’All you who think the city ne’er can thrive,
  Till ev’ry cuckold-maker’s flay’d alive,
  Attend—­’

(Pope).

487.  PETR.

  ’While sleep oppresses the tired limbs, the mind
  Plays without weight, and wantons unconfined.’

488.  HOR. 2 Sat. iii. 156.

  ’What doth it cost?  Not much, upon my word. 
  How much, pray?  Why, Two-pence.  Two-pence, O Lord!’

(Creech).

489.  HOM.

  ‘The mighty force of ocean’s troubled flood.’

490.  HOR. 2 Od. xiv. 21.

  ‘Thy house and pleasing wife.’

(Creech).

491.  VIRG.  AEn. iii. 318.

  ‘A just reverse of fortune on him waits.’

492.  SENECA.

  ‘Levity of behaviour is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.’

493.  HOR. 1 Ep. xviii. 76.

  ’Commend not, till a man is throughly known: 
  A rascal praised, you make his faults your own.’

(Anon.)

494.  CICERO.

  ’What kind of philosophy is it to extol melancholy, the most
  detestable thing in nature?’

495.  HOR. 4 Od. iv. 57.

’—­Like an oak on some cold mountain brow, At every wound they sprout and grow:  The axe and sword new vigour give, And by their ruins they revive.’

(Anon.)

496.  TERENT.  Heaut.  Act i.  Sc. 1.

  ’Your son ought to have shared in these things, because youth is best
  suited to the enjoyment of them.’

497.  MENANDER.

  ‘A cunning old fox this!’

498.  VIRG.  Georg. i. 514.

  ’Nor reins, nor curbs, nor cries, the horses fear,
  But force along the trembling charioteer.’

(Dryden).

499.  PERS.  Sat. i. 40.

  ‘—­You drive the jest too far.’

(Dryden).

500.  OVID, Met. vi. 182.

  ’Seven are my daughters of a form divine,
  With seven fair sons, an indefective line. 
  Go, fools, consider this, and ask the cause
  From which my pride its strong presumption draws.’

(Croxal).

501.  HOR. 1 Od. xxiv. 19.

  ’ ’Tis hard:  but when we needs must bear,
  Enduring patience makes the burden light.’

(Creech).

502.  TER.  Heaut.  Act iv.  Sc. 1.

  ’Better or worse, profitable or disadvantageous, they see nothing but
  what they list.’

503.  TER.  Eun.  Act ii.  Sc. 3.

  ‘From henceforward I blot out of my thoughts all memory of womankind.’

504.  TER.  Eun.  Act iii.  Sc. 1.

  ‘You are a hare yourself, and want dainties, forsooth.’

505.  ENNIUS.

  ’Augurs and soothsayers, astrologers,
  Diviners, and interpreters of dreams,
  I ne’er consult, and heartily despise: 
  Vain their pretence to more than human skill: 
  For gain, imaginary schemes they draw;
  Wand’rers themselves, they guide another’s steps;
  And for poor sixpence promise countless wealth. 
  Let them, if they expect to be believed,
  Deduct the sixpence, and bestow the rest.’