[729:1] See Spenser, page [30].
[729:2] See Publius Syrus, page [711].
[729:3] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page [198].
[730:1] Set a thief to catch a thief.—Bohn: A Hand-book of Proverbs.
[730:2] Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.—Montaigne: Works, book i. chap. i. That Men by various Ways arrive at the same End.
[730:3] See Publius Syrus, page [712].
[731:1] Rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch.—Emerson.
[731:2] Τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάφην δὲ σκάφην ὀνομάζων.—Aristophanes, as quoted in Lucian, Quom. Hist. sit conscrib. 41.
Brought up like a rude Macedon, and taught to call a spade a spade.—Gosson: Ephemerides of Phialo (1579).
[733:1] I am my own ancestor.—Junot, Duc d'Abrantes (when asked as to his ancestry).