shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12._
Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they
would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12._
A mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 12._
I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of
human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted
myriads of people; they go commonly together.[188-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 13._
All our geese are swans.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 14._
Though they [philosophers] write _contemptu gloriæ_, yet as
Hieron observes, they will put their names to their books.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 14._
They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not
proud.[188-3]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 14._
We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars;
kings can invest knights and barons, as Sigismund the emperor
confessed.[189-1]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 15._
_Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet._ The pen worse than
the sword.[189-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4._
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report
sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a
company of boys about him."[189-3]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 6._
See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea,
one river, and see all.[189-4]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 7._
Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure
diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate
all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3._
Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his
shoulder to the wheel.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 1, Memb. 2._
Fabricius finds certain spots and clouds in the sun.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men
contending with adversity.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1._
Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2._
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at
first princes' bastards; their worthiest captains, best wits,
greatest scholars, bravest spirits in all our annals, have been
base [born].
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2._
As he said in Machiavel, _omnes eodem patre nati_, Adam's sons,
conceived all and born in sin, etc. "We are by nature all as one,
all alike, if you see us naked; let us wear theirs and they our
clothes, and what is the difference?"
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2._
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.[190-1]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2._
Christ himself was poor. . . . And as he was himself, so he
informed his apostles and disciples, they were all poor, prophets
poor, apostles poor.[190-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
Who cannot give good counsel? 'T is cheap, it costs them nothing.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.[190-3]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
What can't be cured must be endured.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,--the one to be
held by, the other not.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
All places are distant from heaven alike.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 4._
The commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this
inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of
war."
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part ii. Sect. 2, Memb. 6._
"Let me not live," saith Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather
hear thy discourse than see a play."
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1._
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta
Porcellus at his fingers' end.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1._
Birds of a feather will gather together.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from
heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends
on his Creator.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1._
And hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.[191-1]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 3._
Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.[191-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 1, Memb. 3._
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love
can do with a twined thread.[191-3]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set
a candle in the sun.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3._
[Quoting Seneca] Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came
from school, "and these," said she, "are my jewels."
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3._
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and
sorrowful countenance.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 4._
Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in
heaven.[192-1]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5._
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 5._
Though it rain daggers with their points downward.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
Going as if he trod upon eggs.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._
I light my candle from their torches.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 5, Subsect. 1._
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a
paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.[192-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1._
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.[192-3]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1._
Make a virtue of necessity.[192-4]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 3, Memb. 4, Subsect. 1._
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.[192-5]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1._
If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world
knows.[193-1]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in
obedience.[193-2]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
Out of too much learning become mad.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 2._
The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 3._
Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to
worship by all means the gods of the place.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 5._
When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.[193-3]
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1._
One religion is as true as another.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 1._
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
_Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subsect. 3._
FOOTNOTES:
[185-2] See Fletcher, page 184.
There 's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
HOOD: _Ode to Melancholy._
[185-3] Dr. Johnson said Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" was the
only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he
wished to rise. And Byron said, "If the reader has patience to go
through his volumes, he will be more improved for literary
conversation than by the perusal of any twenty other works with
which I am acquainted."--_Works, vol. i. p. 144._
[185-4] A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.--GARRICK:
_Prologue on quitting the stage._
Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco (Being not unacquainted
with woe, I learn to help the unfortunate).--VIRGIL: _Æneid, lib.
i. 630._
[185-5] See Shakespeare, page 84.
[185-6] Nihil dictum quod non dictum prius (There is nothing said
which has not been said before).--TERENCE: _Eunuchus. Prol. 10._
[185-7] A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the
two.--HERBERT: _Jacula Prudentum._
A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's
shoulders to mount on.--COLERIDGE: _The Friend, sect. i. essay
viii._
Pigmæi gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident
(Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the
giants themselves).--_Didacus Stella in Lucan, 10, tom. ii._
[186-1] Le style est l'homme même (The style is the man
himself).--BUFFON: _Discours de Réception_ (_Recueil de
l'Académie_, 1750).
[186-2] Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are formed
and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as
bears leisurely lick their cubs into form.--MONTAIGNE: _Apology
for Raimond Sebond, book ii. chap. xii._
[186-3] Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat
ahead.--PLUTARCH: _Whether 't was rightfully said, Live
concealed._
Like rowers, who advance backward.--MONTAIGNE: _Of Profit and
Honour, book iii. chap. i._
[186-4] See Shakespeare, page 132.
[186-5] See Heywood, page 15.
[186-6] See Heywood, page 14. RABELAIS: _book i. chap. xi._
[186-7] ÆSOP: _Fables, book v. fable v._
[186-8]
He left a corsair's name to other times,
Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes.
BYRON: _The Corsair, canto iii. stanza 24._
[187-1] See Fletcher, page 183.
[187-2] "Castles in the air,"--Montaigne, Sir Philip Sidney,
Massinger, Sir Thomas Browne, Giles Fletcher, George Herbert, Dean
Swift, Broome, Fielding, Cibber, Churchill, Shenstone, and Lloyd.
[187-3] Oats,--a grain which is generally given to horses, but in
Scotland supports the people.--SAMUEL JOHNSON: _Dictionary of the
English Language._
[187-4] Carpet knights are men who are by the prince's grace and
favour made knights at home. . . . They are called carpet knights
because they receive their honours in the court and upon
carpets.--MARKHAM: _Booke of Honour_ (1625).
"Carpet knights,"--Du Bartas (ed. 1621), p. 311.
[187-5] The exception proves the rule.
[188-1] See Shakespeare, page 50.
[188-2]
Qui vino indulget, quemque alea decoquit, ille
In venerem putret
(He who is given to drink, and he whom the dice are despoiling, is
the one who rots away in sexual vice).--PERSIUS: _Satires, satire
v._
[188-3]
His favourite sin
Is pride that apes humility.
SOUTHEY: _The Devil's Walk._
[189-1] When Abraham Lincoln heard of the death of a private, he
said he was sorry it was not a general: "I could make more of
them."
[189-2] Tant la plume a eu sous le roi d'avantage sur l'épée (So
far had the pen under the king the superiority over the
sword).--SAINT SIMON: _Mémoires, vol. iii. p. 517_ (1702), _ed.
1856._
The pen is mightier than the sword.--BULWER LYTTON: _Richelieu,
act ii. sc. 2._
[189-3]
Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead,
Through which the living Homer begged his bread.
ANONYMOUS.
Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim,
Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.
THOMAS SEWARD: _On Shakespeare's Monument at Stratford-upon-Avon._
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead;
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.
THOMAS HEYWOOD: _Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells._
[189-4] A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in
one country or another.--JOHNSON: _Piazzi, 52._
[190-1] Set a beggar on horseback, and he 'll outride the
Devil.--BOHN: _Foreign Proverbs_ (_German_).
[190-2] See Wotton, page 174.
[190-3] There is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.--HAZLITT:
_English Proverbs._
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose; and oft times many
things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.--GREENE: _Perimedes
the Blacksmith_ (1588).
[191-1] See Heywood, page 11.
[191-2] See Heywood, page 20.
[191-3]
Those curious locks so aptly twin'd,
Whose every hair a soul doth bind.
CAREW: _Think not 'cause men flattering say._
One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of
oxen.--HOWELL: _Letters, book ii. iv._ (1621).
She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,
Can draw you to her with a single hair.
DRYDEN: _Persius, satire v. line 246._
Beauty draws us with a single hair.--POPE: _The Rape of the Lock,
canto ii. line 27._
And from that luckless hour my tyrant fair
Has led and turned me by a single hair.
BLAND: _Anthology, p. 20_ (edition 1813).
[192-1] See Heywood, page 10.
[192-2] See Heywood, page 18.
[192-3] See Shakespeare, page 44.
[192-4] See Chaucer, page 3.
[192-5] For where God built a church, there the Devil would also
build a chapel.--MARTIN LUTHER: _Table Talk, lxvii._
God never had a church but there, men say,
The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles.
DRUMMOND: _Posthumous Poems._
No sooner is a temple build to God but the Devil builds a chapel
hard by.--HERBERT: _Jacula Prudentum._
Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there.
DEFOE: _The True-born Englishman, part i. line 1._
[193-1] Ignorance is the mother of devotion.--JEREMY TAYLOR: _To a
Person newly Converted_ (1657).
Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.--DRYDEN: _The
Maiden Queen, act i. sc. 2._
[193-2]
The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip
To haud the wretch in order.
BURNS: _Epistle to a Young Friend._
[193-3] Saint Augustine was in the habit of dining upon Saturday
as upon Sunday; but being puzzled with the different practices
then prevailing (for they had begun to fast at Rome on Saturday),
consulted Saint Ambrose on the subject. Now at Milan they did not
fast on Saturday, and the answer of the Milan saint was this:
"Quando hic sum, non jejuno Sabbato; quando Romæ sum, jejuno
Sabbato" (When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome,
I do fast on Saturday).--_Epistle xxxvi. to Casulanus._
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY. 1581-1613.
