The Project Gutenberg eBook of Familiar Quotations, Ninth Edition, 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.

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.

[vi]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.

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

ANONYMOUS BOOKS CITED.

FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER. 1328-1400.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Footnotes

[8:7] The Proverbes of John Heywood is the earliest collection of English colloquial sayings. It was first printed in 1546. The title of the edition of 1562 is, John Heywoodes Woorkes. A Dialogue conteyning the number of the effectuall proverbes in the English tounge, compact in a matter concernynge two maner of Maryages, etc. The selection here given is from the edition of 1874 (a reprint of 1598), edited by Julian Sharman.

[9:1] Let the world slide.—Towneley Mysteries, p. 101 (1420). Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, induc. 1. Beaumont and Fletcher: Wit without Money, act v. sc. 2.

[9:2] A common exclamation of regret occurring in Spenser, Harrington, and the older writers. An earlier instance of the phrase occurs in the Towneley Mysteries.

[9:3] 'T is good to be merry and wise.—Jonson, Chapman, Marston: Eastward Ho, act i. sc. 1. Burns: Here 's a health to them that 's awa'.

[9:4]

don fust

C'on kint souvent est-on batu.

(By his own stick the prudent one is often beaten.)

Roman du Renart, circa 1300.

[9:5] Look ere thou leap.—In Tottel's Miscellany, 1557; and in Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Of Wiving and Thriving. 1573.

Thou shouldst have looked before thou hadst leapt.—Jonson, Chapman, Marston: Eastward Ho, act v. sc. 1.

Look before you ere you leap.—Butler: Hudibras, pt. ii. c. ii. l. 502.

[9:6]

He that will not when he may,

When he will he shall have nay.

Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, pt. iii. sec. 2, mem. 5, subs. 5.

He that wold not when he might,

He shall not when he wolda.

The Baffled Knight. Percy: Reliques.

[9:7] All the fatt 's in the fire.—Marston: What You Will. 1607.

[10:1] You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 262.

Strike whilst the iron is hot.—Rabelais: book ii. chap. xxxi. Webster: Westward Hoe. Tom A'Lincolne. Farquhar: The Beaux' Stratagem, iv. 1.

[10:2]

Hoist up saile while gale doth last,

Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

Robert Southwell: St. Peter's Complaint. 1595.

Nae man can tether time or tide.—Burns: Tam O' Shanter.

[10:3]

Fast bind, fast find;

A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.

Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 5.

Also in Jests of Scogin. 1565.

[10:4] It is this proverb which Henry V. is reported to have uttered at the siege of Orleans. "Shall I beat the bush and another take the bird?" said King Henry.

[10:5] Entre deux arcouns chet cul à terre (Between two stools one sits on the ground).—Les Proverbes del Vilain, MS. Bodleian. Circa 1303.

S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul à terre (One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools).—Rabelais: book i. chap. ii.

[10:6] As many men, so many minds.—Terence: Phormio, ii. 3.

As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes.—Queen Elizabeth: Godly Meditacyon of the Christian Sowle. 1548.

So many men so many mindes.—Gascoigne: Glass of Government.

[10:7] Hanging and wiving go by destiny.—The Schole-hous for Women. 1541. Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, act 2. sc. 9.

Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.—Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. 2, mem. 5, subs. 5.

[11:1] Happy man be his dole—Shakespeare: Merry Wives, act iii. sc. 4; Winter's Tale, act i. sc. 2. Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto iii. line 168.

[11:2] Si les nues tomboyent esperoyt prendre les alouettes (If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks).—Rabelais: book i. chap. xi.

[11:3] To cast beyond the moon, is a phrase in frequent use by the old writers. Lyly: Euphues, p. 78. Thomas Heywood: A Woman Killed with Kindness.

[11:4] Let the world slide.—Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, ind. 1; and, Let the world slip, ind. 2.

[11:5] Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?—Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV. act iii. sc. 2.

[11:6] See Skelton, page 8. Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI. act i. sc. 1. Thomas Heywood: History of Women.

[11:7] Hold their noses to the grindstone.—Middleton: Blurt, Master-Constable, act iii. sc. 3.

[11:8] It is more blessed to give than to receive.—John xx. 35.

[11:9] This proverb occurs in Rabelais, book i. chap. xi.; in Vulgaria Stambrigi, circa 1510; in Butler, part i. canto i. line 490. Archbishop Trench says this proverb is certainly as old as Jerome of the fourth century, who, when some found fault with certain writings of his, replied that they were free-will offerings, and that it did not behove to look a gift horse in the mouth.

[12:1] Rabelais: book iv. chap. liv. At my fingers' ends.—Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, act i. sc. 3.

[12:2] The origin of the word "sleveless," in the sense of unprofitable, has defied the most careful research. It is frequently found allied to other substantives. Bishop Hall speaks of the "sleveless tale of transubstantiation," and Milton writes of a "sleveless reason." Chaucer uses it in the Testament of Love.—Sharman.

[12:3] At their wit's end.—Psalm cvii. 27.

[12:4] Thomas Heywood: If you know not me, etc., 1605. Tarlton: Jests, 1611.

[12:5] A relic of the Sumptuary Laws. One of the earliest instances occurs, 1530, in the interlude of Godly Queene Hester.

[12:6] Qui est près de l'église est souvent loin de Dieu (He who is near the Church is often far from God).—Les Proverbes Communs. Circa 1500.

[12:7]

Rather to bowe than breke is profitable;

Humylite is a thing commendable.

The Morale Proverbs of Cristyne; translated from the French (1390) by Earl Rivers, and printed by Caxton in 1478.

[12:8] Fair words never hurt the tongue.—Jonson, Chapman, Marston: Eastward Ho, act iv. sc. 1.

[12:9] Fletcher: Valentinian, act ii. sc. 1.

[12:10] Humphrey Robert: Complaint for Reformation, 1572. Lyly: Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), p. 107.

[13:1] Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.—Sir H. Sheres: Satyr on the Sea Officers. Tom Brown: Æneus Sylvius's Letter. Dryden: Epilogue to the Duke of Guise.

[13:2] Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit (If the end be well, all will be well).—Gestæ Romanorum. Tale lxvii.

[13:3]

Who that well his warke beginneth,

The rather a good ende he winneth.

Gower: Confessio Amantis.

[13:4] Lyly: Euphues (Arber's reprint), p. 288.

[13:5] Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, An Habitation Enforced. Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress. Mathew Henry: Commentaries, Matthew xxi. Murphy: The School for Guardians.

Potius sero quam nunquam (Rather late than never).—Livy: iv. ii. 11.

[13:6] Quant le cheval est emblé dounke ferme fols l'estable (When the horse has been stolen, the fool shuts the stable).—Les Proverbes del Vilain.

[13:7] Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.—Proverbs xvi. 18.

Pryde goeth before, and shame cometh behynde.—Treatise of a Gallant. Circa 1510.

