REESE LIBRARY OF THK i UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Class No. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS "He searches all the Records of Wit, to compile a Breviate of them for the (Jse of Players, Printers, Booksellers, and Sometimes Cooks, [or] Tobacco- Men." — Wycherley, Love in a Wood, COMPILED BY KATHARINE B. ^OOD NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1903 fttKSE Copyright, 1896, , by The Century Co. THEDEVlNNBPREdS. PREFACE THIS little book is not put forth to supply an imperative demand, but rather with the hope of creating one. So far as is known to the writer, no such compilation is in existence, but the custom of using appropriate quotations on dinner menus, cards, invitations, etc., is growing, and of the many who desire to use such citations, not all know just where to find them. This book is intended to lessen the labor of search, for it is nearly " as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent." The reader, however, is warned not to be too sure that the author of any quotation had in mind the subject to which it is applied here. 1 16750 CONTENTS CHAPTER I For the Beginning of Dinner Menus, Programs, etc i CHAPTER n Dinner Menus 31 CHAPTER HI For Endings of Dinner Menus, Pro- grams, ETC 71 CHAPTER IV Tobacco and Wines 86 CHAPTER V Toasts no CHAPTER VI Miscellaneous: Bicycle Meets, Teas, ETC 177 A SAMPLE MENU But hark I the chiming clocks to dinner call. POPE, Moral Va»a.jt, iv. MENU BLUE POINTS The firm Roman to great Egypt sends This treasure of an oyster. Antony and Cleopatra, i, 6. • CONSOMMfi LOBSTER BISQUE I do perceive here a divided duty. OtheUo, i. 3. • RADISHES CELERY OLIVES Cum grano salis. • SALMON, WITH CUCUMBERS My wife and I bought a bit of salmon for 8d, and went to the Sun Taveme and eat it. PEPYS, DiAry. • SWEETBREAD PAt£s GREEN PEAS Not to knoiv m.e argues yourselves unknowfi. MILTON-, Paradiie Loit. iv. Hovj green you are and fresh. King John, iii, 4. • ASPARAGUS Have you this Spring eaten any asparagus yet? BROME, The 'Sparague Garden, il, 2. • FILET OF BEEF MUSHROOM SAUCE Our old and faithful friend, we are glad to see you. Measiu« for Measure, r, L A SAMPLE MENU — Continued SORBET To give satiety afresh appetite. Othello, ii, 1. REDHEAD DUCKS LETTUCE SALAD Let 's carve him as a dish fit for the gods. Not hew him as a carcass. Juliai Ciwar, U, 1. Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl A nd, half suspected, animate the whole. SYDNEY SMITH. NEAPOLITAN ICE CREAM A ny pretty little tiny kick- shaws, tell William cook. 2 Henry IV, T, 1. ROQUEFORT BRIE Pray does anybody here hate cheese > I would be glad of a bit. SWrFT, PoUte Conrenatloni, U. • FRUIT Give cherries at time of year or apricots ; and say they were sent you out of the country though you bought them in Cheapside! B. JONSON, Silent Woman, it, 1. COFFEE / have not slept one wink ! Cymbeline, lU, 4. LIQUEURS Which draught to me were cordial. Winter'. Tale, i, 3. Serenely full, the epicure would say, 'Fate cannot harm me, — / have dined to-day." SYDNEY SMITH. **Next to the originator of a good sentence, is the first quoter of it'' Emerson. i: ^'A// QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Chapter I FOR THE BEGINNING OF DINNER MENUS, PROGRAMS, ETC. My way is to begin with the beginning. DinnerMenus. Byron, Don Juan, i, 7, If before repast it shall please you to gratify the table with a grace. love's labour's lost, iv, 2. Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course. Chief nourisher in life's feast. Macbeth, a, 2. ''^"^"Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both. Macbeth, iii, 4. A solemn sacrifice performed in state. Pope, Moral Essays, iv. Now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit. Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa. I 1 2 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS DinnerMenus. gut j^ark! the chlming clocks to dinner call. Pope, Moral Essays, iv. Th' unknowing man Eats only flesh, the understanding valour : His ignorance i' th' mystery keeps him coward. To hi7n 'tis but a meal; X.o you 'tis virtue. W. Cartwright, The Ordinary, ii, i. The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it. Macbeth, m, 4. To thee and thy company I bid a hearty wel- come. Tempest, v, i. Welcome, my friends all! Tempest, v,i. At dinner-time, I pray you, have in mind where we must meet. merchant of Venice, i, I. Bid your friends welcome, show a merry cheer. Merchant of Venice, iii, 2. Feast with the best, and welcome to my house. Taming of the Shrew, v, 2. What better or properer can we call our own than the riches of our friends ? timon of Athens, i, 2. What, do we meet together? Ay, and I think one business doth command us all. ' Timon of Athens, iii, 4. You that way, and you this, but two in com- pany. Timon of Athens, v, i. Within this hour it will be dinner time. Comedy of Errors, i, 2. QUOTA TIONS FOR OCCASIONS 3 We'll bring your friends and ours to this large Dinner Menus. dinner: It works the better eaten before witness. IV. Cart-wright, The Ordinary, ii, i. Sancho. The cooks are hard at work, Sir, chop- ping Herbs, and mincing Meats, and breaking Marrow-bones. Carlos. And is it thus at every dinner? Sancho. No, Sir, but we have high doings to- day. Gibber, Love Makes a Man, ii. I had a good dinner for them, as a venison pasty and some fowl, and after dinner we did play. Pepys, Diary, Nov. 15, 1667. My wife had got ready a very fine dinner — viz: a dish of marrow-bones ; a leg of mutton ; a loin of veal ; a dish of fowl ; three pullets and two dozen of larks all in a dish ; a great tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies, a dish of prawns and cheese. Pe^ys, diary, Jan. 26, 1660. # Must we all march ? Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion, i henry iv.iii, 3. Are these things then necessities ? Then let us meet them like necessities. II Henry IV, iii, i. Epicurean cooks Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 1. Good my friends, consider You are my guests. king lear, iii, 7. 4 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Dinner Menus. Cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast, king Richard ii, i, 3, Being no further enemy to you Than the constraint of hospitable zeal. King John, ii, i. The glory of the kitchen ! that holds cookery A trade from Adam, quotes his broths and sal- lads, And swears he is not dead yet but translated In some immortal crust, the paste of almonds ! B. Jonson, The Staple of News, iii, i. My meat shall all come in in Indian shells, Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths and rubies. B. Jonson, The Alchemist, ii. And now let 's go hand in hand, not one before another. comedy of errors, v, i. The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony. hamlet, ii, 2. Most welcome ! Be sprightly, for you fall 'mongst friends. Cymbeline, iii, 6. Sit down and feed and welcome to our table. As You Like It, ii, 7. Bid them cover the table, serve in the meat. Merchant of Venice, iii, 5. Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly ? Merchant of Venice, iv, i. It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Merchant of Venice, iv, i. Such and so various are the tastes of men. A kenside. Pleasures of the Imagination, iii. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 5 Some ... are to be tasted, others to be swal- Dinner Menus, lowed and some to be chewed and digested. Bacon, Essays (Studies). Cookery is become an art, a noble science. Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, i. The footman, in his usual phrase. Comes up with *'Madam, dinner stays." Swift, A Modern Lady. You are very welcome to our house : It must appear in other ways than words. Merchant of Venice, v, i. Is 't near dinner-time ? I would it were. Two Gentlemen of Verona, i, 2. A man is . . . nev^r welcome to a place till . . . the hostess say ''Welcome!" Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, 3. Those palates who . . . Must have inventions to delight the taste. Pericles, i, 4. You are passing welcome And so I pray you all to think yourselves. Taming of the Shrew, ii, i. It is a hard matter for friends to meet; but mountains may be removed with earthquakes and so encounter. As You likb it, iii, 2. This so noble and so fair assembly This night to meet here. henry viii, i, 4. This is the period of my ambition: O this blessed hour! Merry wives of Windsor, iii, 3. A good digestion to you all; and once more I shower a welcome on ye ! Henry viii, \, 4. