CALUMNY.

No might nor greatness in mortality

Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes: what king so strong,
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

519

Shaks.: M. for M. Act iii Sc 2

If I'm traduced by tongues, which neither know
My faculties nor person, yet will be

The chronicles of my doing — let me say,

'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through.

Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 2

520 Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, Thou shall not escape calumny.

521

Calumny will sear

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1

Shaks.: Win. Tale. Act ii. Sc. 1

Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums, and ha's.

522

CANARY-BIRD.

Bird of the amber beak,
Bird of the golden wing!
Thy dower is thy carolling;
Thou hast not far to seek
Thy bread, nor needest wine
To make thine utterance divine;
Thou art canopied and clothed
And unto Song betrothed!

In thy lone aërial cage

Thou hast thine ancient heritage;

523 E.C.Stedman: The Songster. A Midsummer Carol, St. & CANDOR.

I hold it cowardice

To rest mistrustful, where a noble heart
Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.
524
Shaks.: 3 Henry VI.
Some positive, persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you with pleasure own your errors past,
And make each day a critique on the last.

525

CANT —see Duplicity.

Act iv. Sc. 2

Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 3

Yes, rather plunge me back in pagan night,
And take my chance with Socrates for bliss,
Than be the Christian of a faith like this,
Which builds on heavenly cant its earthly sway,
And in a convert mourns to lose a prey.

526

Moore: Intolerance. Line 68

CARE.

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. 527

Shaks.: Rom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc 3

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive,
For things that are not to be remedied.

Shaks.: 1 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 3.

528 Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth, Where nothing lives but crosses, care, and grief. 529 Care that is enter'd once into the breast, Will have the whole possession, ere it rest. 530

Shaks.: Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Ben Jonson: Tale of a Tub. Act i. Sc. 3.

Care, whom not the gayest can outbrave,
Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.

531

Henry Kirke White: Childhood. Pt. ii. Line 17.

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt;
And every grin, so merry, draws one out.

532 When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. 533

Peter Pindar: Ex. Odes. Ode 15.

Herrick: Aph. Sorrows Succeed.

Oid Care has a mortgage on every estate,
And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.
534

CAREFULNESS.

J. G. Saxe: Gifts of the Gods.

For my means, I'll husband them so well,
They shall go far with little.

535

CATHAY.

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

536

Tennyson: Locksley Hall. St. 92.

CATHEDRALS -see Church.

The high embower'd roof, With antique pillars, massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

537

CATO.

Milton: Il Penseroso. Line 157.

Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious,

Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius. 538

CAUSE AND EFFECT

Byron: Don Juan. Canto vi. St. 7

What dire offence from amorous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

539

Pope: R. of the Lock. Canto i. Line 1.

CAUTION-see Advice, Discretion.
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.

540

Shaks.: Much Au. Act ii. Sc. 1

Things done well,

And with a care, exempt themselves from fear:
Things done without example, in their issue

Are to be fear'd.

541

Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 2 Trust none;

For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
And hold-fast is the only dog.

542

Shaks.: Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3

Be advis'd;

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself: we may outrun,
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over-running.

543

Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1

Fast bind, fast find;

A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.
544
What, would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
Shaks.: M. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Shaks.: M. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5.

545

When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks;
When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand!
When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?
Untimely storms make men expect a dearth :

All may be well; but, if God sort it so,

'Tis more than we deserve, or I expect.

546

Shaks.: Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Know when to speak; for many times it brings
Danger, to give the best advice to kings.

547

Look before you ere you leap;

Herrick: Aph. Caution in Council.

Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 502

For as you sow y' are like to reap.

548

The mouse, that always trusts to one poor hole,
Can never be a mouse of any soul.

549

Pope: Wife of Bath. Line 288 Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide: In part is she to blame that has been tried; He comes too near that comes to be denied. 550 Lady M. W. Montague: Lady's Resolve All's to be fear'd where all is to be gained. 551

Byron: Werner. Act ii. Sc. 2

A man of sense can artifice disdain,
As men of wealth may venture to go plain
I find the fool when I behold the screen,
For 'tis the wise man's interest to be seen.
552

...

Young: Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 193

CELIBACY -see Maidenhood.

Franklin: Poor Richard

Lady, you are the cruelest she alive,

If you will lead these graces to the grave,
And leave the world no copy.

554

Shaks.: Tw. Night. Act i. Sc. 5.

But earthly happier is the rose distill'd,
Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn,
Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.
555
Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain
But our destroyer, foe to God and man?
556

Shaks.: Mid. N. Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.

Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 748. A bachelor

May thrive, by observation, on a little;
A single life's no burthen: but to draw
In yokes is chargeable, and will require
A double maintenance.

557

CEREMONY.

Ford: Fancies Chaste and Noble. Act i. Sc. 3.

Ceremony was but devised at first

To set a gloss on faint deeds - hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis showr;

But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

558

Shaks.: Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 2.

The sauce to meat is ceremony,

Shaks.: Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.

Meeting were bare without it.

559

CHALLENGE.

There I throw my gage,

To prove it on thee, to the extremest point
Of mortal breathing.

560

CHANCE- - see Pride.

Shaks.: Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
I shot his fellow of the self-same flight,
The self-same way, with more advised watch,
To find the other forth; and by adventuring both
I oft found both.

561

Shaks.: M. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1

A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at, and kill'd. 562

Shaks.: Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 4

I have set my life upon a cast,

And I will stand the hazard of the die.
563
How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul.
564

Shaks.: Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4

Bailey: Festus. Sc. A Country Town

All nature is but art unknown to thee,
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see.
565
CHANGE.

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 289.

Alas! in truth, the man but chang'd his mind, Perhaps was sick, in love, or had not dined. 566 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 127. Nature never stands still, nor souls either. They ever go up or go down.

567

Julia C. R. Dorr: Outgrown.

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. 568

Byron: Dream. St. 3.

How chang'd since last her speaking eye
Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room;
Where high-born men were proud to wait,
Where beauty watched to imitate!
569

Byron: Parisina. St. 10.

All but God is changing day by day. 570

Charles Kingsley: Prometheus.

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep

A stable, changeless state, 't were cause indeed to weep. 571 William Cullen Bryant: Mutation.

Not in vain the distance beacons, forward, forward let us

range.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves

572

of change.

CHANGING.

Tennyson: Locksley Hall. St. 91.

The stone that is rolling can gather no moss, For master and servant oft changing is loss. 573

CHAOS.

Tusser: 500 Pts. Good Hus. Lessons.

Where eldest Night

And chaos, ancestors of nature, hold

Eternal anarchy amidst the noise

Of endless wars.

574

Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 894