398. Ilicet obruimur numero.-Virg. Æn. ii. 424. (Forthwith we are overwhelmed by numbers.)

(See No. 21.)

399. Numbering, not weighing.

You . . . shall this night

hear all, all see,

And like her most whose merit most shall be,

Which on more view of many (mine being one),

May stand in number, though in reckoning none. (R. J. i. 2.)

You weigh me not? Oh then, you care not for me.

Than their offence can weigh down by the dram ;
Ay, even such heaps and sums of love and wealth
As shall to them blot out what wrongs were theirs,

And write in thee the figures of their love. (Tim. Ath. v. 2.)

400. Let them have long mornyngs that have not good afternoons.

Bar. You rogue, I have been drinking all night: I am not fitted for't.

Clo. O, the better, sir; for he that drinks all night, and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the sounder all the next day. (M. M. iv. 3.)

401. Court houres.

(See No. 1222.)

402. Constancy to remain in the same state.

Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind:
Still constant in a wondrous excellence,
Therefore my verse, to constancy confined,
One thing expressing leaves out difference.

Nor, Princes, is it matter how to us

(Sonnet cv.)

That we come short of our suppose so far

That after seven years' siege Troy's walls yet stand.

To find persistive constancy in men. (Tr. Cr. i. 3.)

(See Jul. Cæs. ii. 4, 7; M. M. iv. 3, 155.)

403. The art of forgetting.

Ben. Be ruled by me, forget to think of her.

Rom. O teach me how I should forget to think.

...

Fare

well, thou canst not teach me to forget. (Rom. Jul. i. 1.)

(See Nos. 114, 1168, 1241.)

404. Rather men than maskers.

With two striplings-lads . . . with faces fit for masks. . made good the passage. (Cymb. iv. 3.)

Bru. O, if thou wert the noblest of thy strain, Young man, thou could'st not die more honourable.

Cas. O peevish schoolboy, worthless of such honour, Joined to a masker and a reveller. (Jul. Cæs. v. 1.)

405. Variam dant, otia mentem. (Leisure gives change

of thoughts.)

Fruits of my leisure. (Let. to the King, 1609.)

Works of my recreation. (Let. to Sir Tobie Matthew.)

The unyoked partner of your idleness. (1 H. IV. i. 2.)

O, then we bring forth weeds, when our quick minds lie still.

(Ant. Cl. i. 2.)

Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know,
My idleness doth hatch. (Ib.)

O, absence, what a torment would'st thou prove

Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave

To entertain the time with thoughts of love. (Son. xxxiv.)

(See Essay Of Studies.)

406. Spire lynes.

Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move circles, thus rejecting spiral and serpentine lines.

(Nov. Org. i. 45.)

Mercury lose all the serpentine craft of thy caduceus.

(Tr. Cr. ii. 3.)

Folio 91.

407. Veruntamen vane conturbatur omnis homo.Ps. xxxix. 6. (Surely every man walketh in a vain shadow: surely they are disquieted in vain.)

King. O Ratcliff, I have dreamed a fearful dream.
Rat. Nay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadows.

Life's but a walking shadow. (Macb. v. 5.)

Show his eyes and grieve his heart,
Come like shadows, so depart. (Ib. iv. 2.)

(Rich. III. v. 3.)

I am but shadow of myself [rep.]. (1 Hen. VI. ii. 3.) Guild. The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Ham. A dream itself is but a shadow

Ros.

But a shadow's shadow. (Ham. ii. 2.)

I am sufficient to tell the world, 'tis but a gaudy shadow that old Time, as he passes by, takes with him. (Tw. N. Kins. ii. 2.)

408. Be the day never so long, at last it ringeth to

evensong.

We see yonder the beginning of the day, but I think we shall never see the end of it. (Hen. V. iv. 7.)

Yet this my comfort: when your words are done
My woes end likewise, with the evening sun.

(Com. Er. i. 1.)

