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. Ep. vii. line 24._ FIELDING: _Covent Garden Tragedy, act v. sc. 1._ BICKERSTAFF: _Love in a Village, act iii. sc. 1._

[20-8] God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.--JOHN TAYLOR: _Works, vol. ii. p. 85_ (1630). RAY: _Proverbs._ GARRICK: _Epigram on Goldsmith's Retaliation._

[21-1] On the authority of M. Cimber, of the Bibliothèque Royale, we owe this proverb to Chevalier Bayard: "Tel maître, tel valet."

[21-2] Merry swithe it is in halle, When the beards waveth alle.

_Life of Alexander, 1312._

This has been wrongly attributed to Adam Davie. There the line runs,--

Swithe mury hit is in halle, When burdes waiven alle.

[21-3] See Heywood, page 15.

[21-4] See Heywood, page 10. SHAKESPEARE: _Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 5._

RICHARD EDWARDS. _Circa_ 1523-1566.

The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue.[21-5]

_The Paradise of Dainty Devices._

FOOTNOTES:

[21-5] The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.--PUBLIUS SYRUS: _Maxim 24._

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.--LYLY: _Euphues._

The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.--BURTON: _Anatomy of Melancholy,