In part to blame is she,
Which hath without consent bin only tride:
He comes to neere that comes to be denide.[193-4]
_A Wife. St. 36._
FOOTNOTES:
[193-4]
In part she is to blame that has been tried:
He comes too late that comes to be denied.
MARY W. MONTAGU: _The Lady's Resolve._
PHILIP MASSINGER. 1584-1640.
Some undone widow sits upon mine arm,
And takes away the use of it;[194-1] and my sword,
Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears,
Will not be drawn.
_A New Way to pay Old Debts. Act v. Sc. 1._
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.[194-2]
_A Very Woman. Act v. Sc. 4._
This many-headed monster.[194-3]
_The Roman Actor. Act iii. Sc. 2._
Grim death.[194-4]
_The Roman Actor. Act iv. Sc. 2._
FOOTNOTES:
[194-1] See Middleton, page 172.
[194-2] Death hath so many doors to let out life.--BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER: _The Custom of the Country, act ii. sc. 2._
The thousand doors that lead to death.--BROWNE: _Religio Medici,
part i. sect. xliv._
[194-3] See Sir Philip Sidney, page 34.
[194-4] Grim death, my son and foe.--MILTON: _Paradise Lost, book
ii. line 804._
THOMAS HEYWOOD. ---- -1649.
The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage
Which God and Nature do with actors fill.[194-5]
_Apology for Actors_ (1612).
I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom.
_Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells._
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead,
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.[194-6]
_Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells._
Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.[194-7]
_History of Women_ (_ed. 1624_). _Page 286._
FOOTNOTES:
[194-5] See Shakespeare, page 69.
[194-6] See Burton, page 189.
[194-7] See Heywood, page 11.
JOHN SELDEN. 1584-1654.
Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what
to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that
is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity.
'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure
we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure
would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short
foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the
Chancellor's conscience.
_Table Talk. Equity._
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes;
they were easiest for his feet.[195-1]
_Table Talk. Friends._
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise; and yet everybody
is content to hear.
_Table Talk. Humility._
'T is not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.
_Table Talk. Humility._
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him
we cannot abide.
_Table Talk. Judgments._
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the
law, but because 't is an excuse every man will plead, and no man
can tell how to refute him.
_Table Talk. Law._
No man is the wiser for his learning.
_Table Talk. Learning._
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
_Table Talk. Learning._
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or
speak.
_Table Talk. Learning._
Take a straw and throw it up into the air,--you may see by that
which way the wind is.
_Table Talk. Libels._
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
_Table Talk. Philosophy._
Marriage is a desperate thing.
_Table Talk. Marriage._
Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the
world.[195-2]
_Table Talk. Pope._
They that govern the most make the least noise.
_Table Talk. Power._
Syllables govern the world.
_Table Talk. Power._
Never king dropped out of the clouds.
_Table Talk. Power._
Never tell your resolution beforehand.
_Table Talk. Wisdom._
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
_Table Talk. Wisdom._
FOOTNOTES:
[195-1] See Bacon, page 171.
[195-2] Behold, my son, with how little wisdom the world is
governed.--OXENSTIERN (1583-1654).
WILLIAM DRUMMOND. 1585-1649.
God never had a church but there, men say,
The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles.[196-1]
I doubted of this saw, till on a day
I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Gyles.
_Posthumous Poems._
FOOTNOTES:
[196-1] See Burton, page 192.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 1586-1616.
What things have we seen
Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been
So nimble and so full of subtile flame
As if that every one from whence they came
Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,
And resolved to live a fool the rest
Of his dull life.
_Letter to Ben Jonson._
Here are sands, ignoble things,
Dropt from the ruined sides of kings.
_On the Tombs of Westminster Abbey._
It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.
_The Faithful Friends. Act i. Sc. 2._
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
(FRANCIS BEAUMONT and JOHN FLETCHER.)
All your better deeds
Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.[197-1]
_Philaster. Act v. Sc. 3._
Upon my burned body lie lightly, gentle earth.
_The Maid's Tragedy. Act i. Sc. 2._
A soul as white as heaven.
_The Maid's Tragedy. Act iv. Sc. 1._
But they that are above
Have ends in everything.[197-2]
_The Maid's Tragedy. Act v. Sc. 1._
It shew'd discretion, the best part of valour.[197-3]
_A King and No King. Act iv. Sc. 3._
There is a method in man's wickedness,--
It grows up by degrees.[197-4]
_A King and No King. Act v. Sc. 4._
As cold as cucumbers.
