Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Eastward Ho. Act v. Sc. 1.

As night the life-inclining stars best shows,

So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

Epilogue to Translations.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

Musæus of Hero and Leander.

Footnotes

[35:2] Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?—Marlowe: Hero and Leander.

I saw and loved.—Gibbon: Memoirs, vol. i. p. 106.

[35:3] See Heywood, page [13].