Part ii

. The Squire and his Cur._

Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it.

_My own Epitaph._

FOOTNOTES:

[348-1] The time of paying a shot in a tavern among good fellows, or Pantagruelists, is still called in France a "quart d'heure de Rabelais,"--that is, Rabelais's quarter of an hour, when a man is uneasy or melancholy.--_Life of Rabelais_ (Bohn's edition), _p. 13._

[348-2] O'er the hills and far away.--D'URFEY: _Pills to purge Melancholy_ (1628-1723).

[348-3] "Midnight oil,"--a common phrase, used by Quarles, Shenstone, Cowper, Lloyd, and others.

[349-1] Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet.--HESIOD: _Works and Days, 24._

Le potier au potier porte envie (The potter envies the potter).--BOHN: _Handbook of Proverbs._

MURPHY: _The Apprentice, act iii._

[349-2] Elpides en zôoisin, anelpistoi de thanontes (For the living there is hope, but for the dead there is none.)--THEOCRITUS: _Idyl iv. 42._

Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est (While the sick man has life, there is hope).--CICERO: _Epistolarum ad Atticum, ix. 10._

[349-3] It was n't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.--PLAUTUS: _Aulularia, act iv. sc. 3._

[349-4] See Addison, page 298.

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. 1690-1762.

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,-- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.[350-1]

_The Lady's Resolve._

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.[350-2]

_The Lover._

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

_A Summary of Lord Lyttelton's Advice._

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that 's scarcely felt or seen.

_To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace.