Footnotes

[180:3] Death hath so many doors to let out life.—Beaumont and Fletcher: The Customs of the Country, act ii. sc. 2.

[180:4] See Davies, page [176].

[181:1] The mountains, too, at a distance appear airy masses and smooth, but when beheld close they are rough.—Diogenes Laertius: Pyrrho.

Love is like a landscape which doth stand

Smooth at a distance, rough at hand.

Robert Hegge: On Love.

We 're charm'd with distant views of happiness,

But near approaches make the prospect less.

Yalden: Against Enjoyment.

As distant prospects please us, but when near

We find but desert rocks and fleeting air.

Garth: The Dispensatory, canto iii. line 27.

'T is distance lends enchantment to the view,

And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Campbell: Pleasures of Hope, part i. line 7.

[181:2] See Bacon, page [171].

A wise man poor

Is like a sacred book that 's never read,—

To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool

Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Old Fortunatus.

And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,

There 's a lean fellow beats all conquerors.

Old Fortunatus.

The best of men

That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer;

A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit,

The first true gentleman that ever breathed.[182:1]

The Honest Whore. Part i. Act i. Sc. 12.

I was ne'er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.[182:2]

The Honest Whore. Part i. Act iv. Sc. 2.

This principle is old, but true as fate,—

Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.[182:3]

The Honest Whore. Part i. Act iv. Sc. 4.

We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.

The Honest Whore. Part ii. Act i. Sc. 2.

Turn over a new leaf.[182:4]

The Honest Whore. Part ii. Act ii. Sc. 1.

To add to golden numbers golden numbers.

Patient Grissell. Act i. Sc. 1.

Honest labour bears a lovely face.

Patient Grissell. Act i. Sc. 1.