[93-1] All delays are dangerous in war.--DRYDEN: _Tyrannic Love,
act i. sc. 1._
[93-2] Have a care o' th' main chance.--BUTLER: _Hudibras, part
ii. canto ii._
Be careful still of the main chance.--DRYDEN: _Persius, satire
vi._
[93-3] See Raleigh, page 25; Lyly, page 33.
[94-1] See Marlowe, page 40.
[96-1] For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.--POPE: _Essay
on Criticism, part iii. line 66._
[96-2] "Stolen forth" in White and Knight.
[97-1] A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live
long.--MIDDLETON: _The Phoenix, act i. sc. 1._
[97-2] Off with his head! so much for Buckingham!--CIBBER:
_Richard III._ (_altered_), _act iv. sc. 3._
[98-1] A weak invention of the enemy.--CIBBER: _Richard III.
(altered), act v. sc. 3._
[98-2] See Spenser, page 27.
[100-1] For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in
marble: and whoso doth us a good tourne we write it in duste.--SIR
THOMAS MORE: _Richard III. and his miserable End._
All your better deeds
Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Philaster, act v. sc. 3._
L'injure se grave en métal; et le bienfait s'escrit en l'onde.
(An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in water.)
JEAN BERTAUT. _Circa 1611._
[101-1] Act v. Sc. 2 in Dyce, Singer, Staunton, and White.
[101-2] Act v. Sc. 4 in Dyce, Singer, Staunton, and White.
[101-3] Labour for his pains.--EDWARD MOORE: _The Boy and his
Rainbow._
Labour for their pains.--CERVANTES: _Don Quixote, The Author's
Preface._
[102-1] Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no
one.--PUBLIUS SYRUS: _Maxim 1042._
[103-1]
When flowing cups pass swiftly round
With no allaying Thames.
RICHARD LOVELACE: _To Althea from Prison, ii._
[103-2] See Sidney, page 34.
[103-3] Act v. sc. 5 in Singer and Knight.
[104-1] See Heywood, page 18.
[104-2] See Chapman, page 36.
[105-1] My dancing days are done.--BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _The
Scornful Lady, act v. sc. 3._
[105-2] Dyce, Knight, and White read, "Her beauty hangs."
[105-3] Act ii. sc. 1 in White.
[105-4] Act ii. sc. 1. in White.
[106-1] Perjuria ridet amantum Jupiter (Jupiter laughs at the
perjuries of lovers).--TIBULLUS: _iii. 6, 49._
[106-2] Act ii. sc. 1 in White.
[107-1] True as steel.--CHAUCER: _Troilus and Creseide, book v._
Compare _Troilus and Cressida, act iii. sc. 2_.
[107-2] Word and a blow.--DRYDEN: _Amphitryon, act i. sc. 1._
BUNYAN: _Pilgrim's Progress, part i._
[111-1] "Utmost" in Singer.
[112-1] Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.--GRAY: _The
Bard, i. 3, line 12._
[113-1] Though last not least.--SPENSER: _Colin Clout, line 444._
[118-1] See Heywood, page 14.
[119-1] Act. ii. sc. 1 in Dyce, Staunton, and White.
[120-1] Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce, Staunton, White.
[120-2] Act ii. sc. 1 in Dyce and White; Act ii. sc. 2 in
Staunton.
[120-3] Act ii. sc. 2 in Dyce and White; Act ii. sc. 3 in
Staunton.
[123-1]
Let the air strike our tune,
Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon.
MIDDLETON: _The Witch, act. v. sc. 2._
[126-1] Act v. Sc. 7 in Singer and White.
[127-1] "Can walk" in White.
[127-2] "Eastern hill" in Dyce, Singer, Staunton, and White.
[127-3] "One auspicious and one dropping eye" in Dyce, Singer, and
Staunton.
[128-1] "Armed at all points" in Singer and White.
[129-1]
And may you better reck the rede,
Than ever did the adviser.
BURNS: _Epistle to a Young Friend._
[129-2] "Hooks" in Singer.
[131-1] And makes night hideous.--POPE: _The Dunciad, book iii.
line 166._
[131-2] "To lasting fires" in Singer.
[131-3] "Porcupine" in Singer and Staunton.
[131-4] "Rots itself" in Staunton.
[133-1] A short saying oft contains much wisdom.--SOPHOCLES:
_Aletes, frag. 99._
[135-1] See Chaucer, page 5.
[136-1] "Who would these fardels" in White.
[138-1] "Protests" in Dyce, Singer, and Staunton.
[141-1] Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme
diseases.--HIPPOCRATES: _Aphorism i._
[143-1] Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.--HERRICK:
_Sorrows Succeed._
Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
YOUNG: _Night Thoughts, night iii. line 63._
And woe succeeds to woe.--POPE: _The Iliad, book xvi. line 139._
[144-1]
And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.
TENNYSON: _In Memoriam, xviii._
[144-2] A ministering angel thou.--SCOTT: _Marmion, canto vi. st.
30._
[145-1]
But they that are above
Have ends in everything.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _The Maid's Tragedy act v. sc. 4._
[147-1] The prince of darkness is a gentleman.--SUCKLING: _The
Goblins._
[149-1] Though I be rude in speech.--_2 Cor. xi. 6._
[150-1] "These things to hear" in Singer.
[152-1] Though these lines are from an old ballad given in Percy's
_Reliques_, they are much altered by Shakespeare, and it is his
version we sing in the nursery.
[153-1]
For he being dead, with him is beauty slain,
And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.
_Venus and Adonis._
[153-2] "Fondly" in Singer and White; "soundly" in Staunton.
[155-1] CERVANTES: _Don Quixote, part ii. chap. i._
[155-2] "His slow and moving finger" in Knight and Staunton.
[159-1] See Marlowe, page 41.
[159-2] See Lyly, page 32.
[161-1] "Worth" in White.
FRANCIS BACON. 1561-1626.
(_Works: Spedding and Ellis_).
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as
men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought
they of duty to endeavour themselves by way of amends to be a
help and ornament thereunto.
_Maxims of the Law. Preface._
Come home to men's business and bosoms.
_Dedication to the Essays, Edition 1625._
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground
of truth.
_Of Truth._
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that
natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the
other.
_Of Death._
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature
runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
_Of Revenge._
It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics),
that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be
wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be
admired."
_Of Adversity._
It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, "It is true
greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of
a god."
_Of Adversity._
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the
blessing of the New.
_Of Adversity._
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity
is not without comforts and hopes.
_Of Adversity._
Virtue is like precious odours,--most fragrant when they are
incensed or crushed.[165-1]
_Of Adversity._
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune;
for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue
or mischief.
_Of Marriage and Single Life._
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and
old men's nurses.[165-2]
_Of Marriage and Single Life._
Men in great place are thrice servants,--servants of the
sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
_Of Great Place._
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him,
and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of
his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to
him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never
a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet,
Mahomet will go to the hill."
_Of Boldness._
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.[165-3]
_Of Goodness._
The remedy is worse than the disease.[165-4]
_Of Seditions._
I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud
and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a
mind.
_Of Atheism._
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in
philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.[166-1]
_Of Atheism._
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the
elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country
before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school,
and not to travel.
_Of Travel._
Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil
times, and which have much veneration but no rest.[166-2]
_Of Empire._
In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point
of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, "The world
says," or "There is a speech abroad."
_Of Cunning._
There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the
cat in the pan;" which is, when that which a man says to another,
he lays it as if another had said it to him.
_Of Cunning._
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he
would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the
other party stick the less.
_Of Cunning._
It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem,
and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be
between nations, certainly it is so between man and man.
_Of Seeming Wise._
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's own
observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is
the best physic to preserve health.
