Footnotes
[348:1] The time of paying a shot in a tavern among good fellows, or Pantagruelists, is still called in France a "quart d'heure de Rabelais,"—that is, Rabelais's quarter of an hour, when a man is uneasy or melancholy.—Life of Rabelais (Bohn's edition), p. 13.
[348:2] O'er the hills and far away.—D'Urfey: Pills to purge Melancholy (1628-1723).
[348:3] "Midnight oil,"—a common phrase, used by Quarles, Shenstone, Cowper, Lloyd, and others.
[349:1] Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet.—Hesiod: Works and Days, 24.
Le potier au potier porte envie (The potter envies the potter).—Bohn: Handbook of Proverbs.
Murphy: The Apprentice, act iii.
[349:2] Ἐλπίδες ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντες (For the living there is hope, but for the dead there is none.)—Theocritus: Idyl iv. 42.
Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est (While the sick man has life, there is hope).—Cicero: Epistolarum ad Atticum, ix. 10.
[349:3] It was n't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.—Plautus: Aulularia, act iv. sc. 3.
[349:4] See Addison, page [298].
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. 1690-1762.
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,—
In part she is to blame that has been tried:
He comes too near that comes to be denied.[350:1]
The Lady's Resolve.
And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.[350:2]
The Lover.
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
A Summary of Lord Lyttelton's Advice.
Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that 's scarcely felt or seen.
To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace. Book ii.
But the fruit that can fall without shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me.
The Answer.