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[11-2] Si les nues tomboyent esperoyt prendre les alouettes (If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks).--RABELAIS: _book i. chap. xi._

[11-3] To cast beyond the moon, is a phrase in frequent use by the old writers. LYLY: _Euphues, p. 78._ THOMAS HEYWOOD: _A Woman Killed with Kindness._

[11-4] Let the world slide.--SHAKESPEARE: _Taming of the Shrew, ind. 1_; and, Let the world slip, _ind. 2_.

[11-5] Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?--SHAKESPEARE: _1 Henry IV. act iii. sc. 2._

[11-6] See Skelton, page 8. SHAKESPEARE: _2 Henry VI. act i. sc. 1._ THOMAS HEYWOOD: _History of Women._

[11-7] Hold their noses to the grindstone.--MIDDLETON: _Blurt, Master-Constable, act iii. sc. 3._

[11-8] It is more blessed to give than to receive.--_John xx. 35._

[11-9] This proverb occurs in Rabelais, book i . chap. xi.; in _Vulgaria Stambrigi, circa 1510_; in Butler,