[13:8] She looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth.—Swift: Polite Conversation.

[13:9] 'T is old, but true, still swine eat all the draff.—Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, act iv. sc. 2.

[13:10] Ewyl weed ys sone y-growe.—MS. Harleian, circa 1490.

An ill weed grows apace.—Chapman: An Humorous Day's Mirth.

Great weeds do grow apace.—Shakespeare: Richard III. act ii. sc. 4. Beaumont and Fletcher: The Coxcomb, act iv. sc. 4.

[14:1] God knows thou art a collop of my flesh.—Shakespeare: 1 Henry VI. act v. sc. 4.

[14:2] Beggars must be no choosers.—Beaumont and Fletcher: The Scornful Lady, act v. sc. 3.

[14:3] Þet coc is kene on his owne mixenne.—Þe Ancren Riwle. Circa 1250.

[14:4] The stone that is rolling can gather no moss.—Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 524. Gosson: Ephemerides of Phialo. Marston: The Fawn.

Pierre volage ne queult mousse (A rolling stone gathers no moss).—De l'hermite qui se désespéra pour le larron que ala en paradis avant que lui, 13th century.

[14:5] To rob Peter and pay Paul is said to have derived its origin when, in the reign of Edward VI., the lands of St. Peter at Westminster were appropriated to raise money for the repair of St. Paul's in London.

[14:6]

You know that love

Will creep in service when it cannot go.

Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona, act iv. sc. 2.

[14:7] Shakespeare alludes to this proverb in Macbeth:—

Letting I dare not wait upon I would,

Like the poor cat i' the adage.

Cat lufat visch, ac he nele his feth wete.—MS. Trinity College, Cambridge, circa 1250.

[14:8] Whylst grass doth grow, oft sterves the seely steede.—Whetstone: Promos and Cassandra. 1578.

While the grass grows—

The proverb is something musty.

Shakespeare: Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4.

[15:1] An earlier instance occurs in Heywood, in his "Dialogue on Wit and Folly," circa 1530.

[15:2] Two strings to his bow.—Hooker: Polity, book v. chap. lxxx. Chapman: D'Ambois, act ii. sc. 3. Butler: Hudibras, part iii. canto i. line 1. Churchill: The Ghost, book iv. Fielding: Love in Several Masques, sc. 13.

[15:3] See Chaucer, page 5.

[15:4] Naught venture naught have.—Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. October Abstract.

[15:5] 'T is an old saw, Children and fooles speake true.—Lyly: Endymion.

[15:6] Set all on sex and seven.—Chaucer: Troilus and Cresseide, book iv. line 623; also Towneley Mysteries.

At six and seven.—Shakespeare: Richard II. act ii. sc. 2.

[15:7] All 's fish they get that cometh to net.—Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. February Abstract.

Where all is fish that cometh to net.—Gascoigne: Steele Glas. 1575.

[15:8] Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.—Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.

[15:9] This phrase derives its origin from the custom of certain manors where tenants are authorized to take fire-bote by hook or by crook; that is, so much of the underwood as many be cut with a crook, and so much of the loose timber as may be collected from the boughs by means of a hook. One of the earliest citations of this proverb occurs in John Wycliffe's Controversial Tracts, circa 1370.—See Skelton, page 8. Rabelais: book v. chap. xiii. Du Bartas: The Map of Man. Spenser: Faerie Queene, book iii. canto i. st. 17. Beaumont and Fletcher: Women Pleased, act. i. sc. 3.

[16:1] See Chaucer, page 3.

[16:2] In old receipt books we find it invariably advised that an inebriate should drink sparingly in the morning some of the same liquor which he had drunk to excess over-night.

[16:3] See Chaucer, page 6.

[16:4] Ah, well I wot that a new broome sweepeth cleane—Lyly: Euphues (Arber's reprint), p. 89.

[16:5]

Brend child fur dredth,

Quoth Hendyng.

Proverbs of Hendyng. MSS.

A burnt child dreadeth the fire.—Lyly: Euphues (Arber's reprint), p. 319.

[16:6] You do not speak gospel.—Rabelais: book i. chap. xiii.

[16:7] Marlowe: Jew of Malta, act iv. sc. 6. Bacon: Formularies.

[16:8] Sottes bolt is sone shote.—Proverbs of Hendyng. MSS.

[16:9] It has been the Providence of Nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one.—Pilpay: The Greedy and Ambitious Cat, fable iii. b. c.

[16:10] Lyly: Euphues (Arber's reprint), p. 80.

[17:1] Pryde and Abuse of Women. 1550. The Marriage of True Wit and Science. Butler: Hudibras, part ii. canto i. line 698. Fielding: The Grub Street Opera, act ii. sc. 4. Prior: Epilogue to Lucius.

Lord Macaulay (History of England, vol. i. chap. iii.) thinks that this proverb originated in the preference generally given to the gray mares of Flanders over the finest coach-horses of England. Macaulay, however, is writing of the latter half of the seventeenth century, while the proverb was used a century earlier.

[17:2] See Chaucer, page 6.

Two may keep counsel when the third 's away.—Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, act iv. sc. 2.

[17:3] Pitchers have ears.—Shakespeare: Richard III. act ii. sc. 4.

[17:4] See Chaucer, page 3.

[17:5] Thou shalt come out of a warme sunne into Gods blessing.—Lyly: Euphues.

Thou out of Heaven's benediction comest

To the warm sun.

Shakespeare: Lear, act ii. sc. 2.

[17:6] Ther can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.—Lyly: Euphues (Arber's reprint), p. 153.

[17:7] One swallowe prouveth not that summer is neare.—Northbrooke: Treatise against Dancing. 1577.

[17:8] See Chaucer, page 2.

[18:1] See Skelton, page 8.

[18:2] I have thee on the hip.—Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, act iv. sc. 1; Othello, act ii. sc. 7.

[18:3] See Chaucer, page 4.

[18:4]

A hardy mouse that is bold to breede

In cattis eeris.

Order of Foles. MS. circa 1450.

[18:5] The same in Don Quixote (Lockhart's ed.), part i. book iii. chap. iv. Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress. Fletcher: The Wild-Goose Chase, act iv. sc. 3.

[18:6] Time trieth truth.—Tottel's Miscellany, reprint 1867, p. 221.

Time tries the troth in everything.—Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Author's Epistle, chap. i.

[18:7] I saye, thou madde March hare.—Skelton: Replycation against certayne yong scolers.

[18:8]

More water glideth by the mill

Than wots the miller of.

Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, act ii. sc. 7.

[18:9] An earlier instance of this proverb occurs in Heywood's Johan the Husbande. 1533.

He must needs go whom the devil drives.—Shakespeare: All's Well that Ends Well, act i. sc. 3. Cervantes: Don Quixote, part i. book iv. chap. iv. Gosson: Ephemerides of Phialo. Peele: Edward I.

[18:10] Others set carts before the horses.—Rabelais: book v. chap. xxii.

[19:1] Gascoigne: Roses, 1575. Title of a Book of Epigrams, 1608. Beaumont and Fletcher: The Scornful Lady, act i. sc. 1; The Sea Voyage, act i. sc. 2.

[19:2] To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast.—Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV. act iv. sc. 2.

[19:3]

Be the day short or never so long,

At length it ringeth to even song.

Quoted at the Stake by George Tankerfield (1555).

Fox: Book of Martyrs, chap. vii. p. 346.

[19:4] Jack Jugler, p. 46. Rabelais: book i. chap. xi. Blackloch: Hatchet of Heresies, 1565. Butler: Hudibras, part ii. canto iii. line 263.

[19:5] What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.—Pilpay: The Two Fishermen, fable xiv.

It will never out of the flesh that 's bred in the bone.—Jonson: Every Man in his Humour, act i. sc. 1.

[19:6] None so deaf as those that will not hear.—Mathew Henry: Commentaries. Psalm lviii.

[19:7] He has the wrong sow by the ear.—Jonson: Every Man in his Humour, act ii. sc. 1.

[19:8] See Chaucer, page 6.

[19:9] Chapman: Widow's Tears, 1612.

A proverb in the time of Saint Bernard was, Qui me amat, amet et canem meum (Who loves me will love my dog also).—Sermo Primus.

THOMAS TUSSER. Circa 1515-1580.

Footnotes

[20:1]

Falstaff. What wind blew you hither, Pistol?

Pistol. Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.

Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV. act v. sc. 3.

[20:2] Give an inch, he 'll take an ell.—Webster: Sir Thomas Wyatt.

[20:3] Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?—Herbert: The Size.

[20:4] Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.—Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. i. mem. iii.

[20:5] For buying or selling of pig in a poke.—Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. September Abstract.

[20:6] You have there hit the nail on the head.—Rabelais: bk. iii. ch. xxxi.

[20:7] Dives and Pauper, 1493. Gascoigne: Poesies, 1575. Pope: Horace, book i. Ep. vii. line 24. Fielding: Covent Garden Tragedy, act v. sc. 1. Bickerstaff: Love in a Village, act iii. sc. 1.

[20:8] God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.—John Taylor: Works, vol. ii. p. 85 (1630). Ray: Proverbs. Garrick: Epigram on Goldsmith's Retaliation.

[21:1] On the authority of M. Cimber, of the Bibliothèque Royale, we owe this proverb to Chevalier Bayard: "Tel maître, tel valet."

[21:2]

Merry swithe it is in halle,

When the beards waveth alle.

Life of Alexander, 1312.

This has been wrongly attributed to Adam Davie. There the line runs,—

Swithe mury hit is in halle,

When burdes waiven alle.

[21:3] See Heywood, page 15.

[21:4] See Heywood, page 10. Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 5.

RICHARD EDWARDS. Circa 1523-1566.

Footnotes

[21:5] The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 24.

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.—Lyly: Euphues.

The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.—Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. 2.

Amantium iræ amoris integratiost (The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love).—Terence: Andria, act iii. sc. 5.

EDWARD DYER. Circa 1540-1607.

Footnotes

[22:1] There is a very similar but anonymous copy in the British Museum. Additional MS. 15225, p. 85. And there is an imitation in J. Sylvester's Works, p. 651.—Hannah: Courtly Poets.

My mind to me a kingdom is;

Such perfect joy therein I find,

As far exceeds all earthly bliss

That God and Nature hath assigned.

Though much I want that most would have,

Yet still my mind forbids to crave.

Byrd: Psalmes, Sonnets, etc. 1588.

My mind to me an empire is,

While grace affordeth health.

Robert Southwell (1560-1595): Loo Home.

Mens regnum bona possidet (A good mind possesses a kingdom).—Seneca: Thyestes, ii. 380.

BISHOP STILL (JOHN). 1543-1607.

Footnotes

[22:2] Stated by Dyce to be from a MS. of older date than Gammer Gurton's Needle. See Skelton's Works (Dyce's ed.), vol. i. pp. vii-x, note.

THOMAS STERNHOLD. Circa 1549.

MATHEW ROYDON. Circa 1586.

Footnotes

[23:1] This piece (ascribed to Spenser) was printed in The Phœnix' Nest, 4to, 1593, where it is anonymous. Todd has shown that it was written by Mathew Roydon.

SIR EDWARD COKE. 1549-1634.

Footnotes

[24:1] Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.—Sir John Powell: Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. Rep. p. 911.

[24:2] Pandects, lib. ii. tit. iv. De in Jus vocando.

[24:3]

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven;

Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

Sir William Jones.

GEORGE PEELE. 1552-1598.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 1552-1618.

Footnotes

[25:1] Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labi (The deepest rivers flow with the least sound).—Q. Curtius, vii. 4. 13.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.—Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI. act iii. sc. i.

[26:1] Methought I saw my late espoused saint.—Milton: Sonnet xxiii.

Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne.—Wordsworth: Sonnet.

[26:2]

If she be not so to me,

What care I how fair she be?

George Wither: The Shepherd's Resolution.

[26:3] Written in a glass window obvious to the Queen's eye. "Her Majesty, either espying or being shown it, did under-write, 'If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.'"—Fuller: Worthies of England, vol. i. p. 419.

EDMUND SPENSER. 1553-1599.

Footnotes

[27:1] And moralized his song.—Pope: Epistle to Arbuthnot. Line 340.

[27:2] This bold bad man.—Shakespeare: Henry VIII. act ii. sc. 2. Massinger: A New Way to Pay Old Debts, act iv. sc. 2.

[27:3]

Ay me! what perils do environ

The man that meddles with cold iron!

Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto iii. line 1.

[27:4] "Milky Mothers,"—Pope: The Dunciad, book ii. line 247. Scott: The Monastery, chap. xxviii.

[28:1] Through thick and thin.—Drayton: Nymphidiæ. Middleton: The Roaring Girl, act iv. sc. 2. Kemp: Nine Days' Wonder. Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto ii. line 370. Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, part ii. line 414. Pope: Dunciad, book ii. Cowper: John Gilpin.

[28:2] See Skelton, page 8.

[28:3] The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning.—Psalm cx. 3, Book of Common Prayer.

[28:4] De l'audace, encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace (Boldness, again boldness, and ever boldness).—Danton: Speech in the Legislative Assembly, 1792.

[29:1] Mother wit.—Marlowe: Prologue to Tamberlaine the Great, part i. Middleton: Your Five Gallants, act i. sc. 1. Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, act ii. sc. 1.

[29:2] Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.—Matthew v. 7.

[29:3] The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.—Shakespeare: Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1.

[29:4] See Heywood, page 12.

[30:1] Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares.—Plutarch: Of the Training of Children.

But suffered idleness

To eat his heart away.

Bryant: Homer's Iliad, book i. line 319.

[30:2] Take Time by the forelock.—Thales (of Miletus). 636-546 b. c.

