Fal. What wind blew thee hither, Pistol?

Pis. Not the ill wind which blows no man to good.

499. Thear be more ways to the wood than one.
Heaven leads a thousand differing ways to one sure end.
(Tw. N. Kins. i. 4.)

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger. (Ven. Ad.)

Many things having full reference to one consent may work contrariously. . . . As many ways meet in one town; so may a thousand actions end in one purpose. (Hen. V. i.; and see C'or. v. i. 59.)

500. Tymely crooks the tree that will a good camocke be.

501. Better is the last smile than the first laughter. Oth. Look how he laughs already

Cass. Ha, ha, ha!

...

Oth. So, so, so, so. . . . They laugh that win. (Oth. iv. 1.)

502. No peny no paternoster.

503. Every one for himself, and God for us all.

We must every one be a man of his own fancy.

God and his good angels fight for you. [Twice.] (Ib. v. 3.)

Folio 93.

504. Long standing and small offering.

505. The catt knows whose lippes she lickes.
Dogs easily won to fawn on any man. (R. II. iii. 2.)
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. (Cor. ii. 1.)

506. As good never the whit as never the better.

(Quoted in 'Rhetorical Sophistries,' Advt. vi. 3.)

Ne'er a whit, not a jot, Tranio. (Tam. Sh. i. 1.)

Well, more or less or ne'er a whit at all. (Tit. And. iv. 2.)

507. Fluvius quæ procul sunt irrigat.—Eras. Ad. 644.

The current that with gentle murmur glides,

Thou know'st, being stopp'd impatiently, doth rage;

But, when his fair course is not hindered,

He makes sweet music to the enamell'd stones,
Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge

He overtaketh in his pilgrimage;

And so by many winding nooks he strays

With willing sport to the wide ocean.

(Tw. G. Ver. iii. 7.)

508. As far goeth the pilgryme as the post.

Then let me go, and hinder not my course.

I'll make a pastime of each weary step.

'Tis the last step have brought me to my love. (Tw. G. Ver. iii. 7. ? Connect with the last passage, of which this is the sequel.)

509. Cura esse quod audis.-Er. Ad. 879; Horace. (Take care to be what you are reported to be.)

A mighty man of Pisa; by report

I know him well. (Tam. Sh. ii. 1, and ib. 237–246; iv. 4, 28.)
His clothes made a false report of him.

(Cor. iv. 6, and ib. i. 3, 18-20; i. 9, 53-55.)
She's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to her, &c.
(Ant. Cl. ii. 2, 189-195, and ib. i. 4, 39, 40.)

I honour him even out of your report.

(Frequent.)

(Cymb. i. 1, 54, and see ib. 16-27.)

510. Εργα νεων, βουλαι δε μεσων ευχ αν δε γεροντων. (The deeds of young men, the counsels of middle-aged men, the prayers of old men.)1

511. Taurum tollet qui vitulum sustulerit.-Er. Ad. 79. (The man who carried a calf will carry a bull.)

A similar idea runs through a short anonymous poem, supposed to be addressed to Lord Burghley, circ. 1591-2. See Appendix D.

Milo of Crotona, from carrying a calf daily some distance, was able to do so when it became a bull.

512. Lunæ radiis non maturescit botrus.—Er. Ad. 987. (The cluster does not ripen in the rays of the moon.) The cold and fruitless moon. (M. N. D. i. 1.) Honeysuckles ripened by the sun. (M. Ado, iii. 1.) No sun to ripe the bloom. (John, ii. 2.)

Things grow fair against the sun. (Oth. ii. 3.)

She is not hot, but temperate as the moon.1 (Tam. Sh. ii. 1.)

513. Nil profuerit bulbos Ye potado will do no good. -Er. Ad. 888. (=Study is of no use without ability.) Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,

That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks :

Small have continual plodders ever won, &c.

(L. L. L. i. 2, and Tam. Sh. i. 1, 39.)

514. All this wynd shakes no corn.

Small winds shake him. (Tw. Nob. Kins. i. 3.)
Like to the summer's corn, by tempest lodged.

(2 Hen. VI. iii. 2.)

Swifter than the wind upon a field of corn.

