Footnotes
[202:1] See Marlowe, page [41].
[202:2] Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they be withered.—Wisdom of Solomon, ii. 8.
Gather the rose of love whilest yet is time.—Spenser: The Faerie Queene, book ii. canto xii. stanza 75.
[202:3] See Shakespeare, page [143].
Her feet beneath her petticoat
Like little mice stole in and out.
Suckling: Ballad upon a Wedding.
[203:1] See Bacon, page [168].
[203:2] Nil tam difficilest quin quærendo investigari possiet (Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking).—Terence: Heautontimoroumenos, iv. 2, 8.
[203:3] Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.—Milton: Paradise Lost, book iv. line 256.
FRANCIS QUARLES. 1592-1644.
Death aims with fouler spite
At fairer marks.[203:4]
Divine Poems (ed. 1669).
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day
Whose conquering ray
May chase these fogs;
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!
Light will repay
The wrongs of night;
Sweet Phosphor, bring the day!
Emblems. Book i. Emblem 14.
Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.
Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 2.
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This house is to be let for life or years;
Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears.
Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known,
She must be dearly let, or let alone.
Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 10, Ep. 10.
The slender debt to Nature 's quickly paid,[204:1]
Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.
Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 13.
The next way home 's the farthest way about.[204:2]
Emblems. Book iv. Emblem 2, Ep. 2.
It is the lot of man but once to die.
Emblems. Book v. Emblem 7.