Book iii
. Chap. v. Sect. 9._[683-3]
Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I ask'd; mercy I found.[684-1]
WILLIAM CAMDEN: _Remains._
Begone, dull Care! I prithee begone from me! Begone, dull Care! thou and I shall never agree.
PLAYFORD: _Musical Companion._ (1687.)
Much of a muchness.
VANBRUGH: _The Provoked Husband, Act i. Sc. 1._
Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John, The bed be blest that I lye on.
THOMAS ADY: _A Candle in the Dark, p. 58._ (London, 1656.)
Junius, Aprilis, Septémq; Nouemq; tricenos, Vnum plus reliqui, Februs tenet octo vicenos, At si bissextus fuerit superadditur vnus.
WILLIAM HARRISON: _Description of Britain_ (prefixed to Holinshed's "Chronicle," 1577).
Thirty dayes hath Nouember, Aprill, June, and September, February hath xxviii alone, And all the rest have xxxi.
RICHARD GRAFTON: _Chronicles of England._ (1590.)
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February has twenty-eight alone, All the rest have thirty-one; Excepting leap year,--that 's the time When February's days are twenty-nine.
_The Return from Parnassus._ (London, 1606.)
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Common in the New England States.
Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix; Every other thirty-one Except the second month alone.
Common in Chester County, Penn., among the Friends.
"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley," Latimer cried at the crackling of the flames. "Play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."[685-1]
There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies show; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow. There cherries hang that none may buy, Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.
_An Howres Recreation in Musike._ (1606. Set to music by Richard Alison. Oliphant's "La Messa Madrigalesca," p. 229.)
Those cherries fairly do enclose Of orient pearl a double row; Which when her lovely laughter shows, They look like rosebuds filled with snow.
_An Howres Recreation in Musike._ (1606. Set to music by Richard Alison. Oliphant's "La Messa Madrigalesca," p. 229.)
A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won, Whose artful colour pass'd the Tyrian dye, Obliged to triumph in this legacy.[685-2]
_The British Princes, p. 96._ (1669.)
When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?
_Lines used by John Ball in Wat Tyler's Rebellion._[685-3]
Now bething the, gentilman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span.[686-1]
_MS. of the Fifteenth Century_ (British Museum).
Use three Physicians,-- Still-first Dr. Quiet; Next Dr. Mery-man, And Dr. Dyet.[686-2]
_Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum_ (edition of 1607).
The King of France went up the hill With twenty thousand men; The King of France came down the hill, And ne'er went up again.
_Pigges Corantoe, or Newes from the North._[686-3]
* * * * *
_From The New England Primer._[686-4]
In Adam's fall We sinned all.
My Book and Heart Must never part.
Young Obadias, David, Josias,-- All were pious.
Peter denyed His Lord, and cryed.
Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly.
Xerxes did die, And so must I.
Zaccheus he Did climb the tree Our Lord to see.
Our days begin with trouble here, Our life is but a span, And cruel death is always near, So frail a thing is man.
Now I lay me down to take my sleep,[687-1] I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.
His wife, with nine small children and one at the breast, following him to the stake.
_Martyrdom of John Rogers. Burned at Smithfield, Feb. 14, 1554._[687-2]
* * * * *
And shall Trelawny die? Here 's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why.[687-3]
Mater ait natæ, dic natæ, natam Ut moneat natæ, plangere filiolam.
The mother to her daughter spake: "Daughter," said she, "arise! Thy daughter to her daughter take, Whose daughter's daughter cries."
_A Distich, according to Zwingler, on a Lady of the Dalburg Family who saw her descendants to the sixth generation._
A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.
_Poem spoken by Mr. Eusden at a Cambridge Commencement._[688-1]
Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done.[688-2]
_Author unknown._[688-3]
The gloomy companions of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration.[688-4]
_Letters of Junius. Letter vii. To Sir W. Draper._
I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.
