Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Footnotes

[802:1] The "Gesta Romanorum" is a collection of one hundred and eighty-one stories, first printed about 1473. The first English version appeared in 1824, translated by the Rev. C. Swan. (Bohn's Standard Library.)

[802:2] Richard Gough, in the "Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain," gives this epitaph of Robert Byrkes, which is to be found in Doncaster Church, "new cut" upon his tomb in Roman capitals:—

Howe: Howe: who is heare:

I, Robin of Doncaster, and Margaret my feare.

That I spent, that I had;

That I gave, that I have;

That I left, that I lost.

A. D. 1579.

The following is the epitaph of Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire, according to Cleaveland's "Genealogical History of the Family of Courtenay," p. 142:—

What we gave, we have;

What we spent, we had;

What we left, we lost.

[802:3] Ecce quomodo mundus suis servitoribus reddit mercedem (See how the world its veterans rewards).—Pope: Moral Essays, epistle 1, line 243.

[802:4] Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.—Probably the origin of the proverb, "All 's well that ends well."

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VAUVENARGUES (Marquis of).  1715-1747.

Great thoughts come from the heart.[803:1]

Maxim cxxvii.