98

121

125

Even there

Against the hospitable canon, would I
Wash my fierce hand in his heart.

Coriolanus, act. i. sc. x.

Ωστ ̓ οὔποτ ̓ Αἴανθ ̓ οἵδ ̓ ἀτιμάσουσ ̓ ἔτι.

If he be taken, he shall never more
Be fear'd of doing harm.

King Lear, act. ii. sc. l.

Ἐγὼ μὲν οὐδέν ̓ οἶδ'· ἐποικτείρω δέ νιν,
Δύστηνον ἔμπας, καίπερ ὄντα δυσμενῆ,
Οθούνεκ ̓ ἅτῃ συγκατέζευκται κακῇ,
Οὐδὲν τὸ τούτου μᾶλλον ἢ τοὐμὸν σκοπῶν.

Here I see thee fall'n below

My most revengeful wish, and all the rage,
The noble fury, that this morn enflamed me,
Is sunk to soft conpassion.

Thomson's Sophonisba, i. 4.

None can the turns of Providence foresee,
Or what their own catastrophe may be.

Pomfret's Cruelty and Lust.

Ὁρῶ γὰρ ἡμᾶς οὐδὲν ὄντας ἄλλο, πλὴν
Εἴδωλ ̓, ὅσοιπερ ζῶμεν, ἢ κούφην σκιάν.

And what art thou, a shadow less than shade,
A nothing less than nothing.

*Ανθρωπός έτι πνεῦμα καὶ σκιὰ μόνον.

Young's Night Thoughts, v.

Gnome Monostich. Poet. Gnom. Græc. Leips. 1829.

For further instances see P. V. 446.

127

Τοιαῦτα τοίνυν εἰσορῶν, ὑπέρκοπον
Μηδέν ποτ' εἴπῃς αὐτὸς εἰς θεοὺς ἔπος,
Μηδ' ὄγκον ἄρῃς μηδέν', εἴ τινος πλέον
Ἢ χειρὶ βρίθεις, ἢ μακροῦ πλούτου βάθει.
Ως ἡμέρα κλίνει τε κἀνάγει πάλιν
"Απαντα τἀνθρώπεια· τοὺς δὲ σώφρονας
Θεοὶ φιλοῦσι.

More serious is the object offered before our eyes. In these Heaven's justice, in these a most remarkable precedent to teach us within our heights to know ourselves.

139

T. Heywood's Fortune by Land and Sea, act v. sc. 1.

Hark! again he raves;

My friends, if you can bear the shocking sight,
Such a sad abject view of human nature,
May check our pride, and teach us we are men.

Whincop's Scanderbeg, act. v.

Μέγαν ὄκνον ἔχω καὶ πεφόβημαι,
Πτηνῆς ὡς ὄμμα πελείας.

οὐδὲ πελέιης

Τρήρωνος λήθοντο.

Apoll. Rhod. ii. 533.

They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria.

154

Τῶν γὰρ μεγάλων ψυχῶν ἱείς,

Οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτοι· κατὰ δ ̓ ἄν τις ἐμοῦ
Τοιαῦτα λέγων, οὐκ ἂν πείθοι.
Πρὸς γὰρ τὸν ἔχονθ' ὁ φθόνος ἕρπει.

And the brute crowd whose envious zeal,
Huzzas each turn of Fortune's wheel';
And loudest shouts, when lowest lie,
Exalted worth, and station high.

Hosea xi. 11.

Scott's Rokeby, Canto vi.

For whoso reaps renown above the rest,
By heaps of hate shall surely be oppress'd.

Sir W. Raleigh on Gasgoyne's Steel Glass.

Envy, like the sun, doth beat

With scorching rays on all that's high and great.

ἱείς

Waller on the Duke of Monmouth's expedition.

Is this the happiness of being born great,

Still to be aimed at?

Ben Jonson's Sejanus, act iv.

158 Καίτοι σμικροὶ μεγάλων χωρὶς
Σφαλερὸν πύργου ῥῦμα πέλονται·
Μετὰ γὰρ μεγάλων βαιὸς ἄριστ ̓ ἄν,
Καὶ μέγας ὀρθοῖθ ̓ ὑπὸ μικροτέρων.

169

Such is the world's great harmony, that springs
From order, union, full consent of things ;

Where small and great, where weak and mighty, made
To serve, not suffer; strengthen, not invade;

More powerful each as needful to the rest,

And, in proportion as it blesses bless'd.

Neither the King, nor he that loves him best,

The proudest he that holds up Lancaster

Dares stir a wing, if Warwick shake his bells.

Hen. VI. Part III. act i. sc. 1.

Warwick is here evidently compared to the Falcon.

183

Οὔ ποτε γὰρ φρενόθεν γ ̓ ἐπ ̓ ἀριστερὰ, &c.

A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

193

Στηρίζει ποτὲ τῇδ ̓ ἀγωνίῳ σχολᾷ,
"Αταν οὐρανίαν φλέγων.

Ecclesiasticus x. 2.

Fulmineâ torvum exclamat Marcellus ab irâ.

Sil. Ital., xi. 99.

And Conrad, you—the soul of all our counsels !
What discontents you, that in anger thus,
You flash upon your friends?

Shee's Alasco, act iii. sc. 2.

264

Of all miseries, I hold that chief,

Wretched to be, when none coparts our grief.

Webster's Cure for a Cuckold, act v. sc. 1.

Fellowship in woe, doth woe assuage.

Shakspere's Rape of Lucrece.

̔Α νὴρ ἐκεῖνος, ἡνίκ ̓ ἦν ἐν τῇ νόσῳ,
Αὐτὸς μὲν ἥδεθ ̓, οἶσιν εἴχετ ̓ ἐν κακοῖς,

Νῦν δ ̓, ὡς ἔληξε, κανέπνευσε τῆς νόσου,
Κεϊνός τε λύπῃ πᾶς ἐλήλαται κακῇ.

Pol, me occidistis, amici,

Non servastis, ait, cui sic extorta voluptas
Et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error.

Hor. Epist. II., ii. 138.

Better I were distract;

So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs;

And woes, by wrong imaginations lose

The knowledge of themselves.

Then, methinks I am a brave fellow,

King Lear, act iv. sc. 6.

I am never better than when I am mad;

Then I do wonders; but reason abuseth me.

Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, act iii.

There are similar passages in Lee's Œdipus, act v. sc. 1; Trapp's Alra Mule, act iv. sc. 2.

286

Γύναι, γυναιξὶ κόσμον ἡ σιγὴ φέρει.

Launce. Oh villain, that set this down among her vices.
To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.
Two Gentlemen of Verona, act iii. sc. 1.

294

Λόγους ἀνέσπα.

Σκιᾷ τινὶ

P.V. 1067 for ȧvéστα.

Swagger, swear, and discourse fustian with one's own

shadow.

303

Othello, act ii. sc. 3.

Κόμην ἀπρὶξ ὄνυξι συλλαβὼν χερί.

See for Illustration, Persæ, 1019.

370

Τί δῆτ ̓ ἂν ἀλγοίης ἐπ ̓ ἐξειργασμένοις ;
Οὐ γὰρ γένοιτ ̓ ἂν ταυθ ̓ ὅπως οὐχ ὧδ ̓ ἔχειν.

Things without remedy,

Should be without regard; what's done, is done.

Helpless hap it booteth not to moan.

Macbeth, act iii. sc. 2.

Spencer's Fairy Queen, book I. canto iv. stanza 49.

What's not in you,

To be prevented, should not cause a sorrow.