_Of Regimen of Health._
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak
agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good
words or in good order.
_Of Discourse._
Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination,[167-1]
their discourse and speeches according to their learning and
infused opinions.
_Of Custom and Education._
Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.[167-2]
_Of Fortune._
If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for
though she is blind, she is not invisible.[167-3]
_Of Fortune._
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for
execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for
settled business.
_Of Youth and Age._
Virtue is like a rich stone,--best plain set.
_Of Beauty._
God Almighty first planted a garden.[167-4]
_Of Gardens._
And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air
(where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the
hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know
what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
_Of Gardens._
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few
to be chewed and digested.
_Of Studies._
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an
exact man.
_Of Studies._
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
to contend.
_Of Studies._
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude
of sects and religions.[168-1]
_Of Vicissitude of Things._
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
_Proposition touching Amendment of Laws._
Knowledge is power.--Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.[168-2]
_Meditationes Sacræ. De Hæresibus._
Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved
forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.[168-3]
_Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100._
When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed,
and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires.
This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of
election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not
so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken.
Rich soils are often to be weeded.
_Letter of Expostulation to Coke._
"Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient
times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account
ancient _ordine retrogrado_, by a computation backward from
ourselves.[169-1]
_Advancement of Learning. Book i._ (_1605._)
For the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
_Advancement of Learning. Book i._
The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as
pure as before.[169-2]
_Advancement of Learning. Book ii._
It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of
divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by
submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.
_Advancement of Learning. Book ii._
Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's
labours and peregrinations.
_Advancement of Learning. Book ii._
Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence
to God.[170-1]
_Advancement of Learning. Book ii._
States as great engines move slowly.
_Advancement of Learning. Book ii._
The world 's a bubble, and the life of man
Less than a span.[170-2]
_The World._
Who then to frail mortality shall trust
But limns on water, or but writes in dust.
_The World._
What then remains but that we still should cry
For being born, and, being born, to die?[170-3]
_The World._
For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches,
to foreign nations, and to the next ages.
_From his Will._
My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious
jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that
exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.[170-4]
_Apothegms. No. 17._
Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great
strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were
little ones.[171-1]
_Apothegms. No. 54._
Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of
noblemen's clothes.
_Apothegms. No. 64._
Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter,
was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the
sooner."
_Apothegms. No. 76._
Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age
appears to be best in four things,--old wood best to burn, old
wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to
read.[171-2]
_Apothegms. No. 97._
Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over
the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own
side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we
are undone."[171-3]
_Apothegms. No. 193._
Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends,
that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not
read that we ought to forgive our friends."
_Apothegms. No. 206._
Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh
them with new.
_Apothegms. No. 247._
FOOTNOTES:
[165-1]
As aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crushed or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
GOLDSMITH: _The Captivity, act i._
The good are better made by ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still.
ROGERS: _Jacqueline, stanza 3._
[165-2] BURTON (quoted): _Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sect.
2, memb. 5, subsect. 5._
[165-3]
Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes;
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.
POPE: _Essay on Man, ep. i. line 125._
[165-4] There are some remedies worse than the disease.--PUBLIUS
SYRUS: _Maxim 301._
[166-1] Who are a little wise the best fools be.--DONNE: _Triple
Fool._
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in
that study brings him about again to our religion.--FULLER: _The
Holy State. The True Church Antiquary._
A little learning is a dangerous thing.--POPE: _Essay on
Criticism, part ii. line 15._
[166-2]
Kings are like stars: they rise and set; they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.
SHELLEY: _Hellas._
[167-1] Of similar meaning, "Thy wish was father, Harry, to that
thought." See Shakespeare, page 90.
[167-2] Every man is the architect of his own
fortune.--PSEUDO-SALLUST: _Epist. de Rep. Ordin. ii. 1._
His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.--PUBLIUS
SYRUS: _Maxim 283._
[167-3] Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes,
to signify to you that Fortune is blind.--SHAKESPEARE: _Henry V.
act iii. sc. 6._
[167-4]
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
COWLEY: _The Garden, Essay v._
God made the country, and man made the town.
