"The wretched souls of those who lived Without or praise or blame."

Hell. Canto iii. Line 34.

"No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand."

Hell. Canto v. Line 121.

"Where are the snows of last year?"

Des Dames du Temps jadis. i.

"I know everything except myself."

Autre Ballade. i.

"Good talkers are only found in Paris."

Des Femmes de Paris. ii.

"As when, O lady mine! With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould. The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows."

Sonnet.

"A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing; Our helper He amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing."

Psalm. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (trans. by Frederic H. Hedge).

"Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen!"

Speech at the Diet of Worms.

"For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel."

Table-Talk. lxvii.

"A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly 't is a rare bird in the land."

Table-Talk. clvi.

"I am just going to leap into the dark."

Motteux's Life.

"Let down the curtain: the farce is done."

Motteux's Life.

"He left a paper sealed up, wherein were found three articles as his last will: "I owe much; I have nothing; I give the rest to the poor.""

Motteux's Life.

"One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man."

To the Reader.

"To return to our wethers."

Works. Book i. Chap. i. n. 2.

"I drink no more than a sponge."

Works. Book i. Chap. v.

"Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston."

Works. Book i. Chap. v.

"Thought the moon was made of green cheese."

Works. Book i. Chap. xi.

"He always looked a given horse in the mouth."

Works. Book i. Chap. xi.

"By robbing Peter he paid Paul, . . . and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall."

Works. Book i. Chap. xi.

"He laid him squat as a flounder."

Works. Book i. Chap. xxvii.

"Send them home as merry as crickets."

Works. Book i. Chap. xxix.

"Corn is the sinews of war."

Works. Book i. Chap. xlvi.

"How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?"

Works. Book i. Chap. lii.

"Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money."

Works. Book ii. Chap. xvi.

"He did not care a button for it."

Works. Book ii. Chap. xvi.

"How well I feathered my nest."

Works. Book ii. Chap. xvii.

"So much is a man worth as he esteems himself."

Works. Book ii. Chap. xxix.

"A good crier of green sauce."

Works. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

"Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth."

Works. Book ii. Chap. xxxii.

"This flea which I have in mine ear."

Works. Book iii. Chap. xxxi.

"You have there hit the nail on the head."

Works. Book iii. Chap. xxxiv.

"Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges."

Works. Book iv. Chap. xix.

"I 'll go his halves."

Works. Book iv. Chap. xxiii.

"The Devil was sick,--the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well,--the devil a monk was he."

Works. Book iv. Chap. xxiv.

"Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub."

Works. Book iv. Chap. xxxviii.

"I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus."

Works. Book iv. Chap. xxxviii.

"Which was performed to a T."

Works. Book iv. Chap. xli.

"He that has patience may compass anything."

Works. Book iv. Chap. xlviii.

"We will take the good will for the deed."

Works. Book iv. Chap. xlix.

"You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled."

Works. Book iv. Chap. l.

"Would you damn your precious soul?"

Works. Book iv. Chap. liv.

"Let us fly and save our bacon."

Works. Book iv. Chap. lv.

"Needs must when the Devil drives."

Works. Book iv. Chap. lvii.

"Scampering as if the Devil drove them."

Works. Book iv. Chap. lxii.

"He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time."

Works. Book iv. Chap. lxii.

"The belly has no ears, nor is it to be filled with fair words."

Works. Book iv. Chap. lxii.

"Whose cockloft is unfurnished."

Works. The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book.

"Speak the truth and shame the Devil."

Works. The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book.

"Plain as a nose in a man's face."

Works. The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book.