_Letters of Junius. Letter xii. To the Duke of Grafton._
The Americans equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.[688-5]
_Letters of Junius. Letter xxxv._
The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.[688-6]
_Letters of Junius. Letter xxxvii. City Address, and the King's Answer._
Private credit is wealth; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.
_Letters of Junius. Letter xlii. Affair of the Falkland Islands._
'T is well to be merry and wise, 'T is well to be honest and true; 'T is well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
_Lines used by Maturin as the motto to "Bertram," produced at Drury Lane, 1816._
Still so gently o'er me stealing, Mem'ry will bring back the feeling, Spite of all my grief revealing, That I love thee,--that I dearly love thee still.
_Opera of La Sonnambula._
Happy am I; from care I 'm free! Why ar' n't they all contented like me?
_Opera of La Bayadère._
It is so soon that I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for.
_Epitaph on a child who died at the age of three weeks_ (_Cheltenham Churchyard_).
An Austrian army, awfully array'd, Boldly by battery besiege Belgrade; Cossack commanders cannonading come, Deal devastation's dire destructive doom; Ev'ry endeavour engineers essay, For fame, for freedom, fight, fierce furious fray. Gen'rals 'gainst gen'rals grapple,--gracious God! How honors Heav'n heroic hardihood! Infuriate, indiscriminate in ill, Just Jesus, instant innocence instill! Kinsmen kill kinsmen, kindred kindred kill. Labour low levels longest, loftiest lines; Men march 'midst mounds, motes, mountains, murd'rous mines. Now noisy, noxious numbers notice nought, Of outward obstacles o'ercoming ought; Poor patriots perish, persecution's pest! Quite quiet Quakers "Quarter, quarter" quest; Reason returns, religion, right, redounds, Suwarrow stop such sanguinary sounds! Truce to thee, Turkey, terror to thy train! Unwise, unjust, unmerciful Ukraine! Vanish vile vengeance, vanish victory vain! Why wish we warfare? wherefore welcome won Xerxes, Xantippus, Xavier, Xenophon? Yield, ye young Yaghier yeomen, yield your yell! Zimmerman's, Zoroaster's, Zeno's zeal Again attract; arts against arms appeal. All, all ambitious aims, avaunt, away! Et cætera, et cætera, et cætera.
_Alliteration, or the Siege of Belgrade: a Rondeau._[690-1]
But were it to my fancy given To rate her charms, I 'd call them heaven; For though a mortal made of clay, Angels must love Ann Hathaway; She hath a way so to control, To rapture the imprisoned soul, And sweetest heaven on earth display, That to be heaven Ann hath a way; She hath a way, Ann Hathaway,-- To be heaven's self Ann hath a way.
_Attributed to Shakespeare._[690-2]
FOOTNOTES:
[682-1] Babylon in ruins is not so melancholy a spectacle (as a distracted person). ADDISON: _Spectator, No. 421._
[683-1] Hope told a flattering tale, That Joy would soon return; Ah! naught my sighs avail, For Love is doomed to mourn.
ANONYMOUS (air by Giovanni Paisiello, 1741-1816): _Universal Songster, vol. i. p. 320._
[683-2] BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _The Knight of the Burning Pestle,
## act i. sc. 3._
[683-3] Hakewill translated this from the "Theatrum Vitæ Humanæ," vol. iii.
[684-1] Altered by Johnson (1783),--
Between the stirrup and the ground, I mercy ask'd; I mercy found.
[685-1] I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.--_2 Esdras xiv. 25._
[685-2] The oft-quoted lines,--
A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won,
have been ascribed to Blackmore, but suppressed in the later editions of his poems.
[685-3] HUME: _History of England, vol. i. chap. xvii. note 8._
[686-1] The same proverb existed in German:--
So Adam reutte, und Eva span, Wer war da ein eddelman?
AGRICOLA: _Proverbs. No. 254._
[686-2] See Swift, page 293.
[686-3] A quarto tract printed in London in 1642, p. 3. This is called "Old Tarlton's Song."
[686-4] As early as 1691, Benjamin Harris, of Boston, advertised as in press the second impression of the New England Primer. The oldest copy known to be extant is 1737.
[687-1] It is said that in the earliest edition of the New England Primer this prayer is given as above, which is copied from the reprint of 1777. In the edition of 1784 it is altered to "Now I lay me down to sleep." In the edition of 1814 the second line of the prayer reads, "I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep."
[687-2] The true date of his death is Feb. 4, 1555.
[687-3] Robert Stephen Hawker incorporated these lines into "The Song of the Western Men," written by him in 1825. It was praised by Sir Walter Scott and Macaulay under the impression that it was the ancient song. It has been a popular proverb throughout Cornwall ever since the imprisonment by James II. of the seven bishops,--one of them Sir Jonathan Trelawny.
[688-1] It was printed for the second time, in London, 1714.
[688-2] In the Preface to Mr. Nichols's work on Autographs, among other albums noticed by him as being in the British Museum is that of David Krieg, with James Bobart's autograph (Dec. 8, 1697) and the verses,--
_Virtus sui gloria._ "Think that day lost whose descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done."
Bobart died about 1726. He was a son of the celebrated botanist of that name. The verses are given as an early instance of their use.
[688-3] This is found in Staniford's "Art of Reading," third edition, p. 27 (Boston, 1803).
[688-4] See Burke, page 412.
[688-5] See Choate, page 588.
[688-6] See Clarendon, page 255.
[690-1] These lines having been incorrectly printed in a London publication, we have been favoured by the author with an authentic copy of them.--_Wheeler's Magazine, vol. i. p. 244._ (Winchester, England, 1828.)
[690-2] This poem entire may be found in Rossiter Johnson's "Famous Single and Fugitive Poems."
TRANSLATIONS.
PILPAY (OR BIDPAI.)[691-1]
We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again.[691-2]
_Dabschelim and Pilpay. Chap. i._
It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one.[691-3]
_The Greedy and Ambitious Cat. Fable iii._
There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.[691-4]
_The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi._
Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.
_The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi._
Men are used as they use others.
_The King who became Just. Fable ix._
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.[691-5]
_The Two Fishermen. Fable xiv._
Guilty consciences always make people cowards.[691-6]
_The Prince and his Minister. Chap. iii. Fable iii._
Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.
_The Prince and his Minister. Chap. iii. Fable iii._
There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good.
_A Religious Doctor. Fable vi._
There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician.
_The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii._
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.[692-1]
_The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii._
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.
_Choice of Friends. Chap. iv._
That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.[692-2]
_The Cat and the two Birds. Chap. v. Fable iv._
FOOTNOTES:
[691-1] Pilpay is supposed to have been a Brahmin gymnosophist, and to have lived several centuries before Christ. The earliest form in which his Fables appear is in the Pancha-tantra and Hitopadesa of the Sanskrit. The first translation was into the Pehlvi language, and thence into the Arabic, about the seventh century. The first English translation appeared in 1570.
[691-2] And with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.--_Matthew vii. 2._
[691-3] See Heywood, page 16.
[691-4] See Herrick, page 203.
[691-5] See Heywood, page 19.
[691-6] See Shakespeare, page 136.
[692-1] See Butler, page 214.
[692-2] See Cibber, page 296.
HESIOD. _Circa_ 720 (?) B. C.
(_Translation by J. Banks, M. A., with a few alterations._[692-3])
We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.
_The Theogony. Line 27._
On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew,[692-4] and from his lips drop gentle words.
_The Theogony. Line 82._
Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.[692-5]
_The Theogony. Line 754._
From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love.[693-1]
_The Theogony. Line 910._
Both potter is jealous of potter and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet.[693-2]
_Works and Days. Line 25._
Fools! they know not how much half exceeds the whole.[693-3]
_Works and Days. Line 40._
For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus.
