[283:3] See Heywood, page [19].
[283:4] Bread is the staff of life.—Swift: Tale of a Tub.
Corne, which is the staffe of life.—Winslow: Good Newes from New England, p. 47. (London, 1624.)
The stay and the staff, the whole staff of bread.—Isaiah iii. 1.
[283:5] Diogenes once saw a youth blushing, and said: "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."—Diogenes Laertius: Diogenes, vi.
[283:6] See Heywood, page [12].
[283:7] There is none so blind as they that won't see.—Swift: Polite Conversation, dialogue iii.
[283:8] Literally from Seneca, Epistola lxiii. 16.
Not dead, but gone before.—Rogers: Human Life.