248 Rumbold.-Pope.-Holt.-Powell. RICHARD RUMBOLD. --1685. I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. When on the Scaffold (1685). Macaulay, Hist. of England. DR. WALTER POPE. 1630-1714. May I govern my passion with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away. The Old Man's Wish. SIR JOHN HOLT. 1642-1709. The better day the better deed.1 Sir William Moore's Case, 2 Ld. Raym. 1028. SIR JOHN POWELL. 1713. Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.2 Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 911. 1 A proverb found in Ray. 2 Compare Coke, Institute, Book i. Fol. 976. EARL OF ROCHESTER. 1647-1680. Angels listen when she speaks: She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; Here lies our sovereign lord the king, He never says a foolish thing, Nor ever does a wise one. Song. Written on the Bedchamber Door of Charles II. And ever since the conquest have been fools. Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country. For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose, The best good man with the worst-natured muse. An Allusion to Satire x. Horace. Book i. A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. On the King. SIR CHARLES SEDLEY. 1639-1701. When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easy to be true. Reasons for Constancy. 250 Sheffield.-Aldrich. SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM- Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Ibid. Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor; Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. Ibid. HENRY ALDRICH. 1647 - 1710. If on my theme I rightly think, Or any other reason why.1 Biog. Britannica. Vol. i. p. 131. 1 These lines are a translation of a Latin epigram (erroneously ascribed to Aldrich in the Biog. Brit.) which Menage and De la Monnoye attribute to Père Sirmond. Si bene commemini, causæ sunt quinque bibendi ; Hospitis adventus; præsens sitis atque futura; Et vini bonitas, et quælibet altera causa. Menagiana, Vol. i. p. 172. O woman! lovely woman! nature made thee Eternal joy, and everlasting love. Venice Preserved. Acti. Sc. 1. Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life; Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o'er thee.1 Ibid. Act v. Sc. I. What mighty ills have not been done by woman? Who was 't betray'd the Capitol? A woman! Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman! Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy in ashes? Woman! Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman! The Orphan. Act iii. Sc. I. ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. 1653-1716. I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, etc. 1 Compare Gray, The Bard, Part i. St. 3. ISAAC NEWTON. 1642-1727. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.1 Brewster's Memoirs of Newton. Vol. ii. Ch. 27. NATHANIEL LEE. 1655-1692. Then he will talk-good gods! how he will talk! 2 Alexander the Great. Acti. Sc. 3. Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace, That 't is a kind of heaven to be deluded by him. Ibid. Acti. Sc. 3. When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 2. 1 See Milton, Paradise Reg., Book iv. Lines 327-330. 2 It would talk, Lord! how it talked! Beaumont and Fletcher, The Scornful Lady, Act v. Sc. 1. |