That darksome cave they enter, where they find Faerie Queene. Canto ix. St. 35. No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd. And is there care in Heaven? And is there love Canto viii. St. 1. How oft do they their silver bowers leave St. 2. Canto xi. St. 70. Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush,1 Book iii. Canto i. St. 17. Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, Canto vi. St. 3. Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew. Be bolde, Be bolde, and everywhere, Be bold.* St. 6. Canto xi. St. 54. Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, 1 Through thick and thin. Roaring Girl, act iv. sc. 2. Book iv. Canto ii. St. 32. DRAYTON: Nymphidia. MIDDLETON: The KEMP Nine Days' Wonder. BUTLER: Hudibras, part i. canto ii. line 370. DRYDEN: Absalom and Achitophel, part ii. line 414. POPE: Dunciad, book ii. CowPER: John Gilpin. 2 See Skelton, page 8. 3 The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning. - Psalm cx. 3, Book of Common Prayer. 4 De l'audace, encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace (Boldness, again boldness, and ever boldness). - DANTON: Speech in the Legislative Assembly, 1792. For all that Nature by her mother-wit1 Could frame in earth. Faerie Queene. Book iv. Canto x. St. 21. Who will not mercie unto others show, St. 42. Book vi. Canto iii. St. 1. For we by conquest, of our soveraine might, Book vii. Canto vi. St. 33. For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For all that faire is, is by nature good; 8 To kerke the narre from God more farre,* And he that strives to touche a starre Oft stombles at a strawe. Line 139. The Shepheardes Calender. July. Line 97. Full little knowest thou that hast not tride, To loose good dayes, that might be better spent ; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow. 1 Mother wit. - MARLOWE: Prologue to Tamberlaine the Great, part i. MIDDLETON: Your Five Gallants, act i. sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE: Taming of the Shrew, act ii. sc. 1. 2 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. - Matthew v. 7. 8 The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. - SHAKESPEARE: Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1. 4 See Heywood, page 12. To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares; Mother Hubberds Tale. Line 895 What more felicitie can fall to creature And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, Muiopotmos: or, The Fate of the Butterflie. Line 209. I hate the day, because it lendeth light Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid, Daphnaida, v. 407. I was promised on a time Amoretti, lxx. Lines on his Promised Pension.4 1 Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares. - PLUTARCH: Of the Training of Children. - But suffered idleness To eat his heart away. BRYANT Homer's Iliad, book i. line 319. 2 Take Time by the forelock.—THALES (of Miletus). 636-546 B. C. 3 Rhyme nor reason. — Pierre Patelin, quoted by Tyndale in 1530. Farce du Vendeur des Lieures, sixteenth century. PEELE: Edward I. SHAKESPEARE: As You Like It, act iii. sc. 2; Merry Wives of Windsor, act v. sc. 5; Comedy of Errors, act ii. sc. 2. Sir Thomas More advised an author, who had sent him his manuscript to read, to put it in rhyme." Which being done, Sir Thomas said, "Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason." 4 FULLER: Worthies of England, vol. ii. p. 379. Behold, whiles she before the altar stands, Fpithalamion. Line 223. RICHARD HOOKER. 1553-1600. Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. Ecclesiastical Polity. Book i. That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. Book i. JOHN LYLY. Circa 1553-1601. Cupid and my Campaspe play'd He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how); O Love! has she done this to thee? Cupid and Campaspe. Act iii. Sc. 5. How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, Cupid and Campaspe. Act v. Sc. 1. Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. bee comely, but not costly." Though the Camomill, the more it is trodden and Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 39. pressed downe the more it spreadeth. Page 46. The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone. Page 47. I cast before the Moone.* Page 78. It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.5 Page 80. The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks." 6 Page 81. Page 84. He reckoneth without his Hostesse.8 Love knoweth no lawes. Did not Jupiter transforme himselfe into the shape of Amphitrio to embrace Alcmæna; into the form of a swan to enjoy Leda; into a Bull to beguile Io; into a showre of gold to win Danae ?? 1 Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, Page 93. SHAKESPEARE: Cymbeline, act ii. sc. 3. 2 Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 3 The camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows. SPEARE: 1 Henry IV. act ii. sc. 4. 4 See Heywood, page 11. 5 A brown study. SWIFT: Polite Conversation. - SHAKE 6 Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. - PLUTARCH: Of the Training of Children. Stillicidi casus lapidem cavat (Continual dropping wears away a stone). LUCRETIUS: i. 314. 7 Many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. 8 See Heywood, page 12. SHAKESPEARE: 3 Henry VI. act ii. sc. 1. 9 Jupiter himself was turned into a satyr, a shepherd, a bull, a swan, a golden shower, and what not for love. - BURTON: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. ii. mem. i. subs. 1. |