ABUNDANCE.

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
Of Vallombrosa.1

17

ABUSE-see Curses.

Milton: Par. Lost. Book i. Line 302.

He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere,

Ill-faced, worse-bodied, shapeless every where;
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind;
Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

18

Shaks.: Com. of Er. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Thou thread, thou thimble,

Thou yard, three quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail,
Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter cricket thou:
Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant.

19

ACCIDENT.

Shaks.: Tam. of the S. Act iv. Sc. 3.

I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,
And hurt my brother.

20

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2.

As the unthought-on accident is guilty
Of what we wildly do, so we profess

Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows.

21

Shaks.: Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3.

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow

To vaunt themselves God's laws.

22

ACCOUNT.

Charles Kingsley: Saint's Tragedy. Act ii. Sc. 4.

No reckoning made, but sent to my account

With all my imperfections on my head.

23

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3.

And, how his audit stands, who knows, save heaven? 24

ACHIEVEMENTS.

Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev'd,

And then they shine.

25 Beaumont and Fletcher: Loyal Subject. Act i. Sc. 5.

ACTION- see Industry.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones. 26

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. 27

Beaumont and Fletcher: Captain. Act v. Sc. 5.

1 A beautiful vale about eighteen miles from Florence.

Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. 29

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 21.

Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,

Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

30

Fletcher: On an Honest Man's Fortune. Line 35.

Only the actions of the just

Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

31

James Shirley: Death's Final Conquest. Sc. iii. ACTIVITY - -see Decision, Despatch, Energy, Promptitude. If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly.

32

Shaks.: Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7.

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss,

But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. 33

Take the instant way;

Shaks.: 3 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 4.

For emulation hath a thousand sons,
That one by one pursue. If you give way,
Or hedge aside from the direct forthright,
Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by,
And leave you hindmost.

34

Shaks.: Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Celerity is never more admired

Than by the negligent..

35

ACTORS-see Stage.

Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act iii. Sc. 7.

A strutting player, - whose conceit Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich To hear the wooden dialogue and sound "Twixt his stretched footing and the scaffoldage. 36

Shaks.: Troil. and Cress. Act i. Sc. 3.

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,

That he should weep for her? What would he do,
Had he the motive and the cue for passion

That I have? He would drown the stage with tears,
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech;

Make mad the guilty, and appal the free,
Confound the ignorant, and amaze, indeed,
The very faculties of eyes and ears.

37

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Will you see the players well bestowed?

They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. 38

Shaks.: Ilamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Churchill: Apology. Line 206.

The strolling tribe; a despicable race.

39

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius and to mend the heart,
To make mankind in conscious virtue bold,
Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold;
For this the tragic muse first trod the stage,
Commanding tears to stream through every age.
40

ADAPTABILITY.

Pope: Prol. to Addison's Cato.

All things are ready, if our minds be so.

41

ADIEU

Shaks.: Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.

-see Farewell, Parting.

If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
If not, why then this parting was well made.

42

Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 1.

Adieu, adieu! my native shore

Fades o'er the waters blue;

The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar,
And shrieks the wild sea-mew.

Yon sun that sets upon the sea
We follow in his flight;

Farewell awhile to him and thee,
My native land — good night.
43

Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto i. St. 13.

ADMONITION - see Advice.
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day;
And in the morning what thou hast to do.
Dress and undress thy soul. Watch the decay
And growth of it. If with thy watch, that too
Be down, then wind both up. Since we shall be
Most surely judged, make thy accounts agree.
44

Herbert: Temple. Church Porch. St. 76.
Be wise with speed;

A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

45

Young: Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 282.

ADVERSITY -see Affliction.

Such a house broke! So noble a master fallen! all gone! and not One friend, to take his fortune by the arm, And go along with him.

46

Shaks.: Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 2.

This is in thee a nature but infected;
A poor, unmanly melancholy, sprung
From change of fortune.
47
The great man down, you mark his favorite flies,
The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.

48

Shaks.: Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 3.

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Sweet are the uses of adversity,

Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;

And this our life, exempt from public haunt,

Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

49

Shaks.: As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels,
Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends,
And give your hearts to, when they once perceive
The least rub in your fortunes, fall away

Like water from ye, never found again

But where they mean to sink ye.

5Q
Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness!
This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope- to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him;
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost;
And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
His greatness is a ripening, - nips his root,
And then he falls as I do.

Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1.

51

Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness;
And, from that full meridian of my glory,

I haste now to my setting. I shall fall
Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
And no man see me more.

52

Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.

I am not now in fortune's power:

He that is down, can fall no lower.

53

Butler: Hudibras. Part I. Canto iii. Line 877.

I have not quailed to danger's brow
When high and happy - need I now?
54
Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe,
Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast,
Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so,”
Utter'd by friends, those prophets of the past,
Who, 'stead of saying what you now should do,
Own they foresaw that you would fall at last,
And solace your slight lapse 'gainst "bonos mores,”
With a long memorandum of old stories.

Byron: Giaour. Line 1035.

55

Byron: Don Juan. Canto xiv. St. 50.

The good are better made by ill,

As odors crush'd are better still.

56

Rogers: Jacqueline. St. 3.

And fellow-countrymen have stood aloof

In aught that tries the heart, how few withstand the proof!! Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 66.

57

ADVICE.

Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee;

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,

To silence envious tongues.

58

Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Give thy thoughts no tongue,

Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel:
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade.

59

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keep
As watchman to my heart.

60

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

61

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

Love all, trust a few,

Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.

62

Shaks.: All's Well. Act i. Sc. 1.

A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity,
We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry;

But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain,

As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. 63

Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1.

I pray thee, cease thy counsel

Which falls into mine ears as profitless
As water in a sieve.

64

Shaks.: Much Ado. Act v. Sc. 1.

Know when to speak - for many times it brings
Danger, to give the best advice to kings.

65

Herrick: Aph. Caution in Council.

The worst men often give the best advice. 66

Bailey: Festus. Sc. A Village Feast.

1 Alluding to the wreckers of Cornwall.