That noble and most sovereign reason, like sweet bells jangled, out of tune. (Ham. iii. 1.)

She is well tuned now. (Oth. ii. 1.)
He is not in this tune, is he?
No, but he is out of tune thus.
Hope doth tune us otherwise.

(Tr. Cr. iii. 3, and i. 3, 110.) (Per. i. 1.)

356. Like as children do with their babies (dolls); when they have plaied enough with them, they take sport to undoe them.

Protest me the baby of a girl. (Macb. iii. 4.)

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods,
They kill us for their sport. (Lear, iv. 1.)

357. Faber quisque fortunæ suæ.--Appius in Sall. de Republ. Ordin. 1 (Every man is the artificer of his own fortune.)

(Quoted Essay on Fortune.)
You may be faber fortunæ propriæ.
Every artificer rules over his work.
Let him be his own carver, and cut out his way.

(Let. to Essex, 1600.)
(Wis. Ant. xxviii.)

(R. II. ii. 3.) (Sophisms,' Advt. vi. 3.)

You shall not be your own carver.
He may not, as unvalued persons do, carve for himself.

(Ham. i. 3.)

Build me thy fortunes upon the basis of valour. (Tw. N. iii.)

(See Tim. Ath. i. 1, 146;

I'll work myself a former fortune.

I must play the workman. . . Fortune, put them into my hand.

Oth. iii. 3, 151.)

(Cor. v. 3.)

. Out, sword, to a sore purpose! (See Cymb. iv. 1.)

358. Hinc errores multiplices quod de partibus vitæ singuli deliberant de summa nemo. (Many deliberate on portions of life, none on life as a whole; hence arise many errors.)

359. Utilitas magnos hominesque deosque efficit auxiliis quoque favente suis.-Ov. Ex Pont. ii. 9, 35. (It is usefulness that makes men and gods great, as everyone favours what is of help to himself.)

I will use him well. A friend i' the court is better than
Use his men well, Davy; for they are arrant

a penny in purse.

knaves, and will backbite. (2 Hen. IV. v. 1.)

My uses cry to me: I must serve my time out of mine own. (Tim. Ath. ii. 1.)

(And see ib. iii. 2, 38, 89.)

Cæsar having made use of him in the wars 'gainst Pompey, presently denies him rivality, would not let him partake in the glory of the action . . . seizes him: so the poor third is up, till death enlarge his confine. (Ant. Cl. iii. 5.)

360. Qui in agone contendit a multis abstinet.-1 Cor. ix. 2. (He that striveth for the mastery abstains from many things.)

A man of stricture and firm abstinence. (M. M. i. 4.)

He doth with holy abstinence subdue that in himself which he spurs on his power to qualify in others. (Ib. iv. 2.)

361. Quodque cupit sperat suæque illum oracula fallunt. Ov. Met. i. 49. (And what he desires he hopes for, and his own oracles deceive him.)

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. (2 H. IV. iv. 4). (See Mer. Ven. ii. 7, 38, 70; Cymb. i. 7, 6–9.)

Cleo. (Breaks the seal and reads.)

The oracle is read.
Lords. Now blessed be the great Apollo! . . .

Leon. There is no truth at all in the oracle. . . The session shall proceed this is mere falsehood. (W. T. iii. 3.)

362. Serpens nisi serpentem comederit non fit draco. Erasmus, Adagia, 703. (A serpent must have eaten another serpent before he can become a dragon.)

The strong and powerful become more so at the cost of the less powerful, as Aaron's rod, turned into a serpent, swallowed up those of the magicians.

(Quoted, with translation as above, in the Essay Of Fortune.)

3 Fish. Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. 1 Fish. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones. I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly

as to a whale; 'a plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them at a mouthful. Such whales have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping till they've swallowed the whole parish, church, steeple, bells, and all.

363. The Athenian's holiday.

(Per. it. 1)

The. Now, Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace.
Go, Philostrate. Stir up the Athenian youth to merriment.
Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth. (Mid. N. D.)
This is a solemn rite

They owe bloom'd May, and the Athenians pay it
To the heart of ceremony. (Tw. Noble Kin. iii. 1.)
Scene: A forest near Athens-People a-Maying.