_Cupid's Revenge. Act i. Sc. 1._
Calamity is man's true touchstone.[197-5]
_Four Plays in One: The Triumph of Honour. Sc. 1._
Kiss till the cow comes home.
_Scornful Lady. Act iii. Sc. 1._
It would talk,--
Lord! how it talked![197-6]
_Scornful Lady. Act v. Sc. 1._
Beggars must be no choosers.[197-7]
_Scornful Lady. Act v. Sc. 3._
No better than you should be.[197-8]
_The Coxcomb. Act iv. Sc. 3._
From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot.[198-1]
_The Honest Man's Fortune. Act ii. Sc. 2._
One foot in the grave.[198-2]
_The Little French Lawyer. Act i. Sc. 1._
Go to grass.
_The Little French Lawyer. Act iv. Sc. 7._
There is no jesting with edge tools.[198-3]
_The Little French Lawyer. Act iv. Sc. 7._
Though I say it that should not say it.
_Wit at Several Weapons. Act ii. Sc. 2._
I name no parties.[198-4]
_Wit at Several Weapons. Act ii. Sc. 3._
Whistle, and she'll come to you.[198-5]
_Wit Without Money. Act iv. Sc. 4._
Let the world slide.[198-6]
_Wit Without Money. Act v. Sc. 2._
The fit 's upon me now!
Come quickly, gentle lady;
The fit 's upon me now.
_Wit Without Money. Act v. Sc. 4._
He comes not in my books.[198-7]
_The Widow. Act i. Sc. 1._
Death hath so many doors to let out life.[198-8]
_The Customs of the Country. Act ii. Sc. 2._
Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love
Pity 's the straightest.[198-9]
_The Knight of Malta. Act i. Sc. 1._
Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal substance of his greatness,--
To which I leave him.
_The False One. Act ii. Sc. 1._
Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.[199-1]
_Love's Cure. Act ii. Sc. 2._
What 's one man's poison, signor,
Is another's meat or drink.[199-2]
_Love's Cure. Act iii. Sc. 2._
Primrose, first-born child of Ver,
Merry springtime's harbinger.
_The Two Noble Kinsmen. Act i. Sc. 1._
O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood
The earth when it is sick, and curest the world
O' the pleurisy of people!
_The Two Noble Kinsmen. Act v. Sc. 1._
FOOTNOTES:
[197-1] See Shakespeare, page 100.
[197-2] See Shakespeare, page 145.
[197-3] See Shakespeare, page 87.
[197-4] Nemo repente fuit turpissimus (No man ever became
extremely wicked all at once).--JUVENAL: _ii. 83._
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés (As virtue has its
degrees, so has vice).--RACINE: _Phédre, act iv. sc. 2._
[197-5] Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros (Fire is the test
of gold; adversity, of strong men).--SENECA: _De Providentia, v.
9._
[197-6] Then he will talk--good gods! how he will talk!--LEE:
_Alexander the Great, act i. sc. 3._
[197-7] See Heywood, page 14.
[197-8] She is no better than she should be.--FIELDING: _The
Temple Beau, act iv. sc. 3._
[198-1] See Shakespeare, page 51.
[198-2] An old doting fool, with one foot already in the
grave.--PLUTARCH: _On the Training of Children._
[198-3] It is no jesting with edge tools.--_The True Tragedy of
Richard III._ (_1594._)
[198-4] The use of "party" in the sense of "person" occurs in the
Book of Common Prayer, More's "Utopia," Shakespeare, Ben Jonson,
Fuller, and other old English writers.
[198-5] Whistle, and I'll come to ye.--BURNS: _Whistle, etc._
[198-6] See Shakespeare, page 72.
[198-7] See Shakespeare, page 50.
[198-8] See Webster, page 180.
[198-9] Pity 's akin to love.--SOUTHERNE: _Oroonoka, act ii. sc.
1._
Pity swells the tide of love.--YOUNG: _Night Thoughts, night iii.
line 107._
[199-1] But strive still to be a man before your mother.--COWPER:
_Connoisseur. Motto of No. iii._
[199-2] Quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum (What is food
to one may be fierce poison to others).--LUCRETIUS: _iv. 637._
GEORGE WITHER. 1588-1667.
Shall I, wasting in despair,
Die because a woman's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care,
'Cause another's rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flowery meads in May,
If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?[199-3]
_The Shepherd's Resolution._
Jack shall pipe and Gill shall dance.
_Poem on Christmas._
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,[199-4]
And therefore let 's be merry.