[30:3] Rhyme nor reason.—Pierre Patelin, quoted by Tyndale in 1530. Farce du Vendeur des Lieures, sixteenth century. Peele: Edward I. Shakespeare: As You Like It, act iii. sc. 2; Merry Wives of Windsor, act v. sc. 5; Comedy of Errors, act ii. sc. 2.

Sir Thomas More advised an author, who had sent him his manuscript to read, "to put it in rhyme." Which being done, Sir Thomas said, "Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason."

[30:4] Fuller: Worthies of England, vol. ii. p. 379.

RICHARD HOOKER. 1553-1600.

JOHN LYLY. Circa 1553-1601.

Footnotes

[32:1]

Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,

And Phœbus 'gins arise.

Shakespeare: Cymbeline, act ii. sc. 3.

[32:2]

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy.

Shakespeare: Hamlet, act i. sc. 3.

[32:3] The camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows.—Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV. act ii. sc. 4.

[32:4] See Heywood, page 11.

[32:5] A brown study.—Swift: Polite Conversation.

[32:6] Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.—Plutarch: Of the Training of Children.

Stillicidi casus lapidem cavat (Continual dropping wears away a stone). Lucretius: i. 314.

[32:7]

Many strokes, though with a little axe,

Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

Shakespeare: 3 Henry VI. act ii. sc. 1.

[32:8] See Heywood, page 12.

[32:9] Jupiter himself was turned into a satyr, a shepherd, a bull, a swan, a golden shower, and what not for love.—Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. ii. mem. i. subs. 1.

[33:1] The main chance.—Shakespeare: 1 Henry VI. act i. sc. 1. Butler: Hudibras, part ii. canto ii. Dryden: Persius, satire vi.

[33:2] See Heywood, page 12.

[33:3] 'T is a world to see.—Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, act ii. sc. 1.

[33:4] See Heywood, page 17.

[33:5] This is a sure card.—Thersytes, circa 1550.

[33:6] To rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb.—Breton: Court and Country, 1618 (reprint, page 182).

Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.—Hurdis: The Village Curate.

[33:7] See Raleigh, page 25.

[33:8] The rose is fairest when 't is budding new.—Scott: Lady of the Lake, canto iii. st. 1.

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586.

Footnotes

[34:1] Great thoughts come from the heart.—Vauvenargues: Maxim cxxvii.

[34:2] He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.—Fletcher: Love's Cure, act iii. sc. 3.

[34:3] Many-headed multitude.—Shakespeare: Coriolanus, act ii. sc. 3.

This many-headed monster, Multitude.—Daniel: History of the Civil War, book ii. st. 13.

[34:4] Look, then, into thine heart and write.—Longfellow: Voices of the Night. Prelude.

[34:5] Quoted by Shakespeare in Merry Wives of Windsor.

CYRIL TOURNEUR. Circa 1600.

Footnotes

[34:6] Distilled damnation.—Robert Hall (in Gregory's "Life of Hall").

LORD BROOKE. 1554-1628.

Footnotes

[35:1] See Thomas à Kempis, page 7.

GEORGE CHAPMAN. 1557-1634.

Footnotes

[35:2] Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?—Marlowe: Hero and Leander.

I saw and loved.—Gibbon: Memoirs, vol. i. p. 106.

[35:3] See Heywood, page 13.

[35:4] Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.—Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona, act v. sc. 2.

[35:5] There is pansies, that 's for thoughts.—Shakespeare: Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5.

[35:6] Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.—Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 5.

[36:1] Quoted by Camden as a saying of one Dr. Metcalf. It is now in many peoples' mouths, and likely to pass into a proverb.—Ray: Proverbs (Bohn ed.), p. 145.

[36:2]

One fire burns out another's burning,

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 2.

[36:3] I 'll put a girdle round about the earth.—Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, act ii. sc. 1.

[36:4]

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime.

Longfellow: A Psalm of Life.

[37:1] Here lies one whose name was writ in water.—Keats's own Epitaph.

[37:2] To be noble we 'll be good.—Winifreda (Percy's Reliques).

'T is only noble to be good.—Tennyson: Lady Clara Vere de Vere, stanza 7.

[37:3] The same in Franklin's Poor Richard.

[37:4] See Heywood, page 9.

[37:5] By Chapman, Jonson, and Marston.

[37:6] This is the famous passage that gave offence to James I., and caused the imprisonment of the authors. The leaves containing it were cancelled and reprinted, and it only occurs in a few of the original copies.—Richard Herne Shepherd.

[38:1] Dives and Pauper (1493). Gascoigne: Memories (1575). Fielding: Covent Garden Tragedy, act ii. sc. 6. Bickerstaff: Love in a Village, act iii. sc. 1. See Heywood, page 20.

[38:2] See Heywood, page 12.

[38:3] See Heywood, page 13.

WILLIAM WARNER. 1558-1609.

SIR RICHARD HOLLAND.

Footnotes

[38:4] The allegorical poem of The Howlat was composed about the middle of the fifteenth century. Of the personal history of the author no kind of information has been discovered. Printed by the Bannatyne Club, 1823.

SIR JOHN HARRINGTON. 1561-1612.

Footnotes

[39:1]

Prosperum ac felix scelus

Virtus vocatur

(Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue).

Seneca: Herc. Furens, ii. 250.

SAMUEL DANIEL. 1562-1619.

Footnotes

[39:2]

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,

Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.

Waller: Verses upon his Divine Poesy.

[39:3] Westward the course of empire takes its way.—Berkeley: On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America.

MICHAEL DRAYTON. 1563-1631.

Footnotes

[40:1] Somerville: The Night-Walker.

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. 1565-1593.

Footnotes

[40:2] See Fortescue, page 7.

[40:3]

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,

And he but naked, though locked up in steel,

Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

Shakespeare: Henry VI. act iii. sc. 2.

[40:4] The same in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Compare Chapman, page 35.

[41:1]

To shallow rivers, to whose falls

Melodious birds sings madrigals;

There will we make our peds of roses,

And a thousand fragrant posies.

Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii. sc. i. (Sung by Evans).

[41:2] Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.—Matthew x. 16.

[41:3] See Heywood, page 16.

[41:4]

Once he drew

With one long kiss my whole soul through

My lips.

Tennyson: Fatima, stanza 3.

[41:5]

O, withered is the garland of the war!

The soldier's pole is fallen.

Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, act iv. sc. 13.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.

Footnotes

[44:1] As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.—Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sect. 3, memb. 4, subsect. 1.

[44:2] Custom is almost second nature.—Plutarch: Preservation of Health.

[45:1] Familiarity breeds contempt.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 640.

[46:1] What the dickens!—Thomas Heywood: Edward IV. act iii. sc. 1.

[46:2] As ill luck would have it.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, pt. i. bk. i. ch. ii.

[47:1] Act i. Sc. 5, in White, Singer, and Knight.

