Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime.
Longfellow: A Psalm of Life.
[37:1] Here lies one whose name was writ in water.—Keats's own Epitaph.
[37:2] To be noble we 'll be good.—Winifreda (Percy's Reliques).
'T is only noble to be good.—Tennyson: Lady Clara Vere de Vere, stanza 7.
[37:3] The same in Franklin's Poor Richard.
[37:5] By Chapman, Jonson, and Marston.
[37:6] This is the famous passage that gave offence to James I., and caused the imprisonment of the authors. The leaves containing it were cancelled and reprinted, and it only occurs in a few of the original copies.—Richard Herne Shepherd.