[349:1] Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet.—Hesiod: Works and Days, 24.
Le potier au potier porte envie (The potter envies the potter).—Bohn: Handbook of Proverbs.
Murphy: The Apprentice, act iii.
[349:2] Ἐλπίδες ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντες (For the living there is hope, but for the dead there is none.)—Theocritus: Idyl iv. 42.
Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est (While the sick man has life, there is hope).—Cicero: Epistolarum ad Atticum, ix. 10.
[349:3] It was n't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.—Plautus: Aulularia, act iv. sc. 3.
[349:4] See Addison, page [298].
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. 1690-1762.
Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,—