506. MART. 4 Epig. xiii. 7.
’Perpetual harmony their bed attend,
And Venus still the well-match’d
pair befriend!
May she, when time has sunk him into years,
Love her old man, and cherish his white
hairs;
Nor he perceive her charms through age
decay,
But think each happy sun his bridal day!’
507. Juv. Sat. ii. 46.
‘Preserved from shame by numbers on our side.’
508. CORN. NEPOS in Milt. c. 8.
’For all those are accounted and
denominated tyrants, who exercise a
perpetual power in that state which was
before free.’
509. TER. Heaut. Act iii. Sc. 3.
‘Discharging the part of a good economist.’
510. TER. Eun. Act i. Sc. 1.
’If you are wise, add not to the
troubles which attend the passion of
love, and bear patiently those which are
inseparable from it.’
511. OVID, Ars Am. i. 175.
’—Who could fail to find,
In such a crowd a mistress to his mind?’
512. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 344.
‘Mixing together profit and delight.’
513. VIRG. AEn. vi. 50.
‘When all the god came rushing on her soul.’
(Dryden).
514. VIRG. Georg. iii. 291.
’But the commanding Muse my chariot
guides,
Which o’er the dubious cliff securely
rides:
And pleased I am no beaten road to take,
But first the way to new discov’ries
make.’
(Dryden).
515. TER. Heaut. Act ii. Sc. 3.
’I am ashamed and grieved, that
I neglected his advice, who gave me
the character of these creatures.’
516. JUV. Sat xv. 34.
’—A grutch, time out of mind, begun, And mutually bequeath’d from sire to son: Religious spite and pious spleen bred first, The quarrel which so long the bigots nurst: Each calls the other’s god a senseless stock: His own divine.’
(Tate).
517. VIRG. AEn. vi. 878.
’Mirror of ancient faith!
Undaunted worth! Inviolable truth!’
(Dryden).
518. JUV. Sat. viii. 76.
’ ’Tis poor relying on another’s
fame,
For, take the pillars but away, and all
The superstructure must in ruins fall.’
(Stepney).
519. VIRG. AEn. vi. 728.
’Hence men and beasts the breath
of life obtain,
And birds of air, and monsters of the
main.’
(Dryden).
520. HOR. 1 Od. xxiv. 1.
’And who can grieve too much?
What time shall end
Our mourning for so dear a friend?’
(Creech).
521. P. ARB.
‘The real face returns, the counterfeit is lost.’
522. TER. Andr. Act iv. Sc. 2.
’I swear never to forsake her; no, though I were sure to make all men my enemies. Her I desired; her I have obtained; our humours agree. Perish all those who would separate us! Death alone shall deprive me of her!’
523. VIRG. AEn. iv. 376.