Book iv
._
I take the world to be but as a stage, Where net-maskt men do play their personage.[784-8]
_Dialogue, between Heraclitus and Democritus._
Made no more bones.
_The Maiden Blush._
FOOTNOTES:
[780-2] See Shakespeare, page 69.
[780-3] See Cowper, page 422.
[780-4] See Burton, page 186.
[781-1] Come, civil night, . . . with thy black mantle.--SHAKESPEARE: _Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2._
[781-2] See Milton, page 229.
[781-3] Report of fashions in proud Italy, Whose manners still our apish nation Limps after in base imitation.
SHAKESPEARE: _Richard II. act ii. sc. 1._
[781-4] See Shakespeare, page 80.
[781-5] See Milton, page 248.
[781-6] From north to south, from east to west.--SHAKESPEARE: _Winter's Tale, act i. sc. 2._
[781-7] Heat considered as a Mode of Motion (title of a treatise, 1863).--JOHN TYNDALL.
[781-8] See Marlowe, page 40.
[781-9] The cattle upon a thousand hills.--_Psalm i. 10._
[782-1] See Pliny, page 717.
[782-2] So work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
SHAKESPEARE: _Henry V. act i. sc. 3._
[782-3] See Pope, page 314.
[782-4] Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes.--SHAKESPEARE: _Richard III. act v. sc. 3._
[782-5] See Davies, page 176.
[782-6] See Pope, page 340.
[782-7] See Milton, page 248.
[783-1] See Milton, page 248.
[783-2] Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.
SHAKESPEARE: _Lear, act iv. sc. 4._
[783-3] See Shakespeare, page 48.
[783-4] Lion, bear, or wolf, or bull.--SHAKESPEARE: _A Midsummer Night's Dream, act ii. sc. 1._
[783-5] See Shakespeare, page 77.
[783-6] See Publius Syrus, page 711.
[783-7] See Milton, page 234.
Orient pearls.--SHAKESPEARE: _A Midsummer Night's Dream, act iv. sc. 1._
[783-8] See Burton, page 187.
[783-9] See Swift, page 292.
[784-1] See Shakespeare, page 151.
[784-2] See Shakespeare, page 99. Also Milton, page 227.
[784-3] See Sheridan, page 443.
[784-4] My fair son! My life, my joy, my food, my all the world.
SHAKESPEARE: _King John, act iii. sc. 4._
[784-5] The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.--PARACELSUS, 1490-1541. (From the Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, vol. xviii. p. 234.)
[784-6] See Spenser, page 28.
[784-7] See Byrom, page 351.
[784-8] See Shakespeare, page 69.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. 1547-1616.
Don Quixote. (_Lockhart's Translation._)
I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.
_Don Quixote. The Author's Preface._
They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.[784-9]
_Don Quixote. The Author's Preface._
As ill-luck would have it.[785-1]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book i . Chap. ii._
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.[785-2]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book i . Chap. iv._
Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book i . Chap. iv._
Can we ever have too much of a good thing?[785-3]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book i . Chap. vi._
The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book i . Chap. viii._
And had a face like a blessing.[785-4]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book ii . Chap. iv._
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. i._
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. i._
Fair and softly goes far.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. ii._
Plain as the nose on a man's face.[785-5]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. iv._
Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire;[785-6] or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.[785-7]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. iv._
You are taking the wrong sow by the ear.[785-8]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. iv._
Bell, book, and candle.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. iv._
Let the worst come to the worst.[785-9]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. v._
You are come off now with a whole skin.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. v._
Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. vi._
Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.[785-10]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. vi._
Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. vi._
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.[786-1]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. vi._
The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. vi._
Now had Aurora displayed her mantle over the blushing skies, and dark night withdrawn her sable veil.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. vi._
I tell thee, that is Mambrino's helmet.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. vii._
Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I 'll stick.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. vii._
Sure as a gun.[786-2]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. vii._
Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. viii._
Thank you for nothing.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. viii._
After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. viii._
Of good natural parts and of a liberal education.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. viii._
Would puzzle a convocation of casuists to resolve their degrees of consanguinity.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. viii._
Let every man mind his own business.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. viii._
Murder will out.[786-3]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. viii._
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. viii._
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. ix._
I know what 's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.[786-4]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. ix._
The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. ix._
I am almost frighted out of my seven senses.[787-1]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. ix._
Within a stone's throw of it.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. ix._
Let us make hay while the sun shines.[787-2]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. xi._
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.[787-3]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. xi._
Little said is soonest mended.[787-4]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. xi._
A close mouth catches no flies.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. xi._
She may guess what I should perform in the wet, if I do so much in the dry.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. xi._
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. xi._
It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iii . Chap. xi._
Delay always breeds danger.[787-5]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iv . Chap. ii._
They must needs go whom the Devil drives.[787-6]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iv . Chap. iv._
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.[787-7]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iv . Chap. iv._
More knave than fool.[787-8]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iv . Chap. iv._
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iv . Chap. v._
I never saw a more dreadful battle in my born days.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iv . Chap. viii._
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iv . Chap. x._
I begin to smell a rat.[787-9]
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iv . Chap. x._
I will take my corporal oath on it.
_Don Quixote. Part i . Book iv . Chap. x._
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
_Don Quixote. Part i .