(See Winter's Tale, v. 1, 3; Leontes' love for Hermione, whom he supposes to have died.)

She's good, being gone.

(Ant. Cl. i. 2, &c.)

The ebbed man. comes dear by being lacked. (Ant. Cl. i. 4.)

That which we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it; but being lost and lacked,
Why then we rack the value. (M. Ado, iv. 1.)
(See All's Well, v. 3, 53-66.)

61. Optimus ille animi vindex, lædentia pectus.

62. Vincula qui rupit, dedoluitque semel.- Ovid. Rem. Am. (He is the best asserter (of the liberty) of his mind who bursts the chains that gall his breast, and at the same moment ceases to grieve.)

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. . . . Where nature is mighty, and therefore the victory hard, the degrees had need be, first to stay and arrest nature in time; . . . . but if a man have the fortitude and resolution to enfranchise himself at once, that is the best. (Latin quotation : Essay Of Nature in Men.)

If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not. (Ham. i. 5.)

O heart, lose not thy nature. (Ham. iii. 2.)

Refrain to-night:

And that shall lend a kind of easiness

To the next abstinence: the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

And master the devil, or throw him out

With wondrous potency. (Ham. iii. 4.)

(Compare this scene with essay Of Nature.)

63. Vertue like a rych gemme, best plaine sett. (Quoted verbatim in the essay Of Beauty, and in the Antitheta, Advt. L. vi. 3.)

Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil

Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil. (Tw. N. ii. 4.) Plain dealing is a jewel. (Tim. Ath. i. 1.)

(Compare No. 89.)

64. Quibus bonitas a genere penitus insita est. (In whom goodness is deeply seated by nature-lit. by the stock they are derived from.)

Virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock, but we shall relish of it. (Ham. iii. 1.)

(Temp. iv. 1.)

A devil, a born devil, on whose nature
Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains
Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost.
Thy goodness share with thy birthright.
(See 2 H. VI. iii. 2, 210-215; Rich. III.

(All's Well, i. 4.) iii. 7, 119-121.)

65. Ii jam non mali esse volunt sed nesciunt. (Those men are willing to be no longer bad, but they know not how.)

O! my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;

It hath the primal curse upon't,

A brother's murder! Pray can I not . .
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect . . . Then I'll look

up:

My fault is past. But O! what form of prayer

Can serve my turn? . . .

What then? what rests?

Try what repentance can: what can it not?

Yet what can it, when one can not repent? (Ham. iii. 3.)

66. Economici rationes publicas pervertunt. (Economists deprave the public accounts.)

67. Divitiæ impedimenta virtutis. (The baggage of virtue.)

I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue (the Roman is better "impedimenta "); for as the baggage is to an army, so riches is to virtue. (Ess. xxiv. and also in Advt. L. vi. 3.)

Wealth the burden of wooing. (Tam. Sh. i. 2.)

If thou art rich, thou'rt poor;

For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,

Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey. (M. M. iii. 1.)

68. Habet et mors aram. (Death too has an altar.)

They come like sacrifices in their trim,
And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war
we will offer them.

The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit

Up to the ears in blood. (1 H. IV. iv. 1.)

69. Nemo virtuti invidiam reconciliaverit præter mortem. (No one but death can reconcile envy to virtue.)

(See Cæsar's regrets on the death of Antony, Ant. Cl. v. 2; Katharine's speech on the death of Wolsey, Hen. VIII. iv. 2; Antony on the death of Brutus, Jul. Cæs. v. 5.)

70. Turpe proco ancillam sollicitare; est autem virtutis ancilla laus. (It is disgraceful for a suitor to solicit (his lady's) handmaid, but praise is the handmaid of virtue.)

(Quoted in a letter of advice to Rutland.)

71. Si suum cuique tribuendum est certe et venia humanitati. (If every one is entitled to his own, surely humanity also is entitled to indulgence.)

Suum cuique is our Roman justice. (Tit. And. i. 2.)

72. Qui dissimulat liber non est. (He who dissembles is not free.)

He that dissimulates is a slave. (Advt. of L. vi. 3, Antitheta.)
The dissembler is a slave. (Per. i. 1.)

'Tis a knavish piece of work, but what of that? . . We that have free souls it toucheth us not. (Ham. iii. 2.)

73. Leve efficit jugum fortunæ jugum amicitiæ. (The yoke of friendship makes the yoke of fortune light.)

"Twere a pity to sunder them that yoke so well together.

(3 H. VI. iv. 1.)

Yoke-fellows in arms. (H. V. ii. 4)

Companions whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love.

(Mer. Ven. iii. 4.)

Take to thy grace

Me thy vowed soldier, who do bear thy yoke

As 'twere a wreath of roses.

(Two N. Kins. v. 1.)

74. Omnis medicina innovatio.

Every remedy is an innovation, (Advt. vi. 3; Antitheta, 'Innovation.')

Changes fill the cup of alteration with divers liquors.

Hurly-burly innovation. (1 H. IV. v. 1.)

(2 H. IV. iii. 1.)

Their inhibition comes by the means of the late innovation.

(Ham. ii. 2.)

75. Auribus mederi difficillimum. (To cure the ears is most difficult.)

So that the whole ear of Denmark

Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abused. (Ham. i. 4)

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it; never in the tongue of him that makes it. with the clamour of their own dear

scorns, continue them. (L. L. L. v. 2.)

Then if sickly ears, deafed groans, will hear your idle

To punish you by the heels would amend the attention of your ears; and I care not if I do become your physician. (2 H. IV. i. 2.)

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. (Temp. i. 1.)

O master! what strange infection

Is fallen into thine ear? (Cymb. iii. 1.)

It is the disease of not hearing and the malady of not marking that I am troubled with, &c. (2 Hen. IV. i. 2.) .

76. Suspicio fragilem fidem solvit, fortem incendit. (Suspicion dissolves a weak faith and inflames a strong one.)

Corn. Seek out where thy father is, that he may be ready for our apprehension.

Edm. (aside). If I find him comforting the King it will stuff his suspicion more fully. (Lear, iii. 5.)

Trifles light as air

Are to the jealous confirmations strong.
The Moor already changes with my poison.
Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons,
Which at the first are scarce found to distaste;
But, with a little, act upon the blood,

Burn like mines of sulphur. (Oth. iii. 3.)

77. Pauca tamen suberunt priscæ vestigia fraudis.Virg. Eclog. iv. 31. (Yet some few traces of ancient wickedness shall remain.)

78. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.-Hor. Odes, iii. 2, 13. (It is sweet and becoming to die for one's country.)

I'll yield myself to prison willingly,

Or unto death, to do my country good. (2 H. VI. ii. 5.)

Had I a dozen sons, each in their love alike,

I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country. (Cor. i. 3.)

If any think brave death outweighs bad life,

And that his country's dearer than himself,
Let him alone, &c. (Cor. i. 6.)

79. Mors et fugacem persequitur virum.-Hor. Odes, iii. 2, 13. (Death pursues even the man that flies from him. Away! for death doth hold us in pursuit. (3 H. VI. ii. 5.) I fly not death to fly his deadly doom. (Tw. G. Ver. iii. 1.) Death and danger dog the heels of worth. (4. W. iii. 4.) Edward and Richard, like a brace of greyhounds

Having the fearful flying hare in sight.

Are at our backs...

Away, for vengeance comes along with them.

(3 H. VI. ii. 5.)

Death and destruction dog thee at the heels. (Rich. III. iii. 1.)

80. Danda est hellebori multo pars maxima avaris. (By far the largest portion of hellebore' should be given to the covetous.)

Hellebore, a medicine for madness.