The Spectator Volume Iii Part 155

499. PERS. Sat. i. 40.

'--You drive the jest too far.'

(Dryden).

500. OVID, Met. vi. 182.

'Seven are my daughters of a form divine, With seven fair sons, an indefective line.

Go, fools, consider this, and ask the cause From which my pride its strong presumption draws.'

(Croxal).

501. HOR. 1 Od. xxiv. 19.

' 'Tis hard: but when we needs must bear, Enduring patience makes the burden light.'

(Creech).

502. TER. Heaut. Act iv. Sc. 1.

'Better or worse, profitable or disadvantageous, they see nothing but what they list.'

503. TER. Eun. Act ii. Sc. 3.

'From henceforward I blot out of my thoughts all memory of womankind.'

504. TER. Eun. Act iii. Sc. 1.

'You are a hare yourself, and want dainties, forsooth.'

505. ENNIUS.

'Augurs and soothsayers, astrologers, Diviners, and interpreters of dreams, I ne'er consult, and heartily despise: Vain their pretence to more than human skill: For gain, imaginary schemes they draw; Wand'rers themselves, they guide another's steps; And for poor sixpence promise countless wealth.

Let them, if they expect to be believed, Deduct the sixpence, and bestow the rest.'

506. MART. 4 Epig. xiii. 7.

'Perpetual harmony their bed attend, And Venus still the well-match'd pair befriend!

May she, when time has sunk him into years, Love her old man, and cherish his white hairs; Nor he perceive her charms through age decay, But think each happy sun his bridal day!'

507. Juv. Sat. ii. 46.

'Preserved from shame by numbers on our side.'

508. CORN. NEPOS in Milt. c. 8.

'For all those are accounted and denominated tyrants, who exercise a perpetual power in that state which was before free.'

509. TER. Heaut. Act iii. Sc. 3.

'Discharging the part of a good economist.'

510. TER. Eun. Act i. Sc. 1.

'If you are wise, add not to the troubles which attend the pa.s.sion of love, and bear patiently those which are inseparable from it.'

511. OVID, Ars Am. i. 175.

'--Who could fail to find, In such a crowd a mistress to his mind?'

512. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 344.

'Mixing together profit and delight.'

513. VIRG. aen. vi. 50.

'When all the G.o.d came rus.h.i.+ng on her soul.'

(Dryden).