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I will use them according to their desert. (Ham. ii. 2.)

Would thou hadst less deserved,

That the proportion both of thanks and payment

Might have been more.' (Macb. i. 4.)

162. Ministerium meum honorificabo.-Rom. xi. 13. (I will magnify mine office.)

(Quoted in the Essay Of Praise.)

Folio 1866.

163. Beati mortui qui moriuntur in domino.-Rev. xiv. 13. (Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.)

Right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. (Ps. cxvi., quoted Advt. of L. vii. 1.) Dying so, death is to him an advantage. (See Hen. V. iv. 1.) (Compare No. 655.)

164. Detractor portat diabolum in linguâ. (The slanderer carries the devil in his tongue.)

As slanderous as Satan. (Mer. Wives W. v. 5.)

She is dead, slandered to death by villains,

That dare as well answer a man, indeed,

As I dare take a serpent by the tongue. (M. Ado, v. 1.)

'Tis slander

Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue

Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breast.

Doth belie all corners of the world. . . . the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.

(Cymb. iii. 4; and see Cymb. i. 7, 142–148.)

Slander, whose sting is sharper than the sword. (W. T. ii. 3.) Devil Envy, say Amen. (Tr. Cr. ii. 3.)

That monster envy, oft the wrack

Of earned praise. (Per. iv. 3.)

165. Frangimur heu fatis (inquit) ferimurque procellâ. -Virg. Æn. vii. 594. (We are wrecked, alas! by the fates and hurried on by the storm (of misfortune).

1 'More' in Mr. Collier's text.

But, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing,
Yet seek no other shelter to avoid the storm;

We see the wind sit sore upon our sails,

We see the very causes of the wreck. (R. II. ii. 1.)

Bates. What thinks he of our estate?

King. Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be washed off the next tide. (H. V. iv. 1.)

(See 3 H. VI. v. 4, 1-39, &c.)

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166. Nunc ipsa vocat res.-Virg. Æn. ix. 320. (Occasion offers.-Dryden. More literally matter,' or 'occurrence.' There are in the plays and in Bacon's prose works a number of passages in which the advantages of seizing opportunities, or of profiting by occasions or occurrences, are set forth.)

(See Of Opportunity; Lucrece, 1. 874-935.)

I'll sort occasion. (R. III. ii. 3, 147.)

Advantage feeds him fat while men delay. (1 Hen. IV. iii. 3.)
Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

How all occasions do inform against me,
And spur my dull revenge. (Ham. iv. 5.)

(Hen. V. iii. 6.)

The honourablest part of talk is to give the occasion.

(Ess. Of Discourse.

Other encounters so glib of tongue

That give occasion' welcome ere it comes. (Tr. Cr. iv.

5.)

Mer. Make it a word and a blow.

Tyb. You shall find me apt enough for that, sir, an' you give me occasion.

Mer. Could you not take some occasion without giving?

(Rom. Jul. iii. 1, and ib. ii. 4, 161.)

A finder out of occasions. (Oth. ii. 1.) &c.

Occasion (as it is in the common verse) turneth a bald noddle after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken; or, at least, turneth the handle of the bottle first, &c. (Ess. Of Delays.)

Take the saf'st occasion by the front. (Oth. iii. 1.)

Mr. Collier's text. Other editions read 'give a coasting welcome.'

Not one word of the consumed1 time,

Let's take the instant by the foremost top, &c. (AWs W. v. 3.)

(And see M. Ado, i. 2, 13.)

167. Dii meliora piis errorem (que) hostibus illum.Virg. Georg. iii. 513.

(Ye gods to better fate good men dispose,
And turn that impious error on our foes.)

Now the fair goddess Fortune

Fall deep in love with thee; and her great charms
Misguide thy opposer's swords. (Cor. i. 5.)

(See No. 1159.)

168. Aliquisque malo fuit usus in illo.-Ovid. (And there was some use in that evil.)

Deceit bred by necessity. (3 H. VI. iii. 3.)

