAN, JOHN P. 855

CURTIUS, QUINTUS, _note_ 25

D'ABRANTES, DUC 806

D'ABRANTES, MADAME, _note_ 718

DALRYMPLE, SIR JOHN, _note_ 550

DANCE, CHARLES 677

DANIEL, SAMUEL 39

DANTE 769

DANTON, _note_ 28

DARWIN, CHARLES 622

DARWIN, ERASMUS 424

ERASMUS, _note_ 426

DAVENANT, SIR WILLIAM 217

DAVIE, ADAM, _note_ 21

DAVIES, SCROPE 682

DAVIES, SIR JOHN 175

DAVIS, JEFFERSON 679

DAVIS, THOMAS O. 680

DE BENSERADE, ISAAC 794

DEBRETT, JOHN, _note_ 432

DECATUR, STEPHEN 675

DE CAUX, _note_ 396

DEFFAND, MADAME DU 801

DEFOE, DANIEL 286

DEKKER, THOMAS 181

DE LA FERTÉ, _note_ 430

DE LIGNE 803

DE L'ISLE, JOSEPH R. 804

DEMODOCUS, _note_ 400

DE MORGAN, _note_ 290

DEMOSTHENES 855

DENHAM, SIR JOHN 257

DENMAN, LORD 527

DENNIS, JOHN 282

DE QUINCEY, _note_ 365

DIBDIN, CHARLES 436

DIBDIN, THOMAS 675

DICKENS, CHARLES 652

DICKINSON, JOHN 426

DICKMAN, FRANKLIN J., _note_ 589

DIDACUS STELLA, _note_ 185

DIOGENES LAERTIUS 757

DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS, _note_ 304

DIONYSIUS THE ELDER 700

DISRAELI, BENJAMIN 607

DIX, JOHN A. 678

DODDRIDGE, PHILIP 359

DODSLEY, ROBERT 671

DOMETT, ALFRED 642

DONNE, JOHN 177

DOWLING, BARTHOLOMEW 641

DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN 573

DRAYTON, MICHAEL 40

DRENNAN, WILLIAM 855

DRUMMOND, THOMAS 582

DRUMMOND, WILLIAM 196

WILLIAM _note_ 170

DRYDEN, JOHN 267

DU BARTAS 780

DUFFERIN, LADY 611

DUMAS, ALEXANDRE 809

DUNCOMBE, LEWIS, _note_ 459

D'URFEY, _note_ 348

DWIGHT, TIMOTHY 674

DYER, EDWARD 22

DYER, JOHN 358

DYER ---- 672

EASTWICK, _note_ 437

EDGEWORTH, MARIA, _note_ 283

EDWARDS, RICHARD 21

EDWARDS, THOMAS 671

EDWIN, JOHN 439

ELLIOT, JARED 392

ELLIOTT, JANE 393

ELLIS, GEORGE, _note_ 175

ELLIS, HENRY 675

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO 598

RALPH WALDO, _note_ 511

EMMET, ROBERT 675

ENGLISH, THOMAS DUNN 680

EPICTETUS 742

ERASMUS, _note_ 3, 5, 216, 720

ESTIENNE, HENRI, _note_ 379

EURIPIDES 697

EURIPIDES, _note_ 277

EVERETT, DAVID 459

EVERETT, EDWARD 571

FABER, FREDERICK W. 653

FANSHAWE, CATHERINE M. 674

FARQUHAR, GEORGE 305

FÉNELON, _note_ 353

FERRIAR, JOHN 456

FIELD, NATHANIEL 670

FIELDING, HENRY 362

FINCH, FRANCIS M. 668

FITZ-GEFFREY, CHARLES, _note_ 305

FLETCHER, ANDREW 281

FLETCHER, JULIA A. 642

FLETCHER, JOHN 183

FLETCHER, PHINEAS, _note_ 327

FOOTE, SAMUEL 391

FORD, JOHN 670

FORDYCE, JAMES 391

FORTESCUE, JOHN 7

FOUCHÉ, JOSEPH 805

FOURNIER, _note_ 310

FOX, CHARLES J., _note_ 364

FOX, JOHN, _note_ 484

FRANCIS THE FIRST 807

FRANCK, RICHARD, _note_ 305

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN 359

FRANKLIN, KATE 682

FRENEAU, PHILIP 443

FRERE, J. HOOKHAM 462

FROTHINGHAM, RICHARD, _note_ 360

FULLER, THOMAS 221

THOMAS, _note_ 484

GAGE, THOMAS, _note_ 495

GARRICK, DAVID 387

GARRISON, WILLIAM L. 605

GARTH, SAMUEL 295

SAMUEL, _note_ 181

GASCOIGNE, GEORGE, _note_ 10

GAY, JOHN 347

GETTY, REV. DR., _note_ 631

GIBBON, EDWARD 430

GIBBONS, THOMAS 672

GIFFORD, RICHARD 393

GOETHE, WOLFGANG VON 803

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER 394

OLIVER, _note_ 310, 592

GOOGE, BARNABY 5, 7

GORGIAS, _note_ 578

GOSSON, STEPHEN, _note_ 731

GOWER, JOHN, _note_ 13

GRAFTON, RICHARD 684

GRANGER, JAMES, _note_ 395

GRANT, ANNE 674

GRANT, ULYSSES S. 664

GRAVES, RICHARD 672

RICHARD, _note_ 295

GRAY, THOMAS 381

GREEN, MATTHEW 354

GREENE, ALBERT G. 596

GREENE, ROBERT, _note_ 190

GRESWELL, _note_ 332

GREVILLE, MRS. 389

GRIFFIN, GERALD 678

GUALTIER, PHILLIPPE, _note_ 64

GUARINI, _note_ 495

HABINGTON, WILLIAM 515

HAKEWILL, GEORGE 683

GEORGE, _note_ 169

HALE, EDWARD E. 681

HALIBURTON, THOMAS C. 580

HALL, BISHOP 182

HALL, ROBERT 457

HALLECK, FITZ-GREENE 561

HALLIWELL, JAMES O. 853

JAMES O., _note_ 596

HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, _note_ 532

HAMMOND, J. H. 678

HANNAH, J., _note_ 22

HARE, JULIUS, _note_ 268

HARRINGTON, SIR JOHN 39

HARRISON, WILLIAM 684

HARTE, FRANCIS BRET 669

HARVEY, STEPHEN 670

HAWKER, ROBERT 674

HAWKER, ROBERT S., _note_ 687

HAYES, EDWARD, _note_ 588

HAYES, RUTHERFORD B. 665

HEATH, LEONARD 666

HEBER, REGINALD 535

HEGGE, ROBERT, _note_ 181

HEMANS, FELICIA D. 569

HÉNAULT, _note_ 325

HENDYNG, _note_ 7

HENRY, MATHEW 282

HENRY, PATRICK 429

HENSHAW, JOSEPH 263

HERBERT, GEORGE 204

HERODOTUS, _note_ 696, 807

HERRICK, ROBERT 201

HERVEY, THOMAS K. 589

HESIOD 692

HEYWOOD, JOHN 8

HEYWOOD, THOMAS 194

HILL, AARON 313

HILL, ROWLAND 673

HIPPOCRATES 700

HOBBES, THOMAS 200

HOFFMAN, CHARLES F. 678

HOLCROFT, THOMAS 673

HOLLAND, SIR RICHARD 38

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL 635

HOME, JOHN 392

HOOD, THOMAS 583

HOOKER, JOSEPH 680

HOOKER, RICHARD 31

HOOPER, ELLEN STURGIS 654

HOPKINS, CHARLES, _note_ 581

HOPKINSON, JOSEPH 465

HORACE 706

HORNE, BISHOP 853

HORNE, RICHARD H. 604

HOWARD, SAMUEL 672

HOWELL, JAMES, _note_ 191, 208, 581

HOWITT, MARY 605

HOYLE, EDMUND 861

HUME, DAVID 854

DAVID, _note_ 593, 685

HUNT, LEIGH 536

HURD, RICHARD 673

HURDIS, JAMES 454

HUTCHESON, FRANCIS 856

INGRAM, JOHN K. 681

IRVING, WASHINGTON 536

JACKSON, ANDREW 458

JAMES, G. P. R. 678

JAMES, PAUL M. 528

JEFFERSON, THOMAS 434

JEFFERYS, CHARLES 611

JERROLD, DOUGLAS 597

JOHNSON, ANDREW 678

JOHNSON, SAMUEL 365

SAMUEL, _note_ 185, 294, 711

JONES, SIR WILLIAM 437

JONSON, BEN 177

JUVENAL 721

KEATS, JOHN 574

KEBLE, JOHN 569

KEMBLE, FRANCES ANNE 641

KEMBLE, J. P. 445

KEMPIS, THOMAS À 7

KEN, THOMAS 278

KENNEY, JAMES 676

KENRICK, WILLIAM, _note_ 450

KEPLER, JOHN 670

KEY, FRANCIS S. 517

KEY, T. H., _note_ 560

KING, WILLIAM, _note_ 217

KINGLAKE, JOHN A. 860

KINGSLEY, CHARLES 664

KNIGHT, CHARLES, _note_ 616

KNOLLES, RICHARD, _note_ 267

KNOWLES, JAMES S. 676

KNOX, WILLIAM 561

KOTZEBUE, VON 805

LA FONTAINE 797

LAMB, CHARLES 508

CHARLES, _note_ 274

LANDOR, WALTER S. 511

LANGFORD, G. W. 683

LANGHORNE, JOHN 427

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD 794

LAYARD, AUSTEN H. 642

LEE, HENRY 445

LEE, NATHANIEL 281

LEIGHTON, ARCHBISHOP, _note_ 379

LEMON, MARK 679

LE SAGE 800

L'ESTRANGE, ROGER 670

LEUTSCH AND SCHNEIDEWIN, _note_ 793

LIGNE, PRINCE DE 803

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM 622

LINLEY, GEORGE 586

LINSCHOTEN, HUGH VAN 861

LIVY, _note_ 13

LLOYD, DAVID, _note_ 310

LOCKHART, JOHN G. 677

JOHN G., _note_ 427, 490

LOGAN, JOHN 438

LOGAU, FRIEDRICH VON 793

LONGFELLOW, HENRY W. 612

LOVELACE, RICHARD 259

LOVER, SAMUEL 582

LOWE, JOHN 673

LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL 656

LOWTH, ROBERT 672

LUCRETIUS 706

LYDGATE, JOHN, _note_ 5

LUTHER, MARTIN 770

LYLY, JOHN 31

LYTTELTON, LORD 377

LYTTON, SIR E. BULWER 606

MACAULAY, THOMAS B. 589

THOMAS B., _note_ , 332, 610, 855

MACKAY, CHARLES 653

MACKINTOSH, JAMES 457

JAMES, _note_ 291

MACKLIN, CHARLES 350

MADDEN, SAMUEL 314

MAHON, LORD 860

LORD, _note_ 364, 474

MANNERS, LORD JOHN 680

MARCUS AURELIUS 749

MARCY, WILLIAM L. 676

MARKHAM, GERVASE, _note_ 187

MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER 40

MARMION, SHAKERLEY, _note_ 171

MARTIAL 722

MARTIN, HENRI 807

MARVELL, ANDREW 262

MASON, WILLIAM 393

MASSINGER, PHILIP 194

MCMASTER, JOHN B., _note_ 435

MAULE 857

MEE, WILLIAM 682

MELCHIOR, _note_ 171

MENANDER, _note_ 390

MERRICK, JAMES 390

MEURIER, GABRIEL, _note_ 80

MICHELANGELO 769

MICKLE, WILLIAM J. 426

MIDDLETON, THOMAS 172

MILLER, WILLIAM 679

