The blinded boy that shootes so trim, King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid. "What is thy name, faire maid?" quoth he. And how should I know your true love Oh, by his cockle hat and staff, Ibid. The Friar of Orders Gray. O Lady, he is dead and gone! Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more! Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea and one on shore, Ibid. Ibid. Weep Thy no more, lady, weep no more, For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers He that would not when he might, Ibid. He shall not when he wolda.® Ibid. 1 Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, SHAKESPEARE: Romeo and Juliet, act ii. sc. 1. Shakespeare, who alludes to this ballad in "Love's Labour's Lost," act iv. sc. 1, gives the beggar's name Zenelophon. The story of the king and the beggar is also alluded to in "King Richard II.," act v. sc. 3. Quoted in "Hamlet." act iv. sc. 3. 4 See Shakespeare, page 51. 5 See John Fletcher, page 183. 6 See Heywood, page 9. He that will not when he may, When he would, he should have nay. CERVANTES: Don Quixote, part i. book iii. chap. iv. We'll shine in more substantial honours, Winifreda (1720) And when with envy Time, transported, King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a croune; He was a wight of high renowne, And those but of a low degree; Itt's pride that putts the countrye doune, Take thy old Cloak about Thee A poore soule sat sighing under a sycamore tree; With his hand on his bosom, his head on his knee, And was approved king.* Sir Launcelot du Lake Shall I bid her goe? What if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not? Oh no, no, no! I dare not." 1 See Chapman, page 37. Corydon's Farewell to Phillis. Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus (Nobility is the one only virtue). — JUVENAL: Satire viii. line 20. 2 The first stanza is quoted in full, and the last line of the second, by Shakespeare in "Othello," act ii. sc. 3. 8 The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree, Sing all a green willow; Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee, Othello, act iv. sc. 3. 4 Quoted by Shakespeare in Second Part of "Henry IV.," act ii. sc. 4. Quoted by Shakespeare in "Twelfth Night," act ii. sc. 3. But in vayne shee did conjure him To depart her presence soe; Having a thousand tongues to allure him, And but one to bid him goe. Dulcina own. EDMUND BURKE. 1729-1797. The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their A Vindication of Natural Society.1 Preface, vol. i. p. 7. "War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathingtime, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature. A Vindication of Natural Society. Vol. i. p. 15. I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.2 On the Sublime and Beautiful. Sect. xiv. vol. i. p. 118. Custom reconciles us to everything. There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the The wisdom of our ancestors. Ibid. p. 516. Also in the Discussion on the Traitorous 1 Boston edition. 1865-1867. 2 In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us. - ROCHEFOUCAULD: Reflections, xv. 3 Lord Brougham says of Bacon, "He it was who first employed the wellknown phrase of 'the wisdom of our ancestors.'"' SYDNEY SMITH: Plymley's Letters, letter v. LORD ELDON: On Sir Samuel Romilly's Bill, 1815. CICERO: De Legibus, ii. 2, 3. Illustrious predecessor.1 Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, Vol. i. p. 456. In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered. P. 516. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. P. 526. Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.2 P. 531. The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 108. There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. P. 115. Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. P. 116. A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. A wise and salutary neglect. P. 117. Ibid. My vigour relents, I pardon something to the spirit. of liberty. P. 118. The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies. is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. P. 123. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. P. 136 All government, indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 169. The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue. Speech at Bristol on Declining the Poll. Vol. ii. p. 420. They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. On the Army Estimates. Vol iii. p. 221. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 274. You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.1 P. 277. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star full of life and splendour and joy. ... Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from 1 Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors (What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect). HORACE: Epistle i. 12, 19. Mr. Breen, in his "Modern English Literature," says: "This remarkable thought Alison the historian has turned to good account; it occurs so often in his disquisitions that he seems to have made it the staple of all wis dom and the basis of every truth." |