COWPER: _The Task, book i. line 749._
Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit urbes (Divine
Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities).--VARRO: _De
Re Rustica, iii. 1._
[168-1] The vicissitude of things.--STERNE: _Sermon xvi._ GIFFORD:
_Contemplation._
[168-2] A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth
strength.--_Proverbs xxiv. 5._
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.--JOHNSON: _Rasselas,
chap. xiii._
[168-3]
The bee enclosed and through the amber shown,
Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
MARTIAL: _book iv. 32, vi. 15_ (Hay's translation).
I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.
HERRICK: _On a Fly buried in Amber._
Pretty! in amber to observe the forms
Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms.
POPE: _Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, line 169._
[169-1] As in the little, so in the great world, reason will tell
you that old age or antiquity is to be accounted by the farther
distance from the beginning and the nearer approach to the
end,--the times wherein we now live being in propriety of speech
the most ancient since the world's creation.--GEORGE HAKEWILL: _An
Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God in the
Government of the World. London, 1627._
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy,
who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to
be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote
from it?--PASCAL: _Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum._
It is worthy of remark that a thought which is often quoted from
Francis Bacon occurs in [Giordano] Bruno's "Cena di Cenere,"
published in 1584: I mean the notion that the later times are more
aged than the earlier.--WHEWELL: _Philosophy of the Inductive
Sciences, vol. ii. p. 198. London, 1847._
We are Ancients of the earth,
And in the morning of the times.
TENNYSON: _The Day Dream._ (_L' Envoi._)
[169-2] The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet
remains as pure as before.--_Advancement of Learning_ (ed. Dewey).
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.--DIOGENES
LAERTIUS: _Lib. vi. sect. 63._
Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per
immundos transeat, non inquinatur (The spiritual virtue of a
sacrament is like light: although it passes among the impure, it
is not polluted).--SAINT AUGUSTINE: _Works, vol. iii., In Johannis
Evang. cap. i. tr. v. sect. 15._
The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.--LYLY:
_Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit_ (Arber's reprint), _p. 43._
The sun reflecting upon the mud of strands and shores is
unpolluted in his beam.--TAYLOR: _Holy Living, chap. i. p. 3._
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the
sunbeam.--MILTON: _The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce._
[170-1] Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.--JOHN WESLEY
(quoted): _Journal, Feb. 12, 1772._
According to Dr. A. S. Bettelheim, rabbi, this is found in the
Hebrew fathers. He cites Phinehas ben Yair, as follows: "The
doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness
into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness
into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness
into godliness,"--literally, next to godliness.
[170-2] Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.--BROWNE:
_Pastoral ii._
Our life is but a span.--_New England Primer._
[170-3] This line frequently occurs in almost exactly the same
shape among the minor poems of the time: "Not to be born, or,
being born, to die."--DRUMMOND: _Poems, p. 44._ BISHOP KING:
_Poems, etc._ (1657), _p. 145._
[170-4] Tall men are like houses of four stories, wherein commonly
the uppermost room is worst furnished.--HOWELL (quoted): _Letter
i. book i. sect. ii._ (_1621._)
Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many
stories high.--FULLER: _Andronicus, sect. vi. par. 18, 1._
Such as take lodgings in a head
That 's to be let unfurnished.
BUTLER: _Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 161._
[171-1] The custom is not altogether obsolete in the U. S. A.
