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. 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. Enough's as good as a feast.1 Eastward Ho. Act iii. Sc. 2. Fair words never hurt the tongue.2 Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. Act iv. Sc. 1. Ibid. I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf. As night the life-inclining stars best shows, Act v. Sc. 1. Epilogue to Translations. Promise is most given when the least is said. Musaus of Hero and Leander. WILLIAM WARNER. 1558-1609. With that she dasht her on the lippes, Hard was the heart that gave the blow, Soft were those lips that bled. Albion's England. Book viii. chap. xli, stanza 53 We thinke no greater blisse then such When blessed none but such as be The same as be they should. Book x. chap. lix. stanza 68. SIR RICHARD HOLLAND. O Douglas, O Douglas! The Buke of the Howlat. Stanza xxxi. 1 Dives and Pauper (1493). GASCOIGNE: Memories (1575). Fielding: Covent Garden Tragedy, act ii. sc. 6. BICKERSTAFF: Love in a Village, act iii. sc. 1. See Heywood, page 20. 2 See Heywood, page 12. 8 See Heywood, page 13. 4 The allegorical poem of The Howlat was composed about the middle of the fifteenth century. Of the personal history of the author no kind of in formation has been discovered. Printed by the Bannatyne Club, 1823. MICHAEL DRAYTON. 1563-1631. Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had. (Said of Marlowe.) To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy. For that fine madness still he did retain Ibid. The coast was clear.1 When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, Nymphidia. Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, Ideas. An Allusion to the Eaglets. lxi. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. 1565-1593. Comparisons are odious.2 Lust's Dominion. Act iii. Sc. 4. I'm armed with more than complete steel, Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? 4 Ibid. Hero and Leander. Come live with me, and be my love; SOMERVILLE: The Night- Walker. 2 See Fortescue, page 7. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. 8 Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, SHAKESPEARE: Henry VI. act iii. sc. 2. 4 The same in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Compare Chapman, page 35. |