_Works and Days. Line 101._
They died, as if o'ercome by sleep.
_Works and Days. Line 116._
Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.[693-4]
_Works and Days. Line 240._
For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another.
_Works and Days. Line 265._
Badness, look you, you may choose easily in a heap: level is the path, and right near it dwells. But before Virtue the immortal gods have put the sweat of man's brow; and long and steep is the way to it, and rugged at the first.
_Works and Days. Line 287._
This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.
_Works and Days. Line 293._
Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.
_Works and Days. Line 304._
Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
_Work and Days. Line 342._
A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.
_Works and Days. Line 346._
Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses.
_Works and Days. Line 353._
If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great.
_Works and Days. Line 360._
At the beginning of the cask and at the end take thy fill, but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom saving comes too late. Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.
_Works and Days. Line 366._
Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
_Works and Days. Line 412._
The morn, look you, furthers a man on his road, and furthers him too in his work.
_Works and Days. Line 579._
Observe moderation. In all, the fitting season is best.
_Works and Days. Line 694._
Neither make thy friend equal to a brother; but if thou shalt have made him so, be not the first to do him wrong.
_Works and Days. Line 707._
FOOTNOTES:
[692-3] Bohn's Classical Library.
[692-4] See Coleridge, page 500.
[692-5] See Shelley, page 567.
[693-1] See Milton, page 246.
[693-2] See Gay, page 349.
[693-3] Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.--DIOGENES LAERTIUS: _Pittacus, ii._
[693-4] One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.--PUBLIUS SYRUS: _Maxim 463._
THEOGNIS. 570(?)-490(?) B. C.
Wine is wont to show the mind of man.
_Maxims. Line 500._
No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth.[694-1]
_Maxims. Line 725._
FOOTNOTES:
[694-1] For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away, his glory shall not descend after him.--_Psalm xlix. 17._
[These selections from the most famous gnomic sayings of the great tragic writers of Greece--Æschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides--are chiefly from the fragments and not from their complete plays. The numbers of the fragments refer to the edition of Nauck. They are selected and translated by M. H. Morgan, Ph. D., of Harvard University.]
ÆSCHYLUS. 525-456 B. C.
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.[695-1]
_Suppliants, 453._
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.[695-2]
_Suppliants, 707._
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.[695-3]
_Prometheus, 378._
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
_Prometheus, 981._
God's mouth knows not to utter falsehood, but he will perform each word.[695-4]
_Prometheus, 1032._
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.[695-5]
_Agamemnon, 584._
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. . . . I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade.
_Agamemnon, 832._
Exiles feed on hope.
_Agamemnon, 1668._
Success is man's god.
_Choephoræ, 59._
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten."[696-1]
_Frag. 135_ (trans. by Plumptre).
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
_Frag. 146_ (trans. by Plumptre).
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
_Frag. 250_ (trans. by Plumptre).
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
_Frag. 383._
Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart.
_Frag. 384._
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
_Frag. 385._
FOOTNOTES:
[695-1] See Gray, page 382.
[695-2] The three great laws ascribed to Triptolemus are referred to,--namely, to honour parents; to worship the gods with the fruits of the earth; to hurt no living creature. The first two laws are also ascribed to the centaur Cheiron.
[695-3] Apt words have power to suage The tumours of a troubl'd mind.
MILTON: _Samson Agonistes._
[695-4] God is not a man that he should lie; . . . hath he said, and shall he not do it?--_Numbers xxiii. 19._
[695-5] See Shakespeare, page 64.
[696-1] See Waller, page 219.
SOPHOCLES. 496-406 B. C.
Think not that thy word and thine alone must be right.
_Antigone, 706._
Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
_Electra, 1007._
There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.[696-2]
_Trachiniæ, 1._
In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.[696-3]
_OEdipus Coloneus, 880._
A lie never lives to be old.
_Acrisius. Frag. 59._
Nobody loves life like an old man.
_Acrisius. Frag. 63._
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.[697-1]
_Aletes. Frag. 99._
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
_Hipponous. Frag. 280._
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
_Peleus. Frag. 445._
War loves to seek its victims in the young.
_Scyrii. Frag. 507._
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
_Scyrii. Frag. 510._
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
_Phædra. Frag. 619._
The truth is always the strongest argument.
_Phædra. Frag. 737._
The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily.
_Phædra. Frag. 809._
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
_Phædra. Frag. 842._
No oath too binding for a lover.
_Phædra. Frag. 848._
Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
_Phædra. Frag. 854._
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
_Phædra. Frag. 862._
If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.
_Vit. Anon. p. 64_ (Plumptre's Trans.).
FOOTNOTES:
[696-2] The saying "Call no man happy before he dies" was ascribed to Solon. Herodotus, i. 32.
[696-3] See Marlowe, page 40.
[697-1] See Shakespeare, page 133.
EURIPIDES. 484-406 B. C.
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
_Alcestis. 669._
The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.
_Medea. 618._
Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.
_Medea. 636._
I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.[698-1]
_Medea. 1078._
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.[698-2]
_Iphigenia in Tauris. 721._
Slowly but surely withal moveth the might of the gods.[698-3]
_Bacchæ. 882._
Thou didst bring me forth for all the Greeks in common, not for thyself alone.
_Iphigenia in Aulis. 1386._
Slight not what 's near through aiming at what 's far.[698-4]
_Rhesus. 482._
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
_Ægeus. Frag. 7._
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
_Æolus. Frag. 32._
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
_Æolus. Frag. 38._
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
_Alexander. Frag. 44._
The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.[698-5]
_Alcmene. Frag. 100._
Woman is woman's natural ally.
_Alope. Frag. 109._
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
_Antigone. Frag. 164._
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.[698-6]
_Antiope. Frag. 204._
Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.[699-1]
_Hippolytus. Frag. 435._
Second thoughts are ever wiser.[699-2]
_Hippolytus. Frag. 436._
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.
_Licymnius. Frag. 477._
Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
_Meleager. Frag. 523._
A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.
_Meleager. Frag. 525._
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
_OEdipus. Frag. 546._
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
_Temenidæ. Frag. 734._
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
_Phoenix. Frag. 809._
Who knows but life be that which men call death,[699-3] And death what men call life?
_Phrixus. Frag. 830._
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
_Phrixus. Frag. 927._
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
_Phrixus. Frag. 970._
FOOTNOTES:
[698-1] See Shakespeare, page 60. Also Garth, page 295.
[698-2] The darkest hour is that before the dawn.--HAZLITT: _English Proverbs._
[698-3] See Herbert, page 206.
[698-4] See Heywood, page 15.
[698-5] Noblesse oblige.--BOHN: _Foreign Proverbs._
[698-6] See Davenant, page 217.
[699-1] See Herbert, page 206.
[699-2] See Henry, page 283.
[699-3] See Diogenes Laertius, page 766.
MIMNERMUS (TRAGEDIAN).
We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead.
_Frag. 1._
HIPPOCRATES. 460-359 B. C.
Life is short and the art long.[700-1]
_Aphorism i._
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.[700-2]
_Aphorism i._
FOOTNOTES:
[700-1] See Chaucer, page 6.
[700-2] See Shakespeare, page 141.
For a desperate disease a desperate cure.--MONTAIGNE: _Chap. iii. The Custom of the Isle of Cea._
DIONYSIUS THE ELDER. 430-367 B. C.
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
_Frag. 6._
PLAUTUS. 254(?)-184 B. C.
(_Translated by Henry Thomas Riley, B. A., with a few variations. The references are to the text of Ritschl's second edition._[700-3])
What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.[700-4]
_Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 48._ (_329._)
Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired.
_Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 88._ (_367._)
These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad.
_Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 111._ (_392._)
He whom the gods favour dies in youth.[700-5]
_Bacchides. Act iv. Sc. 7, 18._ (_816._)
You are seeking a knot in a bulrush.[701-1]
_Menæchmi. Act ii. Sc. 1, 22._ (_247._)
In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other.[701-2]
_Aulularia. Act ii. Sc. 2, 18._ (_195._)
I had a regular battle with the dunghill-cock.
_Aulularia. Act iii. Sc. 4, 13._ (_472._)
It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.[701-3]
_Aulularia. Act iv. Sc. 3, 1._ (_624._)
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
_Captivi. Act ii. Sc. 2, 77._ (_327._)
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.[701-4]
_Rudens. Act ii. Sc. 5, 71._
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
_Rudens. Act iv. Sc. 7, 3._ (_1229._)
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.[701-5]
_Truculentus. Act iv. Sc. 4, 15._ (_868._)
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.[701-6]
_Epidicus. Act iii. Sc. 3, 44._ (_425._)
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.[701-7]
_Mostellaria. Act i. Sc. 3, 40._ (_197._)
To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy.
_Mostellaria. Act iii. Sc. 2, 104._ (_791._)
Each man reaps on his own farm.
_Mostellaria. Act iii. Sc. 2, 112._ (_799._)
FOOTNOTES:
[700-3] Bohn's Classical Library.
[700-4] See Shakespeare, page 50.
[700-5] See Wordsworth, page 479.
[701-1] A proverbial expression implying a desire to create doubts and difficulties where there really were none. It occurs in Terence, the "Andria," act v. sc. 4, 38; also in Ennius, "Saturæ," 46.
[701-2] What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?--_Matthew vii. 9._
[701-3] See Gay, page 349.
[701-4] Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.--PUBLIUS SYRUS: _Maxim 170._
[701-5] See Chaucer, page 4.
[701-6] A friend in need is a friend indeed.--HAZLITT: _English Proverbs._
[701-7] The unexpected always happens.--_A common proverb._
TERENCE. 185-159 B. C.
(_From the translation of Henry Thomas Riley, B. A., with occasional corrections. The references are to the text of Umpfenbach._[702-1])
Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
_Andria. The Prologue. 17._
Of surpassing beauty and in the bloom of youth.
_Andria. Act i. Sc. 1, 45._ (_72._)
Hence these tears.
_Andria. Act i. Sc. 1, 99._ (_126._)
That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another."
_Andria. Act ii. Sc. 5, 15._ (_426._)
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.[702-2]
_Andria. Act iii. Sc. 3, 23._ (_555._)
Look you, I am the most concerned in my own interests.[702-3]
_Andria. Act iv. Sc. 1, 12._ (_636._)
In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.
_Eunuchus. The Prologue. 41._
It is up with you; all is over; you are ruined.
_Eunuchus. Act i. Sc. 1, 9._ (_54._)
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
_Eunuchus. Act i. Sc. 2, 96._ (_176._)
Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!
_Eunuchus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 1._ (_232._)
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.[702-4]
_Eunuchus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 12._ (_243._)
There are vicissitudes in all things.
_Eunuchus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 45._ (_276._)
The very flower of youth.
_Eunuchus. Act ii. Sc. 3, 28._ (_319._)
I did not care one straw.
_Eunuchus. Act iii. Sc. 1, 21._ (_411._)
Jupiter, now assuredly is the time when I could readily consent to be slain,[703-1] lest life should sully this ecstasy with some disaster.
_Eunuchus. Act iii. Sc. 5, 2._ (_550._)
This and a great deal more like it I have had to put up with.
_Eunuchus. Act iv. Sc. 6, 8._ (_746._)
Take care and say this with presence of mind.[703-2]
_Eunuchus. Act iv. Sc. 6, 31._ (_769._)
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
_Eunuchus. Act iv. Sc. 7, 19._ (_789._)
I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
_Eunuchus. Act iv. Sc. 7, 42._ (_812._)
I took to my heels as fast as I could.
