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>Talfourd, Thomas N. 577 Taney, Roger B. 675 Tate and Brady 851 Taylor, Bayard 666 Taylor, Henry 594 Taylor, Jane and Ann 534 Taylor, Jeremy, note 169, 193 Taylor, John 670 Taylor, John, note 20
Temple, Sir William 266 Tennyson, Alfred 623 Terence 702 Tertullian 756 [xiv]Theobald, Louis 352 Theocritus, note 349 Theognis 694 Thomas, Frederick W. 679 Thomson, James 355 Thrale, Mrs. 432 Thucydides, note 726 Thurlow, Lord 426 Tibullus, note 106 Tickell, Thomas 313 Tillotson, John 266 Titus, Colonel, note 352 Tobin, John 463 Tolowiez, note 767 Toplady, Augustus M. 432 Tourneur, Cyril 34 Townley, James 380 Trumbull, John 439 Tucker, Dean 858 Tuke, Samuel 670 Tupper, Martin F. 640 Tusser, Thomas 20     Uhland, Johann L. 806 Unknown Authors 707 Usteri, J. M. 805     Valerius Maximus, note 807 Vanbrugh, Sir John 684 Van Buren, Martin, note 364 Vandyk, H. S. 678 Varro, note 167 Vaughan, Henry 263 Vauvenargues 803 Vegetius, note 425 Venning, Ralph 262 Villon 769 Virgil, note 185, 720, 810 Volney, note 592 Voltaire 800 Voss, J. H., note 811     Wade, J. A. 594 Walker, William 265 Wallace, Horace B., note 361 Waller, Edmund 219 Walpole, Horace 389 Walpole, Horace, note 592 Walpole, Sir Robert 304 Walpole, Sir Robert, note 389 Walton, Izaak 206 Warburton, Thomas 859 Warner, William 38 Ward, Thomas 857 Warton, Thomas 403 Washington, George 425 Watson, William 855 Watts, Isaac 301 Webster, Daniel 529 Webster, John 180 Welby, Amelia B. 681 Wellington, Duke of 463 Wells, William V. 858 Wesley, Charles 672 Wesley, John 359 Whetstone, George, note 14 Whewell, William, note 169 White, Henry Kirke, note 592 Whittier, John G. 618 Wight, Rezin A. 854 Wilde, Richard H. 677 Willard, Emma 676 Williams, Helen M. 674 Williams, Roger, note 208 Willis, Nathaniel P. 655 Willis, Nathaniel P., note 580 Wilson, Alexander 860 Wilson, John, note 558 Wilson, Mrs. C. B. 677 Winslow, Edward, note 283 Winthrop, John 670 Winthrop, Robert C. 638 Wither, George 199 Wolcot, John 431 Wolfe, Charles 563 Wolfe, James 673 Woodworth, Samuel 537 Wordsworth, William 465 Wotton, Sir Henry 174 Wrother, Miss 683 Wycherley, William, note 452     Yalden, Thomas, note 181 Yonge, Nicholas, note 711 Young, Edward 306 Young, Sir John, note 177     Zamoyski, Jan, note 810 Zouch, Thomas, note 209

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ANONYMOUS BOOKS CITED.
  Page Annals of Sporting 855 Biographia Britannica, note 282 Biographia Dramatica, note 347 Book of Common Prayer 850 British Princes 685 Cupid's Whirligig, note 446 Deutsche Rechts Alterthümer 858 Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys 856 Encyclopædia Britannica, note 784 Gesta Romanorum 802 Health to the Gentle Profession of Serving-men, note 360 History of the Family of Courtenay, note 802 Letters of Junius 688 Marriage of Wit and Wisdom 859 Menagiana, note 793 New England Primer 687 Pierre Patelin, note 771 Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, note 293 Return from Parnassus 684 Spectator 857 The Bible 812 The Examiner, May 31, 1829, note 313 The Mock Romance, note 217 The Nation, note 532 The Skylark 854 Wheeler's Magazine, note 690

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FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS. GEOFFREY CHAUCER.  1328-1400.

(From the text of Tyrwhitt.)

Whanne that April with his shoures sote

The droughte of March hath perced to the rote.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 1.

And smale foules maken melodie,

That slepen alle night with open eye,

So priketh hem nature in hir corages;

Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 9.

And of his port as meke as is a mayde.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 69.

He was a veray parfit gentil knight.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 72.

He coude songes make, and wel endite.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 95.

Ful wel she sange the service devine,

Entuned in hire nose ful swetely;

And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly,

After the scole of Stratford atte bowe,

For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 122.

A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 287.

For him was lever han at his beddes hed

A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red,

Of Aristotle, and his philosophie,

Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie.

But all be that he was a philosophre,

Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 295.

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And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 310.

Nowher so besy a man as he ther n' as,

And yet he semed besier than he was.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 323.

His studie was but litel on the Bible.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 440.

For gold in phisike is a cordial;

Therefore he loved gold in special.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 445.

Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 493.

This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf,—

That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 498.

But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve,

He taught; but first he folwed it himselve.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 529.

And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.[2:1]

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 565.

Who so shall telle a tale after a man,

He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can,

Everich word, if it be in his charge,

All speke he never so rudely and so large;

Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe,

Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 733.

For May wol have no slogardie a-night.

The seson priketh every gentil herte,

And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte.

Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 1044.

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.[2:2]

Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 1524.

Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie.

Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 2275.

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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.

Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 2408.

To maken vertue of necessite.[3:1]

Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 3044.

And brought of mighty ale a large quart.

Canterbury Tales. The Milleres Tale. Line 3497.

Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be,

That may both werken wel and hastily.[3:2]

This wol be done at leisure parfitly.[3:3]

Canterbury Tales. The Marchantes Tale. Line 585.

Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.[3:4]

Canterbury Tales. The Reves Prologue. Line 3880.

The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.

Canterbury Tales. The Reves Tale. Line 4051.

So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.

Canterbury Tales. The Reves Tale. Line 4153.

In his owen grese I made him frie.

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