MATTHEW HENRY. 1662-1714.

To their own second and sober thoughts.2

Commentaries. (London, 1710.) Job vi. 29.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Our creature comforts.

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

They that die by famine die by inches.

To fish in troubled waters.

Psalm xxxvi.

Psalm xxxvii.

Psalm lviii.

Psalm lix.

Psalm 1x.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life.3

None so blind as those that will not see.

Not lost, but gone before.1

Psalm civ.

Jeremiah xx.

Matthew ii.

SIR JOHN POWELL.

1713.

For nothing

Let us consider the reason of the case. is law that is not reason."

Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 911.

1 Matthew Henry says of his father, Rev. Philip Henry (16311691), "He would say sometimes, when he was in the midst of the comforts of this life, 'All this and heaven too!'" — Life of Rev. Philip Henry, p. 70. London, 1830.

2 I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober second thought of the people shall be law. - Fisher Ames, Speech on Biennial Elections, 1788.

3 Bread is the staff of life. - Swift, Tale of a Tub. Corne which is the staffe of life.

New England, p. 47. London, 1624.

Winslow's Good Newes from

The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread. - Isaiah iii. 1. 4 Literally from Seneca, Ep. 63. 16. See Rogers. Page 400. 6 Compare Coke. Page 9.

HARVEY.-WALKER.-TEMPLE. - POPE.

STEPHEN HARVEY. Circa 1627.

And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame ;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but born and die.

Books like proverbs receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. Ancient and Modern Learning.

DR. WALTER POPE. 1630-1714.

May I govern my passion with absolute sway,
And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.

The Old Man's Wish.

1 From Anderson's British Poets, Vol. xii. p. 697.

2 Take time enough; all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.

Byrom, Advice to Preach Slow.

EARL OF ROCHESTER. 1647-1680.

Angels listen when she speaks:

She 's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break

Should we live one day asunder.

Here lies our sovereign lord the king,
Whose word no man relies on;

He never says a foolish thing,
Nor ever does a wise one.

Song.

Written on the Bedchamber Door of Charles II.

And ever since the Conquest have been fools.

Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country.

For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose,
The best good man with the worst-natured muse.

An Allusion to Satire x. Horace, Book 1.

A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.

On the King.

It is a very good world to live in,

To lend, or to spend, or to give in;

But to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own,
It is the very worst world that ever was known.

Attributed to Rochester.

THOMAS KEN. 1637-1711.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!

Praise Him, all creatures here below!
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host!

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

Morning and Evening Hymn.

236 RUMBOLD.-L'ESTRANGE.-SHEFFIELD.

RICHARD RUMBOLD.

-

-1685.

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

When on the Scaffold (1685). Macaulay, Hist. of England.

ROGER L'ESTRANGE. 1616-1704.

Though this may be play to you,

"T is death to us. Fables from Several Authors. Fable 398.

SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 1649-1720.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Essay on Poetry.

There's no such thing in nature, and you'll draw
A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw.1

Read Homer once, and you can read no more;
For all books else appear so mean, so poor,
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.

1 Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,

Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

Ibid.

Toid.

Pope, Essay on Criticism, Part ii. Line 53.

O woman! lovely woman! nature made thee
To temper man; we had been brutes without
Angels are painted fair, to look like you:
There's in you all that we believe of heaven;
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth,
Eternal joy, and everlasting love.

you.

Venice Preserved. Act i. Sc. 1.

Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life;
Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o'er thee.1

Act v. Sc. 1.

What mighty ills have not been done by woman?
Who was 't betrayed the Capitol? A woman!
Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman!
Who was the cause of a long ten years' war,
And laid at last old Troy in ashes? Woman!
Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!

The Orphan. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.2

Act iv. Sc. 2.

SIR CHARLES SEDLEY.

When change itself can give no more, "T is easy to be true.

1639-1701.

Reasons for Constancy.

1 Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes; Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

Gray, The Bard, Part i. St. 3.

See Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Page 85. 2 Let us swear an eternal friendship.

Frere, The Rovers, Act i. Sc. 1.