Lette me stande to the maine chance.1 Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 104. I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the It is a world to see. Page 107. Page 116. There can no great smoke arise, but there must be A clere conscience is a sure carde." As lyke as one pease is to another. Euphues, page 207. Page 215. Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke." A comely olde man as busie as a bee. Page 252. Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre Page 279. Page 287. Where the streame runneth smoothest, the water is Page 289. Page 308. Page 314. A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.8 1 The main chance. - SHAKESPEARE: 1 Henry VI. act i. sc. 1. BUTLER: 2 See Heywood, page 12. 3 T is a world to see. - - SHAKESPEARE: Taming of the Shrew, act ii. sc. 1. 5 This is a sure card. Thersytes, circa 1550. 6 To rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb. Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed. - - BRETON: Court - HURDIS: The Village - SCOTT: Lady of the Lake, SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. Defence of Poesy. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. Ibid. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet. Ibid. High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.1 Arcadia. Book i. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.2 Many-headed multitude.3 My dear, my better half. Ibid. Book ii. Book iii. Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, The Revenger's Tragedy. Act iii. Sc. 1. 1 Great thoughts come from the heart.- VAUVENARGUES: Maxim cxxvii. 2 He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - FLETCHER: Love's Cure, act iii. sc. 3. 4 Look, then, into thine heart and write. - LONGFELLOW: Voices of the Night. Prelude. 5 Quoted by Shakespeare in Merry Wives of Windsor. 6 Distilled damnation. - ROBERT HALL (in Gregory's "Life of Hall"). LORD BROOKE. 1554-1628. O wearisome condition of humanity! Mustapha. Act v. Sc. 4. And out of mind as soon as out of sight.1 Sonnet lvi. Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare. I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun, Ibid. All Fools. Act i. Sc. 1. Causing a spring of virtues where he shines. Cornelia. What flowers are these? Cor. Oh, that's for lovers' thoughts." Fortune, the great commandress of the world, 1 See Thomas à Kempis, page 7. Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 1. Act v. Sc. 1. 2 Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? MARLOWE: Hero and Leander. I saw and loved. — GIBBON : Memoirs, vol. i. p. 106. 8 See Heywood, page 13. 4 Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes. SHAKESPEARE: Two Gentlemen of Verona, act v. sc. 2. 5 There is pansies, that 's for thoughts. SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5. 6 Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night, act ii. sc. 5. Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.1 All Fools. Act v. Sc. 1. Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err. Monsieur D'Olive. Act i. Sc. 1. For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit Act v. Sc. 1. The Gentleman Usher. Act iv. Sc. 1. To put a girdle round about the world." Bussy D'Ambois. Act i. Sc. 1. His deeds inimitable, like the sea So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Who to himself is law no law doth need, Each natural agent works but to this end, Ibid. Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 1. Act iii. Sc. 1. 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. 2 One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessened by another's anguish. SHAKESPEARE: Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 2. 3 I'll put a girdle round about the earth. SHAKESPEARE: Midsummer Night's Dream, act ii. sc. 1. 4 Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime. LONGFELLOW: A Psalm of Life. 'Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven. Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron. Act i. Sc. 1. Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea That she drinks water, and her keel plows air. Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron. Act iii. Sc. 1. He is at no end of his actions blest Act v. Sc. 1. Words writ in waters.1 Revenge for Honour. Act v. Sc. 2. They 're only truly great who are truly good.2 Ibid. Light Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.4 Eastward Ho.5 Act i. Sc. 1. Make ducks and drakes with shillings. Ibid. Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on 't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia]; for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here. Act iii. Sc. 2. 1 Here lies one whose name was writ in water. Keats's own Epitaph. 2 To be noble we 'll be good. Winifreda (Percy's Reliques). 'Tis only noble to be good. — TENNYSON: Lady Clara Vere de Vere, stanza 7. * The same in Franklin's Poor Richard. 4 See Heywood, page 9. 5 By Chapman, Jonson, and Marston. 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. |