LEARNED THEBAN. I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. LEAVE THIS, &c. Leave this keen encounter of our wits, LENDING MONEY. If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further,-either you must part with that which you have entrusted, or else you must lose that friend. 1 RILEY'S Plautus, The Trinummus, act 4, sc. 4, p. 58. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend. SHAKSPERE, Hamlet, act 1, scene 3. LET THE GALLED JADE WINCE. Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. SHAKSPERE, Hamlet, act 3, sc. 2. LET WELL ALONE. He that diligently seeketh good, procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him. Proverbs, c. 11, v. 27. That man's unwise will search for ill, HERRICK, Hesp. To his Muse, No. 9. When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. SHAKSPERE, King John, act 4, sc. 2. How far your eyes may pierce, I cannot tell, Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. SHAKSPERE, King Lear, act 1, sc. 4. LIBERTY. When liberty is gone, Life grows insipid and has lost its relish. ADDISON, Cato, act 2. A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, Ibid. I would not my unhoused free condition SHAKSPERE, Othello, act 1, sc. 2. LIE CIRCUMSTANTIAL. LIES. Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. GOLDSMITH, She stoops to conquer, act 3. LIFE. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, Good and ill together. SHAKSPERE, All's well that ends well, act 4, sc. 3. And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Life is but a day at most, Sprung from night, in darkness lost; BURNS. Friars-Carse Hermitage.. Whose life with care is overcast, HERRICK, Hesp. Pastorals, No. 3. Thus we lived many years in a state of much happi ness; not but that we sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours. GOLDSMITH, Vicar of Wakefield, c. 1. Life's fitful fever. SHAKSPERE, Macbeth, act 3, scene 2. I made a posie, while the day ran by : And wither'd in my hand. GEO. HERBERT, The Temple; Life. Take not away the life you cannot give, Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, SHAKSPERE, Macbeth, act 5, scene 5. It is a tale, Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Ibidem, LIFT. Lift up your heads, O ye gates. Psalm 24, v. 7. We directed our steps towards the mansion of a wealthy man, full of precious things. Gates, fly open! BUCKLEY'S Homer, The Odyssey, Life of Homer, p. 29. LIKE. And each particular hair to stand on end, SHAKSPERE, Hamlet, act 1, sc. 5. Like Niobe, all tears. Ibid, Hamlet, act 1, sc. 2. No more like my father, Than I to Hercules. Ibid. Like patience on a monument, smiling at grief. SHAKSPERE, Twelfth Night, act 2, sc. 4. Like angel-visits few and far between. CAMPBELL, Pleasures of Hope, part 2. LIKE A WHALE. Hamlet. Or, like a whale? SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, act 3,sc. 2. LILY. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ST. MATTHEW, c. 6, v. 28, 29. Observe the rising lily's snowy grace, They neither toil, nor spin, but careless grow, And every rose and lily, there did stand COWLEY, The Garden. Yet neither spins, ne cards, nor frets, SPENSER, Fairy Queen, bk. 2, canto 1. Like the lily, That once was mistress of the field and flourish'd, SHAKSPERE, King Henry 8, act 3, sc. 1. LISTEN TO REASON. Leontine. But, Sir, if you will but listen to reason.- P I tell |