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[612-3] See Chaucer, page 6.

Art is long, life is short.--GOETHE: _Wilhelm Meister, vii. 9._

[612-4] Our lives are but our marches to the grave.-BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _The Humorous Lieutenant, act iii. sc. 5._

[612-5] See Byron, page 553.

[613-1] There is a Reaper whose name is death.--ARNIM AND BRENTANO: _Erntelied._ (From "Des Knaben Wunderhorn," ed. 1857, vol. i. p. 59.)

[613-2] Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.--CERVANTES: _Don Quixote, part ii . chap. lxxiv._

[614-1] The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.

POPE: _The Iliad,