[59:1] I see the beginning of my end.—Massinger: The Virgin Martyr act iii. sc. 3.

[60:1] For the good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.—Romans vii. 19.

[62:1] See Chaucer, page [5].

[63:1] See Heywood, page [10].

[63:2] I will play the swan and die in music.—Othello, act v. sc. 2.

I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,

Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death.

King John, act v. sc. 7.

There, swan-like, let me sing and die.—Byron: Don Juan, canto iii. st. 86.

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.—Socrates: In Phaedo, 77.