2 Cf. Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar, ii. 1: "It is the bright day that brings forth the adder."
Cf. also Thomson:
| "If Misfortune comes, she brings along The bravest virtues. And so many great Illustrious spirits have convers'd with woe, Have in her school been taught, as are enough To consecrate distress, and make ambition E'en wish the frown beyond the smile of fortune." |
[16.] Cf. Virgil, Æn. i. 630: "Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco."
[18.] Folly's idle brood. Cf. the opening lines of Il Penseroso:
| "Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred!" |
[20.] Mitford quotes Oldham, Ode: "And know I have not yet the leisure to be good."
[22.] The summer friend. Cf. Geo. Herbert, Temple: "like summer friends, flies of estates and sunshine;" Quarles, Sion's Elegies, xix.: "Ah, summer friendship with the summer ends;" Massinger, Maid of Honour: "O summer friendship." See also Shakespeare, T. of A. iii. 6:
"2d Lord. The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship.