FRANCIS DUC DE ROCHEFOUCAULD.

1613-1680.

ED. LONDON, 1871.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.1

Maxim 22.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Maxim 227.

The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.2 Maxim 259.

We always like those who admire us, we do not always like those whom we admire.

Maxim 294.

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.3

Maxim 298.

In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.* Maxim 471. In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us.5 Reflections xv.

1 This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. — Goldsmith, The GoodNatured Man, Act i.

2 Compare Shelley, p. 539.

3 The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours. Sir Robert Walpole.

4 In her first passion, woman loves her lover:

In all the others, all she loves is love.

Byron, Don Juan, c. iii. St. 3.

5 I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. Burke, The Sublime and Beautiful, Part 1,

Sec. 14.

SAMUEL BUTLER. 1600-1680.

HUDIBRAS.

And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick,

Was beat with fist instead of a stick.

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We grant, altho' he had much wit,

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He was very shy of using it.

Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek
As naturally as pigs squeak;

That Latin was no more difficile

Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle.

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He could distinguish, and divide

A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side.

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For rhetoric, he could not ope

His mouth, but out there flew a trope.

For all a rhetorician's rules

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Teach nothing but to name his tools.

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For he, by geometric scale,

Could take the size of pots of ale.

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And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike, by Algebra.

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Hudibras continued.]

Whatever sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.1

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Where entity and quiddity,

The ghosts of defunct bodies fly.

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He knew what's what, and that's as high 2
As metaphysic wit can fly.

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Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.3

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'T was Presbyterian true blue.

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And prove their doctrine orthodox,
By apostolic blows and knocks.

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Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to.
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The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty,

For want of fighting was grown rusty,
And ate into itself for lack

Of somebody to hew and hack.

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1 Every why hath a wherefore.

Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, Act ii. Sc. 2.

2 See Proverbial Expressions.

3 Compare Fuller, Holy and Profane State. Andronicus, ad fin. 1. Ante, p. 222.

[Hudibras continued.

For rhyme the rudder is of verses,

With which, like ships, they steer their courses.

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And force them, though it was in spite

Of Nature, and their stars, to write.

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1

Quoth Hudibras, "I smell a rat ;'
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate."

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Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.2

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With many a stiff thwack, many a bang,
Hard crab-tree and old iron rang.

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Like feather bed betwixt a wall,
And heavy brunt of cannon ball.

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Ay me! what perils do environ

The man that meddles with cold iron.3

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Nor do I know what is become

Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.

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He had got a hurt

O' th' inside, of a deadlier sort.

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With mortal crisis doth portend
My days to appropinque an end.

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1 See Proverbial Expressions.

2 And so his Highness schal have thereof, but as had the man that scheryd his Hogge, moche Crye and no Wull. - Fortescue (1395-1485), Treatise on Absolute and Limited Monarchy, Ch. x.

3 See Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book i. Canto 8. St. 1.

Hudibras continued.]

For those that run away, and fly,
Take place at least o' th' enemy.1

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I am not now in fortune's power;
He that is down can fall no lower.2

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Cheer'd up himself with ends of verse,
And sayings of philosophers.

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If he that in the field is slain
Be in the bed of honour lain,
He that is beaten may be said
To lie in honour's truckle-bed.

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When pious frauds and holy shifts
Are dispensations and gifts.

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Friend Ralph, thou hast

Outrun the constable at last.

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Some force whole regions, in despite
O' geography, to change their site;
Make former times shake hands with latter,
And that which was before, come after ;
But those that write in rhyme still make
The one verse for the other's sake;
For one for sense, and one for rhyme,

I think 's sufficient at one time.

1 See page 378.

Part ii. Canto i. Line 23.

2 He that is down needs fear no fall.

Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress