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An iron man

Turning the word to sword, and life to death.

(See 2 Hen. IV. iv. 2, 1-32, and ib. i. 1, 200; iv. 1, 40-52).

367. Odere

reges dicta quæ dici jubent. (Kings hate

when uttered the very words they order to be uttered.)

I have seen

When, after execution judgment hath
Repented o'er his doom. (M. M. ii. 2.)

For kings' orders given and repented of see John, iv. 2, 203215, 227-242; R. II. i. 3, 113-115, 148-153, 178-190; Cymb. v. 1, 5-7.

368. Nolite confidere in principibus.--Ps. cxlvi. 3. (Put not your trust in princes.)

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours.

There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,

That sweet aspect of princes and their ruin,

More pangs and fears than wars or women have.

(Hen. VIII. iii. 2.)

369. Et multis utile bellum.-Lucan, Ess. Of Disturb(And war is useful to many.)

ances.

370. Pulchrorum autumnus pulcher. (Beautiful is the autumn of beauty.)

(Quoted in Ess. Of Beauty.)

A beauty-waning and distressed widow, in the autumn of her days. (R. III. iii. 7.)

371. Usque adeone times quem tu facis ipse timendum. -(Do you so much fear him whom you yourself make formidable?)

372. Dux femina facti.-Virg. Æn. i. 364. (A woman leads the way.-Dryden.)

Q. Mar. Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided, 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

Prince. Methinks a woman of this valiant spirit Should, if a coward heard her speak these words, Infuse his breast with magnanimity.

Oxford. Women and children of so high a courage, And warriors faint! why, 'twere perpetual shame. (3 Hen. VI. v. 4, 1–65.)

Mess. The French have gathered head: The Dauphin with one Joan la Pucelle joined, Is come with a great power to raise the siege.

(Enter Joan driving Englishmen before her, and exit.) Tal. Where is my strength, my valour, and my force? Our English troops retire. I cannot stay them.

A woman clad in armour chaseth them. (1 Hen. VI. i. 6.)

373. Res est ingeniosa dare.-Ov. Am. i. 8, 62. (Giving requires good sense.)

Never anything can be amiss

When simpleness and duty tender it. (M. N. D. v. 1.)

Rich gifts wax poor when givers grow unkind. (Ham. iii. 1.) Her pretty action did outsell her gift. (Cymb. ii. 4.)

374. A long wynter maketh a full ear.

Bear you well in this new spring of time,

Lest

you be cropped before you come to prime. (R. II. v. 2.) Though I look old, yet am I strong and lusty;

For in my youth I never did apply

Hot and rebellious liquids in my blood. . . .
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,

Frosty but kindly. (As Y. L. ii. 3.)

375. Declinat cursus aurumque volubile tollit.-Ov. Met. 10, 667. (Atalanta swerves her course aside and lifts the rolling gold.)

You have a nimble wit: I think 'twas made of Atalanta's heels. (As Y. L. iii. 2.)

376. Romaniscult.

(Compare with remarks on Roman Catholics in Advice to Villiers and Controversies on the Church.)

Tricks of Rome. (Hen. VIII. ii. 4.)

Twenty popish tricks. (Tit. And. v. 1.)

377. Unum augurium optimum tueri patriam.—From the Greek of Homer. (The best of all auguries is to fight in defence of one's country.)

(See No. 39.)

378. Bene omnia fecit.-Mark vii. 37. (He hath done all things well.)

A true confession and applause. God, when He created all things, saw that everything in particular, and all things in general, were exceeding good. (Med. Sacræ.)

To see how God in all his creatures works! (2 H. VI. ii. 1.) Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,

Sermons in stones, and good in everything. (As Y. L. ii. 1.)

Folio 90b.

379. Et quo quemque modo fugiatque feratque laborem edocet.—Æn. vi. 893. (Teaches him how either to avoid or endure all troubles.)

(See Rich. II. i. 3, 275-303, and iii. 2, 93-105.)

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To say extremity was the trier of the spirits. . . . Fortune's

blows

When most struck home, being gentle-minded, craves

A noble cunning; you were us'd to load me

With precepts that would make invincible
The heart that conned them. (Cor. iv. 1.)
Do not please sharp fate

To grace it with your sorrows: bid that welcome
Which come to punish us, and we punish it,
Seeming to bear it lightly. (Ant. Cl. iv. 2.)

I do think they have patience to make any adversity ashamed.

They are noble sufferers. . . . that, with such a constant nobility, enforce a freedom out of bondage, making misery their mirth, and affliction a toy to jest at. (Two Noble Kinsmen, ii. 1.) One, in suffering all, that suffers nothing. (Ham. iii. 2, 65–71.) Rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of. (Ib. iii. 1.)

If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
Which happily foreknowing may avoid, speak.

(Ib. i. 1.)

'Tis safer to

Avoid what's grown than question how 'twas born.

(W. T. i. 2, 431; and see ib. 400–406).

(And see Jul. Cæs. iv. 3, 190-194; Tr. Cr. i. 1, 30; Ant. Cl. iii. 10, 34.)

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O virgo, nova mi facies inopinave surgit;

Omnia præcepi atque animo mecum ante peregi.

Æn. vi. 103, 45. (To me, O virgin! no aspect of sufferings arises new or unexpected: I have anticipated all things and gone over them beforehand in my mind.

To be, or not to be, that is the question :
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune:

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them. (Ham. iii. i. 56-88.)

Antiochus, I thank thee who hath taught

My frail mortality to know itself,

And by those fearful objects to prepare

This body, like to them, to what it must. (Per. i. 1.)

381. Cultus major censu. (His dress is beyond his

income.)

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;

For the apparel oft proclaims the man;

And they in France of the best rank and station

Are most select and generous, chief in that. (Ham. i. 3.)

(Compare Essay Of Expense and Essay Of Travel.)

382. Tale of the frogge that swelled.

383. Viderit utilitas. (Let expediency take care of itself

-I'll none of it.)

That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling commodity,

Commodity the bias of the world . . . . this commodity
Makes it take head from all indifferency,

From all direction, purpose, course, intent:

And this same bias, this commodity

Hath drawn him from his own determined aid

own determined aid....

peace.

To a most base and vile-concluded
But why rail I upon commodity
Since kings break faith upon commodity.
Gain, be my lord, for I will worship thee!
Throw physic to the dogs: I'll none of it.

(John, ii. 2.)

(Macb. v. 3.)

384. Qui eget versetur in turbâ.-Erasmus, Adagia, 836. (A man in need should keep in a crowd-not in solitude. His prospect of gain would be better.)

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When cut-purses come not to throngs
Then shall the realm of Albion
Come to great confusion. (Lear, iii. 1.)

The throng that follows Cæsar at the heels

Of senators, of prætors, common suitors,

Would crowd a feeble man almost to death. (Jul. Cæs. ii. 4.)

385. While the legge warmeth the boote harmeth.

386. Augustus rapide ad locum leviter in loco. (The Emperor Augustus (moved) rapidly to his place, easily in his place.)

387. My father was chudd for not being a baron.

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She had her breeding at my father's charge.

A poor physician's daughter, my wife! Disdain,
Rather corrupt me ever!

King. "Tis only title thou disdainest in her.
Strange is it that our bloods of

Colour, weight, and heat, poured all together,
Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off
In differences so mighty. If she be

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