691. Adepicεw. To brothers in [fayne] . .

Ad. 1030.)

I assure thee, and almost with tears I speak it,

(Eras.

There is not one so young and so villanous this day living;
I speak but brotherly of him. (As Y. L. i. 1.)
Take this service. . . fatherly. (Cymb. ii. 3.)
Use your brothers brotherly. (3 Hen. VI. iv. 3.)

I love thee brotherly. (Cymb. iv. 2.)

692. Jactare jugum.—Eras. Ad. 798. (To shake the yoke.)

We shall shake off our slavish yoke.

(Rich. II. ii. 1.) Bruised under the yoke of tyranny. (R. III. iv. 2.)

Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish :
Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius. (Jul. Cæs. i. 3.)

693. When it was too salt to wash it with fresh water (when speech groweth in bitternesse to find taulke more grateful.

And generally men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. (Essay Of Discourse.)

Contempt nor bitterness were in his pride, or sharpness.

(All's W. i. 3.)

I'll sauce her with bitter words. (As Y. L. iii. 5.)

Salt imagination. (M. M. v. 1.)

Salt Cleopatra. (Ant. Cl. ii. 1.)

The salt and spice that season a man. (Tr. Cr. i. 2.)

Folio 97.

694. Mira de lente.-Eras. Ad. 940. (To talk wonders of a lentil. When a trumpery thing was much lauded.) You dwarf, you minimus, .

I remember when I was in love,

instead of her. (As Y. L. ii. 4.)

you bead, you acorn.

That's a shell'd peascod. (Lear, i. 4.)

(M. N. D. iii. 2.) the wooing of a peascod

Arm. The armnipotent Mars, of lances the almighty,

Gave Hector a gift,

Dum. A gilt nutmeg.

Biron. A lemon.

Long. Stuck with cloves.

Dum. No, cloven.

Arm. Peace. .

Gave Hector a gift, the heir of Ilion. . . .

I am that flower.

Dum. That mint.

Long. That columbine. (L. L. L. v. 2.)

(And see Tam. Sh. iv. 3, 109; 1 Hen. IV. iii. 2, 8; 2 H. IV. v. 4, 34.)

695. Quid ad farinas ?—Eras. Ad. 755. (What [help is it] to bread-winning ?-lit. barley-meal.)

Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own price. The gods know, I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge. (Cor. i. 1; and see Per. i. 4, 33, 41.)

696. Quarta lunâ natj (Hercules' nativity. Quarta luna nati, dicuntur qui parum feliciter nati sunt.-Eras. Ad. 50).

At my nativity

The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes

Of burning cressets. (1 Hen. IV. iii. 1.)

My nativity was under Ursa Major.

697. Ollae amicitia.-Eras. 165.

(Lear, i. 2.)

(Cupboard love.)

(Timon's prayer). Make the meat more beloved, More than the man that gives it. (Tim. Ath. iii. 6.)

May you a better feast never behold,

You knot of mouth friends

trencher friends! (Ib.)

698. Vasis fons. (Vasis instar.' Eras. Ad. 992. Like a vessel.) Said of him who, on account of ignorance, can produce nothing from himself, but who draws from others. Erasmus contrasts such a vessel with a fountain or original source.

I never did know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart; but the saying is true, the empty vessel makes the greatest sound. (Hen. V. iv. 4.)

The vessels of my love. (Tim. Ath. ii. 2, 180.)

Achil. My mind is like a fountain stirred.

Thers. Would the fountain of your mind were clear again.

(Tr. Cr. iii. 3.)

You are the fount that makes small brooks run dry.

(3 Hen. VI. iv. 8.)

Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain,
From whence this stream through muddy passages
Thy overflow of good converts to bad. (R. II. v. 3.)

699. Vtroque

nutans sententia.

opinion that wavers this way and that.)

Eras. 763. (An

If he did not care whether he had their love or no,

He waved indifferently betwixt doing them neither good nor harm. (Cor. ii. 2.)

