Footnotes
[682:1] Babylon in ruins is not so melancholy a spectacle (as a distracted person). Addison: Spectator, No. 421.
Hope told a flattering tale,
That Joy would soon return;
Ah! naught my sighs avail,
For Love is doomed to mourn.
Anonymous (air by Giovanni Paisiello, 1741-1816): Universal Songster, vol. i. p. 320.
[683:2] Beaumont and Fletcher: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, act i. sc. 3.
[683:3] Hakewill translated this from the "Theatrum Vitæ Humanæ," vol. iii.
[684:1] Altered by Johnson (1783),—
Between the stirrup and the ground,
I mercy ask'd; I mercy found.
[685:1] I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.—2 Esdras xiv. 25.
[685:2] The oft-quoted lines,—
A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on,
Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won,
have been ascribed to Blackmore, but suppressed in the later editions of his poems.
[685:3] Hume: History of England, vol. i. chap. xvii. note 8.
[686:1] The same proverb existed in German:—
So Adam reutte, und Eva span,
Wer war da ein eddelman?
Agricola: Proverbs. No. 254.
[686:2] See Swift, page [293].
[686:3] A quarto tract printed in London in 1642, p. 3. This is called "Old Tarlton's Song."
[686:4] As early as 1691, Benjamin Harris, of Boston, advertised as in press the second impression of the New England Primer. The oldest copy known to be extant is 1737.
[687:1] It is said that in the earliest edition of the New England Primer this prayer is given as above, which is copied from the reprint of 1777. In the edition of 1784 it is altered to "Now I lay me down to sleep." In the edition of 1814 the second line of the prayer reads, "I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep."
[687:2] The true date of his death is Feb. 4, 1555.
[687:3] Robert Stephen Hawker incorporated these lines into "The Song of the Western Men," written by him in 1825. It was praised by Sir Walter Scott and Macaulay under the impression that it was the ancient song. It has been a popular proverb throughout Cornwall ever since the imprisonment by James II. of the seven bishops,—one of them Sir Jonathan Trelawny.
[688:1] It was printed for the second time, in London, 1714.
[688:2] In the Preface to Mr. Nichols's work on Autographs, among other albums noticed by him as being in the British Museum is that of David Krieg, with James Bobart's autograph (Dec. 8, 1697) and the verses,—
Virtus sui gloria.
"Think that day lost whose descending sun
Views from thy hand no noble action done."
Bobart died about 1726. He was a son of the celebrated botanist of that name. The verses are given as an early instance of their use.
[688:3] This is found in Staniford's "Art of Reading," third edition, p. 27 (Boston, 1803).
[688:4] See Burke, page [412].
[688:5] See Choate, page [588].
[688:6] See Clarendon, page [255].
[690:1] These lines having been incorrectly printed in a London publication, we have been favoured by the author with an authentic copy of them.—Wheeler's Magazine, vol. i. p. 244. (Winchester, England, 1828.)
[690:2] This poem entire may be found in Rossiter Johnson's "Famous Single and Fugitive Poems."
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TRANSLATIONS.
PILPAY (or BIDPAI.)[691:1]
We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again.[691:2]
Dabschelim and Pilpay. Chap. i.
It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one.[691:3]
The Greedy and Ambitious Cat. Fable iii.
There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.[691:4]
The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi.
Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,—they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.
The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi.
Men are used as they use others.
The King who became Just. Fable ix.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.[691:5]
The Two Fishermen. Fable xiv.
Guilty consciences always make people cowards.[691:6]
The Prince and his Minister. Chap. iii. Fable iii.
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Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.
The Prince and his Minister. Chap. iii. Fable iii.
There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good.
A Religious Doctor. Fable vi.
There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician.
The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii.
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.[692:1]
The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii.
Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.
Choice of Friends. Chap. iv.
That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.[692:2]
The Cat and the two Birds. Chap. v. Fable iv.