thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawne together all the farre stretchèd greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet! Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! A bold bad man.2 St. 9. St.35. St. 37. Her angels face, Canto iii. St. 4. As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, Ay me, how many perils doe enfold As when in Cymbrian plaine Canto viii. St. 1. An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Entire affection hateth nicer hands. St. 11. St. 40. 1 And moralized his song.- POPE: Epistle to Arbuthnot. Line 340. 2 This bold bad man. - - SHAKESPEARE: Henry VIII. act i. sc. 2. MASSINGER: A New Way to Pay Old Debts, act iv. sc. 2. 8 Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron! BUTLER: Hudibras, part i. canto iii. line 1. 4 "Milky Mothers," - POPE: The Dunciad, book ii. line 247. SCOTT: The Monastery, chap. xxviii. That darksome cave they enter, where they find Faerie Queene. Canto ix. St. 35. No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest 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 xii. 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,3, 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, Book iv. Canto ü. St. 32. 1 Through thick and thin. — DRAYTON: Nymphidia. MIDDLETON: The Roaring Girl, act iv. sc. 2. 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. 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. Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. 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 ri. St. 33. For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; 8 For all that faire is, is by nature good; 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; 1 Mother wit. MARLOWE: Prologue to Tamberlaine the Great, part 1. 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.-- SHAKE SPEARE: 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 Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, 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. 8 Rhyme nor reason. - Pierre Patelin, quoted by Tyndale in 1530. Farce du Vendeur des Lieures, sixteenth century. PEELE: Edward 1. 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, Epithalamion. 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. |