The discordant wavering multitude. (2 II. IV. Ind.)

A fickle, wavering nation. (1 II. VI. iv. 1.)

The wavering Commons. (R. II. ii. 2.)

700. Hasta caduceum.-Eras. Ad. 626. (A spear—a herald's staff. Of one who at the same time threatens and would be friends.)

Thou a sceptre's heir that thus affectest a sheep-hook.

(W. T. iv. 4. The nobleness which should have turned a distaff to a sheephook. (Cymb. iv. 3.)

(See folio 93, 520; and Lear, iv. 2, 17.)

701. The two that went to a feast both at dyner to supper, neither knowne, the one a tall, the other a short man, and said they would be another's shadowes. It was replied it fell out fitt, for at noone the short man might be the long man's shadow, and at night the contrary.

Let me see, Simon Shadow! yes, marry, let me have him to sit under he's like to be a cold soldier. Shadow will serve for summer. (2 H. IV. iii. 2.)

702. A sweet dampe (a dislike of moist perfume.

703. Wyld tyme in the grownd hath a sent like a cypresse chest.

I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows.

S

(M. N. D. ii. 2.)

704. Panis lapidosus (grytty bread.-Eras. Ad. 922. (Of a favour harshly bestowed.)

Lord Angelo scarcely confesses that his appetite

Is more to bread than stone. (M. M. i. 4.)

Timon of Athens (iii. 6) gives his faithless friends a feast, not of gritty bread, but of smoke and lukewarm water, and ends by throwing the water and the dishes at them. A guest remarks, 'One day he gives us diamonds, next day stones.'

705. Plutoes helmet. Invisibility.

The helmet of Pluto, which maketh the politic man to go invisible, is secrecy in the counsel, celerity in the execution. (Ess. Of Delays.)

And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,

To cry 'Hold, hold!'

Macb. If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. (Macb. i. 5 and 7.)

706. Laconismus.-Eras. Ad. 388, 617.

Like the Roman in brevity. [Twice.] (2 Hen. IV. ii. 2.)

707. Omnem vocem mittere (from enchantments.Eras. Ad. 966. (To employ every kind of utterance to persuade, to move anyone.)

Where should this music be? i' the air or in the earth?

It sounds no more; sure it waits upon some god o' the island.

The isle is full of noises,

(Temp. i. 2.)

Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.

(1b. iii. 2.)

Lamentings were heard i' the air; strange screams of death, And prophesying with accents terrible. (Macb. ii. 3.)

I'll charm the air to give a sound. (Ib. iv. 1.)

Under the earth.

Hark! music i' the air.

It signs well, does it not?

No..

No. . . . 'Tis the god Hercules. (Ant. Cl. iv. 3.)

708. Tertium caput-of one overcharged, that hath a burden on either shoulder, and the third upon his head. (Said first of porters, then of persons distracted with various kinds of business.-See Eras. Ad. 800.)

Men in great place are thrice servants-servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business. So, as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times, . . . the rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains. (Ess. Of Gt. Place.)

Princes. . . . have no rest.

(Ess. Of Empire.)

As the king is the greatest power, so he is subject to the greatest cares, made the servant of his people, or else he were without calling at all. (Of a King.)

K. Hen. Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,

Our debts, our careful wives,

Our children, and our sins lay on the king!

We must bear all. O! hard condition! (Hen. V. iv. 1.)

I humbly thank his grace, and from these shoulders,
These ruin'd pillars, out of pity, taken

A load would sink a navy,-too much honour.
O! 'tis a burden, Cromwell, 'tis a burden,

Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven.

(Hen. VIII. iii. 2.)

709. Triceps Mercurius (great runying.-Eras. Ad. 800. Three-headed Mercury.)

Be Mercury; set feathers to thy heels,

And fly like thought from them to me again. (John, iv. 2.)

But he, poor soul, by your first order died,

And that a winged Mercury did bear. (Rich. III. ii. 1.)