[47:2] Compare Portia's words in Merchant of Venice, act iv. sc. 1.

[49:1] See Spenser, page 29.

[49:2] "Mariana in the moated grange,"—the motto used by Tennyson for the poem "Mariana."

[49:3] This song occurs in Act v. Sc. 2 of Beaumont and Fletcher's Bloody Brother, with the following additional stanza:—

Hide, O, hide those hills of snow,

Which thy frozen bosom bears,

On whose tops the pinks that grow

Are of those that April wears!

But first set my poor heart free,

Bound in those icy chains by thee.

[50:1] For every why he had a wherefore.—Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 132.

[51:1] From the crown of his head to the sole of the foot.—Pliny: Natural History, book vii. chap. xvii. Beaumont and Fletcher: The Honest Man's Fortune, act ii. sc. 2. Middleton: A Mad World, etc.

[54:1] For "mirth," White reads shews; Singer, shows.

[56:1] Musical as is Apollo's lute.—Milton: Comus, line 78.

[57:1] Maidens withering on the stalk.—Wordsworth: Personal Talk, stanza 1.

[57:2] "Ever I could read,"—Dyce, Knight, Singer, and White.

[57:3] Act ii. sc. 2 in Singer and Knight.

[58:1] Act ii. sc. 2 in Singer and Knight.

[58:2] See Chapman, page 36.

[58:3] Trew as steele.—Chaucer: Troilus and Cresseide, book v. line 831.

[58:4] Act ii. sc. 2 in Singer and Knight.

[58:5] Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard.—1 Corinthians, ii. 9.

[59:1] I see the beginning of my end.—Massinger: The Virgin Martyr act iii. sc. 3.

[60:1] For the good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.—Romans vii. 19.

[62:1] See Chaucer, page 5.

[63:1] See Heywood, page 10.

[63:2] I will play the swan and die in music.—Othello, act v. sc. 2.

I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,

Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death.

King John, act v. sc. 7.

There, swan-like, let me sing and die.—Byron: Don Juan, canto iii. st. 86.

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.—Socrates: In Phaedo, 77.

[64:1] It is better to learn late than never.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 864.

[64:2] Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim (One falls into Scylla in seeking to avoid Charybdis).—Phillippe Gualtier: Alexandreis, book v. line 301. Circa 1300.

[65:1] "It is not nominated in the bond."—White.

[68:1] The same in The Taming of the Shrew, act iv. sc. 1; in Othello, act iii. sc. 1; in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act i. sc. 4; and in As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7. Rabelais: book v. chap. iv.

[69:1]

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage,

Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

Thomas Heywood: Apology for Actors. 1612.

A noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre.—Montaigne: Of the most Excellent Men.

[70:1] See Spenser, page 30.

[71:1] Too much of a good thing.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part i. book i. chap. vi.

[71:2] "Cud" in Dyce and Staunton.

[72:1] You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 968.

[72:2] See Heywood, page 9. Beaumont and Fletcher: Wit without Money.

[72:3] Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.—Congreve: The Old Bachelor, act v. sc. 1.

[73:1] See Heywood, page 18.

[74:1] How noiseless falls the foot of time!—W. R. Spencer: Lines to Lady A. Hamilton.

[74:2] "Like the sweet south" in Dyce and Singer. This change was made at the suggestion of Pope.

[74:3] See Heywood, page 12.

[76:1] Act iii. Sc. 5 in Dyce.

[77:1] Act iii. sc. 5 in Dyce.

[77:2] Into the jaws of death.—Tennyson: The Charge of the Light Brigade, stanza 3.

In the jaws of death.—Du Bartas: Divine Weekes and Workes, second week, first day, part iv.

[77:3] Act iv. sc. 2 in Dyce, Knight, Singer, Staunton, and White.

[78:1] Act iv. Sc. 3 in Dyce, Knight, Singer, Staunton, and White.

[78:2] Like a wave of the sea.—James i. 6.

[78:3] Act ii. Sc. 2 in Singer, Staunton, and Knight.

[79:1] Act ii. Sc. 2 in White.

[79:2] When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 278.

[80:1] Qui s'excuse, s'accuse (He who excuses himself accuses himself).—Gabriel Meurier: Trésor des Sentences. 1530-1601.

[80:2] See page 63, note 2.

[82:1] It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.—Matt. xix. 24.

[83:1] Thomas Nash: Have with you to Saffron Walden. Dryden: Epilogue to the Duke of Guise.

[85:1] Beaumont and Fletcher: Wit without Money, act iv. sc. 1. Swift: Mary the Cookmaid's Letter.

[87:1] See Heywood, page 19.

[87:2] It show'd discretion the best part of valour.—Beaumont and Fletcher: A King and no King, act ii. sc. 3.

[88:1] Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?—Luke xiv. 28.

[90:1] Act. iv. Sc. 4 in Dyce, Singer, Staunton, and White.

[90:2] See Heywood, page 20.

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.—Henry VI. part iii. act ii. sc. 5.

[91:1] Act iii. Sc. 6 in Dyce.

[92:1] With clink of hammers closing rivets up.—Cibber: Richard III. Altered, act v. sc. 3.

[92:2] "In their mouths" in Dyce, Singer, Staunton, and White.

[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 Phœnix, 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.

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.

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.

[172:7] It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize.—Pope: The Iliad, book xxiii. line 383.

[172:8] Some undone widow sits upon mine arm.—Massinger: A New Way to pay Old Debts, act v. sc. 1.

[172:9] For drames always go by contraries.—Lover: The Angel's Whisper.

[172:10] Spick and span new.—Ford: The Lover's Melancholy, act i. sc. 1. Farquhar: Preface to his Works.

[172:11] Plain as a pike-staff.—Terence in English (1641). Buckingham: Speech in the House of Lords, 1675. Gil Blas (Smollett's translation), book xii. chap. viii. Byrom: Epistle to a Friend.

[173:1] See Shakespeare, page 51.

[173:2]

So for a good old gentlemanly vice,

I think I must take up with avarice.

Byron: Don Juan, canto i. stanza 216.

[173:3] There is no love lost between us.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, book iv. chap. xxiii. Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer, act iv. Garrick: Correspondence, 1759. Fielding: The Grub Street Opera, act i. sc. 4.

[173:4] See Shakespeare, page 123.

[173:5] These lines are introduced into Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. According to Steevens, "the song was, in all probability, a traditional one." Collier says, "Doubtless it does not belong to Middleton more than to Shakespeare." Dyce says, "There seems to be little doubt that 'Macbeth' is of an earlier date than 'The Witch.'"

[173:6] See Chaucer, page 5.

[173:7] He 'as had a stinger.—Beaumont and Fletcher: Wit without Money, act iv. sc. 1.

[173:8] See Shakespeare, page 69.

[174:1] A Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen (1598). Turn over a new leaf.—Dekker: The Honest Whore, part ii. act i. sc. 2. Burke: Letter to Mrs. Haviland.

