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One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.—Howell: Letters, book ii. iv. (1621).
She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,
Can draw you to her with a single hair.
Dryden: Persius, satire v. line 246.
Beauty draws us with a single hair.—Pope: The Rape of the Lock, canto ii. line 27.
And from that luckless hour my tyrant fair
Has led and turned me by a single hair.
Bland: Anthology, p. 20 (edition 1813).
[192:1] See Heywood, page 10.
[192:2] See Heywood, page 18.
[192:3] See Shakespeare, page 44.
[192:4] See Chaucer, page 3.
[192:5] For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.—Martin Luther: Table Talk, lxvii.
God never had a church but there, men say,
The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles.
Drummond: Posthumous Poems.
No sooner is a temple build to God but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.—Herbert: Jacula Prudentum.
Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there.
Defoe: The True-born Englishman, part i. line 1.
[193:1] Ignorance is the mother of devotion.—Jeremy Taylor: To a Person newly Converted (1657).
Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.—Dryden: The Maiden Queen, act i. sc. 2.
[193:2]
The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip
To haud the wretch in order.
Burns: Epistle to a Young Friend.
[193:3] Saint Augustine was in the habit of dining upon Saturday as upon Sunday; but being puzzled with the different practices then prevailing (for they had begun to fast at Rome on Saturday), consulted Saint Ambrose on the subject. Now at Milan they did not fast on Saturday, and the answer of the Milan saint was this: "Quando hic sum, non jejuno Sabbato; quando Romæ sum, jejuno Sabbato" (When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday).—Epistle xxxvi. to Casulanus.
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY. 1581-1613.In part to blame is she,
Which hath without consent bin only tride:
He comes to neere that comes to be denide.[193:4]
A Wife. St. 36.
[193:4]
In part she is to blame that has been tried:
He comes too late that comes to be denied.
Mary W. Montagu: The Lady's Resolve.
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PHILIP MASSINGER. 1584-1640.Some undone widow sits upon mine arm,
And takes away the use of it;[194:1] and my sword,
Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears,
Will not be drawn.
A New Way to pay Old Debts. Act v. Sc. 1.
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.[194:2]
A Very Woman. Act v. Sc. 4.
This many-headed monster.[194:3]
The Roman Actor. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Grim death.[194:4]
The Roman Actor. Act iv. Sc. 2.
[194:1] See Middleton, page 172.
[194:2] Death hath so many doors to let out life.—Beaumont and Fletcher: The Custom of the Country, act ii. sc. 2.
The thousand doors that lead to death.—Browne: Religio Medici, part i. sect. xliv.
[194:3] See Sir Philip Sidney, page 34.
[194:4] Grim death, my son and foe.—Milton: Paradise Lost, book ii. line 804.
THOMAS HEYWOOD. —— -1649.The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage
Which God and Nature do with actors fill.[194:5]
Apology for Actors (1612).
I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom.
Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells.
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead,
Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.[194:6]
Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells.
Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.[194:7]
History of Women (ed. 1624). Page 286.
[194:5] See Shakespeare, page 69.
[194:6] See Burton, page 189.
[194:7] See Heywood, page 11.
JOHN SELDEN. 1584-1654.Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the [195]conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience.
Table Talk. Equity.
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.[195:1]
Table Talk. Friends.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise; and yet everybody is content to hear.
Table Talk. Humility.
'T is not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.
Table Talk. Humility.
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
Table Talk. Judgments.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 't is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.
Table Talk. Law.
No man is the wiser for his learning.
Table Talk. Learning.
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
Table Talk. Learning.
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
Table Talk. Learning.
Take a straw and throw it up into the air,—you may see by that which way the wind is.
Table Talk. Libels.
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
Table Talk. Philosophy.
Marriage is a desperate thing.
Table Talk. Marriage.
Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.[195:2]
Table Talk. Pope.
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They that govern the most make the least noise.
Table Talk. Power.
Syllables govern the world.
Table Talk. Power.
Never king dropped out of the clouds.
Table Talk. Power.
Never tell your resolution beforehand.
Table Talk. Wisdom.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
Table Talk. Wisdom.
[195:1] See Bacon, page 171.
[195:2] Behold, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.—Oxenstiern (1583-1654).
WILLIAM DRUMMOND. 1585-1649.God never had a church but there, men say,
The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles.[196:1]
I doubted of this saw, till on a day
I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Gyles.
Posthumous Poems.
[196:1] See Burton, page 192.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 1586-1616.What things have we seen
Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been
So nimble and so full of subtile flame
As if that every one from whence they came
Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,
And resolved to live a fool the rest
Of his dull life.
Letter to Ben Jonson.
Here are sands, ignoble things,
Dropt from the ruined sides of kings.
On the Tombs of Westminster Abbey.
It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.
The Faithful Friends. Act i. Sc. 2.
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BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.)All your better deeds
Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.[197:1]
Philaster. Act v. Sc. 3.
Upon my burned body lie lightly, gentle earth.
The Maid's Tragedy. Act i. Sc. 2.
A soul as white as heaven.
The Maid's Tragedy. Act iv. Sc. 1.
But they that are above
Have ends in everything.[197:2]
The Maid's Tragedy. Act v. Sc. 1.
It shew'd discretion, the best part of valour.[197:3]
A King and No King. Act iv. Sc. 3.
There is a method in man's wickedness,—
It grows up by degrees.[197:4]
A King and No King. Act v. Sc. 4.
As cold as cucumbers.
Cupid's Revenge. Act i. Sc. 1.
Calamity is man's true touchstone.[197:5]
Four Plays in One: The Triumph of Honour. Sc. 1.
Kiss till the cow comes home.
Scornful Lady. Act iii. Sc. 1.
It would talk,—
Lord! how it talked![197:6]
Scornful Lady. Act v. Sc. 1.
Beggars must be no choosers.[197:7]
Scornful Lady. Act v. Sc. 3.
No better than you should be.[197:8]
The Coxcomb. Act iv. Sc. 3.
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From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot.[198:1]
The Honest Man's Fortune. Act ii. Sc. 2.
One foot in the grave.[198:2]
The Little French Lawyer. Act i. Sc. 1.
Go to grass.
The Little French Lawyer. Act iv. Sc. 7.
There is no jesting with edge tools.[198:3]
The Little French Lawyer. Act iv. Sc. 7.
Though I say it that should not say it.
Wit at Several Weapons. Act ii. Sc. 2.
I name no parties.[198:4]
Wit at Several Weapons. Act ii. Sc. 3.
Whistle, and she'll come to you.[198:5]
Wit Without Money. Act iv. Sc. 4.
Let the world slide.[198:6]
Wit Without Money. Act v. Sc. 2.
The fit 's upon me now!
Come quickly, gentle lady;
The fit 's upon me now.
Wit Without Money. Act v. Sc. 4.
He comes not in my books.[198:7]
The Widow. Act i. Sc. 1.
Death hath so many doors to let out life.[198:8]
The Customs of the Country. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love
Pity 's the straightest.[198:9]
The Knight of Malta. Act i. Sc. 1.
Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal substance of his greatness,—
To which I leave him.
The False One. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.[199:1]
Love's Cure. Act ii. Sc. 2.
What 's one man's poison, signor,
Is another's meat or drink.[199:2]
Love's Cure. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Primrose, first-born child of Ver,
Merry springtime's harbinger.
The Two Noble Kinsmen. Act i. Sc. 1.
O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood
The earth when
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