part ii

. canto i. line 698._ FIELDING: _The Grub Street Opera, act ii. sc. 4._ PRIOR: _Epilogue to Lucius._

Lord Macaulay (_History of England, vol. i. chap. iii._) thinks that this proverb originated in the preference generally given to the gray mares of Flanders over the finest coach-horses of England. Macaulay, however, is writing of the latter half of the seventeenth century, while the proverb was used a century earlier.

[17-2] See Chaucer, page 6.

Two may keep counsel when the third 's away.--SHAKESPEARE: _Titus Andronicus, act iv. sc. 2._

[17-3] Pitchers have ears.--SHAKESPEARE: _Richard III. act ii. sc. 4._

[17-4] See Chaucer, page 3.

[17-5] Thou shalt come out of a warme sunne into Gods blessing.--LYLY: _Euphues._

Thou out of Heaven's benediction comest To the warm sun.

SHAKESPEARE: _Lear, act ii. sc. 2._

[17-6] Ther can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.--LYLY: _Euphues_ (Arber's reprint), _p. 153._

[17-7] One swallowe prouveth not that summer is neare.--NORTHBROOKE: _Treatise against Dancing. 1577._

[17-8] See Chaucer, page 2.

[18-1] See Skelton, page 8.

[18-2] I have thee on the hip.--SHAKESPEARE: _Merchant of Venice,

## act iv. sc. 1; Othello, act ii. sc. 7._

[18-3] See Chaucer, page 4.

[18-4] A hardy mouse that is bold to breede In cattis eeris.

_Order of Foles. MS. circa 1450._

[18-5] The same in _Don Quixote_ (Lockhart's ed.), _part i.