Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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The Two Noble Kinsmen. Act v. Sc. 1.

Footnotes

[197:1] See Shakespeare, page [100].

[197:2] See Shakespeare, page [145].

[197:3] See Shakespeare, page [87].

[197:4] Nemo repente fuit turpissimus (No man ever became extremely wicked all at once).—Juvenal: ii. 83.

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés (As virtue has its degrees, so has vice).—Racine: Phédre, act iv. sc. 2.

[197:5] Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros (Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men).—Seneca: De Providentia, v. 9.

[197:6] Then he will talk—good gods! how he will talk!—Lee: Alexander the Great, act i. sc. 3.

[197:7] See Heywood, page [14].