"Adages,"--_Erasmus_.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, a renowned Dutch humanist, was born at Rotterdam,
1465 or 1467, and died July 12, 1536. He wrote a noted volume of
"Colloquies," a collection of "Adages," and a celebrated satire, "The
Praise of Folly"; besides numerous works on the ancients--Cicero,
Seneca, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, etc.; also a noted
treatise on "Free-Will."
There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run,
by patience and love.
--_Marguerite de Valois_.
MARGUERITE D'ANGOULÊME, or DE VALOIS, Queen of Navarre, and famous for
her stories, poems and letters, was born in 1492, and died in Bigorre in
1549. She is best known in literature by the celebrated "Heptameron," a
collection of tales; "Pearls of the Pearl of Princesses" (poems), and
her "Letters," which were published in 1841-42.
One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span,
Because to laugh is proper to the man.
"To the Reader,"--_François Rabelais_.
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS, the greatest of French satirists, was born at Chinon,
Touraine, about 1495, and died in 1553. His fame rests upon the two
works, "Gargantua," and "Pantagruel."
A chip of chance weigheth more than a pound of it.
Courtier's Life,--_Sir T. Wyatt_.
SIR THOMAS WYATT, a distinguished English poet and diplomatist, was born
at Arlington Castle, Kent, in 1503, and died at Sherborne, October 11,
1542. He wrote many poems, chiefly love sonnets after the Italian
manner.
Therefore, if to the goodness of nature be joined the wisdom of
the teacher, in leading young wits into a right and plain way of
learning; surely children kept up in God's fear, and governed by
His grace, may most easily be brought well to serve God and their
country, both by virtue and wisdom.
"On Gentleness in Education" (From "The Schoolmaster"),--_Roger
Ascham_.
ROGER ASCHAM, a famous English scholar and prose writer, was born at
Kirby Wiske, near Northallerton, in 1515, and died in London, December
30, 1568. His most noted works are: "Toxophilus," and "The
Schoolmaster."
Time shall make the bushes green;
Time dissolve the winter's snow;
Winds be soft, and skies serene;
Linnets sing their wonted strain:
But again
Blighted love shall never blow.
"Blighted Love" (trans., Lord Strangford), st. 3,--_Luiz de
Camoëns_.
LUIZ DE CAMOËNS, Portugal's greatest poet, was born at Lisbon, in 1524
or 1525, and died June 10, 1580. He is best known by "The Lusiads,"
which is considered the national epic of Portugal.
The stone that is rolling, can gather no moss,
Who often removeth is sure of loss.
"Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry Lessons,"
St. 46,--_Tusser_.
THOMAS TUSSER, a noted English poet was born at Rivenhall, Essex, in
1527, and died in London about 1580. He was the author of "Five Hundred
Points of Good Husbandry, United to as Many of Good Housewifery," etc.
I cannot eat but little meat,
My stomach is not good;
But sure I think that I can drink
With him that wears a hood.
"Gammer Gurton's Needle," Act. II,--_Bishop Still_.
BISHOP JOHN STILL, a celebrated English writer of comedy, was born at
Grantham, in Lincolnshire, in 1543, and died February 26, 1607. He is
reputed to be the author of "A Ryght Pithy Pleasant, and Merrie Comedy,
Intytuled Gammer Gurton's Needle."