[186:2] Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are formed and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into form.—Montaigne: Apology for Raimond Sebond, book ii. chap. xii.
[186:3] Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.—Plutarch: Whether 't was rightfully said, Live concealed.
Like rowers, who advance backward.—Montaigne: Of Profit and Honour, book iii. chap. i.
[186:4] See Shakespeare, page [132].
[186:5] See Heywood, page [15].
[186:6] See Heywood, page [14]. Rabelais: book i. chap. xi.
[186:7] Æsop: Fables, book v. fable v.
He left a corsair's name to other times,
Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes.