Have
you summoned

your wits from wool-gathering ?

The Family of Love. Act v. Sc. 3. As true as I live.

Ibid.

From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot."

A Mad World, my Masters. Act i. Sc. 3.

That disease Of which all old men sicken, - avarice.?

The Roaring Girl. Act i. Sc. 1. Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes.

Ibid. There is no hate lost between us.3 The Witch. Act iv. Sc. 3.

Let the air strike our tune,
Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon.*

Act v. Sc. 2.
Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,
Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.5 Ibid.
All is not gold that glisteneth. A Fair Quarrel. Act v. Sc. 1.

As old Chaucer was wont to say, that broad famous English poet. More Dissembler's besides Women Act i. Sc. 4. 'T is a stinger."

Act iii. Sc.2. The world 's a stage on which all parts are played.8

A Game at Chess. Act v. Sc. 1.

1 See Shakespeare, page 51.

2 So for a good old gentlemanly vice,
I think I must take up with avarice.

BYRON : Don Juan, canto i. stanza 216. 3 There is no love lost between us. - - CERVANTES : Don Quixote, book ir. chap. xxiii. GOLDSMITII : She Stoops to Conquer, act iv. GARRICK : Correspondence, 1759. FIELDING : The Grub Street Opera, act i. sc. 4.

4 See Shakespeare, page 123.

5 These lines are introduced into Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. According to Steevens, “the song was, in all probability, a traditional one." Collier says, "Doubtless it does not belong to Middleton more than to Shakespeare." Dyce says, “ There seems to be little doubt that “Macbeth' is of an earlier date than · The Witch.'”

6 See Chaucer, page 5.

7 He 'as had a stinger. -- BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER : Wit without Money, act iv. sc. 1.

8 See Shakespeare, page 69.

Turn over a new leaf.

Anything for a Quiet Life. Act iii. Sc. 3.

My nearest And dearest enemy.?

Act r. Sc. 1. This was a good week's labour.

Sc. 3. How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days! No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's. Aclii. Sc. 1. By many a happy accident.

Sc. 2.

3

SIR HENRY WOTTON. 1568–1639.

How happy is he born or taught,

That serveth not another's will;
Whose armour is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skill !

The Character of a Happy Life.
Who God doth late and early pray

More of his grace than gifts to lend;
And entertains the harmless day
With a religious book or friend.

Ibid.
Lord of himself, though not of lands;

And having nothing, yet hath all." Ibid.
You meaner beauties of the night,

That poorly satisfy our eyes
More by your number than your light;

You common people of the skies,
What are you when the moon shall rise ?

On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia.6

8

1 A Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Sercingmen (1598). Turn over a new leaf. – DEKKER : The Honest Whore, part ii. act i. sc. 2. BURKE: Letter to Mrs. Hariland. 2 See Shakespeare, page 128.

happy accident. MADAME DE STAËL: L'Allemagne, chap. xri. CERVANTES : Don Quixote, book iv. part ii. chap. lvii.

4 As having nothing, and yet possessing all things. - 2 Corinth. vi. 10. 5 "Sun" in Reliquiæ Wottoniance (eds. 1651, 1654, 1672, 1685).

6 This was printed with music as early as 1624, in Est's “Sixth Set of Books,” etc., and is found in many MSS. – HANNAH: The Courtly Poets.

He first deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, liked it not, and died.

Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife. I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.

Preface to the Elements of Architecture. Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

The Disparity between Buckingham and Essex. An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.1

Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches.?

A Panegyric to King Charles.

RICHARD BARNFIELD.

--1570.

As it fell upon a day
In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade
Which a grove of myrtles made.

Address to the Nightingale.8

SIR JOHN DAVIES. 1570-1626.

Much like a subtle spider which doth sit

In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide;

1 In a letter to Velserus, 1612, Wotton says, “This merry definition of an ambassador I had chanced to set down at my friend's, Mr. Christopher Fleckamore, in his Album." 2 He directed the stone over his grave to be inscribed :

Hic jacet hujus sententiæ primus author :
DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

Nomen alias quære (Here lies the author of this phrase : “ The itch for disputing is the sore of churches." Seek his name elsewhere).

Walton: Life of Wotton. 3 This song, often attributed to Shakespeare, is now confidently assigned to Barnfield ; it is found in his collection of “Poems in Divers Humours," published in 1598. - Ellis: Specimens, vol. ii. p. 316.

If aught do touch the utmost thread of it,
She feels it instantly on every side."

The Immortality of the Soul.
Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been

To public feasts, where meet a public rout,
Where they that are without would fain go in,
And they that are within would fain go out.?

Contention betwixt a Wife, etc.

MARTYN PARKER.

--1630.

Ye gentlemen of England

That live at home at ease,
Ah! little do you think

upon
The dangers of the seas.
When the stormy winds do blow.8

Song.

Ibid.

1 Our souls sit close and silently within,
And their own webs from their own entrails spin ;
And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such
That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.

DRYDEN : Mariage à la Mode, act ü. sc. 1.
The spider's touch — how exquisitely fine !
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

POPE : Epistle i. line 217. 2 'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden : the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out. – WEBSTER : The White Devil, act i. sc. 2.

Le mariage est comme une forteresse assiégée ; ceux qui sont dehors veulent y entrer, et ceux qui sont dedans veulent en sortir (Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress : those who are outside want to get in, and those inside want to get out). — QUITARD: Études sur les Proverbes Français,

p. 102.

It happens as with cages : the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. MONTAIGNE : Upon some l'erses of Virgil, chap. v.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? – EMERSON : Representative Men: Montaigne.

8 When the battle rages loud and long,
And the stormy winds do blow.

CAMPBELL : Ye Mariners of England.

DR. JOHN DONNE. 1573–1631.

He was the Word, that spake it:
He took the bread and brake it;
And what that Word did make it,
I do believe and take it.1

Divine Poems. On the Sacrament,

We understood
Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought
That one might almost say her body thought.

Funeral Elegies. On the Death of Mistress Drury.

It was a mighty while ago.

Erery Man in his Humour. Act i. Sc. 3.

1 Attributed by many writers to the Princess Elizabeth. It is not in the original edition of Donne, but first appears in the edition of 1654, p. 352.

2 See Fortescue, page 7.
3 See Bacon, page 166.
4 O rare Ben Jonson ! — Sir John Young: Epitaph.
5 Hang sorrow ! care will kill a cat. – WITHER : Poem on Christmas.

6 Get place and wealth, – if possible, with grace ;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.

Pope : Horace, book i. epistle i. line 103.