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In records that defy the tooth of time.

_The Statesman's Creed._

Great let me call him, for he conquered me.

_The Revenge. Act i. Sc. 1._

Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.

_The Revenge. Act v. Sc. 2._

The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

_The Revenge. Act v. Sc. 2._

And friend received with thumps upon the back.[312-1]

_Universal Passion._

FOOTNOTES:

[306-3] See Congreve, page 295.

[307-1] Suetonius says of the Emperor Titus: "Once at supper, reflecting that he had done nothing for any that day, he broke out into that memorable and justly admired saying, 'My friends, I have lost a day!'"--SUETONIUS: _Lives of the Twelve Cæsars_. (Translation by Alexander Thomson.)

[308-1] See Shakespeare, page 143.

[308-2] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 198. Dryden, page 272.

[308-3] Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

GOLDSMITH: _The Hermit, stanza 8._

[308-4] See Dryden, page 268.

[308-5] See Dryden, page 270.

[309-1] See Dryden, page 268.

[309-2] See Bishop Hall, page 182.

[309-3] See Quarles, page 203.

[309-4] Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate Full on thy bloom.

BURNS: _To a Mountain Daisy._

[310-1] See Sir Thomas Browne, page 218.

[310-2] See Nicholas Rowe, page 301.

[310-3] Speech was made to open man to man, and not to hide him; to promote commerce, and not betray it.--LLOYD: _State Worthies_ (1665; edited by Whitworth), _vol. i. p. 503._

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.--ROBERT SOUTH: _Sermon, April 30, 1676._

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.--GOLDSMITH: _The Bee, No. 3._ (Oct. 20, 1759.)

Ils ne se servent de la pensée que pour autoriser leurs injustices, et emploient les paroles que pour déguiser leurs pensées (Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts).--VOLTAIRE: _Dialogue xiv. Le Chapon et la Poularde_ (1766).

When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated name, on the chance of reclaiming it if it took. Thus he assigned to Talleyrand, in the "Nain Jaune," the phrase, "Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."--FOURNIER: _L'Esprit dans l'Histoire._

[311-1] And waste their sweetness on the desert air.--GRAY: _Elegy, stanza 14._ CHURCHILL: _Gotham,