This man is now become a god.

(Jul. Cæs. i. 2.)

He's the very Jupiter of men. (Ant. Cl. iii. 1.)

He is a god, and knows what is most right. (Ant. Cl. iii. 2.) Immortality attends (nobleness), making a man a god. (Per. iii. 2.) Men are not gods. (Oth. iii. 4.)

We scarce are men, and you are gods. (Cymb. v. 2.)

43. Semper virgines furiæ. Courting a furye.-Er. Ad. 590. (The furies are always maidens.)

Ben. Her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December. (M. Ado, i. 1.)

Will you woo this wild cat? (Tam. Shrew, i. 2.)

I will bring you from a wild cat to a Kate, conformable as other Kates. (Tam. Shrew, ii. 1.)

(See 567.)

44. Di danari di senno e di fede, c'è ne manco che tu credi. Quoted Advt. L. viii. 2. (Of money, good sense, and faith you believe too much-lit. there is less than you fancy.)

(Repeated f. 88b, 265.)

(For difficulties connected with want of money, see Falstaff, Mer. Wiv. ii. 2; 1 Hen. IV. iii. 3; Antonio, Mer. Ven. i. 1,3; iii. 2; iv. 1, &c.; Tim. Ath. ii. 4, &c.)

(Instances of 'dullness,' want of sense,' 'feeling,' &c., are innumerable.)

Why hast thou broken faith with me?

O! where is faith? O! where is loyalty

(1 Hen. VI. v. 2.)

(Upwards of fifty passages on want of faith or fidelity.)

45. Chi semina spine non vada discalzo. (He who sows thorns should not go barefoot.)

The care you have of us to mow down thorns that would annoy our foot is worthy praise. (2 H. VI. iii. 1.)

46. Mas vale a quien Dios ayeuda que a quien mucho madruga. (Things go better with him whom God helps, than with him who gets up early to work.)

Heaven shall work for me in thine avail. . . . I'll stay at home and pray God's blessing unto thine attempt. (All's Well, i. 3.)

47. Quien nesciamente pecca nesciamente va al inferno. (He who ignorantly sins, ignorantly goes to hell.) Sayest thou the house is dark?

Madman, thou errest: I say there is no darkness but ignorance. . . . I say this house is dark as ignorance, though ignorance were as dark as hell. (Tw. N. iv. 2.)

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue! Heaven bless thee from a tutor, and discipline come not near thee. Let thy blood be thy direction till thy death. .. I have said my prayers, and devil Envy, say Amen. (Tr. Cr. ii. 3.)

48. Quien ruyn es en su villa, ruyn es en Sevilla. (He who is mean at home is mean at Seville (abroad.)

(Folio 95, 613.)

49. De los leales se hinchen los huespitales. (The hospitals (almshouses) are full of loyal subjects.)

(Folio 95, 622.)

Folio 84.

50. We may doe much yll ere we doe much woorse.

Ten thousand worse (evils) than ever I did would I perform,

if I might have my will. (Tit. And. v. 3.)

No worse of worst extended,

With vilest torture let my life be ended. (All's Well, ii. 1.)

What's worse than murderer, that I may name it? (3 H. VI. v. 6.)

I will make good. . . . what I have spoke, or thou canst worse devise. (R. II. i. 2.)

(See No. 956.)

51. Vultu læditur sæpe pietas.-Er. Ad. 1014. (Piety is often wounded by a person's looks.)

Nothing ought to be counted light in matter of religion and piety; as the heathen himself would say -Etiam vultu sæpe læ litur pietas. (Pacification of the Church.)

Proud prelate, in thy face I see thy fury. (2 Hen. VI. i. 2.)
The devout religion of mine eye. (Rom. Jul. i. 2.)
Glancing an eye of pity. (Mer. Ven. iv. 1.)

I spy some pity in thy looks. (R. III. i. 4.)
Here's another whose warped looks proclaim
What store her heart is made of.

(Lear, iii. 6.)

52. Difficilia quæ pulchra.-Eras. Adagia, 359. beautiful or good is difficult, or hard of attainment.)

These oracles are hardly attained

And hardly understood. (2 Hen. VI. i. 4.)

