877. To symme without a barke. (Sine cortice nabis.'---Horace; Eras. Ad. 274. To swim without corks. Of those arrived at years of discretion, and can do without a mentor.)

Little wanton boys that swim on bladders. (Hen. VIII. iii. 2.)

878. An owles egg. (Noctuinum ovum.- -Eras. Ad. 370. It was an old superstition that if a child ate of an owl's egg before it had tasted wine, it would be a total abstainer all its life. Applied therefore to the abstemious.)

879. Shake another tree. (Aliam quercum excute.-Eras. Ad. 169. Shake another oak. Of the importunate for money or favours whom you bid try somebody else, as they have drained you.)

You do grow so in my requital, as nothing can unroot you.
(All's Well, v. 1.)

He is the oak-not to be shaken. (Cor. v. 2.)

Macbeth is ripe for shaking. (Macb. iv. 3.)

If I were ripe for your persuasion, you
Have said enough to shake me from the arm

Of the all-noble Theseus. (Tw. N. Kins. i. 3.)

He will shake Rome about your ears, as Hercules did shake down mellow fruit. (Cor. iv. 7.)

880. E terra spectare naufragia.—Eras. Ad. 1050. (To watch the shipwrecks from the shore.)

(See Miranda's account of the shipwreck, Temp. i. 2.)

It is a view of delight (saith Lucretius) to stand or walk upon the shore side, and to see a ship tossed with tempest upon the sea. (Advt. of L. i.; Spedding, iii. 317.)

881. In diem vivere.--Eras. Ad. 282. (To live [only] for the day. In content, little solicitous for the future.)

Who doth ambition shun,

And loves to live i' the sun,

Come hither. (As Y. L. ii. 5.)

You... that under the shade of melancholy boughs

Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time. (Ib. ii. 7.)

O God! methinks it were a happy life

To be no better than a homely swain;

To sit upon a hill as I do now;

To carve out dials quaintly point by point,

Thereby to see the minutes how they run. (3 Hen. VI. ii. 5.)

882. Uno die consenescere.-Eras. Ad. 706. (To grow old in one day.)

883. Πόρρω Λιόςτε καὶ κεραυνοῦ. Porro a Jove atque fulmina.-Eras. Ad. 131. (Far from Jove and his thunderbolt. Beware how you deal with autocrats and tyrants, who have your life at their disposal.)

Could great men thunder

As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet,

For every pelting, petty officer

Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder.

His nature is too noble for this world:

(M. M. ii. 2.)

(Cor. iii. 2.)

He would not flatter Jove for his power to thunder.

(And see Ant. Cl. iii. 11, 85-88.)

Folio 101.

884. Servire scena.-Eras. Ad. 54. (To serve or gratify the stage [of the world]-i.e. the public.

to live must live to please.')

They that please

Are we all met?

Pat, pat, and here's a marvellous place for our rehearsal.

(M. N. D. iii. 1.)

O for a muse of fire that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention! A kingdom for a stage! princes to act, and monarchs to behold the swelling scene. (Hen. V. i. cho.)

(See the envois at the end of All's Well; 2 Hen. IV.; Hen. V.; Twelfth N.; Tw. N. Kins.)

885. Omnium horarum homo.-Eras. Ad. 126. (A man of every hour. Ready to be grave or gay at all hours.)

I am not a day of season, for thou mightest see a sunshine and

a nail in me at once. (All's W. v. 3.)

You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time's flies

and minute-jacks. (Tim. Ath. iii. 6.)

A time-pleaser. (Tw. N. ii. 4.)

vapour

886. Spartæ servi maxime servj.--Eras. Ad. 1018. (The slaves of Sparta were the greatest of slaves.)

Your servant's servant is your servant. (Tw. N. iii. 1.)

(To Iago.) O Spartan dog! (Oth. v. 2.)

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887. Non sum ex istis hæroibus (potentibus ad nocendum).—Er. Ad. 499. (I am not of those heroes more ready to injure than to do good. Heroes here the djins or genii of the East-more disposed to be malevolent than beneficent. Used therefore by those who professed to help, not to harm.)

888. Scopæ dissolutæ : scopas dissoluere.-Cicero ; Er.· Ad. 190. (Broken up brooms. Said of the disorderly and worthless, who can be put to no use.)

Cade. I am the besom that must sweep the court clean of such filth as thou art. (2 Hen. VI. iv. 8.)

889. Clavum clavo pellere.-Eras. Ad. 61. (With one nail to drive out [another] nail.)

As one nail by strength drives out another,

So the remembrance of my former love

Is by a newer object quite forgotten. (Tw. G. Ver. ii. 4.)

One fire drives out one fire: one nail one nail :

Rights by rights alter: strengths by strength prevail.

(Cor. iv. 6.)

890. Extra quærere sese.-Eras. Ad. 496.

(To look out

of oneself, as Aristippas. To regard the popular opinion of you rather than the voice within you.)

of your

O that you could turn your eyes towards the napes necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves! O that you could . . . then you would discover a brace of unmeriting, proud, violent, testy magistrates, (alias fools,) as any in Rome! (Cor. ii. 1.)

891. Cumjnj sector.-Eras. Ad. 357. (Splitter of hairs. Lit. a cummin-splitter-i.e. a skinflint or niggard.)

The school-men. are Cymini sectores.' (Essay Of Study) (And Advt. of L. i.; Spedding, iii. 305.)

I profess requital to a hair's breadth. (Mer. Wiv. iv. 1.)
If thou cut'st more

Or less than just a pound, be it but so much

As makes it light or heavy in the substance,
Or the division of the twentieth part

Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn
But in the estimation of a hair,

Thou diest. (Mer. Ven. iv. 1.)

In the way of bargain mark ye me;

I'll cavill on the ninth part of a hair. (1 H. IV. iii. 1.)

The tithe of a hair was never lost in

my house before.

(Ib. iv. 2.)

The prince himself is such another (as Poins); the weight of a hair will turn the scales between their avoir-du-poids.2 H. IV. ii. 4.

892. Laconicæ lunæ.-Eras. Ad. 494. ("Laconicas lunas.' [You plead] Spartan moons-because the Spartans, when asked to give the help promised, used to plead the phase of the moon, it not being full.)

893. Corvus æquat.-Eras. Ad. 662. (The raven procures water. From the fable of raising up the water by throwing in pebbles. When trouble and ingenuity have to be employed to obtain a thing.)

894. Ne incalceatus in montes.-Eras. Ad. 960. (Go not up bare-legged into the mountains. Arm yourself against the difficulties. you may meet with in the mode of life you mean to adopt.)

Armed to bear the tidings of calamity. (R. II. iii. 2.)
I am armed against the worst. (3 Hen. VI. iv. 1.)

I am armed, and dangers are to me indifferent.

(Ten similar instances.)

(Jul. Cæs. i. 3; ib. iv. 3, 67.)

895. Domj Milesia.-Eras. Ad. 135. [Practise] Milesian [luxury] at home- i.e. enjoy yourself as you please in your own house, but do not disparage what your hostess provided.

896. Sacra hæc non aliter constant.-Eras. Ad. 483. (These rites do not otherwise hold good. When you excuse yourself for some license of conduct on an occasion when it was pardonable.)

Ham. The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels;

And as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,

The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out

The triumph of his pledge.

But to my mind it is a custom

More honoured in the breach than the observance.

(Ham. i. 4.)

897. Gallus insilit.-Eras. Ad. 696. (The cock springs to the attack. When one defeated renews the fight.)

Clo. Every jack slave hath his belly full of fighting, and I must go up and down like a cock than nobody can match.

2nd Lord. You are a cock and a capon too; and you crow cock with your comb on. (Cymb. ii. 1.)

898. Leonis vestigia quæris (ostentation with cowardize).-Er. Ad. 873. (You are looking for the lion's tracks— not the lion himself.)

899. fumos vendere.-Eras. Ad. 112. (To sell smoke. Make empty promises.)

Calm words folded up in smoke. (John, ii. 1.)

(See No. 93.)