(Tw. N. Kins. ii. 3.)

(See Tam. Sh. i. 2, 70, 95, 200, 210.)

515. Dormientis rete trahit. Er. Ad. 186. (The sleeping man's nett draweth—said of those who obtain, without an effort, what they desire.)

516. Ijsdem e❜literis efficitur tragedia et comedia.

Tragedies and comedies are made of one alphabet. (Er. Ad. 725.)

I have sent you some copies of the Advancement, which you desired; and a little work of my recreation, which you desired not. My Instauration I reserve for our conference-it sleeps not. Those works of the Alphabet are in my opinion of less use to you where you are now, than at Paris, and therefore I conceived that you had sent me a kind of tacit countermand of your former

'Mr. Collier's text. Other editions have 'morn.'

request. But in regard that some friends of yours have still insisted here, I send them to you; and for my part, I value your own reading more than your publishing them to others. Thus, in extreme haste, I have scribbled to you I know not what.

(Letter from Bacon to Sir Tobie Matthew, 1609.)

What these works of the alphabet' may have been I cannot guess; unless they related to Bacon's cipher, &c. (Mr. Spedding's comment on the above, Phil. Works, i. 659.)

(See also Advt. of L. ii. (Spedding, iii. 399), where Bacon quotes Aristotle, who says that words are the images of cogitations, and letters are the images of words.)

517. Good wine needes no bush.

Good wine needs no bush. (As Y. L. Epilogue.)

518. Heroum filij noxæ.-Erasmus, Ad. 204. (Heroes' sons are banes—or plagues, being usually degenerate.) saw his heroical seed mangle the work of nature. (Hen. V. ii.)

Who

519. The hasty bytche whelpes a blind litter.

The rogues lighted me into the river with as little remorse as they would have drowned a blind bitch's puppies, fifteen i' the litter. (Mer. Wiv. iii. 4.)

520. Alia res sceptrum, alia plectrum.—Eras. Adagia, 872. (A sceptre and a lyre are quite different things.)

Desired at a feast to touch a lute, he (Themistocles) said: 'He could not fiddle, but yet he could make a small town a great city.' These words-holpen a little with a metaphor-may express two different abilities in those that deal in business of state. (See Essay Of True Greatness of Kingdoms, Advt. L. i.; and De Aug. viii. 3.)

Princes many times make themselves desires and set their hearts upon a toy as Nero for playing on the harp.

Plantagenet, I will; and like thee, Nero,

(Ess. Of Empire.)

Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn. (1 Hen. VI. i. 4.)

521. Fere Danaides. (Almost [like] the daughters of Danus, whose punishment in hell was to pour water into an empty sieve.)

into a sieve. (M. Ad. v. 1.)

I know I love in vain, strive against hope;

Yet in this captious and intenible sieve

I still pour in the waters of my love. (All's Well, i. 3.)

522. Arbore dejectâ quivis ligna collegit.—Er. Ad. 655. (Any man can gather wood when the tree is down.)

We take from every tree top, bark, and part o' the timber;
And though we leave it with a root thus hacked,

The air will drink the sap. (Hen. VIII. i. 2.)

523. The strives of demy goddes demi men.

Thus can the demi-god authority make us pay down for our offence. (M. M. i. 2.)

(Demi-god three times in the plays.)

Demi-atlas. (Ant. Cl. i. 3, 23.)
Demi-cannon. (Tam. Sh. iv. 3, 88.)
Demi-devil. (Oth. v. 2, 303.)

Demi-natured. (Ham. iv. 7, 86.)

Demi-paradise. (R. II. ii. 1, 42.)

524. Priscis credendum.-Eras. Ad. 1036. (We must believe the ancients (them of old time).

Old fashions please me best. (Tam. Sh. iii. 1.)

Let me not live. to be the snuff of younger spirits, whose apprehensive spirits all but new things disdain.

(Connect with No. 530.)

Custom calls me to 't ;

What custom wills, in all things should we do 't;
The dust on antique time would lie unswept,
And mountainous error be too highly heaped
For truth to o'erpeer. (Cor. ii. 3.)

(All's W.i. 3.)

525. We must believe the witnesses are dead.