Better late than never.' An Habitation Enforced. At Christmas play, and make good cheer, The Farmer's Daily Diet. Except wind stands as never it stood, A Description of the Properties of Winds. All's fish they get That cometh to net. February's Abstract. Such mistress, such Nan, Such master, such man.2 April's Abstract. 'Tis merry in hall Where beards wag all. August's Abstract. Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.1 Of Wiving and Thriving. Dry sun, dry wind, Safe bind, safe find. Washing. 1 See Proverbs, page 603. 2 On the authority of M. Cimber, of the Bibliothèque Royale, we owe this proverb to Chevalier Bayard, Tel maître, tel valet. 3 Merry swithe it is in halle, When the beards waveth alle. Adam Davie, 1312, Life of Alexander. SIR EDWARD COKE. 1549-1634. The gladsome light of jurisprudence. First Institute. For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium.1 Third Institute. Page 162. The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. Semayne's Case, 5 Rep. 91. They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls. Case of Sutton's Hospital, 10 Rep. 32. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. He had a face like a benediction. 1547-1616. Don Quixote. Parti. Book ii. Ch. 4. Every one is the son of his own works. Ibid. Book iv. Ch. 20. I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it. Ibid. Ch. 23. 1 From the Pandects, Lib. ii. tit. iv. De in Jus vocando. Every one is as God made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. Part ii. Ch. 4. Now blessings light on him that first invented sleep! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for Part ii. Ch. 67. the hot. Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. The Little Gypsy. (La Gitanilla.) My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.1 Ibid. BISHOP STILL (JOHN). 1543-1607. I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good; But sure I think that I can drink With him that wears a hood. Gammer Gurton's Needle. Act ii.2 Back and side go bare, go bare, But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, 1 Cf. Byron, p. 484. Ibid. 2 Stated by Mr. Dyce to be from a MS. in his possession, and of older date than Gammer Gurton's Needle. -Skelton, Works, ed. Dyce, i. vii. −x., n. As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall. Book i. Canto viii. St. 1. Entire affection hateth nicer hands. Book i. Canto viii. St. 40. That darksome cave they enter, where they find That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind. Book i. Canto ix. St. 35. No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, al arownd. Faerie Queene, continued.] And is there care in Heaven? Book ii. Canto viii. St. 1. Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound. Book ii. Canto xii. St. 70. Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush, In hopes her to attain by hook or crook. Book iii. Canto i. St. 17. Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew,1 And her conception of the joyous prime. Book iii. Canto vi. St. 3. Be bolde, Be bolde, and everywhere, Be bold. Book iii. Canto xi. St. 54. Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. Book iv. Canto ii. St. 32. Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have? Book vi. Canto i. St. 42. What more felicitie can fall to creature 1 The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning. Psalm cx. 3. |