But those that write in rhyme still make Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 23. Some have been beaten till they know Line 221. Then spare the rod and spoil the child." Line 843. As well as other courts o' th' nation? Line 317. 1 Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, 2 See Skelton, page 8. COWPER: Conversation, line 357. He that imposes an oath makes it, Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 377. As the ancients Say wisely, have a care o' th' main chance,1 Doubtless the pleasure is as great He made an instrument to know Line 501. Canto iii. Line 1. Line 261. Each window like a pill'ry appears, Line 391. To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd, And count their chickens ere they 're hatch'd. Line 923. There's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war. Line 957. But Hudibras gave him a twitch As quick as lightning in the breech, As men of inward light are wont 1 See Lyly, page 33. 2 See Heywood, page 9. Line 1065. Part iii. Cunto i. Line 481. 8 Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 4 This couplet enlarged on by Swift in his "Tale of a Tub," where he says that the happiness of life consists in being well deceived. Still amorous and fond and billing, Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 687. What makes all doctrines plain and clear? And therefore no true saint allows Line 1277. Line 1293. Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick, Though he gave his name to our Old Nick. Line 1313. With crosses, relics, crucifixes, Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes, — Line 1495. Canto ii. Line 175. Line 443. Canto iii. Line 243. The tools of working our salvation But still his tongue ran on, the less For those that fly may fight again, He that complies against his will With books and money plac'd for show And for his false opinion pay. 1 True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun. BARTON BOOTH: Song. 2 Let who will boast their courage in the field, Line 547. Line 624. And poets by their sufferings grow,1- And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life, which valour could not, from the grave. But who can get another life again? Fragments. 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 præliabitur:" 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, 'Ανὴρ ὁ φεύγων καὶ 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 Peut 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). He that fights and runs away May turn and fight another day; Will never rise to fight again. SCARRON (1610-1660). 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. 1 Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. SHELLEY: Julian and Maddalo. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT. 1605-1668. The assembled souls of all that men held wise. Gondibert. Book ii. Canto v. Stanza 37. Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, The Just Italian. Act v. Sc. 1. For angling-rod he took a sturdy oake; 2 Britannia Triumphans. Page 15. 1637. SIR THOMAS BROWNE. 1605-1682. Too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. vi. Rich with the spoils of Nature.3 Sect. xiii. 1 From ignorance our comfort flows. PRIOR: To the Hon. Charles Montague. Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. GRAY: Eton College, Stanza 10. 2 For angling rod he took a sturdy oak; His hook was baited with a dragon's tail, - From The Mock Romance, a rhapsody attached to The His angle-rod made of a sturdy oak; His line, a cable which in storms ne'er broke ; His hook he baited with a dragon's tail, And sat upon a rock, and bobb'd for whale. WILLIAM KING (1663-1712): Upon a Giant's Angling. (In Chalmers's "British Poets" ascribed to King.) 3 Rich with the spoils of time. ·GRAY: Elegy, stanza 13. |