The long day's task is done and we must sleep.

(Ant. Cl. iv. 12.)

Oh, that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it comes. But it sufficeth that the day will end, and then the endbe known. (Jul. Cæs. v. 1.)

The night is long that never finds the day. (Macb. iv. 3.)

Finish, good lady, the bright day is done,

And we are in the dark. (Ant. Cl. v. 2.)

So out went the candle and we were left darkling.

(Lear, i. 4.)

409. Vita salillum. (Life is a little salt cellar.from Eras. Adag. p. 1046, where, quoting Plautus,

Erasmus uses the expression, 'Salillum animæ,' for a brief span of life.)

How brief the life of man

Runs his erring pilgrimage,

That the stretching of a span

Buckles in his sum of age. (As Y. L. iii. 2.)

Timon is dead, who hath outstretched his span.

A man's life's but a span. (Oth. ii. 3.)

You have scarce time

(Tim. Ath. v. 4.)

To steal from spiritual leisure a brief span. (H. VIII. iii. 2.) Make use of thy salt hours. (Tim. Ath. v. 3.)

410. Non possumus aliquid contra veritatem sed pro veritate.-2 Cor. xiii. 8. (We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.)

Truth will soon come to light. in the end truth will out.

Truth is truth. (L. L. L. iv. 1; John, i.

Truth's a truth to the end of the chapter.

(Mer. Ven. ii. 2.) 1; All's W. iv. 2.)

(M. M. v. 1.)

411. Sapientia quoque perseveravit mecum.-Eccl. ii. 9, Vulgate. (Also my wisdom remained with me.)

So I leave you to your wisdom. (All's W. ii. 5.)

412. Magnorum fluviorum navigabiles fontes.—Eras. Adagia, 122. (The sources of great rivers are navigable. i.e. A little coming from a great man outweighs the whole merits of smaller men.)

You are the fount that makes small brooks to flow.

Now stops the spring; my sea shall suck thee dry,

And swell so much the higher by their ebb. (3 Hen. VI. iv. 8.)

All the treasons for these eighteen years,

Complotted and contrived in this land,

Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.

(R. II. i. 1.)

The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood
Is stopped; the very source of it destroyed.
Your royal father's murder'd. (Macb. ii. 4.)

413. Dos est uxoria lites. (A wife's dowry is strife!) For what is wedlock forced by a hell,

An age of discord and continual strife. (1 Hen. VI. 5.)

Pet. What dowry shall I have with her to wife?
Bap. After my death, the one half of my lands
Well may'st thou woo, and happy be thy speed!
But be thou arm'd for some unhappy words.

Pet. Ay to the proof, as mountains are for winds.
(Tam. Sh. ii. 1.)

414. Haud numine nostro.-Virg. Æn. ii. 396. (Lit.

not with heaven's power on our side.)

Pray to the devils. The gods have given us o'er.

Heavens, can you suffer hell so to prevail?

(Tit. And. iv. 2.)

(1 Hen. VI. i. 6.)

Tongues of heaven plainly denouncing vengeance upon John.

(John, iii. 4.)

Heaven itself doth frown upon the land. (Ib. iv. 3.)

415. Atque animis illabere nostris.-Virg. Æn. iii. 89.

(And glide into our minds.)

Dry up thy marrows, vines, and plough-torn leas;

Whereof ungrateful man with liquorish draughts

And morsels unctuous greases his pure mind

That from it all consideration slips. (Tim. Ath. iv. 3.)

(See ante, 22.)

416. Animos nil magnæ laudis egentes.-Virg. v. 751. (Minds that have no craving for high praise.)

My lords, 'tis but a base ignoble mind

That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

(2 Hen. VI. ii. 1.)

417. Magnanimj heroes natj melioribus annis.-Virg. En. vi. 649.

(Old heroic race

Born better times and happier years to grace.-Dryden.)

(See No. 25.)