Such knives as oxen's hides explore,

Add dishes, be they three or more. —Mitchell.


Timocles. (Book vi. § 2, p. 354.)

Nay, my good friend, but hear me! I confess

Man is the child of sorrow, and this world,

In which we breathe, hath cares enough to plague us;

But it hath means withal to soothe these cares,

And he, who meditates on other's woes,

Shall in that meditation lose his own: