Las honras quanto crecen mas hambre ponen. grow they increase thirst.)

To be thirsty after tottering honour. (Per. iii. 4.)

(As honours

Escritura es buena memoria. (Writing is good memory.)
Writing maketh the exact man. (Ess. Of Study.)

The help of the memory is writing. . . . It is of great service in studies to bestow diligence in setting down commonplaces, &c.

From the table of my memory

I'll wipe away all trivial, fond records,

All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
That youth and observation copied there

My tables-meet it is I set it down,

(Advt. L. v. 5.)

That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain! (Ham. i. v.) ·

I will make a brief of it in my note-book. (Mer. Wiv. i. 1.)

Set in a note-book, learned, and conned by rote. (Jul. Cæs. iv. 3,97.)

Un amor saca otro. (One love drives out another.)

As one nail by strength drives out another,

So the remembrance of a former love

Is by a newer object quite forgotten. (Tw. G. Ver. ii. 5.)

Desque naci llorè y cada dia nace porque. (When I was born I cried, and every day shows why.)

Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air

We wawl and cry. I'll preach to thee: mark me.

Glo. Alack, alack the day!

Lear. When we are born, we cry that we are come

To this great stage of fools. (Lear, iv. 6.)

Palabras azucarades por mas son amargas. (Sugared words are often bitter.)

Hide not thy poison with such sugared words. (2 Hen. VI. iii. 2.)

APPENDIX D.

THE RETIRED COURTIER.

1.

His golden locks hath Time to silver turnde
O time too swift! O swiftnes never ceasing!
His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurnd,
But spurnd in vaine; youth waneth by encreasing.
Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seene,
Duty, faith, love, are roots and ever greene.

2.

His helmet now shall make a hive for bees,
And lover's sonets turne to holy psalmes.
A man at armes must now serve on his knees,

And feed on praiers' which are age's almes;
But though from court to cottage he depart,
His saint is sure of his unspotted heart..

3.

And when he saddest sits in homely cell

He'll teach his swaines this carol for a song:
Blest be the hearts that wish my soveraigne well!
Curst be the soul that thinks her any wrong!
Goddes,2 allow this aged man his right,

To be your beadsman now, that was your knight.

(From Dowland's First Book of Songs, pub. 1600, and reprinted for the Percy Society, 1844.)

Mr. Collier remarks:

These lines certainly had some personal application, and read as if they had been written for Lord Burghley, when, in his old age, he withdrew from court; excepting that the subject of them must have been a soldier, if we interpret the second stanza literally. (See respecting the retirement of Lord Burghley in 1591, Hist. of Eng. Dramatic Poetry and the Stage, i. 283). It seems to have been occasioned by domestic affliction; and during his melancholy Lord Burghley resided in some cottage near his splendid residence at Theobalds, until he was visited by the Queen, to induce him to return to court.

''Praiers' here, as frequently in Shakespeare and in most authors of the time, is to be read a dissyllable.-J. P. COLLIER.

2 It does not appear what divinity is addressed; probably the Queen, under the character of Minerva.-J. P. COLLIER.

NOTES.

The change of colour in hair by age has only been found
noticed by Bacon (Nat. Hist. Cen. IX. 851) and in
the Plays of Shakespeare. Silver hair: The silver
livery of advised age' (2 Hen. VI. v. 2, and Tit. And.
iii. 1, 260). Silver beard: 2 H. IV. i. 43; Hen. V.
iii. 1, 36; Jul. Cæs. iii. 1; Tr. Cr. i. 3, 295.
See Promus, No. 422.

3

4

This waning age.

5

༤

(Tam. Sh. 2 Ind. 63, rep. ii. 1,

I care not to wax great by others waning.

394.)

(2 Hen. VI. iv. 10, and Sonnet cxxvi.)

See Promus, No. 805.

The gardens of love, wherein he now playeth himself, are fresh to-day and fading to-morrow.

Beauty, strength, youth. (See Promus, No. 1369.)

Roots. The good affection and friendship . . . betweeen us.. had a further root than ordinary acquaintance. (Let. to Mr. R. Cecil, 1596.)

All things that we ordained festival

Turn from their office to black funeral;

Our instruments to melancholy bells,

3 & 4 Promus, No. 510.

Thy blessed youth

(R. Jul. iv. 5.)

A heart unspotted. (2 Hen. VI. iii. 1.)

Saints, fair dear, &c. (Rom. Jul. i. 5, 101-105; and ii. 2, 54, and 61 in old editions.)

M M

Verse 3, 1. 1

Myself for quiet

am retired to Gray's Inn; for

when my chief friends were gone so far off it was time for me to go to a cell.

(Let. to Sir F. Cottington, 1622.)

I am master of a full poor cell. (Temp. i. 2.)

This cell 's my court. (Ib. v.

1.)

Sitting sadly. (Cymb. v. 2, 161.)

Sitting,

His arms in this sad knot. (Temp. i. 2.)

And as my duty springs, so perish they
That grudge one thought against your majesty!
(1 Hen. VI. i. 1.)

If ever I were traitor,

My name be blotted from the book of life.

(Frequent instances.)

(R. II. i. 3.)

O cursed be the hand.
Cursed the blood. (R. III. i. 2.)

5 & 6 See Promus, No. 510.

5

Our aged father's right. (Lear, iv. 5.)

O thou, the youthful author of my blood,
Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate,
Doth with a two-fold vigour lift me up.
Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers.
(R. II. i. 3.)

...

For the continuance whereof (your virtues) in the pro

your

longing of your days, I will still be beadsman. (Let. to Lord Burghley, 1597.)

Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers,

For I will be thy beadsman. (Tw. G. Ver. i. 1.)

APPENDIX E.

SIMILES AND METAPHORS IN THE 'PROMUS' AND ALSO IN THE PLAYS. THESE do not include all the Metaphors derived from the Bible texts, from the Proverbs, English, French, Italian, and Spanish, and from the Latin adages of Erasmus, which are noted in the Promus.