Footnotes

[205:1]

And he that does one fault at first,

And lies to hide it, makes it two.

Watts: Song xv.

[205:2] See Heywood, page [20]. Bickerstaff: Thomas and Sally.

[205:3] Ruat cœlum, fiat voluntas tua (Though the sky fall, let Thy will be done).—Sir T. Browne: Religio Medici, part ii. sect. xi.

[205:4] After the war, aid.—Greek proverb.

After me the deluge.—Madame de Pompadour.

[205:5] Hell is paved with good intentions.—Dr. Johnson (Boswell's Life of Johnson, Annus 1775.)