canto i. st. 17._ BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Women Pleased, act. i.

sc. 3._

[16-1] See Chaucer, page 3.

[16-2] In old receipt books we find it invariably advised that an inebriate should drink sparingly in the morning some of the same liquor which he had drunk to excess over-night.

[16-3] See Chaucer, page 6.

[16-4] Ah, well I wot that a new broome sweepeth cleane--LYLY: _Euphues_ (Arber's reprint), _p. 89._

[16-5] Brend child fur dredth, Quoth Hendyng.

_Proverbs of Hendyng. MSS._

A burnt child dreadeth the fire.--LYLY: _Euphues_ (Arber's reprint), _p. 319._

[16-6] You do not speak gospel.--RABELAIS: _book i. chap. xiii._

[16-7] MARLOWE: _Jew of Malta, act iv. sc. 6._ BACON: _Formularies._

[16-8] Sottes bolt is sone shote.--_Proverbs of Hendyng. MSS._

[16-9] It has been the Providence of Nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one.--PILPAY: _The Greedy and Ambitious Cat, fable iii._ B. C.

[16-10] LYLY: _Euphues_ (Arber's reprint), _p. 80._

[17-1] _Pryde and Abuse of Women. 1550. The Marriage of True Wit and Science._ BUTLER: _Hudibras, part ii. canto i. line 698._ FIELDING: _The Grub Street Opera, act ii. sc. 4._ PRIOR: _Epilogue to Lucius._

Lord Macaulay (_History of England, vol. i. chap. iii._) thinks that this proverb originated in the preference generally given to the gray mares of Flanders over the finest coach-horses of England. Macaulay, however, is writing of the latter half of the seventeenth century, while the proverb was used a century earlier.

[17-2] See Chaucer, page 6.

Two may keep counsel when the third 's away.--SHAKESPEARE: _Titus Andronicus, act iv. sc. 2._

[17-3] Pitchers have ears.--SHAKESPEARE: _Richard III. act ii. sc. 4._

[17-4] See Chaucer, page 3.

[17-5] Thou shalt come out of a warme sunne into Gods blessing.--LYLY: _Euphues._

Thou out of Heaven's benediction comest To the warm sun.

SHAKESPEARE: _Lear, act ii. sc. 2._

[17-6] Ther can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.--LYLY: _Euphues_ (Arber's reprint), _p. 153._

[17-7] One swallowe prouveth not that summer is neare.--NORTHBROOKE: _Treatise against Dancing. 1577._

[17-8] See Chaucer, page 2.

[18-1] See Skelton, page 8.

[18-2] I have thee on the hip.--SHAKESPEARE: _Merchant of Venice,