--Butler, Hudibras.
| Devils in Swine. | [139 L.J.] |
"Bass. If it please you to dine with us!
Shy. Yes, to smell pork, to eat of the
habitation which your prophet,
the Nazarite, conjured the devil into."
--Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 1:3.
| Do Men Gather Grapes of Thorns, or Figs of Thistles? | [109 G.B.] |
"Conceits himself as God that he can make
Figs out of thistles."
--Tennyson, The Last Tournament.
| Dust Thou Art, and unto Dust shalt Thou Return. | [21 T.J.] |
"Dust to dust! but the pure spirit shall flow
Back to the burning fountain whence it came."
--Shelley, Adonais.