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, part iii. sec. 3. Thomas Heywood: A Woman killed with Kindness (first ed. in 1607), act i. sc. 1. Donne: Elegy, viii. Herbert: Jacula Prudentum. Grange: Golden Aphrodite.

Comparisons are odorous.—Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing, act iii. sc. 5.


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JOHN SKELTON.  Circa 1460-1529.

There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God,

Than from theyr children to spare the rod.[8:1]

Magnyfycence. Line 1954.

He ruleth all the roste.[8:2]

Why Come ye not to Courte. Line 198.

In the spight of his teeth.[8:3]

Colyn Cloute. Line 939.

He knew what is what.[8:4]

Colyn Cloute. Line 1106.

By hoke ne by croke.[8:5]

Colyn Cloute. Line 1240.

The wolfe from the dore.

Colyn Cloute. Line 1531.

Old proverbe says,

That byrd ys not honest

That fyleth hys owne nest.[8:6]

Poems against Garnesche.