Footnotes
[289:3] As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts and unapproachable bogs.—Plutarch: Theseus.
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
De Morgan: A Budget of Paradoxes, p. 377.
[290:2] Rowland: Knave of Hearts (1612). Ray: Proverbs. Tom Brown: Amusement, viii.
[290:3] As the political parties of Whig and Tory are pointed out by the high and low heels of the Lilliputians (Framecksan and Hamecksan), those of Papist and Protestant are designated under the Big-endians and Small-endians.
[291:1] In Sebastian Munster's "Cosmography" there is a cut of a ship to which a whale was coming too close for her safety, and of the sailors throwing a tub to the whale, evidently to play with. This practice is also mentioned in an old prose translation of the "Ship of Fools."—Sir James Mackintosh: Appendix to the Life of Sir Thomas More.
[291:2] See Mathew Henry, page [283].
[291:3] Till they be bobbed on the tails after the manner of sparrows.—Rabelais: book ii. chap. xiv.
[291:4] Ray: Proverbs. Mallet: Tyburn.
[292:1] See Heywood, page [16].
[292:2] See Heywood, page [13].
[292:3] You lie—under a mistake.—Shelley: Magico Prodigioso, scene 1 (a translation of Calderon).
[292:4] The will for deed I doe accept.—Du Bartas: Divine Weeks and Works, third day, week ii. part 2.
The will for the deed.—Cibber: The Rival Fools, act iii.
Use three physicians
Still: first, Dr. Quiet;
Next, Dr. Merryman,
And Dr. Dyet.
Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum (edition 1607).
[293:2] See Mathew Henry, page [283].
[294:1] When the poem of "Cadenus and Vanessa" was the general topic of conversation, some one said, "Surely that Vanessa must be an extraordinary woman that could inspire the Dean to write so finely upon her." Mrs. Johnson smiled, and answered that "she thought that point not quite so clear; for it was well known the Dean could write finely upon a broomstick."—Johnson: Life of Swift.
WILLIAM CONGREVE. 1670-1729.
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
The Mourning Bride. Act i. Sc. 1.
By magic numbers and persuasive sound.
The Mourning Bride. Act i. Sc. 1.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.[294:2]
The Mourning Bride. Act iii. Sc. 8.
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
The Mourning Bride. Act v. Sc. 12.
If there 's delight in love, 't is when I see
That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.
The Way of the World. Act iii. Sc. 12.
Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.
Love for Love. Act ii. Sc. 5.
I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.[294:3]
Love for Love. Act ii. Sc. 7.
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Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.
The Old Bachelor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.[295:1]
The Old Bachelor. Act v. Sc. 1.
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.[295:2]
Letter to Cobham.