Book iii

. Chap. 12._

FOOTNOTES:

[7-1] This expression is of much greater antiquity. It appears in the _Chronicle of Battel Abbey, p. 27_ (Lower's translation), and in _The Vision of Piers Ploughman, line 13994_. ed. _1550_.

A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his steps.--_Proverbs xvi. 9._

[7-2] Out of syght, out of mynd.--GOOGE: _Eglogs. 1563._

And out of mind as soon as out of sight.

Lord BROOKE: _Sonnet lvi._

Fer from eze, fer from herte, Quoth Hendyng.

HENDYNG: _Proverbs, MSS. Circa 1320._

I do perceive that the old proverbis be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my Nath. doth breede in me the more continuall remembrance of him.--_Anne Lady Bacon to Jane Lady Cornwallis, 1613._

On page 19 of _The Private Correspondence of Lady Cornwallis_, Sir Nathaniel Bacon speaks of the _owlde proverbe_, "Out of sighte, out of mynde."

[7-3] See Chaucer, page 5.

JOHN FORTESCUE. _Circa_ 1395-1485.

Moche Crye and no Wull.[7-4]

_De Laudibus Leg. Angliæ. Chap. x._

Comparisons are odious.[7-5]

_De Laudibus Leg. Angliæ. Chap. xix._

FOOTNOTES:

[7-4] All cry and no wool.--BUTLER: _Hudibras, part i . canto i. line 852._

[7-5] CERVANTES: _Don Quixote_ (Lockhart's ed.), _part ii. chap. i._ LYLY: _Euphues, 1580._ MARLOWE: _Lust's Dominion, act iii. sc. 4._ BURTON: _Anatomy of Melancholy,