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part iii

. sect. 3, memb. 4, subsect. 1._

[44-2] Custom is almost second nature.--PLUTARCH: _Preservation of Health._

[45-1] Familiarity breeds contempt.--PUBLIUS SYRUS: _Maxim 640._

[46-1] What the dickens!--THOMAS HEYWOOD: _Edward IV. act iii. sc. 1._

[46-2] As ill luck would have it.--CERVANTES: _Don Quixote, pt. i. bk. i. ch. ii._

[47-1] Act i. Sc. 5, in White, Singer, and Knight.

[47-2] Compare Portia's words in _Merchant of Venice, act iv. sc. 1._

[49-1] See Spenser, page 29.

[49-2] "Mariana in the moated grange,"--the motto used by Tennyson for the poem "Mariana."

[49-3] This song occurs in _Act v. Sc. 2_ of Beaumont and Fletcher's _Bloody Brother_, with the following additional stanza:--

Hide, O, hide those hills of snow, Which thy frozen bosom bears, On whose tops the pinks that grow Are of those that April wears! But first set my poor heart free, Bound in those icy chains by thee.

[50-1] For every why he had a wherefore.--BUTLER: _Hudibras, part i . canto i. line 132._

[51-1] From the crown of his head to the sole of the foot.--PLINY: _Natural History,