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THOMAS FULLER.

1608-1661.

THE HOLY AND THE PROFANE STATE.

Ed. Nichols, 1841.

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.1

The Life of Monica.

But our captain counts the image of God, nevertheless his image, cut in ebony as if done in ivory. The Good Sea-Captain.

The lion is not so fierce as painted.2

Of Expecting Preferment. Their heads sometimes so little, that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room. Of Natural Fools.

The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. Of Tombs. Learning hath gained most by those books by Of Books.

which the printers have lost.

They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves, in hope that one will come and cut the halter.

1 Cf. Waller, p. 167.

Of Marriage.

2 The lion is not so fierce as they paint him. Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.

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[Fuller continued.

To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul. The Court Lady.

Often the cockloft is empty, in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.1

Andronicus. Ad. fin. I.

FRANCIS DUC DE ROCHEFOUCAULD. 1613-1680.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past, and over future evils, but present evils triumph over philosophy.2 Maxim 23.

Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays. to virtue.

Maxim 227.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us.3 Maxim 245.

1 My Lord St. Albans said that wise nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads. - Bacon, Apothegm, No 17.

2 This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. Goldsmith, The Good

Natured Man, Act i.

3 I am convinced that we have a degree of delight and that no small one in the real misfortunes and pains of others. Burke, The Sublime and Beautiful. Pt. 1, Sec

14, 15.

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WILLIAM BASSE. 1613-1648.

Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh
To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie
A little nearer Spenser, to make room
For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb.'

On Shakespeare.

VIVERS
Librar

HENRY VAUGHAN. 1621-1695.

I see them walking in an air of glory
Whose light doth trample on my days;
My days which are at best but dull and hoary,
Mere glimmering and decays.

They are all gone.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

Ibid.

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul when man doth sleep,
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted

themes,

And into glory peep.

1 I will not lodge thee by

Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie

A little further, to make thee a room.

Ibid.

Jonson, To the Memory of Shakespeare.

Of California.

SAMUEL BUTLER. 1600-1680.

HUDIBRAS.

And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick,

Was beat with fist instead of a stick.

Parti. Canto i. Line 11.

We grant, altho' he had much wit,

Parti. Canto i. Line 45.

He was very shy of using it.

Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek
As naturally as pigs squeak;

That Latin was no more difficile

Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle.

Part i. Canto i. Line 51.

He could distinguish, and divide

A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side.

Parti. Canto i. Line 67.

For rhetoric, he could not ope

His mouth, but out there flew a trope.

Parti. Canto i. Line 81.

For all a rhetorician's rules

Teach nothing but to name his tools.

Parti. Canto i. Line 89.

For he, by geometric scale,

Could take the size of pots of ale.

Parti. Canto i. Line 121.

And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike, by Algebra.

Part i. Canto i. Line 125.

Hudibras continued.]

Whatever sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.

Part i. Canto i. Line 131

Where entity and quiddity,

The ghosts of defunct bodies fly.

Parti. Canto i. Line 145.

He knew what's what, and that's as high1
As metaphysic wit can fly.

Parti. Canto i. Line 149.

Such as take lodgings in a head

That's to be let unfurnished.2

Parti. Canto i. Line 161.

'T was Presbyterian true blue.

Part i. Canto i. Line 191.

And prove their doctrine orthodox,

. By apostolic blows and knocks.

Part i. Canto i. Line 199.

Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to.

Parti. Canto i. Line 215.

The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty,

For want of fighting was grown rusty,
And ate into itself for lack

Of somebody to hew and hack.

Parti. Canto i. Line 359.

1 He said he knew what was what.

come ye not to Courte? Line 1106.

Skelton, Why

2 Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high. — Fuller, Holy and Profane State. Andronicus, Ad. fin. I.

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