Is like Alcides' shirt, if it stay on us can we -"Sweet expressions, quick conceit, Familiar language, fashioned to the weight Part with't at pleasure: when we would Of such as speak it." "PUT on The surest armour anvil'd in the shop BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. Lover's Progress, p. 421. "A MAN from whose example As from a compass, we may steer our fortunes, Our actions, and our age; and safe arrive at A memory that shall become our ashes." Ibid. The Pilgrim, p. 445. "FOR he that holds no faith, shall find no trust; But sowing wrong, is sure to reap the same." DANIEL, vol. 1, p. 77. uncase, It brings along with it both flesh and sinews, And leaves us living monsters." Ibid. Prophetess, p. 166. "WHERE benefits Are ill-conferred, as on unworthy men Ibid. Queen of Corinth, p. 192. Humility. "THE fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest towards the ground." -BP. REYNOLDS, vol. 5, p. 47. "OURSELVES change most; yea, all things Col callo del costume il senso indura." change below, Ibid. vol. 2, p. 9. "CHI sta nel mondo, e pur vaol pace in terna Voglia il solo voler di chi il governa." Ibid. p. 12. MOTTO. "Non è chiuso sentier, che meni all'ombra Dell'amate foreste di Parnaso, Che a lui fosse nascosto: e non è calle. CHIABRERA. T. 2, p. 175. "THE humourous (i.e. humid) air shall mix her solemn tunes With thy sad words." BEN JONSON, vol. 2, p. 237. Cynthia's Revels. "BUT such is the perverseness of our nature, That lust, that pleasure, that security, "MEN speak ill of thee: so they be ill men, If they spake worse, 'twere better; for of such To be dispraised, is the most perfect praise. What can his censure hurt me, whom the world Hath censured vile before me !" Ibid. p. 281. "Arts, Arrantius? "YEARS are beneath the spheres; and time None but the plain and passive fortitude, makes weak To suffer and be silent; never stretch These arms against the torrent; live at home With my own thoughts, and innocence about me, Not tempting the wolves' jaws: these are my arts."-BEN JONSON. Sejanus, p. 104. out "WHAT a wild muster's here of attributes | Handsome and neat; but then as they grew T'express a worm,-a snake."-Ibid. p. 115. Said of the serpent which came out of his statue, but applicable to adulatory epithets of dignity. "It is a note Of upstart greatness, to observe and watch -Aye, and they think themselves Ibid. p. 137. The life blood of dull earth." MACHIN'S Dumb Knight. Old Play, vol. 4, p. 383. But to speak still to his own private purpose? Of speech, and reason, even by nature given That clothes do much upon the wit, as Does on the brain: and thence, sir, comes you up In a new suit, with the best wits in being, And kept their speed as long as their clothes lasted At the elbows again, or had a stain or spot, "I WONDER gentlemen And men of means will not maintain them- "A POOR affrighted |