MILMAN, HENRY HART 564

MILNES, RICHARD M. 634

MILTON, JOHN 223

MIMNERMUS 699

MINER, CHARLES 528

MOLIÈRE 797

MONNOYE, BERNARD DE LA, _note_ 400

MONTAGU, MARY WORTLEY 350

MARY WORTLEY, _note_ 461

MONTAIGNE 774

MONTGOMERY, JAMES 496

MONTGOMERY, ROBERT 610

MONTROSE, MARQUIS OF 257

MOORE, CLEMENT C. 527

MOORE, EDWARD 377

MOORE, THOMAS 518

MORE, HANNAH 437

MORE, SIR THOMAS, _note_ 30, 100

MORELL, THOMAS, _note_ 281

MORGAN, M. H. 860

MORRIS, CHARLES 432

MORRIS, GEORGE P. 595

MORTON, THOMAS 457

MOSS, THOMAS 433

MOTHERWELL, WILLIAM 580

MUHLENBERG, WILLIAM A. 678

MULOCK, DINAH M. 667

MÜNSTER, ERNST F. 807

MURPHY, ARTHUR 393

NAIRNE, LADY 458

NAPIER, SIR W. F. P. 537

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE 811

NAPOLEON, LOUIS 810

NASH, THOMAS 861

NELSON, HORATIO 446

NEWTON, ISAAC 278

NOEL, THOMAS 683

NORRIS, JOHN 281

NORTHBROOKE, _note_ 17

NORTON, CAROLINE E. S. 679

O'HARA, KANE 672

O'HARA, THEODORE 681

O'KEEFE, JOHN 673

O'KELLEY, CAPTAIN 855

OLDHAM, JOHN 366

OLDYS, WILLIAM 671

OLIPHANT, THOMAS, _note_ 685

OMAR KHAYYÁM 768

O'MEARA, BARRY E. 675

ORRERY, ROGER B., _note_ 258

ORTIN, JOB, _note_ 359

OTWAY, THOMAS 280

OVERBURY, SIR THOMAS 193

OVID 707

OXENSTIERN, _note_ 195

PAINE, ROBERT TREAT 675

PAINE, THOMAS 431

THOMAS, _note_ 605

PALEY, WILLIAM 673

PANAT, CHEVALIER DE 811

PARDOE, JULIA 680, 860

PARKER, MARTYN 176

PARKER, THEODORE 639

PARNELL, THOMAS 305

PASCAL 798

PASCAL, _note_ 169

PAYNE, J. HOWARD 568

PEELE, GEORGE 24, 184, 530

PERCIVAL, JAMES G. 677

PERCY, THOMAS 404

PERRY, OLIVER H. 676

PERSIUS, _note_ 188, 305

PETRARCH, _note_ 295

PHÆDRUS 715

PHILIPS, AMBROSE 671

PHILIPS, JOHN 671

PHILLIPS, CHARLES 677

PHILLIPS, WENDELL 641

PHILOSTRATUS, _note_ 179

PIERPONT, JOHN 538

PILPAY 691

PINCKNEY, CHARLES C. 673

PIOZZI, MADAME, _note_ 560, 806

PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM 364

PITT, WILLIAM 453

PITT, WILLIAM (THE YOUNGER) 510

PLATO, _note_ 317

PLAUTUS 700

PLAYFORD, JOHN 684

PLINY THE ELDER 716

PLINY THE YOUNGER 748

PLUTARCH 722

POE, EDGAR A. 640

POLLOK, ROBERT 588

POMFRET, JOHN 289

POMPADOUR, MADAME DE, _note_ 205

POPE, ALEXANDER 314

POPE, WALTER 670

PORTER, HORACE 682

PORTER, MRS. DAVID 682

PORTEUS, BEILBY 425

POTTER, HENRY C. 668

POWELL, SIR JOHN 278

PRAED, WINTHROP M. 595

PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH 858

PRIOR, JAMES, _note_ 412

PRIOR, MATTHEW 287

PROCLUS, _note_ 740, 811

PROCTER, BRYAN W. 538

PUBLIUS SYRUS 708

PULTENEY, WILLIAM 671

QUARLES, FRANCIS 203

QUINCY, JOSIAH, JR. 436

QUINCY, JOSIAH 505

QUINTILIAN 721

QUITARD, _note_ 176

RABELAIS 770

RACINE, _note_ 391, 704

RADCLIFFE, ANN 456

RALEIGH, SIR WALTER 25

RAMSAY, ALLAN 671

RANDALL, H. S. 859

RANKE, LEOPOLD, _note_ 770

RANSFORD, EDWIN 683

RASPE, _note_ 739

RAVENSCROFT, THOMAS 683

RAY, WILLIAM, _note_ 216

RHODES, WILLIAM B. 388

RICHARDS, AMELIA B., _note_ 533

ROBINSON, MARY 674

ROCHESTER, EARL OF 279

ROGERS, SAMUEL 455

ROLAND, MADAME 804

ROSCOMMON, EARL OF 278

ROUSSEAU 802

ROWE, NICHOLAS 301

ROYDON, MATHEW 23

RUMBOLD, RICHARD 682

RUSSELL, W. S. 860

SAINT AUGUSTINE 767

SAINT SIMON, _note_ 189

SALA, GEORGE A., _note_ 463

SALES, SAINT FRANCIS DE, _note_ 372

SALIS, VON 805

SALLUST, _note_ 167

SALVANDY, COMTE DE 811

SANDYS, SIR EDWIN, _note_ 314

SARGENT, EPES 679

SAVAGE, RICHARD 354

SCARRON, _note_ 216

SCHELLING 807

SCHIDONI 793

SCHILLER 804

SCOTT, SIR WALTER 487

SIR WALTER, _note_ 852

SCOTT, WINFIELD 676

SEARS, EDMUND H. 640

SEBASTIANI, GENERAL 809

SEDAINE, MICHEL J. 803

SEDLEY, CHARLES 671

SELDEN, JOHN 194

SELVAGGI, _note_ 271

SENECA 714

SÉVIGNÉ, MADAME DE, _note_ 740, 801

SEWALL, HARRIET W. 680

