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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,

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From north to south, from east to west.

Ibid.

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.

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"T is what you will, or will be what

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Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils.

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1 Come, civil night, meo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2.

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with thy black mantle. - SHAKESPEARE: Ro

2 See Milton, page 229.

3 Report of fashions in proud Italy,

Whose manners still our apish nation

Limps after in base imitation.

SHAKESPEARE: Richard II. act ii. sc. 1.

4 See Shakespeare, page 80.

5 See Milton, page 248.

6 From north to south, from east to west.— SHAKESPEARE: Winter's Tale, act i. sc. 2.

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

8 See Marlowe, page 40.

9 The cattle upon a thousand hills. - Psalm i. 10.

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.3

Fifth Day, Part i.

These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul.*
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.

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
To all that sail upon the sea obscure.

Sixth Day.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

7

Seventh Day.

1 See Pliny, page 717.

2 So work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.

8 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.

5 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,

Wolfe, lion, horse.1

Apoplexie and lethargie,

As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.

Part iii.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Living from hand to mouth.

In the jaws of death."

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.8

The will for deed I doe accept.

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.

8 See Shakespeare, page 48.

Ibid.

Part ii.

SHAKESPEARE: Lear, act iv. sc. 4.

4 Lion, bear, or wolf, or bull. - SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's

Dream, act ii. sc. 1.

5 See Shakespeare, page 77.

See Publius Syrus, page 711.

7 See Milton, page 234.

SC. 1.

Orient pearls. · SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream, act iv.

8 See Burton, page 187.

9 See Swift, page 292.

Only that he may conform

To tyrant custom.1

Sweet grave aspect.2

Second Week, Third Day, Part ii.

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.
My lovely living boy,

Book ii.

Ibid.

My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.
Out of the book of Natur's learned brest."

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.

Through thick and thin, both over hill and plain."

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

Book iv.

Ibid.

Dialogue between Heraclitus and Democritus.

Made no more bones.

The Maiden Blush.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. 1547-1616.

(Lockhart's Translation.)

I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.

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.

8 See Sheridan, page 443.

4 My fair son!

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

Ibid.

SHAKESPEARE: King John, act iii. sc 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.

Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, vol. xviii. p. 234.)

6 See Spenser, page 28.

8 See Shakespeare, page 69.

(From the

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

As ill-luck would have it.1

Parti. Book i. Chap. ii.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.2

Chap. iv.

Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.

8

Can we ever have too much of a good thing? 3

Ibid.

Chap. vi.

The charging of his enemy was but the work of a

moment.

And had a face like a blessing.*

Chap. viii. Book ii. Chap. iv.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

Book iii. Chap. i.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

Fair and softly goes far.

Plain as the nose on a man's face."

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the

out of God's blessing into the warm sun.'

You are taking the wrong sow by the ear.

Bell, book, and candle.

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You are come off now with a whole skin.

Ibid.

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Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.10

1 See Shakespeare, page 46.

2 See Bacon, page 167.

8 See Shakespeare, page 71.

4 He had a face like a benediction.

5 See Shakespeare, page 44.

7 See Heywood, page 17.

9 See Middleton, page 172.

Chap. vi.

Ibid.

50

50

· Jarris's translation.

See Heywood, page 18. 8 See Heywood, page 19. 10 See Shakespeare, page 143.

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