Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning:

One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

Take thou some new infection to thine eye,

And the rank poison of the old will die."—Romeo and Juliet.

If the wind strike thee through a hole,

Go make thy will and mend thy soul.

"A blast from a window is a shot from a crossbow" (Italian).[766] "To a bull and a draught of air give way" (Spanish).[767]

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two hours after it.

Ladies rightly call sleep before midnight "beauty sleep."

Old young, and old long.[768]

You must leave off the irregularities of youth be-times if you wish to enjoy a long and hale old age; for