Chapter 17

And from that luckless hour my tyrant fair Has led and turned me by a single hair.

BLAND: _Anthology, p. 20_ (edition 1813).

[192-1] See Heywood, page 10.

[192-2] See Heywood, page 18.

[192-3] See Shakespeare, page 44.

[192-4] See Chaucer, page 3.

[192-5] For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.--MARTIN LUTHER: _Table Talk, lxvii._

God never had a church but there, men say, The Devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles.

DRUMMOND: _Posthumous Poems._

No sooner is a temple build to God but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.--HERBERT: _Jacula Prudentum._

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there.

DEFOE: _The True-born Englishman, part i. line 1._

[193-1] Ignorance is the mother of devotion.--JEREMY TAYLOR: _To a Person newly Converted_ (1657).

Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.--DRYDEN: _The Maiden Queen, act i. sc. 2._

[193-2] The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order.

BURNS: _Epistle to a Young Friend._

[193-3] Saint Augustine was in the habit of dining upon Saturday as upon Sunday; but being puzzled with the different practices then prevailing (for they had begun to fast at Rome on Saturday), consulted Saint Ambrose on the subject. Now at Milan they did not fast on Saturday, and the answer of the Milan saint was this: "Quando hic sum, non jejuno Sabbato; quando Romae sum, jejuno Sabbato" (When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday).--_Epistle xxxvi. to Casulanus._

SIR THOMAS OVERBURY. 1581-1613.

In part to blame is she, Which hath without consent bin only tride: He comes to neere that comes to be denide.[193-4]

_A Wife. St. 36._

FOOTNOTES:

[193-4] In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too late that comes to be denied.

MARY W. MONTAGU: _The Lady's Resolve._

PHILIP MASSINGER. 1584-1640.

Some undone widow sits upon mine arm, And takes away the use of it;[194-1] and my sword, Glued to my scabbard with wronged orphans' tears, Will not be drawn.

_A New Way to pay Old Debts. Act v. Sc. 1._

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.[194-2]

_A Very Woman. Act v. Sc. 4._

This many-headed monster.[194-3]

_The Roman Actor. Act iii. Sc. 2._

Grim death.[194-4]

_The Roman Actor. Act iv. Sc. 2._

FOOTNOTES:

[194-1] See Middleton, page 172.

[194-2] Death hath so many doors to let out life.--BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _The Custom of the Country, act ii. sc. 2._

The thousand doors that lead to death.--BROWNE: _Religio Medici,