"When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?"

Lines used by John Ball in Wat Tyler's Rebellion.

"Now bething the, gentilman, How Adam dalf, and Eve span."

MS. of the Fifteenth Century (British Museum).

"Use three Physicians,-- Still-first Dr. Quiet; Next Dr. Mery-man, And Dr. Dyet."

Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum (edition of 1607).

"The King of France went up the hill With twenty thousand men; The King of France came down the hill, And ne'er went up again."

Pigges Corantoe, or Newes from the North.

"His wife, with nine small children and one at the breast, following him to the stake."

Martyrdom of John Rogers. Burned at Smithfield, Feb. 14, 1554.

"The mother to her daughter spake: "Daughter," said she, "arise! Thy daughter to her daughter take, Whose daughter's daughter cries.""

A Distich, according to Zwingler, on a Lady of the Dalburg Family who saw her descendants to the sixth generation.

"A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done."

Poem spoken by Mr. Eusden at a Cambridge Commencement.

"Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done."

Author unknown.

"The gloomy companions of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration."

Letters of Junius. Letter vii. To Sir W. Draper.

"I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter."

Letters of Junius. Letter xii. To the Duke of Grafton.

"The Americans equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop."

Letters of Junius. Letter xxxv.

"The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute."

Letters of Junius. Letter xxxvii. City Address, and the King's Answer.

"Private credit is wealth; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth."

Letters of Junius. Letter xlii. Affair of the Falkland Islands.

"'T is well to be merry and wise, 'T is well to be honest and true; 'T is well to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new."

Lines used by Maturin as the motto to "Bertram," produced at Drury Lane, 1816.

"Still so gently o'er me stealing, Mem'ry will bring back the feeling, Spite of all my grief revealing, That I love thee,--that I dearly love thee still."

Opera of La Sonnambula.

"Happy am I; from care I 'm free! Why ar' n't they all contented like me?"

Opera of La Bayadère.

"It is so soon that I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for."

Epitaph on a child who died at the age of three weeks (Cheltenham Churchyard).

"But were it to my fancy given To rate her charms, I 'd call them heaven; For though a mortal made of clay, Angels must love Ann Hathaway; She hath a way so to control, To rapture the imprisoned soul, And sweetest heaven on earth display, That to be heaven Ann hath a way; She hath a way, Ann Hathaway,-- To be heaven's self Ann hath a way."

Attributed to Shakespeare.

"We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again."

Dabschelim and Pilpay. Chap. i.

"It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one."

The Greedy and Ambitious Cat. Fable iii.

"There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns."

The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi.

"Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets."

The Two Travellers. Chap. ii. Fable vi.

"Men are used as they use others."

The King who became Just. Fable ix.

"What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh."

The Two Fishermen. Fable xiv.

"Guilty consciences always make people cowards."

The Prince and his Minister. Chap. iii. Fable iii.

"Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain."

The Prince and his Minister. Chap. iii. Fable iii.

"There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good."

A Religious Doctor. Fable vi.

"There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician."

The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii.

"He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses."

The Ignorant Physician. Fable viii.

"Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us."

Choice of Friends. Chap. iv.

"That possession was the strongest tenure of the law."

The Cat and the two Birds. Chap. v. Fable iv.

"We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true."

The Theogony. Line 27.

"On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words."

The Theogony. Line 82.

"Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death."

The Theogony. Line 754.

"From whose eyelids also as they gazed dropped love."

The Theogony. Line 910.

"Both potter is jealous of potter and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet."

Works and Days. Line 25.

"Fools! they know not how much half exceeds the whole."

Works and Days. Line 40.

"For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus."

Works and Days. Line 101.

"They died, as if o'ercome by sleep."

Works and Days. Line 116.

"Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man."

Works and Days. Line 240.

"For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another."

Works and Days. Line 265.

"Badness, look you, you may choose easily in a heap: level is the path, and right near it dwells. But before Virtue the immortal gods have put the sweat of man's brow; and long and steep is the way to it, and rugged at the first."

Works and Days. Line 287.

"This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end."

Works and Days. Line 293.

"Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season."

Works and Days. Line 304.

"Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy."

Work and Days. Line 342.

"A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing."

Works and Days. Line 346.

"Gain not base gains; base gains are the same as losses."

Works and Days. Line 353.

"If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great."

Works and Days. Line 360.

"At the beginning of the cask and at the end take thy fill, but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom saving comes too late. Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly."

Works and Days. Line 366.

"Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses."

Works and Days. Line 412.