even;

A tradesman thou! and hope to go to heaven?
i. DRYDEN-Persius. Satire V.
Line 204.
He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
J. BENJ. FRANKLIN-The Whistle.

A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place, their birth, and at the post, their death; only they differ in the race of their lives.

k. FULLER-The Holy and Profane States. Natural Fools. Generally, nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool.

1.

FULLER-The Holy and Profane
States. Natural Fools.

By outward show let's not be cheated;
An ass should like an ass be treated.
GAY-The Packhorse and Carrier.
Pt. II.

m.

MASSINGER-Unnatural Combat.

Act V. Sc. 2.

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.

Quoted by Camden as a saying of Dr.
Metcalf

In a bowl to sea went wise men three,
On a brilliant night of June:
They carried a net, and their hearts were set
On fishing up the moon.

r.

THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK- The Wise
Men of Gotham. Paper Money
Lyrics.

A blockhead rubs his thoughtless skull,
And thanks his stars he was not born a fool.
POPE-Epilogue to Jane Shore..

S.

t.

Line 7.

Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. POPE-Essay on Criticism. Line 625. Leave such to trifle with more grace and

ease,

Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.

и.

POPE-Second Book of Horace.

Ep. II. Line 326.

No creature smarts so little as a fool
V. POPE-Prologue to Satires. Line 84.
The fool is happy that he knows no more.
POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. II.

10.

Line 264. The rest on Outside merit but presume, Or serve (like other Fools) to fill a room. POPE-The Dunciad. Bk. I.

Line 135.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to gar-
nish,

Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.

0. King John. Act IV. Sc. 2.

To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield. p. Pericles. Act II. Sc. 4.

Well, thus we play the fools with the time; and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock us.

Henry IV. Pt. II. Act II. Sc. 2.

What say you to young Master Fenton? he capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses.

r.

Merry Wives of Windsor. Act III.

Sc. 2.

Act IV. Sc. 3.

x.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

As You Like It. Act V.

Sc. 1.

The fool hath planted in his memory
An army of good words; and I do know

A

many fools, that stand in better place, Garnish'd like him, that for a trickey word Defy the matter.

m.

Merchant of Venice. Act III.

Sc. 5.

This fellow's wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit. Twelfth Night. Act III. Sc. 1.

FOOT.

And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats! ah, Mr. Trapland?

y. CONGREVE Love for Love. Act I.

164

Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.
C. R. H. NEWELL-Columbia's Agony.

Forgiveness is better than revenge.
d. PITTACUS.

Good-nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

e. POPE-Essay on Criticism. Line 522.

I pardon him, as heaven shall pardon me. f. Richard II. Act V. Sc. 3.

The more we know, the better we forgive, Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all who live. MADAME DE STAËL-Corinne.

9.

h.

Bk. XVIII. Ch. V.

Pardon, not Wrath, is God's best attribute. BAYARD TAYLOR-Temptation of Hassan Ben Khaled. St. 11.

How lovely yet thy ruins show! how sweetly Even death embraces thee! The peace of Heaven

The fellowship of all great souls be with

j.

thee!

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER-The
Tragedy of Bonduca.

He that is down needs fear no fall;
He that is low no pride.
BUNYAN-Pilgrim's Progress. Pt. II.

k.

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace? } COWPER-Hope. Line 316.

0.

1 wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend,

For when at worst, they say, things always

m.

mend.

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to im

CowPER-Translation from Owen.
To a Friend in Distress.