[171-2] Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old
wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers,
sweetheart, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.--WEBSTER:
_Westward Hoe, act ii. sc. 2._
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes;
they were easiest for his feet.--SELDEN: _Table Talk. Friends._
Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old
authors to read!--Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation
of age, that age appeared to be best in these four
things.--MELCHIOR: _Floresta Española de Apothegmas o sentencias,
etc., ii. 1, 20._
What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the
preheminence of it in everything,--in an old friend, in old wine,
in an old pedigree.--SHAKERLEY MARMION (1602-1639): _The
Antiquary._
I love everything that 's old,--old friends, old times, old
manners, old books, old wine.--GOLDSMITH: _She Stoops to Conquer,
act i._
[171-3] There are some defeats more triumphant than
victories.--MONTAIGNE: _Of Cannibals, chap. xxx._
THOMAS MIDDLETON. ---- -1626.
As the case stands.[172-1]
_The Old Law. Act ii. Sc. 1._
On his last legs.
_The Old Law. Act v. Sc. 1._
Hold their noses to the grindstone.[172-2]
_Blurt, Master-Constable. Act iii. Sc. 3._
I smell a rat.[172-3]
_Blurt, Master-Constable. Act iii. Sc. 3._
A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.[172-4]
_The Phoenix. Act i. Sc. 1._
The better day, the better deed.[172-5]
_The Phoenix. Act iii. Sc. 1._
The worst comes to the worst.[172-6]
_The Phoenix. Act iii. Sc. 1._
'T is slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift.[172-7]
_Michaelmas Term. Act iv. Sc. 1._
From thousands of our undone widows
One may derive some wit.[172-8]
_A Trick to catch the Old One. Act i. Sc. 2._
Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.[172-9]
_The Family of Love. Act iv. Sc. 3._
Spick and span new.[172-10]
_The Family of Love. Act iv. Sc. 3._
A flat case as plain as a pack-staff.[172-11]
_The Family of Love. Act v. Sc. 3._
Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering?
_The Family of Love. Act v. Sc. 3._
As true as I live.
_The Family of Love. Act v. Sc. 3._
From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.[173-1]
_A Mad World, my Masters. Act i. Sc. 3._
That disease
Of which all old men sicken,--avarice.[173-2]
_The Roaring Girl. Act i. Sc. 1._
Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes.
_The Roaring Girl. Act i. Sc. 1._
There is no hate lost between us.[173-3]
_The Witch. Act iv. Sc. 3._
Let the air strike our tune,
Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon.[173-4]
_The Witch. Act v. Sc. 2._
Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,
Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.[173-5]
_The Witch. Act v. Sc. 2._
All is not gold that glisteneth.[173-6]
_A Fair Quarrel. Act v. Sc. 1._
As old Chaucer was wont to say, that broad famous English poet.
_More Dissemblers besides Women. Act i. Sc. 4._
'T is a stinger.[173-7]
_More Dissemblers besides Women. Act iii. Sc. 2._
The world 's a stage on which all parts are played.[173-8]
_A Game at Chess. Act v. Sc. 1._
Turn over a new leaf.[174-1]
_Anything for a Quiet Life. Act iii. Sc. 3._
My nearest
And dearest enemy.[174-2]
_Anything for a Quiet Life. Act v. Sc. 1._
This was a good week's labour.
_Anything for a Quiet Life. Act v. Sc. 3._
How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's
days!
_No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's. Act ii. Sc. 1._
By many a happy accident.[174-3]
_No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's. Act ii. Sc. 2._
FOOTNOTES:
[172-1] As the case stands.--MATHEW HENRY: _Commentaries, Psalm
cxix._
[172-2] See Heywood, page 11.
[172-3] I smell a rat.--BEN JONSON: _Tale of a Tub, act iv. Sc.
3._ BUTLER: _Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 281._
I begin to smell a rat.--CERVANTES: _Don Quixote, book iv. chap.
x._
[172-4] See Shakespeare, page 97.
[172-5] The better day, the worse deed.--HENRY: _Commentaries,
Genesis iii._
[172-6] Worst comes to the worst.--CERVANTES: _Don Quixote, part
i. book iii. chap. v._ MARSTON: _The Dutch Courtezan, act iii. sc.
1._