"As pearls from diamonds dropt. In brief, sorrow
Would be a rarity most belov'd, if all
Could so become it."—Shakspeare.
"Inde fluunt lacrymæ, stillataque sole rigescunt
De ramis electra novis."—Ovid. Met. ii. 864.
"And she, although her manners shew'd no rigour,
Was deem'd a woman of the strictest principle,
So much as to be thought almost invincible."—Byron.
"Fama, malum, quo non aliud velocius ullum;
Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo."
Virg. Æn. iv. 174.
"Open your ears; for which of you will stop
The vent of hearing, when loud Rumour speaks;
I, from the Orient to the drooping West,
Making the wind my posthorse, still unfold
The acts commenced on this ball of earth;
Upon my tongues continued slanders ride:
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports."
Introduction to 2nd part of Henry IV.
[13] See Herod. i. 23, 24.