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An enemy's gift could never come to good.

Earl of Stirling's Tragedy of Croesus, act v. sc. 2.
I must

The poison'd bounties of a foe mistrust.

Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes. Fourth Entry.
Καὶ γὰρ τὰ δεινὰ καὶ τὰ καρτερώτατα
Τιμαῖς ὑπείκει· τοῦτο μέν, νιφοστιβεῖς
Χειμῶνες ἐκχωροῦσιν εὐκάρπῳ θέρει·
Εξίσταται δὲ νυκτὸς αἰανὴς κύκλος
Τῇ λευκοπώλῳ φέγγος ἡμέρᾳ φλέγειν.
Δεινῶν δ' ἄημα πνευμάτων εκοίμισε
Στένοντα πόντον.

Why, headstrong liberty is lash'd with woe,
There's nothing, situate under Heaven's eye,
But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.

Comedy of Errors, act ii. sc. 1.
Vice cuncta reguntur,

Alternisque regunt; propriis sub regibus omnis
Terra; premit felix regum diademata Roma;
Hanc ducibus frenare datum; mox crescit in illos
Imperium superis. Sed habent et numina legem:
Servit et astrorum velox chorus, et vaga servit
Luna, nec injussæ toties redit orbita lucis.

Statius Silv. III. iii. 49.

Day follows night, and night,
The dying day. Stars rise, and set, and rise;
Earth takes the example; see, the summer gay
With her green chaplet, and ambrosial flowers
Droops into pallid autumn; winter grey,
Horrid with frost, and turbulent with storm,
Blows autumn with its golden fruits away,
Then melts into the spring.

Young's Night Thoughts.

See also Lucret. V. 735. Claud. in quart. Cons. Hon. 248. Horace B. IV. ode

These cords of sleep wherewith I wont to bind
The strongest arms.

To have thee bound in chains of sleep, as here.

Brewer's Lingua, act v. sc. 10.

Browne's Inner Temple Masque.

Orpheus LXXXV. lines 1-4.

Σώματα δεσμεύων ἐν ἀχαλκεύτοισι πέδῃσι.

The same expression occurs in Cowley's lines to J. Evelyn.

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Τοῖς πολλοῖσι γὰρ

Βροτῶν ἄπιστός ἐσθ' ἑταιρείας λιμήν.

Μήποτε τὸν κακὸν ἄνδρα φίλον ποιεισθαι ἑτ ᾶιρον,
Αλλ ̓ ἀιεὶ φεύγειν, ὥσε κακὸν λιμένα.

Theognis, line 113.

And thou, Charles Mountjoy, who didst once afford
Rest for my fortunes, on thy quiet shore.

Daniel's Civil Warres b. I. Stanza 5.

671 Ἔφριξ ̓ ἔρωτι, περιχαρὴς δ ̓ ἀνεπτόμαν.

Καλλει δ ̓ ἱμερόεντος ἀνεπτόιητο Λέανδρου.

Musaeus, line 168.

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Ωστ ̓ εἰς τοσοῦτον ἦλθον, ὥστε καὶ χεροῖν
Κολεῶν ἐρυστὰ διεπεραιώθη ξίφη.

The villain Guy

Drew back, he durst not cross his steel
A minute's space with brave O'Neale..

Scott's Rokeby, Canto ii.

Our swords, when drawn, must cross.

Byron's Werner, act i. sc. 1.

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Οστις ἀνθρώπου φύσιν

Βλαστῶν, ἔπειτα μὴ κατ ̓ ἄνθρωπον φρονεῖ.

Yet he, at last, contending to excel

The reach of men

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into fond mischief fell.

Spenser's Fairy Queen, b. II. c. x. st. 26.

Αὐτὸν ἐννέπει τέκνον, δορὶ

Βούλου κρατεῖν μέν, σὺν θεῷ δ ̓ ἀεὶ κρατεῖν.
Ὃ δ ̓ ὑψικόμπως καφρόνως ημείψατο
Πάτερ, θεοῖς μὲν κἂν ὁ μηδὲν ὢν ὁμοῦ
Κράτος κατακτήσαιτ'· ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ δίχα
Κείνων πέποιθα τοῦτ ̓ ἐπισπάσειν κλέος.

