For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts. Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience. The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.

Ibid.

Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. Ibid. I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.

1

Ibid.

I, who have so much and so universally adored this apштоv μéтρоv, "excellent mediocrity," of ancient times, and who have concluded the most moderate measure the most perfect, shall I pretend to an unreasonable and prodigious old age?

Ibid.

(From his "Divine Weekes and Workes,” translated by

2

J. Sylvester.)

The world's a stage where God's omnipotence,
His justice, knowledge, love, and providence

Do act the parts.

And reads, though running, all these needful motions.

First Week, First Day.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Mercy and justice, marching cheek by joule.
Not unlike the bear which bringeth forth
In the end of thirty dayes a shapeless birth;
But after licking, it in shape she drawes,
And by degrees she fashions out the pawes,
The head, and neck, and finally doth bring
To a perfect beast that first deformed thing."

1 See Cowper, page 424.

See Cowper, page 422.

2 See Shakespeare, page 69.

4 See Burton, page 186.

Ibid

What is well done is done soon enough.

First Week, First Day.

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

Night's black mantle covers all alike.1

Hot and cold, and moist and dry."

Ibid.

Ibid.

Second Day.

Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),
Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;
Who loving novels, full of affectation,

Ibid.

From north to south, from east to west."

Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,

The source of motion."

Not that the earth doth yield

In hill or dale, in forest or in field,

A rarer plant. 8

Ibid.

Third Day.

Ibid.

Ibid.

'Tis what you will, or will be what would. you

with thy black mantle.. SHAKESPEARE: Ro

8 Report of fashions in proud Italy,

7 Heat considered as a Mode of Motion (title of a treatise, 1863).

TYNDALL.

SHAKESPEARE: Winter's

To man the earth seems altogether
No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.1

First Week, Third Day.

For where's the state beneath the firmament
That doth excel the bees for government? 2

A good turn at need,

At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.

There is no theam more plentifull to scan
Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.

Fifth Day, Parti.

Sixth Day.

Ibid.

These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul.*

Ibid.

Or almost like a spider, who, confin'd
In her web's centre, shakt with every winde,
Moves in an instant if the buzzing flie
Stir but a string of her lawn canapie.5

Ibid.

Even as a surgeon, minding off to cut
Some cureless limb, - before in ure he put
His violent engins on the vicious member,
Bringeth his patient in a senseless slumber,
And grief-less then (guided by use and art),
To save the whole, sawes off th' infested part.
Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart."

Which serves for cynosure

Ibid.

Ibid.

Seventh Day.

2 So work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach

The act of order to a peopled kingdom.

See Pope, page 314.

SHAKESPEARE: Henry V. act i. sc. 3.

4 Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes. - SHAKESPEARE: Richard III

act v. sc. 3.

6 See Davies, page 176.

6 See Pope, page 340.

7 See Milton, page 248.

Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes
That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses.1

Second Week, First Day, Part i.

Turning our seed-wheat-kennel tares,
To burn-grain thistle, and to vaporie darnel,
Cockle, wild oats, rough burs, corn-cumbring
Tares.2

In every hedge and ditch both day and night
We fear our death, of every leafe affright.3
Dog, ounce, bear, and bull,

Apoplexie and lethargie,

Wolfe, lion, horse."

As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.

Living from hand to mouth.

In the jaws of death.5

Part iii.

Ibid

Ibid.

Ibid.

Part iv.

Ibid.

Did thrust as now in others' corn his sickle."

Second Day, Part ii.

Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought
To orient pearls.'

Third Day, Part i.

Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber.

The will for deed I doe accept.9

1 See Milton, page 248.

2 Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,
With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow

In our sustaining corn.

See Shakespeare, page 48. 4 Lion, bear, or wolf, or bull. Dream, act ii. sc. 1.

5 See Shakespeare, page 77.

See Publius Syrus, page 711.

7 See Milton, page 234.

SC. 1.

SHAKESPEARE: Lear, act iv. sc. 4.

SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's

Orient pearls. - SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream, act in

See Burton, page 187.

See Swift, page 292.

Only that he may conform

To tyrant custom.1

Second Week, Third Day, Part ii.

Sweet grave aspect.2

Fourth Day, Book i.

Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.
Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours
Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours.3
My lovely living boy,

Book it.

Ibid.

My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.
Out of the book of Natur's learned brest.5
Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.
Through thick and thin, both over hill and plain.

Book it.
Ibid.

Weakened and wasted to skin and bone."
I take the world to be but as a stage,
Where net-maskt men do play their personage. 8
Dialogue between Heraclitus and Democritus.

Made no more bones.

The Maiden Blush.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. 1547-1616.

Don Quixote. (Motteux's Translation.)

I was so free with him as not to mince the matter. Don Quixote. The Author's Preface.

They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.9

1 See Shakespeare, page 151.

2 See Shakespeare, page 99. Also Milton, page 227.

See Sheridan, page 443.

4 My fair son!

My life, my joy, my food, my all the world.

Ibid.

SHAKESPEARE: King John, act ini, se 4. 5 The book of Nature is that which the physician must read ; and to do so he must walk over the leaves. - PARACELSUS, 1490-1541. (From the Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, vol. xviii. p. 234.)

6 See Spenser, page 28.
8 See Shakespeare, page 69.

7 See Byrom, page 351.
9 See Shakespeare, page 101.