All these you may avoid, but the Lie direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel; but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, If you said so, then I said so; and they shook hands, and swore brothers. Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If. v. As You Like It. Act V. Sc. 4. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul.

Line 20.

aa.

Next him high arbiter

Chance governs all.

n.

MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. II.

Naught venture, naught have.

U.

THOS. TUSSER--Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. October's Extract.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

v.

VOLTAIRE--A Philosophical Dictionary.

CHANGE.

Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows

Like the wave;

Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of

Passing away" is written on the world, and all the world contains.

m.

Mrs. HEMANS--Passing Away.

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,

And this same flower, that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying.

N. HERRICK--To the Virgins to make much of Tine.

Now stamped with the image of Good Queen

Bess,

And now of a Bloody Mary.

0.

HOOD-Miss Kilmansegg. Her Moral.

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections. Mrs. JAMESON--Studies.

p.

Time fleeth on,

Youth soon is gone,

Naught earthly may abide ;

Life seemeth fast,

St. 82.

BYRON-Childe Harold.

Canto IV.

St. 185.

But may not last, -

..

It runs as runs the tide.

Detached

Thoughts.

LELAND--Many in One. Pt. II. St. 21.

All things must change

To something new, to something strange.
LONGFELLOW-- Kiramos. Line 32.

7.

All things that we ordained festival,
Turn from their office to black funeral:
Our instruments, to melancholy bells:
Our wedding cheer, to a sad burial feast;
Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,
And all things change them to the contrary.
h. Romeo and Juliet. Act IV. Sc. 5.

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes :
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
i. Tempest. Act I. Sc. 2.

I am not so nice,
To change true rules for odd inventions.
J. Taming of the Shrew. Act III. Sc. 1.

Our revels now are ended: these our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous pal-

aces,

The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.

kc. Tempest. Act IV. Sc. 1.