Footnotes
[2:1] In allusion to the proverb, "Every honest miller has a golden thumb."
[2:2] Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.—Heywood: Proverbes, part ii. chap. v.
Wode has erys, felde has sigt.—King Edward and the Shepard, MS. Circa 1300.
Walls have ears.—Hazlitt: English Proverbs, etc. (ed. 1869) p. 446.
[3:1] Also in Troilus and Cresseide, line 1587.
To make a virtue of necessity.—Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona, act iv. sc. 2. Matthew Henry: Comm. on Ps. xxxvii. Dryden: Palamon and Arcite.
In the additions of Hadrianus Julius to the Adages of Erasmus, he remarks, under the head of Necessitatem edere, that a very familiar proverb was current among his countrymen,—"Necessitatem in virtutem commutare" (To make necessity a virtue).
Laudem virtutis necessitati damus (We give to necessity the praise of virtue).—Quintilian: Inst. Orat. i. 8. 14.
[3:2] Haste makes waste.—Heywood: Proverbs, part i. chap. ii.
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 357.
[3:3] Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.—Plutarch: Life of Pericles.
[3:4] E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.—Gray: Elegy, Stanza 23.
[3:5] Frieth in her own grease.—Heywood: Proverbs, part i. chap. xi.
[3:6] To see and to be seen.—Ben Jonson: Epithalamion, st. iii. line 4. Goldsmith: Citizen of the World, letter 71.
Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsæ (They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen).—Ovid: The Art of Love, i. 99.
[4:1] Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one hole only.—Plautus: Truculentus, act iv. sc. 4.
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole
Can never be a mouse of any soul.
Pope: Paraphrase of the Prologue, line 298.
[4:2] Handsome is that handsome does.—Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, chap. i.
[4:3] Hee must have a long spoon, shall eat with the devill.—Heywood: Proverbes, part ii. chap. v.
He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.—Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors, act iv. sc. 3.
[4:4] Thales was asked what was very difficult; he said, "To know one's self."—Diogenes Laertius: Thales, ix.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
Pope: Epistle ii. line 1.
Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.
Shakespeare: Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2.
[5:2] Tyrwhitt says this is taken from the Parabolae of Alanus de Insulis, who died in 1294,—Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum (Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold).
All is not golde that outward shewith bright.—Lydgate: On the Mutability of Human Affairs.
Gold all is not that doth golden seem.—Spenser: Faerie Queene, book ii. canto viii. st. 14.
All that glisters is not gold.—Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 7. Googe: Eglogs, etc., 1563. Herbert: Jacula Prudentum.
All is not gold that glisteneth.—Middleton: A Fair Quarrel, verse 1.
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.—Dryden: The Hind and the Panther.
Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire (Everything is not gold that one sees shining).—Li Diz de freire Denise Cordelier, circa 1300.
[5:3] Many small make a great.—Heywood: Proverbes. part i. chap. xi.
[5:4] Of two evils the less is always to be chosen.—Thomas à Kempis: Imitation of Christ, book ii. chap. xii. Hooker: Polity, book v. chap. lxxxi.
Of two evils I have chose the least.—Prior: Imitation of Horace.
E duobus malis minimum eligendum (Of two evils, the least should be chosen).—Erasmus: Adages. Cicero: De Officiis, iii. 1.
[6:1] Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother.—Heywood: Proverbes, part ii. chap. ix.
[6:2] This wonder lasted nine daies.—Heywood: Proverbes, part ii. chap. i.
[6:3] Ars longa, vita brevis (Art is long: life is brief).—Hippocrates: Aphorism i.
[6:4] Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.—Heywood: Proverbes, part ii. chap. v.
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THOMAS À KEMPIS. 1380-1471.
Man proposes, but God disposes.[7:1]
Imitation of Christ. Book i. Chap. 19.
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.[7:2]
Imitation of Christ. Book i. Chap. 23.
Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.[7:3]
Imitation of Christ. Book iii. Chap. 12.