SEWALL, JONATHAN M. 439

SEWARD, THOMAS, _note_ 189

SEWARD, WILLIAM H. 595

SEWELL, GEORGE 671

SHAFTESBURY, EARL OF, _note_ 578

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM 42

SHARMAN, JULIAN, _note_ 12

SHEFFIELD 279

SHELLEY, PERCY B. 564

PERCY B., _note_ 592

SHENSTONE, WILLIAM 379

SHERES, SIR HENRY, _note_ 13

SHERMAN, WILLIAM T. 681

SHERIDAN, R. BRINSLEY 440

SHIRLEY, JAMES 209

SIDNEY, ALGERNON 264

SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP 34

SILIUS ITALICUS, _note_ 207

SIRMOND, JOHN 793

SISMONDI 807

SKELTON, JOHN 8

SMART, CHRISTOPHER 363

SMITH, ADAM 858

SMITH, ALEXANDER 667

SMITH, CAPTAIN JOHN, _note_ 495

SMITH, EDMUND, _note_ 333

SMITH, HORACE 517

SMITH, JAMES 510

SMITH, SAMUEL F. 619

SMITH, SEBA 568

SMITH, SYDNEY 459

SMOLLETT, TOBIAS 392

SMYTH, WILLIAM, _note_ 391

SOCRATES, _note_ 63

SOMERVILLE, WILLIAM, _note_ 314

SOPHOCLES 696

SOPHOCLES, _note_ 593

SORBIENNE, _note_ 286

SOUTH, ROBERT, _note_ 310

SOUTHERNE, THOMAS 282

SOUTHEY, ROBERT 506, 853

SOUTHWELL, ROBERT, _note_ 22

SPARKS, JARED, _note_ 717

SPENCER, HERBERT 681

SPENCER, WILLIAM R. 464

SPENSER, EDMUND 27

SPRAGUE, CHARLES 564

STAËL, MADAME DE, _note_ 174, 807

STEELE, SIR RICHARD 297

STEERS, FANNY 682

STERNE, LAURENCE 378

STERNHOLD, THOMAS 23

STEVENS, GEORGE A. 672

STILES, EZRA 859

STILL, BISHOP 22

STOLBERG, CHRISTIAN, _note_ 503

STORY, JOSEPH 675

STOUGHTON, WILLIAM 266

STOWELL, LORD 437

SUCKLING, SIR JOHN 256

SUETONIUS, _note_ 307

SUMNER, CHARLES 859

SWIFT, JONATHAN 289

TACITUS 747

TALFOURD, THOMAS N. 577

TANEY, ROGER B. 675

TATE AND BRADY 851

TAYLOR, BAYARD 666

TAYLOR, HENRY 594

TAYLOR, JANE AND ANN 534

TAYLOR, JEREMY, _note_ 169, 193

TAYLOR, JOHN 670

JOHN, _note_ 20

TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM 266

TENNYSON, ALFRED 623

TERENCE 702

TERTULLIAN 756

THEOBALD, LOUIS 352

THEOCRITUS, _note_ 349

THEOGNIS 694

THOMAS, FREDERICK W. 679

THOMSON, JAMES 355

THRALE, MRS. 432

THUCYDIDES, _note_ 726

THURLOW, LORD 426

TIBULLUS, _note_ 106

TICKELL, THOMAS 313

TILLOTSON, JOHN 266

TITUS, COLONEL, _note_ 352

TOBIN, JOHN 463

TOLOWIEZ, _note_ 767

TOPLADY, AUGUSTUS M., _note_ 432

TOURNEUR, CYRIL 34

TOWNLEY, JAMES 380

TRUMBULL, JOHN 439

TUCKER, DEAN 858

TUKE, SAMUEL 670

TUPPER, MARTIN F. 640

TUSSER, THOMAS 20

UHLAND, JOHANN L. 806

UNKNOWN AUTHORS 707

USTERI, J. M. 805

VALERIUS MAXIMUS 622

VANBRUGH, SIR JOHN 684

VAN BUREN, MARTIN, _note_ 364

VANDYK, H. S. 678

VARRO, _note_ 167

VAUGHAN, HENRY 263

VAUVENARGUES 803

VEGETIUS, _note_ 425

VENNING, RALPH 262

VILLON 769

VIRGIL, _note_ 185, 720, 810

VOLNEY, _note_ 592

VOLTAIRE 800

VOSS, J. H., _note_ 811

WADE, J. A. 594

WALKER, WILLIAM 265

WALLACE, HORACE B., _note_ 361

WALLER, EDMUND 219

WALPOLE, HORACE 389

HORACE, _note_ 592

WALPOLE, SIR ROBERT 304

SIR ROBERT, _note_ 592

WALTON, IZAAK 206

WARBURTON, THOMAS 859

WARNER, WILLIAM 38

WARD, THOMAS 857

WARTON, THOMAS 403

WASHINGTON, GEORGE 425

WATSON, WILLIAM 855

WATTS, ISAAC 301

WEBSTER, DANIEL 529

WEBSTER, JOHN 180

WELBY, AMELIA B. 681

WELLINGTON, DUKE OF 463

WELLS, WILLIAM V. 858

WESLEY, CHARLES 672

WESLEY, JOHN 359

WHETSTONE, GEORGE, _note_ 14

WHEWELL, WILLIAM 169

WHITE, HENRY KIRKE, _note_ 592

WHITTIER, JOHN G. 618

WIGHT, REZIN A. 854

WILDE, RICHARD H. 677

WILLARD, EMMA 676

WILLIAMS, HELEN M. 674

WILLIAMS, ROGER 208

WILLIS, NATHANIEL P. 655

NATHANIEL P., _note_ 580

WILSON, ALEXANDER 860

WILSON, JOHN, _note_ 558

WILSON, MRS. C. B. 677

WINSLOW, EDWARD, _note_ 283

WINTHROP, JOHN 670

WINTHROP, ROBERT C. 638

WITHER, GEORGE 199

WOLCOT, JOHN 431

WOLFE, CHARLES 563

WOLFE, JAMES 673

WOODWORTH, SAMUEL 537

