Chapter 1

Prudentum._

All is not gold that glisteneth.--MIDDLETON: _A Fair Quarrel, verse 1._

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.--DRYDEN: _The Hind and the Panther._

Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire (Everything is not gold that one sees shining).--_Li Diz de freire Denise Cordelier, circa 1300._

[5-3] Many small make a great.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbes. part i. chap. xi._

[5-4] Of two evils the less is always to be chosen.--THOMAS A KEMPIS: _Imitation of Christ, book ii. chap. xii._ HOOKER: _Polity, book v. chap. lxxxi._

Of two evils I have chose the least.--PRIOR: _Imitation of Horace._

E duobus malis minimum eligendum (Of two evils, the least should be chosen).--ERASMUS: _Adages._ CICERO: _De Officiis, iii. 1._

[6-1] Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbes, part ii. chap. ix._

[6-2] This wonder lasted nine daies.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbes, part ii. chap. i._

[6-3] Ars longa, vita brevis (Art is long: life is brief).--HIPPOCRATES: _Aphorism i._

[6-4] Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbes, part ii. chap. v._

THOMAS A KEMPIS. 1380-1471.

Man proposes, but God disposes.[7-1]

_Imitation of Christ. Book i. Chap. 19._

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.[7-2]

_Imitation of Christ. Book i. Chap. 23._

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.[7-3]

_Imitation of Christ. Book iii. Chap. 12._

FOOTNOTES:

[7-1] This expression is of much greater antiquity. It appears in the _Chronicle of Battel Abbey, p. 27_ (Lower's translation), and in _The Vision of Piers Ploughman, line 13994_. ed. _1550_.

A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his steps.--_Proverbs xvi. 9._

[7-2] Out of syght, out of mynd.--GOOGE: _Eglogs. 1563._

And out of mind as soon as out of sight.

Lord BROOKE: _Sonnet lvi._

Fer from eze, fer from herte, Quoth Hendyng.

HENDYNG: _Proverbs, MSS. Circa 1320._

I do perceive that the old proverbis be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my Nath. doth breede in me the more continuall remembrance of him.--_Anne Lady Bacon to Jane Lady Cornwallis, 1613._

On page 19 of _The Private Correspondence of Lady Cornwallis_, Sir Nathaniel Bacon speaks of the _owlde proverbe_, "Out of sighte, out of mynde."

[7-3] See Chaucer, page 5.

JOHN FORTESCUE. _Circa_ 1395-1485.

Moche Crye and no Wull.[7-4]

_De Laudibus Leg. Angliae. Chap. x._

Comparisons are odious.[7-5]

_De Laudibus Leg. Angliae. Chap. xix._

FOOTNOTES:

[7-4] All cry and no wool.--BUTLER: _Hudibras, part i. canto i. line 852._

[7-5] CERVANTES: _Don Quixote_ (Lockhart's ed.), _part ii. chap. i._ LYLY: _Euphues, 1580._ MARLOWE: _Lust's Dominion, act iii. sc. 4._ BURTON: _Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec. 3._ THOMAS HEYWOOD: _A Woman killed with Kindness_ (first ed. in 1607), _act i. sc. 1._ DONNE: _Elegy, viii._ HERBERT: _Jacula Prudentum._ GRANGE: _Golden Aphrodite._

Comparisons are odorous.--SHAKESPEARE: _Much Ado about Nothing,