_Eunuchus. Act v. Sc. 2, 5._ (_844._)
Many a time, . . . from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
_Eunuchus. Act v. Sc. 2, 34._ (_873._)
I only wish I may see your head stroked down with a slipper.[703-3]
_Eunuchus. Act v. Sc. 7, 4._ (_1028._)
I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.[703-4]
_Heautontimoroumenos. Act i. Sc. 1, 25._ (_77._)
This is a wise maxim, "to take warning from others of what may be to your own advantage."
_Heautontimoroumenos. Act i. Sc. 2, 36._ (_210._)
That saying which I hear commonly repeated,--that time assuages sorrow.
_Heautontimoroumenos. Act iii. Sc. 1, 12._ (_421._)
Really, you have seen the old age of an eagle,[704-1] as the saying is.
_Heautontimoroumenos. Act iii. Sc. 2, 9._ (_520._)
Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
_Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 1, 53._ (_666._)
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
_Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 2, 8._ (_675._)
What now if the sky were to fall?[704-2]
_Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 3, 41._ (_719._)
Rigorous law is often rigorous injustice.[704-3]
_Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 5, 48._ (_796._)
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
_Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 6, 1._ (_805._)
How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!
_Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 7, 11._ (_839._)
Fortune helps the brave.[704-4]
_Phormio. Act i. Sc. 4, 25._ (_203._)
It is the duty of all persons, when affairs are the most prosperous,[704-5] then in especial to reflect within themselves in what way they are to endure adversity.
_Phormio. Act ii. Sc. 1, 11._ (_241._)
As many men, so many minds; every one his own way.
_Phormio. Act ii. Sc. 4, 14._ (_454._)
As the saying is, I have got a wolf by the ears.[705-1]
_Phormio. Act iii. Sc. 2, 21._ (_506._)
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
_Adelphoe. Act iii. Sc. 3, 61._ (_415._)
According as the man is, so must you humour him.
_Adelphoe. Act iii. Sc. 3, 77._ (_431._)
It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.[705-2]
_Adelphoe. Act v. Sc. 3, 18._ (_803._)
What comes from this quarter, set it down as so much gain.
_Adelphoe. Act v. Sc. 3, 30._ (_816._)
It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.[705-3]
_Adelphoe. Act v. Sc. 8, 30._ (_953._)
FOOTNOTES:
[702-1] Bonn's Classical Library.
[702-2] See Edwards, page 21.
[702-3] Equivalent to our sayings, "Charity begins at home;" "Take care of Number One."
[702-4] See Wotton, page 174.
[703-1] If it were now to die, 'T were now to be most happy.
SHAKESPEARE: _Othello, act ii. sc. 1._
[703-2] Literally, "with a present mind,"--equivalent to Cæsar's _præsentia animi_ (De Bello Gallico, v. 43, 4).
[703-3] According to Lucian, there was a story that Omphale used to beat Hercules with her slipper or sandal.
[703-4] Cicero quotes this passage in De Officiis, i. 30.
[704-1] This was a proverbial expression, signifying a hale and vigorous old age.
[704-2] See Heywood, page 11.
Some ambassadors from the Celtæ, being asked by Alexander what in the world they dreaded most, answered, that they feared lest the sky should fall upon them.--ARRIANUS: _lib. i. 4._
[704-3] Extreme law, extreme injustice, is now become a stale proverb in discourse.--CICERO: _De Officiis, i. 33._
Une extrême justice est souvent une injure (Extreme justice is often injustice).--RACINE: _Frères Ennemies, act iv. sc. 3._
Mais l'extrême justice est une extrême injure.--VOLTAIRE: _OEdipus, act iii. sc. 3._
[704-4] Pliny the Younger says ( book vi . letter xvi.) that Pliny the Elder said this during the eruption of Vesuvius: "Fortune favours the brave."
[704-5] CICERO: _Tusculan Questions,