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM 465

WOTTON, SIR HENRY 174

WROTHER, MISS 683

WYCHERLEY, WILLIAM, _note_ 452

YALDEN, THOMAS, _note_ 181

YONGE, NICHOLAS, _note_ 711

YOUNG, EDWARD 306

YOUNG, SIR JOHN, _note_ 177

ZAMOYSKI, JAN 810

ZOUCH, THOMAS, _note_ 209

ANONYMOUS BOOKS CITED.

PAGE

ANNALS OF SPORTING 855

BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA, _note_ 282

BIOGRAPHIA DRAMATICA, _note_ 347

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER 850

BRITISH PRINCES 685

CUPID'S WHIRLIGIG, _note_ 446

DEUTSCHE RECHTS ALTERTHÜMER 858

DRUNKEN BARNABY'S FOUR JOURNEYS 856

ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA, _note_ 784

GESTA ROMANORUM 802

HEALTH TO THE GENTLE PROFESSION OF SERVING-MEN, _note_ 360

HISTORY OF THE FAMILY OF COURTENAY, _note_ 802

LETTERS OF JUNIUS 688

MARRIAGE OF WIT AND WISDOM 859

MENAGIANA, _note_ 793

NEW ENGLAND PRIMER 687

PIERRE PATELIN, _note_ 771

REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNITANUM, _note_ 293

RETURN FROM PARNASSUS 684

SPECTATOR 857

THE BIBLE 812

THE EXAMINER, MAY 31, 1829, _note_ 313

THE MOCK ROMANCE, _note_ 217

THE NATION, _note_ 532

THE SKYLARK 854

WHEELER'S MAGAZINE, _note_ 690

FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER. 1328-1400.

(_From the text of Tyrwhitt._)

WHANNE that April with his shoures sote

The droughte of March hath perced to the rote.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 1._

And smale foules maken melodie,

That slepen alle night with open eye,

So priketh hem nature in hir corages;

Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 9._

And of his port as meke as is a mayde.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 69._

He was a veray parfit gentil knight.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 72._

He coude songes make, and wel endite.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 95._

Ful wel she sange the service devine,

Entuned in hire nose ful swetely;

And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly,

After the scole of Stratford atte bowe,

For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 122._

A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 287._

For him was lever han at his beddes hed

A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red,

Of Aristotle, and his philosophie,

Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie.

But all be that he was a philosophre,

Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 295._

And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 310._

Nowher so besy a man as he ther n' as,

And yet he semed besier than he was.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 323._

His studie was but litel on the Bible.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 440._

For gold in phisike is a cordial;

Therefore he loved gold in special.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 445._

Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 493._

This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf,--

That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 498._

But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve,

He taught; but first he folwed it himselve.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 529._

And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.[2-1]

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 565._

Who so shall telle a tale after a man,

He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can,

Everich word, if it be in his charge,

All speke he never so rudely and so large;

Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe,

Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe.

_Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 733._

For May wol have no slogardie a-night.

The seson priketh every gentil herte,

And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte.

_Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 1044._

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.[2-2]

_Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 1524._

Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie.

_Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 2275._

Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.

_Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 2408._

To maken vertue of necessite.[3-1]

_Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 3044._

And brought of mighty ale a large quart.

_Canterbury Tales. The Milleres Tale. Line 3497._

Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be,

That may both werken wel and hastily.[3-2]

This wol be done at leisure parfitly.[3-3]

_Canterbury Tales. The Marchantes Tale. Line 585._

Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.[3-4]

_Canterbury Tales. The Reves Prologue. Line 3880._

The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.

_Canterbury Tales. The Reves Tale. Line 4051._

So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.

_Canterbury Tales. The Reves Tale. Line 4153._

In his owen grese I made him frie.[3-5]

_Canterbury Tales. The Reves Tale. Line 6069._

And for to see, and eek for to be seie.[3-6]

_Canterbury Tales. The Wif of Bathes Prologue. Line 6134._

I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke,

That hath but on hole for to sterten to.[4-1]

_Canterbury Tales. The Wif of Bathes Prologue. Line 6154._

Loke who that is most vertuous alway,

Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay

To do the gentil dedes that he can,

And take him for the gretest gentilman.

_Canterbury Tales. The Wif of Bathes Tale. Line 6695._

That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.[4-2]

_Canterbury Tales. The Wif of Bathes Tale. Line 6752._

This flour of wifly patience.

_Canterbury Tales. The Clerkes Tale. Part v. Line 8797._

They demen gladly to the badder end.

_Canterbury Tales. The Squieres Tale. Line 10538._

Therefore behoveth him a ful long spone,

That shall eat with a fend.[4-3]

_Canterbury Tales. The Squieres Tale. Line 10916._

Fie on possession,

But if a man be vertuous withal.

_Canterbury Tales. The Frankeleines Prologue. Line 10998._

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

_Canterbury Tales. The Frankeleines Tale. Line 11789._

Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.[4-4]

_Canterbury Tales. The Monkes Tale. Line 1449._

Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.[5-1]

_Canterbury Tales. The Nonnes Preestes Tale. Line 15058._

But all thing which that shineth as the gold

Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.[5-2]

_Canterbury Tales. The Chanones Yemannes Tale. Line 16430._

The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere,

Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge.

_Canterbury Tales. The Manciples Tale. Line 17281._

The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.[5-3]

_Canterbury Tales. Persones Tale._

Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.[5-4]

_Troilus and Creseide. Book ii. Line 470._

Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.

_Troilus and Creseide. Book ii. Line 1201._

For of fortunes sharpe adversite,

The worst kind of infortune is this,--

A man that hath been in prosperite,

And it remember whan it passed is.

_Troilus and Creseide. Book iii. Line 1625._

He helde about him alway, out of drede,

A world of folke.

_Troilus and Creseide. Book iii. Line 1721._

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.[6-1]

_Troilus and Creseide. Book iv. Line 435._

Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.[6-2]

_Troilus and Creseide. Book iv. Line 525._

I am right sorry for your heavinesse.

_Troilus and Creseide. Book v. Line 146._

Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!

_Troilus and Creseide. Book v. Line 1798._

Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.

_The Court of Love. Line 178._

The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne,[6-3]

Th' assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering.

_The Assembly of Fowles. Line 1._

For out of the old fieldes, as men saithe,

Cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere;

And out of old bookes, in good faithe,

Cometh al this new science that men lere.

_The Assembly of Fowles. Line 22._

Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord.

_The Assembly of Fowles. Line 379._

O little booke, thou art so unconning,

How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?

_The Flower and the Leaf. Line 59._

Of all the floures in the mede,

Than love I most these floures white and rede,

Soch that men callen daisies in our toun.

_Prologue of the Legend of Good Women. Line 41._

That well by reason men it call may

The daisie, or els the eye of the day,

The emprise, and floure of floures all.

_Prologue of the Legend of Good Women. Line 183._

For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away.[6-4]

_The Ten Commandments of Love._

FOOTNOTES:

[2-1] In allusion to the proverb, "Every honest miller has a

golden thumb."

[2-2] Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.--HEYWOOD:

_Proverbes, part ii. chap. v._

Wode has erys, felde has sigt.--_King Edward and the Shepard, MS.

Circa 1300._

Walls have ears.--HAZLITT: _English Proverbs, etc._ (_ed. 1869_)

_p. 446._

[3-1] Also in _Troilus and Cresseide, line 1587._

To make a virtue of necessity.--SHAKESPEARE: _Two Gentlemen of

Verona, act iv. sc. 2._ MATTHEW HENRY: _Comm. on Ps. xxxvii._

DRYDEN: _Palamon and Arcite._

In the additions of Hadrianus Julius to the _Adages_ of Erasmus,

he remarks, under the head of _Necessitatem edere_, that a very

familiar proverb was current among his countrymen,--"Necessitatem

in virtutem commutare" (To make necessity a virtue).

