part ii

. chap. v._

He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.--SHAKESPEARE: _Comedy of Errors, act iv. sc. 3._

[4-4] Thales was asked what was very difficult; he said, "To know one's self."--DIOGENES LAERTIUS: _Thales, ix._

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

POPE: _Epistle ii. line 1._

[5-1] Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

SHAKESPEARE: _Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2._

[5-2] Tyrwhitt says this is taken from the _Parabolae_ of ALANUS DE INSULIS, who died in 1294,--Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum (Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold).

All is not golde that outward shewith bright.--LYDGATE: _On the Mutability of Human Affairs._

Gold all is not that doth golden seem.--SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,

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