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[186-8] He left a corsair's name to other times, Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes.

BYRON: _The Corsair, canto iii. stanza 24._

[187-1] See Fletcher, page 183.

[187-2] "Castles in the air,"--Montaigne, Sir Philip Sidney, Massinger, Sir Thomas Browne, Giles Fletcher, George Herbert, Dean Swift, Broome, Fielding, Cibber, Churchill, Shenstone, and Lloyd.

[187-3] Oats,--a grain which is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.--SAMUEL JOHNSON: _Dictionary of the English Language._

[187-4] Carpet knights are men who are by the prince's grace and favour made knights at home. . . . They are called carpet knights because they receive their honours in the court and upon carpets.--MARKHAM: _Booke of Honour_ (1625).

"Carpet knights,"--Du Bartas (ed. 1621), p. 311.

[187-5] The exception proves the rule.

[188-1] See Shakespeare, page 50.

[188-2] Qui vino indulget, quemque alea decoquit, ille In venerem putret

(He who is given to drink, and he whom the dice are despoiling, is the one who rots away in sexual vice).--PERSIUS: _Satires, satire v._

[188-3] His favourite sin Is pride that apes humility.

SOUTHEY: _The Devil's Walk._

[189-1] When Abraham Lincoln heard of the death of a private, he said he was sorry it was not a general: "I could make more of them."

[189-2] Tant la plume a eu sous le roi d'avantage sur l'épée (So far had the pen under the king the superiority over the sword).--SAINT SIMON: _Mémoires, vol. iii. p. 517_ (1702), _ed. 1856._

The pen is mightier than the sword.--BULWER LYTTON: _Richelieu,

## act ii. sc. 2._

[189-3] Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread.

ANONYMOUS.

Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.

THOMAS SEWARD: _On Shakespeare's Monument at Stratford-upon-Avon._

Seven cities warred for Homer being dead; Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.

THOMAS HEYWOOD: _Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells._

[189-4] A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.--JOHNSON: _Piazzi, 52._

[190-1] Set a beggar on horseback, and he 'll outride the Devil.--BOHN: _Foreign Proverbs_ (_German_).

[190-2] See Wotton, page 174.

[190-3] There is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.--HAZLITT: _English Proverbs._

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose; and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.--GREENE: _Perimedes the Blacksmith_ (1588).

[191-1] See Heywood, page 11.

[191-2] See Heywood, page 20.

[191-3] Those curious locks so aptly twin'd, Whose every hair a soul doth bind.

CAREW: _Think not 'cause men flattering say._

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.--HOWELL: _Letters,