Laudem virtutis necessitati damus (We give to necessity the praise

of virtue).--QUINTILIAN: _Inst. Orat. i. 8. 14._

[3-2] Haste makes waste.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbs, part i. chap. ii._

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.--PUBLIUS SYRUS:

_Maxim 357._

[3-3] Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting

solidity or exactness of beauty.--PLUTARCH: _Life of Pericles._

[3-4] E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.--GRAY: _Elegy,

Stanza 23._

[3-5] Frieth in her own grease.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbs, part i. chap.

xi._

[3-6] To see and to be seen.--BEN JONSON: _Epithalamion, st. iii.

line 4._ GOLDSMITH: _Citizen of the World, letter 71._

Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsæ (They come to see;

they come that they themselves may be seen).--OVID: _The Art of

Love, i. 99._

[4-1] Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is

which never entrusts his life to one hole only.--PLAUTUS:

_Truculentus, act iv. sc. 4._

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole

Can never be a mouse of any soul.

POPE: _Paraphrase of the Prologue, line 298._

[4-2] Handsome is that handsome does.--GOLDSMITH: _Vicar of

Wakefield, chap. i._

[4-3] Hee must have a long spoon, shall eat with the

devill.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbes, part ii. chap. v._

He must have a long spoon that must eat with the

devil.--SHAKESPEARE: _Comedy of Errors, act iv. sc. 3._

[4-4] Thales was asked what was very difficult; he said, "To know

one's self."--DIOGENES LAERTIUS: _Thales, ix._

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;

The proper study of mankind is man.

POPE: _Epistle ii. line 1._

[5-1]

Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak

With most miraculous organ.

SHAKESPEARE: _Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2._

[5-2] Tyrwhitt says this is taken from the _Parabolae_ of ALANUS

DE INSULIS, who died in 1294,--Non teneas aurum totum quod

splendet ut aurum (Do not hold everything as gold which shines

like gold).

All is not golde that outward shewith bright.--LYDGATE: _On the

Mutability of Human Affairs._

Gold all is not that doth golden seem.--SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,

book ii. canto viii. st. 14._

All that glisters is not gold.--SHAKESPEARE: _Merchant of Venice,

act ii. sc. 7._ GOOGE: _Eglogs, etc., 1563._ HERBERT: _Jacula

Prudentum._

All is not gold that glisteneth.--MIDDLETON: _A Fair Quarrel,

verse 1._

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.--DRYDEN: _The Hind

and the Panther._

Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire (Everything is not gold that

one sees shining).--_Li Diz de freire Denise Cordelier, circa

1300._

[5-3] Many small make a great.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbes. part i. chap.

xi._

[5-4] Of two evils the less is always to be chosen.--THOMAS À

KEMPIS: _Imitation of Christ, book ii. chap. xii._ HOOKER:

_Polity, book v. chap. lxxxi._

Of two evils I have chose the least.--PRIOR: _Imitation of

Horace._

E duobus malis minimum eligendum (Of two evils, the least should

be chosen).--ERASMUS: _Adages._ CICERO: _De Officiis, iii. 1._

[6-1] Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother.--HEYWOOD:

_Proverbes, part ii. chap. ix._

[6-2] This wonder lasted nine daies.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbes, part

ii. chap. i._

[6-3] Ars longa, vita brevis (Art is long: life is

brief).--HIPPOCRATES: _Aphorism i._

[6-4] Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.--HEYWOOD:

_Proverbes, part ii. chap. v._

THOMAS À KEMPIS. 1380-1471.

Man proposes, but God disposes.[7-1]

_Imitation of Christ. Book i. Chap. 19._

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.[7-2]

_Imitation of Christ. Book i. Chap. 23._

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.[7-3]

_Imitation of Christ. Book iii. Chap. 12._

FOOTNOTES:

[7-1] This expression is of much greater antiquity. It appears in

the _Chronicle of Battel Abbey, p. 27_ (Lower's translation), and

in _The Vision of Piers Ploughman, line 13994_. ed. _1550_.

A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his

steps.--_Proverbs xvi. 9._

[7-2] Out of syght, out of mynd.--GOOGE: _Eglogs. 1563._

And out of mind as soon as out of sight.

Lord BROOKE: _Sonnet lvi._

Fer from eze, fer from herte,

Quoth Hendyng.

HENDYNG: _Proverbs, MSS. Circa 1320._

I do perceive that the old proverbis be not alwaies trew, for I do

finde that the absence of my Nath. doth breede in me the more

continuall remembrance of him.--_Anne Lady Bacon to Jane Lady

Cornwallis, 1613._

On page 19 of _The Private Correspondence of Lady Cornwallis_, Sir

Nathaniel Bacon speaks of the _owlde proverbe_, "Out of sighte,

out of mynde."

[7-3] See Chaucer, page 5.

JOHN FORTESCUE. _Circa_ 1395-1485.

Moche Crye and no Wull.[7-4]

_De Laudibus Leg. Angliæ. Chap. x._

Comparisons are odious.[7-5]

_De Laudibus Leg. Angliæ. Chap. xix._

FOOTNOTES:

[7-4] All cry and no wool.--BUTLER: _Hudibras, part i. canto i.

line 852._

[7-5] CERVANTES: _Don Quixote_ (Lockhart's ed.), _part ii. chap.

i._ LYLY: _Euphues, 1580._ MARLOWE: _Lust's Dominion, act iii. sc.

