But those that write in rhyme still make
The one verse for the other's sake;

For one for sense, and one for rhyme,
I think 's sufficient at one time.

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 23.

Some have been beaten till they know
What wood a cudgel 's of by th' blow;
Some kicked until they can feel whether
A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.

Line 221.

For what is worth in anything,
But so much money as 't will bring?

Line 465.

Love is a boy by poets styled;

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

2

Line 843.

The sun had long since in the lap
Of Thetis, taken out his nap,

And like a lobster boiled, the morn
From black to red began to turn.
Have always been at daggers-drawing,
And one another clapper-clawing.

For truth is precious and divine,
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

1 Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.

Canto ii. Line 29.

Line 79.

Line 257.

Cowper, Conversation, Line 357.

2 He that spareth his rod hateth his son. Proverbs xiii. 24.

Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' the nation?

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 317.

He that imposes an oath makes it,
Not he that for convenience takes it:
Then how can any man be said

To break an oath he never made?

As the ancients

Say wisely, have a care o' th' main chance,1
And look before you ere you leap; 1
For as you sow, ye are like to reap.2
Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated, as to cheat.

He made an instrument to know
If the moon shine at full or no.

Each window like a pill'ry appears,

Line 377.

Line 501.

Canto iii. Line 1.

Line 261.

With heads thrust through nailed by the ears. Line 391.

To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catched,

And count their chickens ere they 're hatched. Line 923.

There's but the twinkling of a star

Between a man of peace and war.

As quick as lightning, in the breech,
Just in the place where honour 's lodged,
As wise philosophers have judged;
Because a kick in that part more

Hurts honour, than deep wounds before.

As men of inward light are wont

Line 957.

Line 1066.

To turn their optics in upon 't. Part iii. Canto i. Line 481.

1 See Appendix, pp. 643, 644. Compare Tusser. Page 6.

2 Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians

vi. 7.

Still amorous, and fond, and billing,
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.

Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 687.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
About two hundred pounds a year.
And that which was proved true before,
Prove false again? Two hundred more.
'Cause grace and virtue are within
Prohibited degrees of kin;

And therefore no true saint allows
They shall be suffered to espouse.

Line 1277.

Line 1293.

Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick,

Though he gave his name to our Old Nick.

Line 1313.

With books and money placed for show,
Like nest-eggs to make clients lay,

And for his false opinion pay.

1 True as the needle to the pole,

Or as the dial to the sun. Barton Booth, Song.

Line 547.

Line 624.

JOHN DRYDEN. 1631-1701.

Above any Greek or Roman name.1

Upon the Death of Lord Hastings. Line 76.

And threatening France, placed like a painted Jove, Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.

Annus Mirabilis. Stanza 39.

Whate'er he did was done with so much ease,
In him alone 't was natural to please.

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 27.

A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,

And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.2

A daring pilot in extremity;

Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high

He sought the storms.

Line 156.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied,

And thin partitions do their bounds divide.3

Line 163.

And all to leave what with his toil he won
To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son.
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

Line 169.

Line 174.

Line 197.

And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.*

1 Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.

Line 198.

Pope, Epistle i. Book ii. Line 26. 2 Compare Fuller, Life of Duke of Alva. Page 213. 2 What thin partitions sense from thought divide!

Pope, Essay on Man, Ep. 1, Line 226. 4 Greatnesse on Goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for Fortune's ice, Vertue's ferme land.

Knolles's History (under a portrait of Mustapha I.).

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme,
The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!1
Absalom and Achitophel. Parti. Line 238.

Behold him setting in his western skies,

The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise. Line 268.

Than a successive title, long and dark,

Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.

Line 301.

Not only hating David, but the king.

Line 512.

Who think too little, and who talk too much. Line 534.

A man so various, that he seemed to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,

Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But, in the course of one revolving moon,

Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.3 Line 545.

So over violent, or over civil,

That every man with him was God or Devil.

Line 557.

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.*

Line 645.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

Line 868.

Beware the fury of a patient man.5

Line 1005.

1 Your old men shail dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. Joel ii. 28.

2

Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

Like our shadows,

Young, Night Thoughts, v. 661.

8 Grammaticus, rhetor, geometres, pictor, aliptes, Augur, schoenobates, medicus, magus, omnia novit.

Juvenal, Sat. iii. Line 76.

+ A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.

Hare, Guesses at Truth.

5 Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia. — Publius Syrus.