Prepare for rhyme—­I’ll publish, right or wrong; Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. 1575 BYRON:  Eng.  Bards, Line 5.

In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves. 1576 CRABBE:  Advice, Line 244.

=Savage.=

I am as free as Nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
1577
DRYDEN:  Conquest of Granada, Pt. i., Act i., Sc. 1.

=Scandal.=

For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. 1578 SHAKS.:  Lucrece, Line 1006.

You know
That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard,
And after scandal them.
1579
SHAKS.:  Jul.  Caesar, Act i., Sc. 2.

The whole court melted into one wide whisper,
And all lips were applied unto all ears! 
The elder ladies’ wrinkles curled much crisper
As they beheld; the younger cast some leers
On one another, and each lovely lisper
Smiled as she talked the matter o’er:  but tears
Of rivalship rose in each clouded eye
Of all the standing army that stood by.
1580
BYRON:  Don Juan, Canto ix., St. 78

=Scars.=

He jests at scars, that never felt a wound. 1581 SHAKS.:  Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 2.

Gashed with honorable scars,
    Low in Glory’s lap they lie.
1582
JAMES MONTGOMERY:  Battle of Alexandria.

=Scenes.=

For wheresoe’er I turn my ravish’d eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise. 1583 ADDISON:  A Letter from Italy.

=Scepticism.=

Oh! lives there, heaven! beneath thy dread expanse,
One hopeless, dark idolater of chance,
Content to feed with pleasures unrefin’d,
The lukewarm passions of a lowly mind;
Who mouldering earthward, ’reft of every trust,
In joyless union wedded to the dust,
Could all his parting energy dismiss,
And call this barren world sufficient bliss?
1584
CAMPBELL:  Pl. of Hope, Pt. ii., Line 295.

Whatever sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.
1585
BUTLER:  Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., Line 131.

=Sceptre.=

His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings. 1586 SHAKS.:  M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Scholar.=

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading;
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
1587
SHAKS.:  Henry VIII., Act iv., Sc. 2.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar
Showed him the gentleman and scholar.
1588
BURNS:  The Twa Dogs

The land of scholars and the nurse of arms. 1589 GOLDSMITH:  Traveller, Line 356.