Ourselves are our own angels; we implore not

Or supernatural, or spiritual aid,

We have our own good arms.

Milman's Fall of Jerusalem.

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Γενοίμεθ ̓ αὐτοῦ σὺν θεῷ σωτήριοι.

That, by the help of these, (with Him above
To ratify the work,) we may again

Give to our tables meat, &c.

Macbeth, act iii. sc. 6.

Τοῦ πότ ̓ ἀνθρώπων μαθών ;
Τοῦ Θεστορείου μάντεως, καθ' ἡμέραν
Τὴν νῦν ὅτ' αὐτῷ θάνατον ἢ βίον φέρει.

I myself

Am like a prophet suddenly enrapt,

To tell thee that this day is ominous,
Therefore, come back.

Troilus and Cressida, act v. sc. 3.

Οἱ δ ̓ ἑσπέρους ἀγκῶνας, οἳ δ' ἀντηλίους
Ξητεῖτ ̓ ἰόντες τἀνδρὸς ἔξοδον κακήν.

By all my griefs, I beg thee search these shores,
Each cliff, and cavern, where the wild waves beat,
For my lov'd lord.

Mallet's Eurydice, act i. sc. 4°

Τῆς παλαιᾶς χάριτος ἐκβεβλημένη.

And here I dwell outcaste from all joie.

Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida, B. V.

Χωρῶμεν, ἐγκονῶμεν· οὐχ ̓ ἕδρας ἀκμή,
Σώζειν θέλοντας ἄνδρα γ ̓ ὃς σπεύδῃ θανεῖν.

Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath
He hath against himself.

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Ουψ ἕδρας ἀκμή.

Cymbeline, act. sc. 4.

'Tis not sleepy business;

But must be look'd to, speedily and strongly.

Ibid. act. iii. sc. 5.

ΑΙΑΣ. Ὁ μὲν σφαγεὺς ἕστηκεν, ᾗ τομώτατος
Γένοιτ ̓ ἄν, εἴτῳ &c.

Arnold.

Now 'tis set,

And I can fall upon it; yet cne glance

Of the fair day, &c.

Now knife, stand firmly, as I fain would fall.

Pind. Isthm. iv. 8.

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Byron's Deformed Transformed.

Σιδηροβρῶτι θηγάνῃ νεηκονής.

So Appian, speaking of the file.

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Οία σιδηροβόροιο πέλει τέχνασμα σιδήρου.

De Re Venat. ii. 174.

Πηξα δ' αὐτὸν εὖ περιστείλας ἐγώ,
Εὐνούστατον τῷδ' ἀνδρὶ διὰ τάχους θανεῖν.

My friendly sword find thou my heart.

Davenport's City Night Cap, act v.

Death-doeynge blades were out, intent to hille.

Chatterton's Battle of Hastings.

Πεπτ τα τώδε περὶ νεοῤῥάντῳ ξίφει,

See Illustration to line 643.

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Αὐτοσφαγείς

Πρὸς τῶν φιλίστων ἐκγόνων ὀλοίατο.

For refer. see Sept. Cont. Theb. 716. and Supplices ad init.

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Σύ δ ̓, ὦ τὸν αἰπὸν οὐρανὸν διφρηλατῶν,
Ηλιε, πατρῴαν τὴν ἐμὴν ὅταν χθόνα
Ἴδης, ἐπισχὼν χρυσόνωτον ἡνίαν,
Αγγειλον ἄτας τὰς ἐμὰς μόρον τ ̓ ἐμὸν
Γέροντι πατρί τῇ τε δυστήνῳ τροφῷ.

Oh, thou bright Sun, now hastening to those climes,
That parent isle which I no more shall see,
And for whose welfare oft my youthful breast
Has vainly formed so many a fond design,
Oh thither bear, resplendent orb of day,
To that dear spot of earth, my last farewell.

Thomson's Edward and Eleonora act ii. sc. 2.