[656] {483}[So, too, Charles Kingsley, in Westward Ho! ii. 299, 300, calls Don Quixote "the saddest of books in spite of all its wit."—Notes and Queries, Second Series, iii. 124.]
[LX] By that great Epic——.—[MS.]
[657] {484}["Your husband is in his old lunes again." Merry Wives of Windsor, act iv. sc. 2, lines 16, 17.]
[658] ["Davus sum, non Oedipus." Terence, Andria, act i. sc. 2, line 23.]
[659] {485}
["'T is not in mortals to command success,
But we'll do more, Sempronius—we'll deserve it."
Addison's Cato, act i. sc. 2, ed. 1777, ii. 77.]
[660] {487}[Compare—"The colt that's backed and burthened being young." Venus and Adonis, lxx. line 5.]
[661] [To "break square," or "squares," is to interrupt the regular order, as in the proverbial phrase, "It breaks no squares," i.e. does no harm—does not matter. Compare Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1802), ii. v. 152, "This fault in Trim broke no squares with them" (N. Engl. Dict., art. "Break," No. 46). The origin of the phrase is uncertain, but it may, perhaps, refer to military tactics. Shakespeare (Henry V., act iv. sc. 2, line 28) speaks of "squares of battle.">[