339. In academiis discunt credere. (In the schools

men learn to believe.)

Many in the universities learn nothing but to believe.

(Praise of Knowledge.)

How shall they credit

A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools,

Embowelled of their doctrine, have left

The danger to itself. (Al's W. i. 3.)

Our court shall be a little academe. .
I'll swear to study so,

To know the thing I am forbid to know;
If study's gain be thus, and this be so,
Study knows that which yet it doth not know..
Small have continual plodders ever won,
Save base authority from others' books.
These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights,
That give a name to every fixed star,

Have no more profit of their shining nights
Than those that walk, and wot not what they are,
(L. L. L. i.)

I am in all affected as yourself,

Glad that you thus continue your resolve
To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.
Only, good master, while we do admire
This virtue, and this moral discipline,
Let's be no Stoics nor no stocks, I pray ;
Nor so devote to Aristotle's checks,
As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured. &c.

(Tam. Sh. i. 1.)

340. Vos adoratis quod nescitis.-John iv. 22. (Ye worship ye know not what.)

(See No. 239.)

341. So gyve authors their due as you gyve tyme his due which is to discover truth.

Let me give every man his due, as I give time his due, which is to discover truth. (Praise of Knowledge.)

Every one must have his due. (Per. i. 1.)

Give love his due. (Ven. Ad.)

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The earth can have but earth, which is his due. (Sonnet lxxiv.)
Give the devil his due. (1 H. IV. i. 2.)

As your due you are hers. . . You shall receive all dues for the honour you have won. (Tw. N. Kins. ii. 5.)

342. Vos Græci semper pueri.

children.)

(You Greeks are always

The Grecians were (as one of themselves saith): You Grecians, ever children. (Praise of Knowledge.)

I write myself man, a title to which age can never bring thee.

(All's W. ii. 3.)

You play the child extremely. (T. Noble Kin. ii. 2.)

343. Non canimus surdis respondent omnia sylvæ.Virg. Ecl. x. 3. (We sing not to dull ears; the woods reecho to each sound.)

(Quoted in a letter to Sir Thos. Bodley, 1607; and Adet. of L. viii. 2.)

We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top

And mark the musical confusion

Of hounds, and echo in conjunction.

. . . Never did I hear

Such gallant chiding; for besides the groves,
The skies, the fountain, every region near
Seem'd all one mutual cry. (M. N. D. iv. 1.)

Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them,
And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth.

(Tam. Sh. Ind. 2.)

Livy. (The populace

344. Populus vult decipi. Livy. [people] likes to be imposed upon.)

(Quoted in the Praise of Knowledge.)

Coriol. I will, sir, flatter my sworn brother the people, to earn a dearer estimation of them: 'tis a condition they account gentle; and since the wisdom of their choice is rather to have my hat than

my heart, I will practise the insinuating nod, and be off to them most counterfeitly: that is, sir, I will counterfeit the bewitchment of some popular man, and give it bountifully to the desirers. Therefore, beseech you, I may be consul. (Cor. ii. 3, and iii. 1, 160.)

345. Scientiam loquntur inter perfectos.-1 Cor. ii. 6. (They speak wisdom among them that are perfect.)

(See No. 248.)

346. Et justificata est sapientia filiis suis.-Matt. xi. 19. (Wisdom is justified of her children.)

Every wise man's son doth know. (Tw. N. ii. 3.)

(See No. 249.)

347. Pretiosa in oculis domini mors sanctorum ejus.Ps. cxvi. 15. (Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.)

(Quoted in the De Augmentis.)

Reverenced like a blessed saint. (1 Hen. VI. iii. 4.)

If thou fall'st, thou fall'st a blessed martyr. (Hen. VIII. iii. 2.)

But she must die,

She must; the saints must have her.

(Ib. v. 4, and John, iii. 1, 177.)

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348. Felix qui (n) potuit rerum cognoscere causas.-Virg. Georg. ii. 490. (Happy he who has been able to trace out the causes of things.)

Now remains that we find the cause of this effect, or rather say the cause of this defect. For this effect defection comes by cause. (Ham. ii. 2.)

The effects discovered are due to chance. . . . The sole cause and root of almost every defect in the sciences is that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind do not search for its real helps! (Nov. Org. i.)

Anne. Thou art the cause and most cursed effect.
Glou. Your beauty was the cause of that effect.

(R. III. i. 2.)

we

(Upwards of 300 references to causes. Comp. f. 916, 455.)

349. Magistratus virum judicat. (The magisterial office proclaims the man. Measure for Measure is founded on this idea; it is its key-note.)

Isab. I would to heaven I had your potency
And you were Isabel! Should it be thus ?
No: I would tell you what 'twere to be a judge,
And what a prisoner. (M. M. ii. 2.)

Lear. What, art mad?

A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark in thine ears; change places, and handy-dandy, which is justice, which is the thief? (Lear, iv. 6.)

350. Da sapienti occasionem et addetur ei sapientia. -Prov. ix. 9. (Give occasion to a wise man, and his wisdom will be increased.)

(Quoted in Advt. of L. viii. 2; Aphorisms, Spedding, iv. 452.) The honourablest part of talk is to give the occasion; and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance. (Ess. Of Discourse.)

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause of wit in others. (2 H. IV. i. 2.) Unless you laugh and minister occasion to (the barren rascal) he is gagged. (Tw. N. i. 5.)

O! these encounterers, so glib of tongue,

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That give occasion welcome ere it comes.

(Tr. Cr. iv. 5.)

351. Vitæ me redde priori.—Hor. 1 Ep. i. 95. (Let me

back to my former life.)

O, the mad days that I have spent!

O, the days that we have seen! (2 Hen. IV. iii. 2.)

'Where is the life that late I led,' say they.

Why here it is: welcome this pleasant day.

1 Occasion in Mr. Collier's text; a coasting in older editions.

352. I had rather know than be knowne.

(Compare 1 Cor. xiii. 12.)

Folio 90.

353. Orpheus in sylvis, inter delphinas Arion.-Virg. Ecl. viii. 56. (An Orpheus in the woods, an Arion among the dolphins.)

The proof and persuasion of rhetoric must be varied according to the audience, like a musician suiting himself to different ears. -Orpheus in sylvis, inter delphinas Arion. (Advt. of L. vi. 3.) You must lay lime to tangle her desires

By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes
Should be full fraught with serviceable vows.
Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears
Moist it again; and frame some feeling line . . .
For Orpheus' lute was strung with poet's sinews,
Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,
Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans

Forsake unsounded deeps. &c. (Tw. G. Ver. iii. 2.)

(And Mer. Ven. v. 1, 79, 82; Hen. VIII. iii. 1, song.) 354. Inopem me copia fecit. (Plenty made me poor.) Full oft 'tis seen

Our wants secure us, and our mere defects

Prove our commodities. (Lear, iv. 1.)

Thou that art most rich, being poor. (Lear, i. 1.)

But poorly rich so wanteth in his store,

That, cloyed with much, he pineth still for more.

(Lucrece, 96.)

Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor. (Tim. Ath. iv. 2.) Wealth comes where an estate is least. (Ib. iv. 3.)

Nothing brings me all things. (Ib. v. 2.)

355. An instrument in tunyng.

Ham. Will you play upon this pipe?

Guil. My lord, I cannot.

Ham. You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops. You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. . . . Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will; though you may fret me, you cannot play upon me. (Ham. iii. 3.)

1 Wants in Mr. Collier's text; means in other editions.