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

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Footnotes

[182:1] Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth come Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys; also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne.—Juliana Berners: Heraldic Blazonry.

[182:2] See Shakespeare, page [78].

[182:3] Cæsar said he loved the treason, but hated the traitor.—Plutarch: Life of Romulus.

[182:4] See Middleton, page [174].

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BISHOP HALL.  1574-1656.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

Christian Moderation. Introduction.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.[182:5]

Epistles. Dec. iii. Ep. 2.

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.[182:6]

Contemplations. Book iv. The veil of Moses.