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[58-4] Act ii. sc. 2 in Singer and Knight.

[58-5] Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard.--_1 Corinthians, ii. 9._

[59-1] I see the beginning of my end.--MASSINGER: _The Virgin Martyr act iii. sc. 3._

[60-1] For the good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.--_Romans vii. 19._

[62-1] See Chaucer, page 5.

[63-1] See Heywood, page 10.

[63-2] I will play the swan and die in music.--_Othello, act v. sc. 2._

I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death.

_King John, act v. sc. 7._

There, swan-like, let me sing and die.--BYRON: _Don Juan, canto iii. st. 86._

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.--SOCRATES: _In Phaedo, 77._

[64-1] It is better to learn late than never.--PUBLIUS SYRUS: _Maxim 864._

[64-2] Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim (One falls into Scylla in seeking to avoid Charybdis).--PHILLIPPE GUALTIER: _Alexandreis,