Is my Cressid, then, so hard to win? (Tr. Cr. iii. 1.)

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,

That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks;

(The

Small have continual plodders ever won. (L. L. L. i. 4.)

So study. . . . is won as towns with fire; so won, so lost. (Ib.) (See 989.)

53. Conscientia mille testes.-Eras. Adagia, 346; Quintilian, v. xi. 41. (Conscience is worth a thousand

witnesses.)

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,

And every tongue brings in a several tale,

And every tale condemns me for a villain

All several sins, all used in each degree,
Throng to the bar, crying all-Guilty! Guilty!

By the Apostle Paul, shadows to-night

Have struck more terror to the soul of Richmond

Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. (R. III. v. 3.)

The witness of a good conscience. (Mer. Wiv. iv. ii. 201.)

54. Summum jus summa injuria.-Cic. Officia, i. 10. (The extreme of justice is the extreme of injustice.)

Leon. Thou shalt feel our justice in whose easiest passage Look for no less than death ...

Her. I tell you 'tis rigour and not law. (W. T. iii. 1.) Justice, sweet prince, against that woman there! . . . that hath abused and dishonoured me, even in the strength and height of injury. (Com. Er. v. 1.)

This is the very top,

55. Nequicquam patrias tentasti lubricus artes.— Æn. xi. 716. (In vain hast thou with slippery tricks tried the arts of thy country.)

I want that glib and oily art to speak and purpose not.

(Lear, i. 1.)

You see now all minds, as well of glib and slippery creatures as of grave and austere quality, tender down their services. (Tim. Ath. i. 1.)

56. Et moniti meliora sequamur.-En. iii. 188. (And being advised what is better, let us follow it.)

Thy grave admonishments prevail with me. (1 H. VI. ii. 5.) (Compare R. II. ii. 1: Richard resenting the 'frozen admonition' of the dying Gaunt.)

It was excess of wine that set him on,

And, on his more advice, we pardon him. (Hen. V. ii. 2.)

57. Nusquam tuta fides.--Æn. iv. 373. (Firm faith exists nowhere.)

Trust nobody, for fear you be betrayed. (2 Hen. VI. iv. 4.)

O where is faith? O where is loyalty?

If it be banished from the frosty head

Where it should find a harbour.

(2 Hen. VI. v. 2.)

Trust none, for oaths are straws, men's faith are wafer-cakes.

(Hen. V. ii. 3.)

In him that was

As firm as faith.

Now does thine honour stand, of late a heretic,

(Mer. Wiv. iv. 4.)

Trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, against whose charms Faith melteth into blood. (M. Ado, ii. 1.)

(See John iii. 1, 8-10, 90-101, &c; and No. 1083.)

58. Discite justitiam moniti et non temnere divos.Æn. vi. 620. (Being warned, learn justice, and not to despise the gods.)

(Compare 56.)

K. Hen. Come, wife, let's in and learn to

govern better.
(2 Hen. VI. iv. 9.)

K. Hen. Edward Plantagenet, arise a knight, And learn this lesson-Draw thy sword in right.

(3 Hen. VI. ii. 5.)

Hot. Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command the devil By telling truth-tell truth and shame the devil.

(1 Hen. IV. iii. 1.)

Cleo. I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience. (Ant. Cl. v. 2.)

Imo. One of your great knowing

Should learn, being taught, forbearance. (Cymb. ii. 3.)

59. Quisque suos patimur manes.-Æn. vi. 743. (Each of us endures his own punishment in the under world.)

Ghost. I am thy father's spirit,

Doomed for a certain time to walk the night,

And for the day confined to fast in fires,

Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purged away. (Hum. i. 4.)

You'll surely sup in hell. (2 H. VI. v. 1, and iii. 2.)

Thou torment'st me ere I come to hell.

She's like a liar gone to burning hell.

(frequent.)

(Rich. II. iv. 1.)

(Oth. v. 2.)

60. Extinctus amabitur idem. (When dead he will also be loved.)

(Quoted in first essay Of Death.)