Book ii

. Canto v. Stanza 37._

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.[217-1]

_The Just Italian. Act v. Sc. 1._

For angling-rod he took a sturdy oake;[217-2] For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke; His hooke was such as heads the end of pole To pluck down house ere fire consumes it whole; The hook was baited with a dragon's tale,-- And then on rock he stood to bob for whale.

_Britannia Triumphans. Page 15. 1637._

FOOTNOTES:

[217-1] From ignorance our comfort flows.--PRIOR: _To the Hon. Charles Montague._

Where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise.

GRAY: _Eton College, Stanza 10._

[217-2] For angling rod he took a sturdy oak; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke; . . . . . . His hook was baited with a dragon's tail,-- And then on rock he stood to bob for whale.

From _The Mock Romance_, a rhapsody attached to _The Loves of Hero and Leander_, published in London in the years 1653 and 1677. Chambers's _Book of Days, vol. i. p. 173._ DANIEL: _Rural Sports, Supplement, p. 57._

His angle-rod made of a sturdy oak; His line, a cable which in storms ne'er broke; His hook he baited with a dragon's tail,-- And sat upon a rock, and bobb'd for whale.

WILLIAM KING (1663-1712): _Upon a Giant's Angling_ (In Chalmers's "British Poets" ascribed to King.)

SIR THOMAS BROWNE. 1605-1682.

Too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.

_Religio Medici. Part i . Sect. vi._

Rich with the spoils of Nature.[217-3]

_Religio Medici. Part i . Sect. xiii._

Nature is the art of God.[218-1]

_Religio Medici. Part i . Sect. xvi._

The thousand doors that lead to death.[218-2]

_Religio Medici. Part i . Sect. xliv._

The heart of man is the place the Devil 's in: I feel sometimes a hell within myself.[218-3]

_Religio Medici. Part i . Sect. li._

There is no road or ready way to virtue.

_Religio Medici. Part i . Sect. lv._

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike.[218-4]

_Religio Medici.