Shakespeare's Epitaph.
Footnotes
[44:1] As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.—Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sect. 3, memb. 4, subsect. 1.
[44:2] Custom is almost second nature.—Plutarch: Preservation of Health.
[45:1] Familiarity breeds contempt.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 640.
[46:1] What the dickens!—Thomas Heywood: Edward IV. act iii. sc. 1.
[46:2] As ill luck would have it.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, pt. i. bk. i. ch. ii.
[47:1] Act i. Sc. 5, in White, Singer, and Knight.
[47:2] Compare Portia's words in Merchant of Venice, act iv. sc. 1.