They that govern the most make the least noise. Syllables govern the world. Never king dropped out of the clouds. Table Talk. Power, Ibid. Ibid. Wisdom. Ibid. Never tell your resolution beforehand. Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. WILLIAM DRUMMOND. 1585-1649. God never had a church but there, men say, I doubted of this saw, till on a day I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Gyles. Posthumous Poems FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 1586-1616. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the ruined sides of kings. Letter to Ben Jonson On the Tombs of Westminster Abbey It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire. The Faithful Friends. Act i. Sc. 2 1 See Burton, page 192. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. (FRANCIS BEAUMONT and JOHN FLETCHER.) All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.' Philaster. Act v. Sc. 3. Upon my burned body lie lightly, gentle earth. The Maid's Tragedy. Act i. Sc. 2. A soul as white as heaven. Act iv. Sc. 1. But they that are above Have ends in everything.2 It shew'd discretion, the best part of valour. Act v. Sc. 2. A King and No King. Act iv. Sc. 3. There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees.1 As cold as cucumbers. Act v. Sc. 4. Cupid's Revenge. Act i. Sc. 1 Calamity is man's true touchstone.5 Four Plays in One: The Triumph of Honour. Sc. 1. Kiss till the cow comes home. Scornful Lady. Act iii. Sc. 1. 4 Nemo repente fuit turpissimus (No man ever became extremely wicked all at once). JUVENAL: ii. 83. Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés (As virtue has its degrees, so has vice). RACINE: Phédre, act iv. sc. 2. Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros (Fire is the test of gold; adver sity, of strong men). — SENECA: De Providentia, v. 9. 6 Then he will talk - good gods! how he will talk! — LEE: Alexander the Great, act i. sc. 3. 7 See Heywood, page 14. She is no better than she should be. - FIELDING: The Temple Beau act iv. sc. 3. One foot in the grave.2 Go to grass. From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot. Act iv. Sc. 7 There is no jesting with edge tools.3 Ibid. Death hath so many doors to let out life. The Customs of the Country. Act ii. Sc. 2. Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love The Knight of Malta. Act i. Sc. 1. Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven; But the eternal substance of his greatness, 1 See Shakespeare, page 51. - The False One. Act ii. Sc. 1. - 2 An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. PLUTARCH: On the Training of Children. 3 It is no jesting with edge tools. - The True Tragedy of Richard III. (1594.) 4 The use of "party" in the sense of " person occurs in the Book of Common Prayer, More's "Utopia," Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Fuller, and other old English writers. 5 Whistle, and I'll come to ye. 6 See Shakespeare, page 72. 8 See Webster, page 180. 9 Pity's akin to love. SOUTHERNE: Oroonoka, act ii. sc. 1. Pity swells the tide of love. - YOUNG: Night Thoughts, night iii line 107. O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Act v. Sc. 1. 1 But strive still to be a man before your mother. CoWPER: Connois Motto of No. iii. seur. 2 Quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum (What is food to one may be fierce poison to others). - LUCRETIUS: io. 637. 3 See Raleigh, page 26. 4 See Jonson, page 177. they do but For words are wise men's counters, reckon by them; but they are the money of fools. The Leviathan. Part i. Chap. iv. No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Chap. xviii. Disdain Returned. Conquest by Flight. On the Duke of Buckingham. Epitaph on the Lady S―. 1 An untimely grave. — TATE AND BRADY: Psalm vi. |