[174:2] See Shakespeare, page 128.

[174:3] A happy accident.—Madame de Staël: L' Allemagne, chap. xvi. Cervantes: Don Quixote, book iv. part ii. chap. lvii.

SIR HENRY WOTTON. 1568-1639.

Footnotes

[174:4] As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.—2 Corinth. vi. 10.

[174:5] "Sun" in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (eds. 1651, 1654, 1672, 1685).

[174:6] This was printed with music as early as 1624, in Est's "Sixth Set of Books," etc., and is found in many MSS.—Hannah: The Courtly Poets.

[175:1] In a letter to Velserus, 1612, Wotton says, "This merry definition of an ambassador I had chanced to set down at my friend's, Mr. Christopher Fleckamore, in his Album."

[175:2] He directed the stone over his grave to be inscribed:—

Hic jacet hujus sententiæ primus author:

Disputandi pruritus ecclesiarum scabies.

Nomen alias quære

(Here lies the author of this phrase: "The itch for disputing is the sore of churches." Seek his name elsewhere).

Walton: Life of Wotton.

RICHARD BARNFIELD. —— -1570.

Footnotes

[175:3] This song, often attributed to Shakespeare, is now confidently assigned to Barnfield; it is found in his collection of "Poems in Divers Humours," published in 1598.—Ellis: Specimens, vol. ii. p. 316.

SIR JOHN DAVIES. 1570-1626.

Footnotes

[176:1]

Our souls sit close and silently within,

And their own webs from their own entrails spin;

And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such

That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.

Dryden: Mariage à la Mode, act ii. sc. 1.

The spider's touch—how exquisitely fine!—

Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

Pope: Epistle i. line 217.

[176:2] 'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.—Webster: The White Devil, act i. sc. 2.

Le mariage est comme une forteresse assiégée: ceux qui sont dehors veulent y entrer, et ceux qui sont dedans veulent en sortir (Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are outside want to get in, and those inside want to get out).—Quitard: Études sur les Proverbes Français, p. 102.

It happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.—Montaigne: Upon some Verses of Virgil, chap. v.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?—Emerson: Representative Men: Montaigne.

MARTYN PARKER. —— -1630.

Footnotes

[176:3]

When the battle rages loud and long,

And the stormy winds do blow.

Campbell: Ye Mariners of England.

DR. JOHN DONNE. 1573-1631.

Footnotes

[177:1] Attributed by many writers to the Princess Elizabeth. It is not in the original edition of Donne, but first appears in the edition of 1654, p. 352.

[177:2] See Fortescue, page 7.

[177:3] See Bacon, page 166.

BEN JONSON.[177:4] 1573-1637.

Footnotes

[177:4] O rare Ben Jonson!—Sir John Young: Epitaph.

[177:5] Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat.—Wither: Poem on Christmas.

[177:6]

Get place and wealth,—if possible, with grace;

If not, by any means get wealth and place.

Pope: Horace, book i. epistle i. line 103.

[178:1] There is no love lost between us.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part ii. chap. xxxiii.

[178:2] A translation from Bonnefonius.

[178:3] The flattering, mighty, nay, almighty gold.—Wolcot: To Kien Long, Ode iv.

Almighty dollar.—Irving: The Creole Village.

[179:1] Ἐμοὶ δὲ μόνοις πρόπινε τοῖς ὄμμασιν. . . . Εἰ δὲ βούλει, τοῖς χείλεσι προσφέρουσα, πλήρου φιλημάτων τὸ ἔκπωμα, κaὶ οὕτως δίδου

(Drink to me with your eyes alone. . . . And if you will, take the cup to your lips and fill it with kisses, and give it so to me).

Philostratus: Letter xxiv.

[179:2]

Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh

To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie

A little nearer Spenser, to make room

For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb.

Basse: On Shakespeare.

[179:3] This epitaph is generally ascribed to Ben Jonson. It appears in the editions of his Works; but in a manuscript collection of Browne's poems preserved amongst the Lansdowne MS. No. 777, in the British Museum, it is ascribed to Browne, and awarded to him by Sir Egerton Brydges in his edition of Browne's poems.

[180:1]

They never taste who always drink;

They always talk who never think.

Prior: Upon a passage in the Scaligerana.

[180:2]

What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade

Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?

Pope: To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady.

JOHN WEBSTER. —— -1638.

Footnotes

[180:3] Death hath so many doors to let out life.—Beaumont and Fletcher: The Customs of the Country, act ii. sc. 2.

[180:4] See Davies, page 176.

[181:1] The mountains, too, at a distance appear airy masses and smooth, but when beheld close they are rough.—Diogenes Laertius: Pyrrho.

Love is like a landscape which doth stand

Smooth at a distance, rough at hand.

Robert Hegge: On Love.

We 're charm'd with distant views of happiness,

But near approaches make the prospect less.

Yalden: Against Enjoyment.

As distant prospects please us, but when near

We find but desert rocks and fleeting air.

Garth: The Dispensatory, canto iii. line 27.

'T is distance lends enchantment to the view,

And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Campbell: Pleasures of Hope, part i. line 7.

[181:2] See Bacon, page 171.

THOMAS DEKKER. —— -1641.

Footnotes

[182:1] Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth come Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys; also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne.—Juliana Berners: Heraldic Blazonry.

[182:2] See Shakespeare, page 78.

[182:3] Cæsar said he loved the treason, but hated the traitor.—Plutarch: Life of Romulus.

[182:4] See Middleton, page 174.

BISHOP HALL. 1574-1656.

Footnotes

[182:5]

And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

Young: Night Thoughts, night v. line 718.

[182:6]

Full many a gem of purest ray serene

The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

Gray: Elegy, stanza 14.

JOHN FLETCHER. 1576-1625.

Footnotes

[183:1] Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending him in particular all his life long.—Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part i. sect. 2, memb. 1, subsect. 2. Burton also quotes Anthony Rusca in this connection, v. xviii.

[183:2] An honest man's the noblest work of God.—Pope: Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 248. Burns: The Cotter's Saturday Night.

[183:3]

Weep no more, Lady! weep no more,

Thy sorrow is in vain;

For violets plucked, the sweetest showers

Will ne'er make grow again.

Percy: Reliques. The Friar of Orders Gray.

[183:4] Let us do or die.—Burns: Bannockburn. Campbell: Gertrude of Wyoming, part iii. stanza 37.

Scott says, "This expression is a kind of common property, being the motto, we believe, of a Scottish family."—Review of Gertrude, Scott's Miscellanies, vol. i. p. 153.

[184:1] See Bacon, page 165.

[184:2] Naught so sweet as melancholy.—Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy. Author's Abstract.

[184:3] The following well-known catch, or glee, is formed on this song:—

He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober,

Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October;

But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow,

Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.

[184:4] Three merry men be we.—Peele: Old Wives' Tale, 1595. Webster (quoted): Westward Hoe, 1607.