364. Optimi consiliari mortui. (The dead are the best counsellors.)

(Quoted in the Essay Of Counsel.)

Hamlet (pointing to the dead body of Polonius). Indeed, this counsellor

Is now most still, most secret, and most grave,

Who was in life a foolish prating knave. (Ham. iii. 4.)

Aur. Two may keep counsel when the third's away.

(Kills the nurse.)

365. Cum tot populis stipatus est. people one is pressed or crowded-lit. he (Compare Mark v. 24.)

(Tit. And. iv. 2.)

(Among so many was thronged, &c.

The crowd that follows Cæsar at the heels.
Will crowd a feeble man almost to death. (Jul. Cæs. ii. 2.)
God save you, sir, where have you been broiling?

Among the crowd i' the Abbey; where a finger could not be wedged in more. . . . No man living could say 'This is my wife there,' all were woven so strangely in one piece. (Hen. VIII. iv. 1.)

(See also Cor. ii. 1, 218–228; Hen. VIII. Prol.)

366. In tot populis vis una fides. peoples (nations) force is the only faith.

...

(Among so many

that is, to propagate

We may not take up the third sword; religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences. (See Of Unity in Religion, Spedding, Works, vol. vi.

An iron man

Turning the word to sword, and life to death.

(See 2 Hen. IV. iv. 2, 1–32, and ib. i. 1, 200; iv. 1, 40-52).

367. Odere reges dicta quæ dici jubent. (Kings hate when uttered the very words they order to be uttered.)

I have seen

When, after execution judgment hath
Repented o'er his doom. (M. M. ii. 2.)

For kings' orders given and repented of see John, iv. 2, 203– 215, 227–242; R. II. i. 3, 113-115, 148-153, 178-190; Cymb. v. 1, 5-7.

368. Nolite confidere in principibus.--Ps. cxlvi. 3. (Put not your trust in princes.)

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours.

There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,

That sweet aspect of princes and their ruin,

More pangs and fears than wars or women have.

(Hen. VIII. iii. 2.)

369. Et multis utile bellum.-Lucan, Ess. Of Disturb(And war is useful to many.)

ances.

370. Pulchrorum autumnus pulcher. (Beautiful is the autumn of beauty.)

(Quoted in Ess. Of Beauty.)

A beauty-waning and distressed widow, in the autumn of her days. (R. III. iii. 7.)

371. Usque adeone times quem tu facis ipse timendum. -(Do you so much fear him whom you yourself make formidable?)

372. Dux femina facti.-Virg. Æn. i. 364. (A woman leads the way.-Dryden.)

Q. Mar. Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided, 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

Prince. Methinks a woman of this valiant spirit Should, if a coward heard her speak these words, Infuse his breast with magnanimity.

Oxford. Women and children of so high a courage, And warriors faint! why, 'twere perpetual shame. (3 Hen. VI. v. 4, 1-65.)

Mess. The French have gathered head: The Dauphin with one Joan la Pucelle joined, Is come with a great power to raise the siege.

(Enter Joan driving Englishmen before her, and exit.)

Tal. Where is my strength, my valour, and my force? Our English troops retire. I cannot stay them.

A woman clad in armour chaseth them. (1 Hen. VI. i. 6.)

373. Res est ingeniosa dare.-Ov. Am. i. 8, 62. (Giving requires good sense.)

Never anything can be amiss

When simpleness and duty tender it. (M. N. D. v. 1.)

Rich gifts wax poor when givers grow unkind. (Ham. iii. 1.) Her pretty action did outsell her gift. (Cymb. ii. 4.)

374. A long wynter maketh a full ear.

Bear you well in this new spring of time,

Lest you be cropped before you come to prime. (R. II. v. 2.) Though I look old, yet am I strong and lusty;

For in my youth I never did apply

Hot and rebellious liquids in my blood. . .
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,

Frosty but kindly. (48 Y. L. ii. 3.)

375. Declinat cursus aurumque volubile tollit.—Ov. Met. 10, 667. (Atalanta swerves her course aside and lifts the rolling gold.)

You have a nimble wit: I think 'twas made of Atalanta's heels. (As Y. L. iii. 2.)