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. chap. ii._

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.--PUBLIUS SYRUS: _Maxim 357._

[3-3] Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.--PLUTARCH: _Life of Pericles._

[3-4] E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.--GRAY: _Elegy, Stanza 23._

[3-5] Frieth in her own grease.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbs,