42. _Nor all that glisters gold_. A favourite proverb with the old
English poets. Cf. Chaucer, _C. T._ 16430:
"But all thing which that shineth as the gold
Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told;"
Spenser, _F. Q._ ii. 8, 14:
"Yet gold all is not, that doth golden seeme;"
Shakes. _M. of V._ ii. 7:
"All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told;"
Dryden, _Hind and Panther_:
"All, as they say, that glitters is not gold."
Other examples might be given. _Glisten_ is not found in Shakes. or
Milton, but both use _glister_ several times. See _W. T._ iii. 2;
_Rich. II._ iii. 3; _T. A._ ii. 1, etc.; _Lycidas_, 79; _Comus_, 219;
_P. L._ iii. 550; iv. 645, 653, etc.
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