Footnotes
[172:1] As the case stands.—Mathew Henry: Commentaries, Psalm cxix.
[172:2] See Heywood, page [11].
[172:3] I smell a rat.—Ben Jonson: Tale of a Tub, act iv. Sc. 3. Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 281.
I begin to smell a rat.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, book iv. chap. x.
[172:4] See Shakespeare, page [97].
[172:5] The better day, the worse deed.—Henry: Commentaries, Genesis iii.
[172:6] Worst comes to the worst.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part i. book iii. chap. v. Marston: The Dutch Courtezan, act iii. sc. 1.
[172:7] It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize.—Pope: The Iliad, book xxiii. line 383.
[172:8] Some undone widow sits upon mine arm.—Massinger: A New Way to pay Old Debts, act v. sc. 1.
[172:9] For drames always go by contraries.—Lover: The Angel's Whisper.
[172:10] Spick and span new.—Ford: The Lover's Melancholy, act i. sc. 1. Farquhar: Preface to his Works.
[172:11] Plain as a pike-staff.—Terence in English (1641). Buckingham: Speech in the House of Lords, 1675. Gil Blas (Smollett's translation), book xii. chap. viii. Byrom: Epistle to a Friend.
[173:1] See Shakespeare, page [51].
So for a good old gentlemanly vice,
I think I must take up with avarice.
Byron: Don Juan, canto i. stanza 216.
[173:3] There is no love lost between us.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, book iv. chap. xxiii. Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer, act iv. Garrick: Correspondence, 1759. Fielding: The Grub Street Opera, act i. sc. 4.
[173:4] See Shakespeare, page [123].
[173:5] These lines are introduced into Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1. According to Steevens, "the song was, in all probability, a traditional one." Collier says, "Doubtless it does not belong to Middleton more than to Shakespeare." Dyce says, "There seems to be little doubt that 'Macbeth' is of an earlier date than 'The Witch.'"
[173:6] See Chaucer, page [5].
[173:7] He 'as had a stinger.—Beaumont and Fletcher: Wit without Money, act iv. sc. 1.
[173:8] See Shakespeare, page [69].
[174:1] A Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen (1598). Turn over a new leaf.—Dekker: The Honest Whore, part ii. act i. sc. 2. Burke: Letter to Mrs. Haviland.
[174:2] See Shakespeare, page [128].
[174:3] A happy accident.—Madame de Staël: L' Allemagne, chap. xvi. Cervantes: Don Quixote, book iv. part ii. chap. lvii.
SIR HENRY WOTTON. 1568-1639.
How happy is he born or taught,
That serveth not another's will;
Whose armour is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skill!
The Character of a Happy Life.
Who God doth late and early pray
More of his grace than gifts to lend;
And entertains the harmless day
With a religious book or friend.
The Character of a Happy Life.
Lord of himself, though not of lands;
And having nothing, yet hath all.[174:4]
The Character of a Happy Life.
You meaner beauties of the night,
That poorly satisfy our eyes
More by your number than your light;
You common people of the skies,—
What are you when the moon[174:5] shall rise?
On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia.[174:6]
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He first deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, liked it not, and died.
Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife.
I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.
Preface to the Elements of Architecture.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
The Disparity between Buckingham and Essex.
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.[175:1]
Reliquiæ Wottonianæ.
The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches.[175:2]
A Panegyric to King Charles.