"Ad hanc legem natus es; hoc patri tuo accidit, hoc matri, hoc majoribus, hoc omnibus ante te, hoc omnibus post te, series invicta, et nullâ mutabilis ope, illigat ac trahit cuncta."

"King. —— You must know, your father lost a father;

That father lost—lost his; . . .

. . . . . . . .

To reason most absurd, whose common theme

Is death of fathers, and who still hath cry'd,

From the first corse, 'till he that died to-day,

This must be so."—Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 2.


"Ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ μὴ ἔχοντος," &c.—Ante, Vol. viii., p. 372.

"Besides this, nothing that he so plentifully gives me."—Shakspeare, As You Like It, Act I. Sc. 1.