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. ode 2._ GAY: _Epistle to Methuen._ HOME: _Douglas, act iii. sc. 1._

Virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness.--DIOGENES LAERTIUS: _Plato, xlii._

Ipsa quidem virtus sibimet pulcherrima merces (Virtue herself is her own fairest reward).--SILIUS ITALICUS (25?-99): _Punica, lib. xiii. line 663._

[208-1] William Butler, styled by Dr. Fuller in his "Worthies" (Suffolk) the "Æsculapius of our age." He died in 1621. This first appeared in the second edition of "The Angler," 1655. Roger Williams, in his "Key into the Language of America," 1643, p. 98, says: "One of the chiefest doctors of England was wont to say, that God could have made, but God never did make, a better berry."

[208-2] Melancholy marked him for her own.--GRAY: _The Epitaph._

[208-3] Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates are secretaries of Nature.--HOWELL: _Letters,