Footnotes

[378:3] Great wits jump.—Byrom: The Nimmers. Buckingham: The Chances, act. iv. sc. 1.

Good wits jump.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part ii. Chap. xxxviii.

[379:1]

But sad as angels for the good man's sin,

Weep to record, and blush to give it in.

Campbell: Pleasures of Hope, part ii. line 357.

[379:2] Dieu mésure le froid à la brebis tondue (God measures the cold to the shorn lamb).—Henri Estienne (1594): Prémices, etc. p. 47.

See Herbert, page [206].

[379:3] Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.—R. Gifford: Contemplation.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE.  1714-1763.

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round,

Where'er his stages may have been,

May sigh to think he still has found

The warmest welcome at an inn.[379:4]

Written on a Window of an Inn.

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So sweetly she bade me adieu,

I thought that she bade me return.

A Pastoral. Part i.

I have found out a gift for my fair;

I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.

A Pastoral. Part i.

My banks they are furnish'd with bees,

Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

A Pastoral. Part ii. Hope.

For seldom shall she hear a tale

So sad, so tender, and so true.

Jemmy Dawson.

Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow,

Emblems right meet of decency does yield.

The Schoolmistress. Stanza 6.

Pun-provoking thyme.

The Schoolmistress. Stanza 11.

A little bench of heedless bishops here,

And there a chancellor in embryo.

The Schoolmistress. Stanza 28.