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[30-2] Take Time by the forelock.--THALES (of Miletus). 636-546 B. C.

[30-3] Rhyme nor reason.--_Pierre Patelin_, quoted by Tyndale in 1530. _Farce du Vendeur des Lieures_, sixteenth century. PEELE: _Edward I._ SHAKESPEARE: _As You Like It, act iii. sc. 2; Merry Wives of Windsor, act v. sc. 5; Comedy of Errors, act ii. sc. 2._

Sir Thomas More advised an author, who had sent him his manuscript to read, "to put it in rhyme." Which being done, Sir Thomas said, "Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason."

[30-4] FULLER: _Worthies of England, vol. ii. p. 379._

RICHARD HOOKER. 1553-1600.

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage,--the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.

_Ecclesiastical Polity. Book i ._

That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.

_Ecclesiastical Polity.