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Let no unworthy marks of grief be heard,
No wild laments, not one unseemly word;
Let sober triumphs wait upon my bier,
I won't forgive the friend, who drops one tear.

Churchill's Conference.

When I am dead,

Save charge; let me be buried in a nook";
No guns, no pompous whining, these are fooleries.

Ford's Lover's Melancholy, act ii. sc. 2.

On that form,

Yet free from the worms outrage, let no tear

Be shed, not e'en in thought.

Shelley's Alastor.

So Hor. II., xxi. 31; Ennius ap. Cic. Tusc. Quæst.

Pope, Byron, and Moore, have expressed the same sentiment.

1191

Εἰ δὲ μὴ, μενῶ σ ̓ ἐγὼ,
Καὶ νέρθεν ὤν, ἀραῖος εἶσαεὶ βαρύς.

I charge you; as you hope

To live in quiet, for when I am dead,

For certain I shall walk to visit him,

If he break promise with me.

Beaumont and Fletcher's King and no King, act ii. sc. 1.

1235 ΥΛΛ. Αλλ' ἐκδιδαχθῶ δῆτα δυσσεβεῖν, πάτερ;

Ah, sir, I humbly crave,

You'd not such orders on my duty lay,

Which I must be disloyal to obey.

Crowne's Charles VIII., act i.

1250

1268

Ὦ ψυχὴ σκληρά, χάλυβος
Λιθοκόλλητον στόμιον παρέχουσ',
Ανάπαυε βοήν.

His voice leapt out, despite of godlike curb,
To this result.

Κοὐδεν τούτων, ὅ τι μὴ Ζεύς.

Hom. Odyss. Λ. 557-8.

Keats' Hyperion, b. i.

PHILOCTETES.

38

Καὶ ταῦτά γ' ἄλλα θάλπεται
Ράκη, βαρείας τοὺ νοσηλείας πλέα.

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VESP.

CAM.

Θέλῃς καθ ̓ ἡμῶν ἔσχατ' ἐσχάτων κακά.

Are we agreed?

Most readily on th' other side, unto the lord, her husband, talk as coarsely of one another as we can. Ford's Fancies Chaste and Noble, act iii. sc. 1.

For ἔσχατ ̓ ἐσχάτων, see Ed. Τyr. 466, 7; Persæ, 667.

83

Ημέρας μέρος βραχὺ.

Δός μοι σεαυτόν.

Da te hodie mihi.

Ter. Adelph. v. 3.

Da mihi te placidum.

86

Ovid. Fast. i. 17.

Οὓς ἂν τῶν λόγων ἀλγῶ κλύων,
Παῖ, τοὺς δὲ καὶ πράσσειν στυγῶ.

This construction is very uncommon in English.

The thing that thou went'st for, has thou brought it to pass?

For the sentiment of the whole dialogue,

JUBA.

Gammer Gurton's Needle.

Can such dishonest thoughts Rise up in man? Would'st thou seduce my youth To do an act that would destroy my honour? SYPHAX. Gods! I could tear my beard to hear you talk: Honour's a fine imaginary word

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JUBA.

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Syphax, I fear that hoary head of thine

Abounds too much in our Numidian wiles.

SYPHAX. Indeed, my prince, you want to know the world, You have not read mankind.

94

Addison's Cato, act ii. sc. 1.

Also Southey's Madoc, b. xxvi., p. 372, new edition.

Βούλομαι δ', ἄναξ, καλῶς

Δρῶν ἐξαμαρτεῖν μᾶλλον, ἢ νικῶν κακῶς.

Successus superant adversa Catonis.

Claud. in Quart. Consulat Honor. 411.

I shall have glory by this losing day,
More than Octavius and Mark Antony,
By this vile conquest, shall attain unto.

'Tis better

Julius Cæsar, act v. sc. 5.

To suffer treason than to act the traitor,
And in a war like this, in which the glory
Is his that's overcome.

Beaumont and Fletcher's Bloody Brother, act i. sc. 1.

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