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"These lines are almost universally supposed to form a part of Hudibras. BUTLER has, indeed, two or three passages somewhat similiar, (ante p. 85). The fact, however, is that the couplet, thus erroneously ascribed to the author of Hudibras, occurs in a small volume of miscellaneous Poems by Sir John Mennes, written in the reign of Charles the Second, which has now become extremely scarce. The original of the couplet may, however, be traced to much higher authority, even to Demosthenes, who has a passage of which the English lines above are almost a literal translation."

COLLETT'S Relics of Literature, 185.

THE OBSERVED OF ALL, &c.

The observ'd of all observers !

SHAKSPERE, Hamlet, act 3, sc. 1.

THE PLAY, &c.

The play's the thing,

Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

Ibid, Hamlet, act 2, sc. 2.

THE REMEDY, &c.

Withdraw thy action, and depart in peace;
The remedy is worse than the disease.

DRYDEN'S Juvenal, satire 16.

Better that we awhile had borne

E'en all those ills which most displease,
Than sought a cure far worse than the disease.
BUCKINGHAM. Chorus 3, in Marcus Brutus.

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THE REWARD OF THE JUST.

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind,
E'en to the ashes of the just, is kind.
POPE, The Íliad, bk. 24, line 523.

The sweet remembrance of the just,
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.
Psalm 112, v. 6.

Since the bright actions of the just,
Survive unburied in the kindred dust.

WHEELWRIGHT's Pindar, Olym. Ode 8, line 112.

NOTE.-David lived about 1000 years before our Saviour, and the Psalms are more ancient than the writings of any Classic now extant. Homer, one of the earliest Classic writers, wrote about 840 years before the birth of Christ, and above 100 years after the death of Solomon the son of David.

SIR JOHN BAYLEY'S Book of Common Prayer, 239.

It appears evident that the writers of the Old Testament, were the original and best authors, and that from them are borrowed numerous ideas attributed to the Poets themselves.

See DR. JOHNSON, on the Oriental Eclogues of Collins.

THE RIVER OF HIS THOUGHTS.

LONGFELLOW. The Spanish Student.

The ocean to the river of his thoughts,

BYRON, The Dream.

The idea is from Dante.

THE ROSE.

The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,

And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
SCOTT, Lady of the Lake, canto 4, st. 1.

THE RUDDY MAID.

The ruddy maid,

Half naked, swelling on the sight, and all
Her kindled graces burning o'er her cheek.
THOMSON, Summer.

THE SEA SAW THAT, AND FLED.

What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest ?— Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord: at the presence of the God of Jacob.

Psalm 114, v. 3, 5, 7.

He proceeded to drive over the billows, and the monsters of the deep sported beneath him on all sides from their recesses, nor were ignorant of their king. For joy the sea separated ;

BUCKLEY'S Homer, The Iliad, bk. 13, p. 229.

THE SEAR, THE YELLOW LEAF.
SHAKSPERE, Macbeth, act 5, sc. 3.

THE SINS, &c.

The sins we do, people behold with optics
Which shew them ten times more than common vices,
And often multiply them.

FLETCHER'S Thierry and Theoderet, act 1, sc. 1.

THE SMALLEST WORM.

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.
SHAKSPERE, K. Henry 6th, pt. 3. act 2, sc. 2.

THE STRAWBERRY.

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle.
SHAKSPERE, K. Henry 5th, act 1, sc. 1.

THE THIEF.

The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
SHAKSPERE, King Henry 6th, part 3, act 5, sc. 6.

THE THINGS, &c.

The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,
But wonder how the devil they got there.

POPE, Epi. to Arbuthnot.

THE THOUSAND, &c.

The thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to.

SHAKSPERE, Hamlet, act 3, sc. 1.

THE THREE WARNINGS.

A Poem by Mrs. THRALL. BOSWELL'S Johnson, 1766.

THE TIME, &c.

The time is out of joint.

SHAKSPERE, Hamlet, act 1, sc. 5.

THE TIMES, &c.

The times have been,

That when the brains were out the man would die, And there an end.

SHAKSPERE, Macbeth, act 3, sc. 4.

THE TOWN, &c.

The town has ting'd the country, and the stain
Appears a spot upon a vestal's robe,

The worse for what it soils.

COWPER, The Task, Winter Evening.

THE VALUE.

For what is worth in anything,

But so much money as 'twill bring.

BUTLER, Hudibras, part 2, canto 1, line 465,

And very wisely would lay forth

No more upon it than 'twas worth.

Ibid, part 1, canto 1, line 491.

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