[184:5] See Shakespeare, page 49.

[185:1] Deeds, not words.—Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 867.

ROBERT BURTON. 1576-1640.

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.

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.

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.

Footnotes

[194:5] See Shakespeare, page 69.

[194:6] See Burton, page 189.

[194:7] See Heywood, page 11.

JOHN SELDEN. 1584-1654.

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.

Footnotes

[196:1] See Burton, page 192.

FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 1586-1616.

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

(Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.)

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.

Footnotes

[199:3] See Raleigh, page 26.

[199:4] See Jonson, page 177.

THOMAS HOBBES. 1588-1679.

THOMAS CAREW. 1589-1639.

Footnotes

[200:1] An untimely grave.—Tate and Brady: Psalm vii.

WILLIAM BROWNE. 1590-1645.

Footnotes

[201:1] See Bacon, page 170.

ROBERT HERRICK. 1591-1674.

Footnotes

[202:1] See Marlowe, page 41.

[202:2] Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they be withered.—Wisdom of Solomon, ii. 8.

Gather the rose of love whilest yet is time.—Spenser: The Faerie Queene, book ii. canto xii. stanza 75.

[202:3] See Shakespeare, page 143.

[202:4]

Her feet beneath her petticoat

Like little mice stole in and out.

Suckling: Ballad upon a Wedding.

[203:1] See Bacon, page 168.

[203:2] Nil tam difficilest quin quærendo investigari possiet (Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking).—Terence: Heautontimoroumenos, iv. 2, 8.

[203:3] Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.—Milton: Paradise Lost, book iv. line 256.

FRANCIS QUARLES. 1592-1644.

Footnotes

[203:4] Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.—Young: Night Thoughts, night v. line 1011.

[204:1] To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.—Euripides: Alcestis, line 418.

[204:2] The longest way round is the shortest way home.—Bohn: Foreign Proverbs (Italian).

GEORGE HERBERT. 1593-1632.

Footnotes

[205:1]

And he that does one fault at first,

And lies to hide it, makes it two.

Watts: Song xv.

[205:2] See Heywood, page 20. Bickerstaff: Thomas and Sally.

[205:3] Ruat cœlum, fiat voluntas tua (Though the sky fall, let Thy will be done).—Sir T. Browne: Religio Medici, part ii. sect. xi.

[205:4] After the war, aid.—Greek proverb.

After me the deluge.—Madame de Pompadour.

[205:5] Hell is paved with good intentions.—Dr. Johnson (Boswell's Life of Johnson, Annus 1775.)

[206:1] See Burton, page 192.

[206:2] Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.—F. Von Logau (1614-1655): Retribution (translation).

[206:3] They ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.—Dryden: The Conquest of Grenada.

[206:4] God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.—Sterne: Sentimental Journey.

[206:5] The lion is not so fierce as painted.—Fuller: Expecting Preferment.

[206:6] God helps those who help themselves.—Sidney: Discourses on Government, sect. xxiii. Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac.

[206:7] Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.—Dr. Madden: Boulter's Monument (supposed to have been inserted by Dr. Johnson, 1745).

[206:8] See Chaucer, page 4.

[206:9] See Burton, page 185.

IZAAK WALTON. 1593-1683.

Footnotes

[207:1] Virtue is her own reward.—Dryden: Tyrannic Love, act iii. sc. 1.

Virtue is to herself the best reward.—Henry More: Cupid's Conflict.

Virtue is its own reward.—Prior: Imitations of Horace, book iii. ode 2. Gay: Epistle to Methuen. Home: Douglas, act iii. sc. 1.

Virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.—Diogenes Laertius: Plato, xlii.

Ipsa quidem virtus sibimet pulcherrima merces (Virtue herself is her own fairest reward).—Silius Italicus (25?-99): Punica, lib. xiii. line 663.

[208:1] William Butler, styled by Dr. Fuller in his "Worthies" (Suffolk) the "Æsculapius of our age." He died in 1621. This first appeared in the second edition of "The Angler," 1655. Roger Williams, in his "Key into the Language of America," 1643, p. 98, says: "One of the chiefest doctors of England was wont to say, that God could have made, but God never did make, a better berry."

[208:2] Melancholy marked him for her own.—Gray: The Epitaph.

[208:3] Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates are secretaries of Nature.—Howell: Letters, book ii. letter xi.

[209:1] In 1683, the year in which he died, Walton prefixed a preface to a work edited by him: "Thealma and Clearchus, a Pastoral History, in smooth and easy verse: written long since by John Chalkhill Esq., an aquaintant and friend of Edmund Spenser."

Chalkhill,—a name unappropriated, a verbal phantom, a shadow of a shade. Chalkhill is no other than our old piscatory friend incognito.—Zouch: Life of Walton.

JAMES SHIRLEY. 1596-1666.

Footnotes

[209:2]

The sweet remembrance of the just

Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.

Tate and Brady: Psalm cxxii. 6.

[209:3] "Their dust" in Works edited by Dyce.

SAMUEL BUTLER. 1600-1680.

Footnotes

[210:1]

He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease

Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.

Cranfield: Panegyric on Tom Coriate.

[210:2] See Shakespeare, page 50.

[210:3] See Skelton, page 8.

[210:4] See Bacon, page 170.

[211:1] See Heywood, page 11.

[211:2] See Middleton, page 172.

[211:3] See Fortescue, page 7.

[211:4] Bid the Devil take the slowest.—Prior: On the Taking of Namur.

Deil tak the hindmost.—Burns: To a Haggis.

[211:5] See Spenser, page 27.

[211:6] Sure as a gun.—Dryden: The Spanish Friar, act iii. sc. 2. Cervantes: Don Quixote, part i. book iii. chap. vii.

[212:1] See Middleton, page 172.

[212:2] He that is down needs fear no fall.—Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress, part ii.

[212:3] Outrun the constable.—Ray: Proverbs, 1670.

[213:1]

Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,

Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.

Cowper: Conversation, line 357.

[213:2] See Skelton, page 8.

[214:1] See Lyly, page 33.

[214:2] See Heywood, page 9.

[214:3] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.—Galatians vi.

[214:4] This couplet is enlarged on by Swift in his "Tale of a Tub," where he says that the happiness of life consists in being well deceived.

[215:1]

True as the needle to the pole,

Or as the dial to the sun.

Barton Booth: Song.

[215:2]

Let who will boast their courage in the field,

I find but little safety from my shield.

Nature's, not honour's, law we must obey:

This made me cast my useless shield away.

And by a prudent flight and cunning save

A life, which valour could not, from the grave.

A better buckler I can soon regain;

But who can get another life again?

Archilochus: Fragm. 6. (Quoted by Plutarch, Customs of the Lacedæmonians.)

Sed omissis quidem divinis exhortationibus illum magis Græcum versiculum secularis sententiæ sibi adhibent, "Qui fugiebat, rursus prœliabitur:" ut et rursus forsitan fugiat (But overlooking the divine exhortations, they act rather upon that Greek verse of worldly significance, "He who flees will fight again," and that perhaps to betake himself again to flight).—Tertullian: De Fuga in Persecutione, c. 10.

The corresponding Greek, Ἀνὴρ ὁ φεύγων κaὶ πάλιν μαχήσεται, is ascribed to Menander. See Fragments (appended to Aristophanes in Didot's Bib. Græca,), p. 91.

That same man that runnith awaie

Maie again fight an other daie.

Erasmus: Apothegms, 1542 (translated by Udall).

Celuy qui fuit de bonne heure

Pent combattre derechef

(He who flies at the right time can fight again).

Satyre Menippée (1594).

Qui fuit peut revenir aussi;

Qui meurt, il n'en est pas ainsi

(He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies).

Scarron (1610-1660).

He that fights and runs away

May turn and fight another day;

But he that is in battle slain

Will never rise to fight again.

Ray: History of the Rebellion (1752), p. 48.

For he who fights and runs away

May live to fight another day;

But he who is in battle slain

Can never rise and fight again.

Goldsmith: The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761), vol. ii. p. 147.

[216:1]

Most wretched men

Are cradled into poetry by wrong;

They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

Shelley: Julian and Maddalo.

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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

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Adams, Charles F.	678
Adams, John	429
Adams, John, note	529, 530
Adams, John Quincy	312, 458
Adams, Sarah Flower	606
Addison, Joseph	297
Ady, Thomas	684
Æschines, note	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, note	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
[viii]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
Brougham, 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
Butler, Samuel, note	361
Byrd, William, note	22
Byrom, John	351
Byron, Lord	539

Calhoun, John C.	529
Callimachus, note	496
Campbell, Lord, note	418, 528
Campbell, Thomas	512
Camden, William	684
Cambronne, note	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
Cibber, Colley, note	294
Cicero	705
Clarendon, Edward Hyde	255
Clarke, John, note	568
Clarke, Macdonald	582
Clay, Henry	516
Clay, Henry, note	505
Cleveland, Grover	669
Codrington, Christopher, note	295
Coke, Sir Edward	24
Coleridge, Hartley	677
Coleridge, S. Taylor	498
Coleridge, 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
Darwin, Erasmus, note	426
Davenant, Sir William	217
Davie, Adam, note	21
[ix]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
Drummond, William note	170
Dryden, John	267
Du Bartas	780
Dufferin, Lady	611
Dumas, Alexandre, note	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, note	392
Elliott, Jane	393
Ellis, George, note	175
Ellis, Henry	675
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	598
Emerson, 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, note	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
Fuller, Thomas, note	484

Gage, Thomas, note	495
Garrick, David	387
Garrison, William L.	605
Garth, Samuel	295
Garth, Samuel, note	181
Gascoigne, George, note	10
Gay, John	347
[x]Getty, Rev. Dr., note	631
Gibbon, Edward	430
Gibbons, Thomas	672
Gifford, Richard	393
Goethe, Wolfgang von	803
Goldsmith, Oliver	394
Goldsmith, Oliver, note	310, 592
Googe, Barnaby, note	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
Graves, 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, note	515
Hakewill, George	683
Hakewill, 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
Halliwell, 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
Hume, 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
Johnson, Samuel, note	185, 294, 711
Jones, Sir William	437
Jonson, Ben	177
Juvenal	721

Keats, John	574
Keble, John	569
Kemble, Frances Anne	641
[xi]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
Lamb, 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
Lockhart, 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
Macaulay, Thomas B., note,	332, 610, 855
Mackay, Charles	653
Mackintosh, James	457
Mackintosh, James, note	291
Macklin, Charles	350
Madden, Samuel	314
Mahon, Lord	860
Mahon, 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, note	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
Montagu, 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
[xii]Münster, Ernst F., note	807
Murphy, Arthur	393

Nairne, Lady	458
Napier, Sir W. F. P.	537
Napoleon Bonaparte, note	811
Napoleon, Louis, note	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, note	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
Paine, Thomas, note	605
Paley, William	673
Panat, Chevalier de, note	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
[xiii]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, note	811
Sandys, Sir Edwin, note	314
Sargent, Epes	679
Savage, Richard	354
Scarron, note	216
Schelling, note	807
Schidoni	793
Schiller	804
Scott, Sir Walter	487
Scott, Sir Walter, note	852
Scott, Winfield	676
Sears, Edmund H.	640
Sebastiani, General, note	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
Shelley, 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, note	807
Skelton, John	8
Smart, Christopher, note	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	133
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
Taylor, John, note	20
Temple, Sir William	266
Tennyson, Alfred	623
Terence	702
Tertullian	756
[xiv]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.	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, note	807
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
Walpole, Horace, note	592
Walpole, Sir Robert	304
Walpole, Sir Robert, note	389
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, note	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, note	208
Willis, Nathaniel P.	655
Willis, 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, note	810
Zouch, Thomas, note	209

FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS:

A COLLECTION OF

PASSAGES, PHRASES, AND PROVERBS

TRACED TO THEIR SOURCES IN

ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE

By JOHN BARTLETT.

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.

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

ANONYMOUS BOOKS CITED.

FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER. 1328-1400.

Footnotes

THOMAS À KEMPIS. 1380-1471.

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JOHN FORTESCUE. Circa 1395-1485.

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JOHN SKELTON. Circa 1460-1529.

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JOHN HEYWOOD.[8:7] Circa 1565.

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THOMAS TUSSER. Circa 1515-1580.

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RICHARD EDWARDS. Circa 1523-1566.

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EDWARD DYER. Circa 1540-1607.

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BISHOP STILL (JOHN). 1543-1607.

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THOMAS STERNHOLD. Circa 1549.

MATHEW ROYDON. Circa 1586.

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SIR EDWARD COKE. 1549-1634.

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GEORGE PEELE. 1552-1598.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 1552-1618.

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EDMUND SPENSER. 1553-1599.

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RICHARD HOOKER. 1553-1600.

JOHN LYLY. Circa 1553-1601.

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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586.

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CYRIL TOURNEUR. Circa 1600.

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LORD BROOKE. 1554-1628.

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GEORGE CHAPMAN. 1557-1634.

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WILLIAM WARNER. 1558-1609.

SIR RICHARD HOLLAND.

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SIR JOHN HARRINGTON. 1561-1612.

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SAMUEL DANIEL. 1562-1619.

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MICHAEL DRAYTON. 1563-1631.

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CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. 1565-1593.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.

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FRANCIS BACON. 1561-1626.

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THOMAS MIDDLETON. —— -1626.

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SIR HENRY WOTTON. 1568-1639.

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RICHARD BARNFIELD. —— -1570.

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SIR JOHN DAVIES. 1570-1626.

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MARTYN PARKER. —— -1630.

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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,