4._ BURTON: _Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. 3._ THOMAS

HEYWOOD: _A Woman killed with Kindness_ (first ed. in 1607), _act

i. sc. 1._ DONNE: _Elegy, viii._ HERBERT: _Jacula Prudentum._

GRANGE: _Golden Aphrodite._

Comparisons are odorous.--SHAKESPEARE: _Much Ado about Nothing,

act iii. sc. 5._

JOHN SKELTON. _Circa_ 1460-1529.

There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God,

Than from theyr children to spare the rod.[8-1]

_Magnyfycence. Line 1954._

He ruleth all the roste.[8-2]

_Why Come ye not to Courte. Line 198._

In the spight of his teeth.[8-3]

_Colyn Cloute. Line 939._

He knew what is what.[8-4]

_Colyn Cloute. Line 1106._

By hoke ne by croke.[8-5]

_Colyn Cloute. Line 1240._

The wolfe from the dore.

_Colyn Cloute. Line 1531._

Old proverbe says,

That byrd ys not honest

That fyleth hys owne nest.[8-6]

_Poems against Garnesche._

FOOTNOTES:

[8-1] He that spareth the rod hateth his son.--_Proverbs xiii.

24._

They spare the rod and spoyl the child.--RALPH VENNING: _Mysteries

and Revelations_ (second ed.), _p. 5. 1649._

Spare the rod and spoil the child.--BUTLER: _Hudibras, pt. ii. c.

i. l. 843._

[8-2] Rule the rost.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbes, part i. chap. v._

Her that ruled the rost.--THOMAS HEYWOOD: _History of Women._

Rules the roast.--JONSON, CHAPMAN, MARSTON: _Eastward Ho, act ii.

sc. 1._ SHAKESPEARE: _2 Henry VI. act i. sc. 1._

[8-3] In spite of my teeth.--MIDDLETON: _A Trick to catch the Old

One, act i. sc. 2._ FIELDING: _Eurydice Hissed._

[8-4] He knew what 's what.--BUTLER: _Hudibras, part i. canto i.

line 149._

[8-5] In hope her to attain by hook or crook.--SPENSER: _Faerie

Queene, book iii. canto i. st. 17._

[8-6] It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.--HEYWOOD:

_Proverbes, part ii. chap. v._

JOHN HEYWOOD.[8-7] _Circa_ 1565.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,

As sages in all times assert;

The happy man 's without a shirt.

_Be Merry Friends._

Let the world slide,[9-1] let the world go;

A fig for care, and a fig for woe!

If I can't pay, why I can owe,

And death makes equal the high and low.

_Be Merry Friends._

All a green willow, willow,

All a green willow is my garland.

_The Green Willow._

Haste maketh waste.

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii._

Beware of, Had I wist.[9-2]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii._

Good to be merie and wise.[9-3]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii._

Beaten with his owne rod.[9-4]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii._

Look ere ye leape.[9-5]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ii._

He that will not when he may,

When he would he shall have nay.[9-6]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

The fat is in the fire.[9-7]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

When the sunne shineth, make hay.

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

When the iron is hot, strike.[10-1]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

The tide tarrieth no man.[10-2]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

Than catch and hold while I may, fast binde, fast finde.[10-3]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

And while I at length debate and beate the bush,

There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.[10-4]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

While betweene two stooles my taile goe to the ground.[10-5]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

So many heads so many wits.[10-6]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

Wedding is destiny,

And hanging likewise.[10-7]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

Happy man, happy dole.[11-1]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iii._

God never sends th' mouth but he sendeth meat.

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv._

Like will to like.

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv._

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv._

When the skie falth we shall have Larkes.[11-2]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv._

More frayd then hurt.

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv._

Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.[11-3]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv._

Nothing is impossible to a willing hart.

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv._

The wise man sayth, store is no sore.

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v._

Let the world wagge,[11-4] and take mine ease in myne Inne.[11-5]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v._

Rule the rost.[11-6]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v._

Hold their noses to grinstone.[11-7]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v._

Better to give then to take.[11-8]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v._

When all candles bee out, all cats be gray.

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v._

No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.[11-9]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. v._

I perfectly feele even at my fingers end.[12-1]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. vi._

A sleveless errand.[12-2]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. vii._

We both be at our wittes end.[12-3]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii._

Reckeners without their host must recken twice.

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii._

A day after the faire.[12-4]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii._

Cut my cote after my cloth.[12-5]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. viii._

The neer to the church, the further from God.[12-6]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix._

Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after me.

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix._

Better is to bow then breake.[12-7]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix._

It hurteth not the toung to give faire words.[12-8]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix._

Two heads are better then one.

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix._

A short horse is soone currid.[12-9]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x._

To tell tales out of schoole.

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x._

To hold with the hare and run with the hound.[12-10]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x._

She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.[13-1]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x._

All is well that endes well.[13-2]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x._

Of a good beginning cometh a good end.[13-3]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x._

Shee had seene far in a milstone.[13-4]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x._

Better late than never.[13-5]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x._

When the steede is stolne, shut the stable durre.[13-6]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x._

Pryde will have a fall;

For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.[13-7]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x._

She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.[13-8]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x._

The still sowe eats up all the draffe.[13-9]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x._

Ill weede growth fast.[13-10]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x._

It is a deere collop

That is cut out of th' owne flesh.[14-1]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x._

Beggars should be no choosers.[14-2]

_Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x._

Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.[14-3]