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[212-3] Outrun the constable.--RAY: _Proverbs, 1670._

[213-1] Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.

COWPER: _Conversation, line 357._

[213-2] See Skelton, page 8.

[214-1] See Lyly, page 33.

[214-2] See Heywood, page 9.

[214-3] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.--_Galatians vi._

[214-4] This couplet is enlarged on by Swift in his "Tale of a Tub," where he says that the happiness of life consists in being well deceived.

[215-1] True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

BARTON BOOTH: _Song._

[215-2] Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield. Nature's, not honour's, law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life, which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain; But who can get another life again?

ARCHILOCHUS: _Fragm. 6._ (Quoted by Plutarch, _Customs of the Lacedæmonians._)

Sed omissis quidem divinis exhortationibus illum magis Græcum versiculum secularis sententiæ sibi adhibent, "Qui fugiebat, rursus proeliabitur:" ut et rursus forsitan fugiat (But overlooking the divine exhortations, they act rather upon that Greek verse of worldly significance, "He who flees will fight again," and that perhaps to betake himself again to flight).--TERTULLIAN: _De Fuga in Persecutione, c. 10._

The corresponding Greek, Anêr o pheugôn kai palin machêsetai, is ascribed to Menander. See _Fragments_ (appended to Aristophanes in Didot's _Bib. Græca_,), p. 91.

That same man that runnith awaie Maie again fight an other daie.

ERASMUS: _Apothegms, 1542_ (translated by Udall).

Celuy qui fuit de bonne heure Pent combattre derechef (He who flies at the right time can fight again).

_Satyre Menippée_ (1594).

Qui fuit peut revenir aussi; Qui meurt, il n'en est pas ainsi (He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies).

SCARRON (1610-1660).

He that fights and runs away May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again.

RAY: _History of the Rebellion_ (1752), _p. 48._

For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.

GOLDSMITH: _The Art of Poetry on a New Plan_ (1761), _vol. ii. p. 147._

[216-1] Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

SHELLEY: _Julian and Maddalo._

SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT. 1605-1668.

The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

_Gondibert.