(Hen. V. iv. 1.)

(Rom Jul. ii. 3.)

There is some soul of goodness in things evil
Would men observingly distil it out.
Vice sometime's by action dignified.
Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,
That time and place with this deceit so lawful
May prove coherent...

Let us assay our plot: which if it speed,
Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed,
And lawful meaning in a lawful act,

Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact.
Your title to him doth flourish the deceit.

(All's W. iii. 7.)

(M. M. iv. 1.)

169. Usque adeo latet utilitas.-Ovid.

degree does usefulness lie hidden.)

O mickle is the powerful grace that lies

(To such a

In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities. . . .
Within the rind of this small flower

Poison has residence, and medicine power. (Rom. Jul. ii. 3.)

1 Compare Essay Of Delays, where delays, like Sibylla's offer, are said to consume part by part, with the whole of the passage in All's Well, v. 3.

170. Et tamen arbitrium quærit res ista duorum. (And yet that matter requires the arbitration of two.)

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This might have been prevented and made whole
Which now the manage of two kingdoms must
With fearful bloody issue arbitrate. (John, i. 1.)
"Tis not . . . the bitter clamour of two eager tongues
Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain. (Ib.)

At Coventry

shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate. (Rich. II. i. 1.) The old arbitrator, Time. (Tr. Cr. iv. 5.)

That arbitrator of despairs, just Death. (1 H. VI. ii. 5.)

171. Ut esse Phœbi rubrius lumen solet

Jam jam cadentis.

(As the light of Phoebus is wont to be redder when he is setting.)

O, setting sun, as in thy red rays thou dost sink to night,
So in his red blood Cassius' day is set,

The sun of Rome is set. (Jul. Cæs. v. 1.)

Ah, Richard! with the eyes of heavy mind
I see thy glory, like a shooting star,
Fall to the base earth from the firmament.
Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west,

Witnessing storms to come, woe, and unrest. (R. II. ii. 4.)

Lew. The sun of heaven methought was loath to set
But stayed and made the western welkin blush. (John, v. 5.)
The weary sun hath made a golden set

And, by the bright track of his fiery car,

Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow. (Rich. III. v. 3.)

172. Velle suum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno. (Everyone has a wish of his own, and men do not live with one wish only.)

Thine own wish wish I thee in every place. (L. L. L. ii. 1.)
O heavens, I have my wish . . . O that I had

my wish!

You have your wish. (Tw. G. Ver. iv. 2.)

(Ib. iv. 3.)

173. Who to know what would be dear Need be a merchant but a year.

174. Black will take no other hewe.

Is black so base a hue?

Coal black is better than another hue,

In that it scorns to take another hue. (Tit. And. iv. 2.)

O night, with hue so black! (M. N. D. v. 1.)

(And f. 836, 38.)

175. He can ill pipe that wants his upper lip.

176. Nata res multa (?) optima.

177. Balbus

balbum

rectius intelligit.-Erasmus,

Adagia, p. 316. (Stammerer best understands stammerer.)

One drunkard loves another of the name.
Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Revenge myself upon myself! alack I love

Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius.
None but Antony should conquer Antony.
A Roman with a Roman's heart can suffer.

178. L'aqua va al mar.

(L. L. L. iv. 3.) (R. III. v. 3.)

(Quoted in Discourse on Union, 1603.)

myself. (Ib.)
(Jul. Cæs. i. 3.)
(Ant. Cl. iv. 13.)
(Cym. v. 5.)

His state empties itself, as does an inland brook

Into the main of waters. (Mer. Ven. v. i.)

Time is compared to a stream that carrieth down fresh and pure waters into that salt sea of corruption which environeth all human actions. (On Pacification of the Church.)

Say, shall the current of our right run on?
Whose passage, vexed with thy impediment,
Shall leave his channel and o'erswell

With course disturbed even thy confining shores,
Unless thou let his peaceful water keep

A peaceful progress to the ocean. (John ii. 2.)

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