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Dinner Menus. j^e would have all as merry as, first, Good company, good wine, good welcome. Can make good people. henry viii,i,4. Small Dinner. \Ye '11 keep no great ado, a friend or two. Romeo and Juliet, iii, 4. We '11 have some half a dozen friends And there an end. romeo and juuet, ui, 4. ^ Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry least. Comedy of Errors, iii, i. The dinner attends you, sir, Merry Wives of Windsor, i, i. I had an extraordinary good dinner, and the better because dressed by my own servants, and were mighty merry. /'^/j/j,diary, March 23, 1660. I did give him a bottle of wine, and was exceed- ingly satisfied of the power that I have to make my friends welcome. Pe/ys, diary, March 31, 1660. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste? MiUon,llo Mr. Lawrence. No variety here. But you, most noble guests, whose gracious looks Must make a dish or two become a feast. W. Cartwright, The Ordinary, iii, 4. The true essentials of a feast are only fun and feed. O. W. Holmes, Nux Postccenatica. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS He says he '11 come ; how shall I feast him ? Smaii Dinner. Twelfth Night, iii, 4. Come, let us four to dinner. i henry vi, u, 4. Why muse you, sir? 't is dinner time. Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, i. With a few friends, and a few dishes dine, And much of mirth and moderate wine. Cowley, Liberty. Then scorn a homely dinner if you can. Pope, Satires, ii, 12. Come, let 's fall to; and, gentle girl, eat this. ^*ne"* Here is no drink. Titus andronicus, iii, 2. Here 's that which is too weak to be a sinner, — honest water which ne'er left man i' the mire. TiMON OF Athens, i, 2. Some food we had and some fresh water. Tempest, i, 2. Men really know not what good water *s worth. ^ Byron, Don Juan, i, i. For in my youth I never did apply Hot. and rebellious liquors in my blood. As You Like It, ii, 3. And drink, of Adam's ale. Prior, wandering pilgrims. Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let 's be merry: we '11 have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and an endless host Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies, And other such ladylike luxuries. Shelley, Letter to M. G. Without Wine. S QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Give me the spring, which does to human use Safe, easy, and untroubled stores produce. Cowley, Avarice. I deal with water and not with wine. Give me my tankard then. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humor, i, 3. A health to dear woman ! She bids us untwine, From the cup it encircles, the fast-clinging vine. O. W. Holmes, Song for a Temperance Dinner. Even cold Cochituate every heart shall warm, And genial Nature still defy reform ! O. W. Holmes, A Sentiment. Lemonade. Have you sent to the apothecary for a sufficient quantity of cream of tartar to make lemonade ? You know I die if I have not everything in the highest style. Colman (the Elder), Man and Wife, iii. Men's Dinner. Hungry as the sea, and can digest as much. Twelfth Night, ii, 4. I pray you jest, sir, as you sit at dinner. Comedy of Errors, i, 2. And carouse together like friends long lost. Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 12. Take them to the buttery, and give them friend- ly welcome every one. taming of the shrew, induction. Take the goods the gods provide thee. Dryden, Alexander's Feast, v. The best attendance ; the best drink ; some- times two glasses of Canary and pay nothing ! B. Jonson, The Alchpmist, iii, 2. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS The devil is in you if you cannot dine ! ^^"'^ Dinner. Poj>e, Imitations of Horace, ii, 2. Judicious drank, and greatly daring din'd. Pope, DuNCiAD, iv. Well, he was an ingenious man that first found out eatijig and drinking, swi/t, polite conversations, u. That all-softening, overpowering knell, The tocsin of the soul — the dinner bell. Byron, Don Juan, v. Since Eve ate apples much depends on dinner. Byron, Don Juan, xiii. As much valor is to be found in feasting as in ngnting. Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, i. It is a condition which confronts us — not a theory. Grover Cleveland. I Speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge. Coriolanus, i, x. Almost spent with hunger. cymbeline, m, 6. Give them life whom hunger starved half dead. Pericles, i, 4. Prepare for dinner. That is done, sir; they have all stomachs. merchant of Venice, iii, 5. Compelled by hunger and lack of other means. Henry VIH, i, 2. How, i' the name of thrift, does he rake this together. henry viii, lu, 2. A dinner lubricates business. Lord stoweii. iO . QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Men's Dinner. God scnds meat and the Devil sends cooks. John Taylor, (1630). hour of all hours the most bless'd upon earth, Blessed hour of our dinner ! Owen Meredith, Lucile, i, 2. Where is the man that can live without dining ? Owen Meredith, Lucile, i, 2. But if you have a stomach, to 't i' God's name. Taming of the Shrew, i, 2. Do as adversaries in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. taming of the shrew, i, 2. 1 hope we shall drink down all unkindness. Merry Wives of Windsor, i, i. Better three hours too soon than a minute too •^^^^* Merry Wives of Windsor, ii, 2. I have good cheer at home; and I pray you all go with me. Merry wives of Windsor, iii, 2. Well ! I promised you a dinner ! Merry Wives of Windsor, iii, 3. Liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine and brotherhood. ^ Henry V, ii, i. Hunger is sharper than the sword. Beaumont and Fletcher, Honest Man's Fortune. He which hath no stomach to this fight. Let him depart. henry v, iv, 3, Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Doddridge, Epigram. QUOTATIONS FO R OCCASIONS * 11 Who scorns it starves deservedly at home. ^^^^'s Dinner. Cowper, Task, i. My Lord, will you walk? dinner is ready. Much Ado about Nothing, ii, 3. He 's safe for these three hours ! tempest, iii, i. Welcome; fall to. As You like It, h, 7. Masters, spread yourselves. Midsummer Night's Dream, i, 2. The feast smells well. coriolanus, iv, 5. Yourself shall feast with us before you go. Troilus and Cressida, i, 3. 'T is now upon the point of dinner time. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Woman Hater, iii, 3. Room ! Make way ! Hunger commands; my valour must obey. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Woman Hater, iii, 3. These reasons made his mouth to water. Butler, HuDiBRAS, i, 3. My teeth Are on an edge till I do eat ; now will I cozen all men without opposition, Ifeel mystrength increase with very thought on't. W. Cartwright, The Ordinary, ii, i. But civilized man cannot live without cooks. Owen Meredith, Lucile, i, 2. Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. John Lothrop Motley. No other terms than unconditional and immed- iate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works ! u. s. Grant. 12 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Men's Dinner. Obliged by hunger and request of friends. A Po^e, Prologue to Satires. What an excellent thing did God bestow upon man when he gave him a good stomach. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Woman Hater, i, 2. The nature of his spirit asketh meat : He hath a wolf in 's breast; food must appease him. W, Cartwrighi, The Ordinary, iii, 5. The empty spit Ne'er cherished wit : Minerva loves the larder. W. Cartwright, The Ordinary, iii, 5. B^e^akfl"? '^^^ ^^^^ to-day stand friendly ! juuus c^sar, v, i. And then to .breakfast, with what appetite you have. Henry VIII, iii, 2. Go with me To bless this twain that they may prosperous be. Tempest, iv, i. Now all the blessings of a glad father compass thee about ! tempest, v, i. You will hardly suffer before Twelve a' Clock, neither — aye, just about Twelve you'll be turn'd oil. Gibber, Love Makes a Man, v. Wedding is destiny and hanging likewise. Heywood, Proverbs, i, 3. Look down, you gods, And on this couple drop a blessed crown ! Tempest, v, i. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS I3 Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner. B^lakfL^t. Taming of the Shrew, iii, 2. Now am I seated as my soul delights. Ill Henry VI, v, 7. I have arrived at the last Unto the wished haven of my bliss. Taming of the Shrew, v, 1. Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again ? much ado, i, i. Her birth, her beauty, crowds and courts confess ; Chaste matrons praise her, and grave bishops bless. Pope, Epilogue to Satires, i. But blest with her, 't is spring throughout the year ! Pope, spring, i, 84. You come most carefully upon your hour. — 'T is now struck twelve. Hamlet, i, I. What hour now ? — I think it lacks of twelve. — No, it is struck. hamlet, i, 4. Which I will fashion to fall out between twelve and one. Othello, iv, 2. They present her with wedding-gifts and offer- ings of consecrated wild rice. ■ Kalidasa, Sakoontala, or the Lost Ring. Procure the vicar To stay for me at church twixt twelve and one. Merry Wives of Windsor, iv, 6. The clock hath stricken twelve upon the bell ; My mistress made it one upon my cheek. Comedy of Errors, i, 1, 14 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Breakfast When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. Much Ado, ii, 3. . Let 's have no more fooling about it, but give me your blessing. merchant of Venice, ii, 2. Having such a blessing in his lady, He finds the joys of Heaven here on earth. Merchant of Venice, iii, 5. To wear a crown Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that Poets feign of bliss and joy. Ill Henry VI, i, 2. Masquers to revel it with him and his new bride. Ill Henry VI, iii, 3. Is the single man therefore blessed ? JN O ! As You Like It, iii, 3. God bless my ladies ! Are they all in love ? Love's Labour's Lost, ii, 1 ; Joy, gentle friends, joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts ! midsummer night's dream, v, i. Fortheheadof Now this overdone or come tardy off, though Program or . , , i-trii 1 1 1 Announce- it make thc unskilful laugh, cannot but make ment of Enter- . i_ • j • • • tainment. the JudlClOUS griCVC. Hamlet, iii. 2. There are the players. Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Hamlet, ii, 2. They 're welcome all ; let 'em have kind admit- tance. Music make their welcome ! Timon of Athens, i, 2. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Sit down; RoJSfJ?n^/°^ . - , - , , ' , Program or At first and last the hearty welcome. Announce- "^ . . ment of Enter- Macbeth, iil, 4. tainment. Read these instructive leaves, p^/^. epistle to jervas. There was all the world and his wife. Swift, Polite Conversations. Welcome the coming . . . guest. Pope, Odyssey, xv. What think you, sirs, of killing Time ? Cowper, Beau's Reply. I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff. Sir H. JPi?/f/b«, Architecture (Preface), Don't never prophesy onless you know ! Lowell, BiGLow Papers. Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy. And pleasure drown the brim. all's well, h, 4. I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us. Much Ado, ii. i. The hour 's now come ; The very minute bids thee ope thine ear. Tempest, i, 2. That noble lady Or gentleman that is not freely merry. Is not my friend. henry viii, i, 4. Receive 'em nobly and conduct 'em into our presence. henry viii, i, 4. And once more I shower a welcome on ye, wel- come all ! Henry VIII, i, 4. l6 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS p?og?am1f/°^ There *s other of our friends will greet us here meSt of Enter- ^^^^' Measure for Measure, iv, 5. tainment. Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. Troilus and Cressida, iii, 3. Ye 're welcome all. A hundred thousand wel- comes, CORIOLANUS, ii, I. Put on Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have friends That purpose merriment. merchant of Venice, ii, 2. Pray you, bid these unknown friends to's wel- come. Winter's Tale, iv, 4. Give them friendly welcome every one ; Let them want nothing, taming of the Shrew, induction. Then follow me and give me audience, friends. Julius C^sar, iii, 2. All my skill shall beg but honest laughter. Randolph, Aristippus. ^°pfoJJam?''^ Whilst I sit meditating on that celestial har- mony I go to. Henry VIII, iv, 2. May bring his plain-song and have an hour of hearing. henry viii, i, 3. You hear her? Or is this the play Of fond illusion ? Hark I Horace, Odes, iii, 4. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS IJ And certain stars shot madly from their spheres ^°pfo^am?^ To hear the sea-maid's music. Midsummer Night's Dream, ii, i. But that which did please me beyond anything in the whole world was the wind-musick . . . which is so sweet that it ravished me, and indeed in a word, did wrap up my soul so that made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my wife ! Pepys, diary, Feb. 27, 1668. Sir Gilb. In earnest, does this Puppy really pre- tend to sing ? Fran. Much as he pretends to Wit, Sir, he can make a noise at least. Sir Gilb. But the whelp has no voice. Fran. O Sir, that's out of fashion; your best masters seldom have any. Cibber, The Refusal, iv. Charlotte. The Cantata, dear Mr. Witling, the Cantata. . . . Witling. Immediately, Madam, but all things in order ; first give me leave to regale the good Company with a small Crash of Instrumental. Cibber, The Refusal, iv. Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. Congreve, Mourning Bride, i, i. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. Milton, Arcades. In what key shall a man take you to go in the song ? Much Ado, i, i. Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing. 2 Much Ado, iii, i. l8 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS ^°Pr^o^am!^^ What harmony IS this? My good friends, hark ! Tempest, iii, 3. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. juuus c^sar, iii, 2. Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. Shakspere, Venus and Adonis. We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Twelfth Night, ii, 3. Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. Milton, L' Allegro. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs,. Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce. In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Milton, L' Allegro. Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. Muton, comus. I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. Muton, comus. No season now for calm familiar talk. Pope, Iliad, xxii. Chromatic tortures soon shall drive them hence. Pope, DuNCiAD, iv. Music her soft, assuasive voice applies. Pope, St. Cecilia's Day. TV;;^^ elaborately thrown away. k^«^, The last day, i. ^ QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS I9 I have a little studied physic ; but now, I *m all ^°prograSf ^ for music ... as Plato holds your music and so does wise Pythagoras, I take it is your true rap- ture. B. Jonson, Volpone, iii, 2. They held opinion that the sweetness of music did recreate the spirits, and the heart did under- take to love. Sir Anionie 0/ Guevara, Familiar Epistles. What dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours ? Midsummer Night's Dream, v, i. Which of you all Will now deny to dance ? She that makes dainty. She, I '11 swear, hath corns. romeo and Juliet, i, 5. What a sweep of vanity comes this way ! They dance ! Timon of Athens, i, i. She sings like one immortal, and she dances As goddess-like. Pericles, v(Gower). Our dance of custom ... let us not forget. Merry Wives of Windsor, v, 5. Therefore put you in your best array ! As You Like It, v, 2. Since things in motion sooner catch the eye Than what not stirs. troilus and cressida, iii, 3. Come, lady, come. Farewell, my friend. Winter's Tale, iv, 4. The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light. Shakspere, Venus and Adonis. Dances. 20 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Dances. J 'H charm the air to give a sound, While you perform your antic round. Macbeth, iv, i. He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth. Merry Wives of Windsor, iii, 2. Revels, dances, masks and merry hours Forerun fair Love. love's labour's lost, iv, 3. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that. winter's tale, Iv, 4. And here I danced with them and had a good supper, and as merry as I could be. Pepys, Diary, Oct. 31. 1667. Come and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe. i»////^«, l 'Allegro. But oh, she dances such a way ! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. SuckUng, a wedding. What a confederacy of folly 's here. B. Jonson, Time Vindicated. Masked Ball. Who comcs SO fast in silence of the night ? A friend. A friend ! what friend ? your name I pray you, iriend ? Merchant of Venice, v, i. Pray you, bid these unknown friends to's wel- come. Winter's Tale, iv, 4. The gallants shall be tasked. For, ladies, we will every one be masked. Love's Labour's Lost, v, 2. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCAS IONS 21 Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud. Masked Bail. Love's Labour's Lost, v, 2. These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows. Romeo and Juliet, i, i. There are certain ladies most desirous of admit- tance. Ladies ! Timon of Athens, i, 2. Let 's go dress him like the witch of Brentford. Merry Wives of Windsor, iv, 2. Some of all professions that go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. Macbeth, a, 2. ^ I *11 go buy them vizards. Merry wives of Windsor, iv, 4. Idiots, eremites and friars, White, black and gray, with all their trumpery. Milton, Paradise Lost, iii. I do know him by his gait : he is a friend. Julius C^sar, i, 3. Soft ! Who comes here ? A friend of Antony's. Julius C^sar, iii, i. Study me how to please the eye indeed. Love's Labour's Lost, i, i. These are Women, are they not ? Wycherley, Love in a Wood, ii. Full oft we see Cold Wisdom waiting on superfluous Folly. All 's Well, i, i. Who are you ? do you know me ? Who are yoti ? don't you know me ? Wycherley t Love in a Wood, ii. £2 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Miscellaneous. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. And resolved to Hve a fool the rest Of his dull life. Beaumont, To B. Jonson. Every room Hath blazed with lights and bray'd with minstrelsy. Timon of Athens, H, 2. Fleet the time carelessly as they did in the golden world. As You Like It, i, i. A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing and unthinking time. Dryden, Secular Masque. I staid up till the bell-man came by with his bell, just under my window as I was writing of this very line, and cried, " Past one o' the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning." Pepys, Diary, Jan. i6, 1660. Suppers. This night he makes a supper, and a great one, To many lords and ladies. henry viii, i, 3. Lead in your ladies every one. Sweet partner, I must not yet forsake you. Henry VIII, i, 4. Come, be every one officious To make this banquet. titus andronicus, v, 2. 'T will be supper time ere you come there. Taming of the Shrew, iv, 3. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 23 Put on manly readiness Suppers. And meet i' the hall together. Macbeth, a, 3. This night I hold an old accustom'd feast. Romeo and Juliet, i, 2. Have broiled bones and kidneys brought in on a tray. Barkam, Ingoldsby Legends (Black Mousquetaire). We *11 have a dozen of bones well charg'd with marrow. W. Cartwrigkt, The Ordinary, ii, i. Better late than never. Heywood, Proverbs. Here we had a most neat little but costly and genteel supper, and after that a great deal of im- pertinent mirth by Mr. Davis, and some catches, and so broke up. Pepys, diary, jan. 29, 1661. Who feasts his muse with claret, wine and oys- ters. B. Jonson, Time Vindicated. Although the cheer be poor 'T will fill your stomachs. Titus andronicus, v, 3. Our stomachs will make what 's homely savoury. Cymbeline, iii, 6. And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. love's labour's lost, i, i. Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale ? Twelfth Night, ii, 3. Did you not know, then, to-day Lucullus sups with Lucullus ? Plutarch, Life of Lucullus. 24 QUOTATIONS TOR OCCASIONS FOR INTERMISSIONS, SPECIAL SONGS, ETC. ^"duriig a°° Companions that do converse and waste the Concert. time together. merchant of Venice, iii, 4. I am never merry when I hear sweet music. Merchant of Venice, v. i. Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? Merchant of Venice, i, 1. Our hour is fully out. Come on, then. Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 9. In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebb'd away. Horace, Odes, i, 11 (Conington). With thee conversing I forget all time. Milton, Paradise Lost, iv. The windy satisfaction of the tongue. Pope, Odyssey, iv. Now turn to different sports. Po^e, dunciad, ii. Let 'S talk, my friends. Pope, Satires, ii. If music be the food of love, play on. Twelfth Night, i, i. That strain again ! It had a dying fall. Twelfth Night, i, i. Mercy on me ! I have a great dispositions to cry. Merry Wives op Windsor, iii, i. If you have a friend here, convey, convey him out ! Merry Wives of Windsor, iii, 3. But, gentle heavens, cut short all intermission. Macbeth, iv, 3. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 25 Merely to come in, sir, they go out ! '"dSirin^^a " Pope, Epilogue to Satires, ii. Concert. Go on, obliging creatures. Pope, prologue to Satires. " Pray Heaven it last ! " (cries Swift) ** as you go on . " Pope, Satires, ii. I will not have excuse, with saying *' This Loud music is too harsh for ladies' heads." Pericles, ii, 3. Go to a gossips' feast, and go with me. Comedy of Errors, v, x. You do not give the cheer : the feast is sold That is not often vouch'd while 'tis a-making. Macbeth, iii, 4. All things come round to him who will but wait. Longfellow, Student's Tale. I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. Midsummer Night's Dream, iv, i. Your grace, I fear, with dancing is a little heated. ^^"""2 » ^a"- Henry VIII, i, 4. While her grace sat down to rest a while. Henry VIII, iv, x. If you deny to dance, let 's hold more chat. Love's Labour's Lost, v, 2. You will catch cold and curse me. TrOILUS and CrESSIDA, IV, 2. This is the tune of our catch, played by the so^ngV'ltc. picture of Nobody. tempest, iii, 2. 26 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS sfn|sj^\c. -^"^ ^^^ ^^^ therefore my good friends be grieved ! Julius Caesar, i, 2. Shall we rouse the night-owl in a catch that will draw three souls out of one weaver ? Twelfth Night, ii, 3. Let 's hear. It is a madrigal ; I affect that kind of poem much. B. Jonson, the Staple of News, iv, i. Upon my Life, Madam, I have no more voice than a Kettle Drum; besides, this is for a Treble •and out of my Compass. abber, the refusal, iv. Save thee, friend, and thy music; dost thou live by thy tabor? Twelfth Night, iii, i. I would I were invisible to catch the strong fel- low by the leg. As You Like It, i, 2. Will you sing? More at your request than to please myself. As You Like It, ii, 5. My voice is ragged; I know I cannot please you. I do not desire you to please me, I do desire you to sing. As You Like It, ii, 5. Where every something, being blent together. Turns to a wild of nothing, merchant of Venice, iii, 2. An excellent musician, and her hair shall be of what color it please God. Much ado, ii, 3. They do no more adhere and keep place to- gether than the Hundredth Psalm to the tune of GreensleeveS. Merry wives of Windsor, ii, I. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS SJ Ceremoniously let us prepare ^°LadSs^* Some welcome for the mistress of the house. ^^^^-ri^^te')'^®' Merchant of Venice, v. i. Most dearly welcome! And your fair princess — goddess ! winter's tale, v, i. "Therefore take heed what guests you receive: receive/' says he, "no swaggering companions." II Henry IV, ii, 4. Nay, ladies, fear not; By all the laws of war you 're privileged. Henry VIII, i, 4. This is good news; I will go meet the ladies. CORIOLANUS, V, 4. Cry "Welcome, Ladies, Welcome ! Welcome, Ladies, Welcome ! " coriolanus, v, 5. Ladies, there is an idle banquet attends you: please you to dispose yourselves. TiMON OF Athens, i, 2. Fair Ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people. merchant of Venice, v, i. And sweetened every musk-rose of the dale. Milton, CoMUs. Ladies whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize. Milton, L' Allegro. To kill those foes to Fair ones, Time and Thought. Pope, Moral Essays, ii. And when a lady 's in the case You know all other things give place. Gay, The Hare. 28 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS To^^ecdve At length burst in the argent revelry, ^^^Tol^ts.f'^^' With plume, tiara, and all rich array. Keats, St. Agnes' Eve. And take a lodging fit to entertain Such friends. taming of the Shrew, i, i. Good hearts, what ado here is to bring you together ! merry wives of Windsor, iv, 5. Now, my fair'st friend, I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might Become your time of day. winter's tale, iv, 4. Ladies, a general welcome from his grace Salutes ye all. henry viii, i, 4. You 're welcome, my fair guests, henry viii, i, 4. Sweet ladies, will it please you sit ? Henry VIII, i, 4. Two women placed together makes cold weather. Henry VIII, i, 4. Madam and Mistress, a thousand good-morrows. Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, i. To bring in — God shield us! — a lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing. Midsummer Night's Dream, iii, i. O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep. Not to see ladies ! love's labour's lost, i, i. Crave leave to view these ladies and entreat An hour of revels with 'em. henry viii, i, 4. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 29 When was the hour '^l^dies!'' I ever contradicted your desire ? ^^^^xi'^te!?*' Henry VIII, ii, 4. Ladies, you are not merry : gentlemen, Whose fault is this ? henry viii, i, 4. A day in April never came so sweet ! Merchant of Venice, n, 9. I will tell you the beginning, and if it please your ladyships you may see the end. As You Like It, i, 2. You have . . . fair ladies, Set a fair fashion on our entertainment, Which was not half so beautiful and kind. TiMON OF Athens, i, 2. To ask and have, command and be obeyed. Marlowe, Tamburlaine, iv, 3. Angels are painted fair to look like you. Otway, Venice Preserved, i, i. A bevy of fair women. Muton, paradise lost, xL You shall have no cause fid oth?r To curse the fair proceedings of this day. Anniversaries. King John, iii, i. The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray ; Andsodol. B. Jonson, Underwoods. What hath this day deserved ? What hath it done, That it in golden letters should be set Among the high tides in the calendar ? King John, iii, i. To solemnize this day the glorious sun Stays in his course. king John, iii, i. 30 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS S?otlfe^ The yearly course that brings this day about Anniversaries. Shall Uever SeC it but a holiday. king John, iii, I. And send him many years of sunshine days ! Richard II, iv, i. This day shall change all griefs and quarrels into love. henry v, v, 2. Expect St. Martin's summer, halcyon days. I Henry VI, i, 2. This day is ours as many more shall be. I Henry VI, i, 5. And more such days as these to us befall ! II Henry VI, v, 3. Heaven give you many, many merry days ! Merry Wives of Windsor, v, 5. It is my birthday : I had thought to have held it poor. Antony and Cleopatra, iii, 13. Oh ! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure — and a friend. pope, to — . Chapter II DINNER MENUS HORS d'CEUVRES Cum grano sails. A brittle glory. And hid his crisp head. Richard II, Iv, i. I Henry IV, i, 3. Why dost thou shun the salt? Byron, Thvl Corsmr, u. We have some salt of our youth in us. Merry Wives of Windsor, ii, 3. The salt in them is hot. king John, v, 7. A thirsty evil. Measure for Measure, i, 2. Some relish of the saltness of time. Celery. Salted Almonds. II Hbnrv IV, i, 2. Caviare to the general. Hamlet, ii, a. To feed on caviare and eat anchovies. Randolph, Muse's Looking-Glass. ' 31 Caviare. 32 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Caviare. Give US a taste of your quality. Hamlet, ii, 2. Antiquity puts off his cap, and makes a bare oration in praise of the virtues of it. Dekker, Gull's Hornbook. Do you like the taste ? i henry vi, ui, 2. Pickles. Of such vinegar aspect, that they '11 not show their teeth in way of smile. Merchant of Venice, i, i. Enticing walnuts, I have known ye well In youth, when pickles were a passing pain. Bayard Taylor, Echo Club. My lord, I hope you are pepper-proof Swift, Polite Conversations, ii. Balm'd and entreasured with full bags of spices. Pericles, iii, 2. Stewed in brine, smarting in lingering pickle. Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 5. *T is the sour sauce to the sweet meat. Dryden, To Etheredge. Pickled Onions. To drain upon his face an ocean of salt tears. II Henry VI, iii, 2. Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears. Richard IU, i, 2. Horseradish. *T is not right To think that only toothsome which can bite. Edward Hide to T, Randolph. Some of us will smart for it. Much Ado about Nothing, v, L QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 33 Very wisely threat before you sting. Julius C^ssar, v, i. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is ! King Lear, i, 4. Thy Sting is not so sharp, As friend remember'd not. as you like it, «, ^. Horseradish. You are a little — By your good favor, too sharp. henry viii, v, 3. She had a tongue with a tang. Tempest, ii, 2. In the morning at a breakfast of Radyshes at the Purser's cabin. pepys, diary. May 2, 1660. Radishes. That little baggage, Summer's daughter Plenty, crying six bunches of radysh for a penny. Dekker and Ford, Sun's Darling, iii, 3. Generally, men ought to find the difference be- tween saltness and bitterness. Bacon, of discourse. Chosen olives ripe. /r^rac*?, country life. I have gained my experience. As You like it, iv, i. An olive, capers, or some better salad. B. Jonson, Epigrams, ci. She is drowned already, sir, with salt water. Twelfth Night, ii, 1. The superfluous, a very necessary thing. Voltaire. Olives. 34 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS OYSTERS OR CLAMS o? asfms. '^^^ ^^"^ Roman to great Egypt sends This treasure of an oyster. Antony and Cleopatra, i, 5. ■ Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell ? — No. — Nor I neither. king lear, i, 5. The world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. Merry Wives of Windsor, ii, 2. Love may transform me to an oyster, but I '11 take my oath on it till he /tave made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such a fool. Much Ado about Nothing, ii, 3. A dozen of divine points. B. Jotison, Bartholomew Fair, ii, 1. They cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls. Sir E. Coke, Case of Sutton's Hospital. Fruit of the wave ! Oh dainty and delicious ! IV. A. Croffut. Shall be steeped in his own salt tear. Tennyson, War-Song. Have left me naked to mine enemies. Henry VIII, iii, 2. She makes hungry where most she satisfies. Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 2. Drenched in the sea, hold, notwithstanding, their freshness. tempest, ii, i. Mine honest friends, I turn you not away. Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 2." gUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 35 How now, my friend ! why dost thou look so ofcSms pale ? Taming of the Shrew, ii, i. A very gentle beast and of a good conscience. Midsummer Night's Dream, v, i. A kind of excellent dumb discourse. Tempest, iii, 3. Did therewith bury in oblivion. IV. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, iu Whom sea-green Sirens from the rocks lament. Dryden, Annus Mirabilis. I '11 be with you in the squeezing of a lemon. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, i. The oyster fresh from Lucrine's mirrored lake. Horace, Country Life. In naked beauty more adorned, More lovely than Pandora. Milton, Paradise Lost, iv, 714. Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease ! Milton, Paradise Lost, x, 79. There, take ... ye each a shell ; . . . T was a fat oyster, — live in peace — adieu ! Pope ( From Boileau, Ep. ii.). The first in glory, as the first in place. Pope, Iliad, xi, 441. I '11 go his halves. Rabelais. Prithee, why so pale ? SuckUng, Song. Even an oyster may be crossed in love. Sheridan, The Critic, iii, i. He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. Swift, Polite Conversations, i. 36 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS o? cfam^s Ladies and Gentlemen, will you eat any oysters before dinner ? Swift, poute conversations, u. Into the jaws of death. Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade. I saw him now going the way of all flesh. Webster, Westward Hoe, ii, 2. SOUP Soup. J smell it ! Upon my life it will do well. I Henry IV, i, 3. A delicate odor As ever hit my nostril. Pericles, iii, 2. First catch your clams : along the ebbing edges Of saline coves you '11 find the precious wedges. W. A. Croffut, Clam Soup. A savor that may strike the dullest nostril. Winter's Tale, i, 2. A hot friend cooling ! juuus c^sar, iv, 2. Stealing and giving odor ! twelfth night, i, i. Sabean odors from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest. MUton, paradise Lost, iv, 163. The Frenchman's darling. Cowper, the task, iv. I will eat these broths with spoons of amber, Headed with diamond and carbuncle. B. Jonson, The Alchemist, ii. Muse, sing the man that did to Paris go, That he might taste their soups, and mushrooms know. W. King, Art of Cookery. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 37 Love me little love me long. Marlowe^ 1-e.v} of Malta, iv. Soup. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Bacon, Of Truth. Like, but oh how different. Wordsworth, Mountain Echo. Mock Turtle Soup. Welcome the wine, whate'er the seal is ; And sit you down and say your grace With thankful heart, whate'er the meal is. Here comes the smoking Bouillabaisse. Thackeray, The Ballad of Bouillabaisse. This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is, A sort of soup or broth or brew. Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo. Thackeray, The Ballad of Bouillabaisse. Under which king, Bezonian ? speak, or die ! II Henry IV, v, 3. I do perceive here a divided duty. othello, i, 3. And if it please you, so ; if not, why so. Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, i. Study what you most affect. Taming of the Shrew, i, i. Much may be said on both sides. Addison, Spectator, no. 122. Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen. Thomas A Kempis. Bouillabaisse. A choice of two Soups. 38 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS FISH, INCLUDING CRABS, TERRAPIN, TURTLE, ETC. Fish. Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view! Gay, The Painter Who Pleased Nobody and Everybody. Some hour before you took me from the breach of the sea. twelfth night, u, i. From the rude sea's enraged and foamy mouth. Twelfth Night, v, i. How brooks your grace the air, After your late tossing on the breaking seas? Richard II, iii, 2. Fish for fasting-days, and moreo'er puddings and flap-jacks. pericles, ii, i. Thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Macbeth, iu, 4. Eat of the fish. hamlet, iv, 3. My music playing far ofif, I will betray Tawny-finn'd fishes. Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 5. I shall no more to sea, to sea, Here shall I die ashore ! tempest, ii, 2. 'T is very fresh and sweet, sir. The fish was taken but this night. Beaumont and Fletcher, Woman Hater, i, 2. The choice virgin head of a dear fish, yet pure and undeflowered. Beaumont and Fletcher, Woman Hater, i, 3. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 39 Some choice sous'd fish brought couchant in a ^^^^' dish, Among some fennel, jv. Cartwright, the ordinary, ii, 2. Well knowing him a sacred thing. Cowpert Beau's Reply, 17. The carp is stately, a good, and a subtle fish. Walton, Complete Angler, viii. The luce is the fi-esh fish. Merry Wives of Windsor, i, i. We will eat our mullets Soused in high-country wines. B. Jonson, The Alchemist, iii. So into London by water, and in Fish Street my wife and I bought a bit of Salmon for 8d. and went to the Sun Taverne and eat it. Pepys, Diary, March 15, 1660. This is no fish, but an islander, that hath lately ^ ve^y large suffered by a thunderbolt. tempest, ii, 2. The Ancient Mariner. CoUridge. a For flying at the brook, I saw not better sport Trout, these seven years' day. 11 henry vi, ii, i. Swift trouts diversified with crimson stains. Pope, Windsor Forest. This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers or very honest men. waiton, complete angler. 40 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Trout. Whitebait. Thistroutlooks lovely, it was twenty- two inches when it was taken, and the belly of it look'd, some part of it, as yellow as a Marygold, and part of it as white as a Lily, and yet methinks it looks better in this good sauce. waiton, completb angler. Viat. On my word, Master, this is a gallant Trout; what shall we do with him? Pise. Marry, e'en eat him to supper. Walton, Complete Angler. Thin airy shoals of visionary ghosts. Pope, Odyssey, xi, 48. Their fluid bodies half dissolved in light. Pope, Rape of the Lock, ii. Many-headed multitude. coriolanus, ii, 3. Eels. We had three eeles that my wife and I bought this morning of a man that cried them about, for our dinner. /'ir/:j/j,DiARY, December 15,1660. Eels a many I 've ate; but any So good ne'er tasted before! Barham, Ingoldsby Legends. If you chance to be partial to eels. Then, — crede experto, — trust one who has tried, — Have them spitch-cocked, or stewed, — they 're too oily when fried ! Barham, Ingoldsby Legends. Lobsters. To the fishmongers and bought a couple of lob- sters and over to the 'Sparagus garden. Pepys, Diary, April 22, 1668. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 41 And drank, and ate a lobster, and sang and mighty merry. Pepys, diary, April 23, 1668. One foot in sea and one on shore, much ado, u, 3. We '11 have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have. As You Like It, i, 3. To the Rhenish winehouse at the Steelyard, and there eat a couple of lobsters and some prawns, and pretty merry. Pepys, diary. May 2, 1665. A most delicate monster ! tempest, ii, 2. The imperious seas breed monsters. Cymbeline, iv, 2. God defend the lute should be like the case. Much Ado, ii, i. Lobsters. If, like a crab, you could go backward. Hamlet, Ii, z. Like the watermen that row one way and look another. Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, To the Reader, On eight long feet the wondrous warriors tread ; And either end alike supplies a head. T. Parnell, Tr. of Homer. These mortal wits to call them Crabs agree, The Gods have other names for things than we. T. Parnell, Tr. of Homer. Our shrimps to swim again, as when they lived, In a rare butter made of dolphin's milk, Whose cream does look like opals. B. Jonson, The Alchemist, iv. Crabs. Shrimps. 42 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Terrapin. Can wc therefore surfeit on this delicate ambrosia ? Dekker, Gull's Hornbook. Had in him those brave translunary things, That the first poets had. Drayton, of Marlowe. There 's no meat Hke 'em. [^TiMON OF Athens, i, 2. Turtle. Who ever loved that loved not at first sight ? Marlowe, Hero and Leander. Infinite riches in a little room. Marlowe, Jew of Malta, i. With spots quadrangular of diamond form. Cowper, The Task, iv. Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew. Dryden, Conquest of Granada, ii, 3. And they say they 're half fish, half flesh. Pericles, ii, i. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Winter's Tale, iv, 3. They would melt me out of my fat drop by drop. Merry Wives of Windsor, iv, 5. Of what complexion ? Of the sea- water green, sir. Love's Labour's Lost, i, 2. FOR ENTREES OR CHAFING-DISH PREPARATIONS Entries. Our intent was at this time to move inward de- light. Beaumont and Fletcher, Prol. to Knight of the Burning Pestle. That I should live so long And ignorant of such wealth as this. Randolph, Jealous Lovers. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 43 A morsel for a monarch. Antony and Cleopatra, i, 5. Entries. A dish that I do love to feed upon. Taming of the Shrew, iv, 3. A genial savour Of certain stews and roast- meats and pilaus. Byron, Don Juan, v. When I have tasted of this sacred dish, Then shall my bones rest in my father's tomb In peace. Beaumont and Fletcher, Woman Hater, i, 3. The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms. Richard Bentley, Sermons, vii. Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. Goldsmith, Retaliation. I was at an olla podrida of his making, Was a brave piece of cookery. B. Jonson, Staple of News, iii, i. Take every creature in of every kind. Pope, Essay on Man, iv. Thank me for this, more than for all the favors, Which all too much I have bestowed on thee. Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii, i. Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee ! othello, iii, 3. I love that, though I hate it, and I have A kind of disagreeing consent to 't. W. Cariwright, The Ordinary, iii, 5. All flesh is nothing in his sight ! Beeves, at his touch, at once to jelly turn. Pope, Dunciad, iv. Thy truffles, Perigord ! thy hams, Bayonne ! Pope, Dunciad, iv. 44 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Entrfees. Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. Milton, Paradise Lost, iv. ^hfovfTuesday.) Making of thiugs ready for fritters. Pepys, Diary, February 26, 1661. One good turn asketh another. Hey wood, Proverbs, i, 11. Chafing-dish. Taste of it first ! Richard II, V, 5. Alone I did it. coriolakus, v, 6. If it were done when 't is done then 't were well It were done quickly. Macbeth, i, 7. It is better to be out of the world than out of the fashion. Swiji, polite conversations, ii. . With all appliances and means to boot. II Henry IV, iii, i. How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! Merchant of Venice, v, i. Some nice ragout or charming fricassee. W. King, Art of Cookery. Deviled Bones. Gashcd with honorable scars. J. Montgomery, Battle of Alexandria. Deviled chicken and buttered toast. Disraeli, Coningsby, iv. The mustard is too hot a little. Taming of the Shrew, iv, 3. Cold Dishes, And we meet with champagne and a chicken at etc, Lunches. - i. c last. Lady M. W. Montague, The Lover. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 45 A cup of Madeira, and a cold capon's leg. euIfL^Ss. I Henry IV, i, 2. Here 's a dish I love not. I cannot endure my Lady Tongue. Much Ado, ii, i. With dainty chicken, snow-white bread. W. M. W. Call, Summer Days. Take a dejeune of muskadel and eggs. B. Jonson, The New Inn, iii, i. Foster'd with cold dishes. cymbeline, u, 3. There is cold meat i' the cave; We '11 browse on that. Cymbeune, m, 6. We sport in water or we dance on land. Frog's Legs. T. Parnell, Tr. of Homer. The bones of a green frog too, wondrous precious. Middleton, The Witch, i, 2. Though this may be play to you, 'T is death to us. Roger U Estrange,^ ksus-zi^Z. The earth hath bubbles as the water has, soufflss. And these are of them. Macbeth, i, 3. With what a shifting gale your course you ply. Forever sunk too low, or borne too high. Pope, Imitations of Horace, ii. Nor swell too high nor sink too low. Pope, odes, i. She formed this image of well-bodied air. Pope, Dunciad, ii, 42. Spreads and swells in pufif'd prosperity. Pope, Imitations of Horace, ii. 46 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS soufflfes. j^w at once and nothing first Just as bubbles do when they burst. O. W. Holmes, Onh-Hoss Shay. Slight and puff'd souls, that walk like shadows by, Leaving no print of what they are. Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit Without Money. Swear by the ocean's feathery froth, for that Is not so light a substance. T. B. A Idrich, Set of Turquoise. patfe de Enlarged him and made a friend of him. foie gras. *=» I Henry IV, iii, 2. What is loathsome to the young Savours well to thee and me. Tennyson, Vision of Sin. We fat all creatures else, to fat us. hamlet, iv, 3. ^B?ans.^ Hail wedded nourishment ! Bayard Taylor, Paradise Discovered. The beans and bacon set before 'em. Pope, Imitations of Horace, ii. Pasties, etc. Come, you have kept a corner of your stomach for a piece of venison pasty! Swift, Polite Conversations, ii. We have a hot venison pasty to dinner; come, gentlemen. Merry wives of Windsor, I, i. An hundred souls of turkeys in a pie. Pope, Dunciad, iv, 294. We must have there Some fort to scale; a venison pasty doth it. You may have other pyes instead of outworks. W. Cartwright, The Ordinary, ii, i. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 47 Grouse pie, with hare In the middle, is fare. Which, duly concocted with science and care, Dr. Kitchener says is beyond all compare. Barham. Ingoldsby Legends. And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie. That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. Milton, Epitaph on Shakspere. Pasties, etc. Let hunger move thy appetyte and not savory sauces. Babees book. Sauces. Change is the sauce that sharpens appetite. Dekker and Ford, Sun's Darling, ii, i. It provoketh a fine appetite if sauce your meat be by. Babees book. The sauce is costly for it far exceeds the cates. Greene, Never too Late. A most sharp sauce. — And is it not well served in to a sweet goose ? romeo and juuet, u, 4. You do yet taste some subtleties. Tempest, v, i. An exquisite and poignant sauce. For which I '11 say unto my cook, ''There 's gold. Go forth, and be a knight." B. Jonson, The Alchemist, ii. That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope. Macbeth, v, 8. The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. merchant of Venice, iii, 2. Surprises. 48 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Surprises. He wiU make a syren Sing in the kettle, send in an Arion, In a brave broth, and of a watery green Just the sea-colour, mounted on the back Of a brown conger, but in such a posture As all the world would take him for a dolphin. B. Jonson, Staple of News, iii, i. But who is this? What thing of sea or land? Milton, Samson Agonistes. Neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red-herring. Heywood's Proverbs. Welsh Rabbit, etc. A man can die but once. II Henry IV, iii, 2. Roasts. O, what men dare do, what men may do ! what men daily do, not knowing what they do ! Much Ado, iv, i. Muskets and cannons! — Eat it? Randolph, Muse's Looking -Glass. Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up. Julius Caesar, iii, 2. I do not set my life at a pin's fee. hamlet, i, 4. Th' impending woe sat heavy on his breast. Pope, Rape of the Lock, ii, 54. ROASTS Lazarillo. But to rule the roast is the matter. Lady. That ruling of the roast goes with me ! Middleton, Blurt, Master Constable, iii, 3. Small to greater matters must give way. Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 2. He cut it to please himself as you like it, v, 4. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 49 Cut and come again. craihe, tales, vU. > »eef. Our old and faithful friend, We are glad to see you. measure for measure, v, i. I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. twelfth night, i, 3. O, my sweet beef, I must still be good angel to thee. I Henry IV, iii, 3. And of a wild-fowl he will often speak, Which powdered beef and mustard called is. Beaumont and Fletcher, Knight of the Burning Pestle, iv. Thou dost bite, my dear Mustard seed ! Congreve, Way of the World, iv, 9. What say you to a piece of beef and mustard? A dish that I do love. taming of the Shrew, iv, 3. If you give me any conserves give me conserves Ol beet. Taming of the Shrew, Induction. England's Darling. a i/red Austin. If you could be drawn to affect beef, venison, or fowl, it would be far better. Beaiimont and Fletcher, Woman Hater, iii, 3. I protest I do honor a chine of beef, I do rever- ence a loin of veal. Beaumont and Fletcher, Woman Hater, iii, 3. Wut 's good 's all English, all thet is n't ain't. Lowell, Biglow Papers, ii, 2. 4 50 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Beef. The fat ribs of peace Must by the hungry now be fed upon. King John, iii, 3. Oh, the roast beef of England, And old England's roast beef! Fielding, Grub Street Opera, iii, 2. O, that this too too solid flesh would melt! Hamlet, i, 2. Fillet of Beet. Until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see. Bunyan, Apol. for Pilgrim's Progress. Mutton. A breast of mutton stuffed with pudding. W. Cartwright, The Ordinaka', ii, i. Give charge the mutton come in all blood-raw. Middleton, Mayor of Quinborough, v, i. A joint of mutton and any pretty little tiny kickshaws. ii henry iv, v, i. What 's this ? Mutton ? Taming of the Shrew, iv, i. Lamb. Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. Merchant of Venice, i, 3. And of his port as meek as is a maid. Chazicer, Prol. to Canterbury Tales. Pray you who does the wolf love ? Coriolanus, ii, i. Veal. But who is this, what thing of sea or land ? Milton, Samson Agonistes. I thank him, he hath bid me to a calf's head and a capon. much ado, v, i. gUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 51 So sweet was ne*er so fatal. Othello, v, 2. Veal. Is not so estimable, profitable neither, As flesh of muttons, beefs or goats. Merchant of Venice, i, 3. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundtis cedibilis I will maintain it to be the most delicate. Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia. I will speak not of your grown porkers — things between pig and pork — those hobbyde- hoys — but a young and tender suckling — un- der a moon old — guiltless as yet of the sty. Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia. He must be roasted. . . . Thereis no flavour com- parable to that of the crisp, tawny . . . crackling as it is well called, . . . with the adhesive oleag- inous — oh call it not fat ! . . . but the tender blossoming of fat — fat cropped in the bud — ... the cream and quintessence of the child- pig's yet pure food. . . . See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth ! . . . his mem- ory is odoriferous, ... he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure, — and for such a tomb might be content to die. Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia, It were a sin of obstinacy, great obstinacy, high and horrible obstinacy to decline or resist the good titillation of the famelic sense which is the smell. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, ili, i. Roast Pig. I thank you for my venison, Master Shallow. Merry Wives op Windsor, i, i. Venison. 52 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Venison. Boar's Head. I took my wife to my cozen, Thomas Pepys, and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was pal- pable beef, which was not handsome. Pepys f Diary, Jan. 6, 1660. Our fathers praised rank venison, you suppose Perhaps, young men ! our fathers had no nose ? PopCt Imitations of Horace, ii, 2. Art thou there, my deer ? Merry Wives of Windsor, v, 5. If you would send up the brawner's head Sweet rosemary and bays around it spread; His foaming tusks let some large pippin grace. Or midst their thundering spears an orange place; Sauce like himself, offensive to its foes, The roguish mustard dangerous to the nose; Sack and the well-spiced hippocras, the wine, Wassail the bowl, with ancient ribands fine, Porridge with plums, and turkeys with the chine. Dr. King, Art of Cookery (1708). The boar will use us kindly. Richard hi, iii, 2. Like a full-acorned boar, a German one! Cymbelinb, ii, 5. Eight wild-boars roasted whole at breakfast, And but twelve persons there. Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 2. Chickens. Instead of tears let them pour capon-sauce upon my hearse. Beaumont and Fletcher, Woman Hater, i, 3. The justice. In fair round belly with good capon lined. As You Like It, ii, 7. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 53 Were 't not all one, an empty eagle were set To guard the chicken from a hungry kite ? II Henry VI, iii, i. Her elbow pinioned close upon her hips. Cowper, Truth. And spread the sacred treasures of the breast. Cowper, Conversation. Chickens. There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this. Hamlet, i, 5. An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger. MUton, samson Agonistes. I am stifled with this smell of sin. king John, iv, 3. Duck and Onions. Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it. Macbeth, i, 4. Appoint a meeting with this old fat fellow. Merry Wives of Windsor, iv, 4. He made me mad To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet. I Henry IV, i, 3. Here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock. Henry V, v, i. Stuffed with all honourable virtues, much ado, i, i. Turkey. Let the land Look for his peer: he has not yet been found. T. B. Aldrich. Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario ? Rowtt Fair Penitent, v, x. 54 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Goose. Was I with you there for the goose ? Thou wast never with me for anything when thou wast not there for the goose. Romeo and Juliet, ii, 4. How near the god drew to the complexion of a goose ! Merry Wives of Windsor, v, 5. V SORBETS, WHEN SERVED BETWEEN COURSES Sorbets. How wcU my comfort is revived by this ! Romeo and Juliet, iii, 3. It is a dull thing to tire, and as we say now to jade anything too far. Bacon, Of discourse. To feed again, though full. Cymbeline, ii, 4. So coldly sweet. Byron, Gaiour. The cold that moderates heat. Cervantes, Don Quixote, ii, 68. To give satiety a fresh appetite. othello, ii, i. Roman Punch, jhis was the noblest Roman of them all. Julius C^sar, v, 5. VEGETABLES Asparagus. Fingcrs wcre made before forks. Swift, Polite Conversations, ii. Have you this spring eaten any 'sparagus yet? Brome, The 'Sparagus Garden, ii, i. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 55 And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves. Milton, Lycidas. Artichoke. More studious to divide than to unite. Pojie, Essay on Man, ii. These be the great Twin Brethren. Macaulay, Battlb of Lake Regillus. Corn and Beans. Cowcumbers are cold in the third degree. Swift, Polite Conversations, iL Cucumbers. Some jay of Italy. Cymbeline, ill, 4. Macaroni. Mellifluous mild macaroni, The choice of her children when cheeses are old. Bayard Taylor, Echo Club. I came upstairs into the world; for I was born Mushrooms. in a cellar. Congreve, Love for Love, ii, 7. The mushrooms show his wit. Pojie, To The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me. Wordsworth, Peter Bell. Goodman Puff . Puff! Puffin thy teeth! II Henry IV, v, 3. Like Niobe, all tears. Hamlkt, i, 2. Onions. So near will I be that your best friends shall wish I had been further.' Julius c^sar, u, 2. '56 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Onions. Mine eyes smell onions, I shall weep anon. All 's Well That Ends Well, v, 3. What 's in a name? ... a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. Romeo and Juliet, ii, 2. The tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow. Antony and Cleopatra, i, 2. Onions will make even heirs or widows weep. W. King, Art of Cookery. Green Peas. HoW green yOU are and fresh. king John, iii, 4. We can call these delicate creatures ours! Othello, iii, 3. A most fresh and delicate creature, othello, ii, 3. Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young. Young, Night Thoughts, iii. O, the world hath not a sweeter creature. Othello, iv, i. Your infant peas to asparagus prefer. w. King MisceUaneous. ThoSC rOOtS That shall first spring and be most delicate. Henry V, ii, 4. The first-born infants of the spring. Love's Labour's Lost, i, s Enough, with over-measure. coriolanus, iii, i. The nobleman of the garden. Douglas jerroid gUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 57 Out of the bowels of the harmless earth. I Henry IV, i, 3 Under the earth in fragrant glooms I dwelt. T. B. Aldrich, Pythagoras The infants of the spring . . . In the morn and liquid dew of youth, hamlet, i, 3 Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole. Merry Wives of Windsor, iii, i, From the still-vex'd Bermoothes. tempest, i, 2, Potatoes Let the sky rain potatoes. Merry Wives of Windsor, v, 5. Though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve. hamlet. iii, a. It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize. Pope, Iliad, xxiii, 383. Pray thee take care ! b. jonson, epigram. Practice is everything. Pertander. Your experience makes you sad. As You Like It, iv, i. Subtle and slight . . And scorn experience from the unpracticed. Davenani, Gondibert. With open mouth swallowing. king John, iv, 2. In hope her to attain by hook or crook. Spenser, Faerie Queen, iii, i. Tis slight, not strength, that gives the greatest hit. Middleton, Michaelmas Term, iv, i. Spaghetti. fu.. 58 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS GAME Game. Here 's a pigeon so finely roasted, it cries, Come, eat me ! " Swi/t, poute conversations, u. The birds were warm. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl ? Twelfth Night, IV, 2. You know, strange fowl light upon neighbour- ing ponds. [Cymbeline, i, 4. Four woodcocks in a dish ! love's labour's lost, IV, 3. And fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou dispos- sess the soul of thy grandam. twelfth Night, iv, 2. Now is the woodcock near the gin. Twelfth Night, ii, 5. This was well done, my bird 1 tempest, iv, i. Am I your bird ? I mean to shift my bush ! Taming of the Shrew, v, 2. Her delicate tenderness. othello, u, i. Let 's carve him as a dish fit for the gods. Not hew him as a carcass. Julius c^sar, u, i. ■ For the more genteel. Snipe, woodcock, partridge, pheasant, quail we '11 serve. W. Cartwrlght, The Ordinary, ii, i. Th* adorning thee with so much art Is but a barb'rous skill. cowUy, the waiting maid. Q UOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS ^9 And lay it at its ease with gentle care. °*""*- Cowper, The Task, ii. The toothsome snipe. Horace, country Lifb. Go your ways in and get toasts and butter made for the woodcocks. B. Jonson, The Silent Woman, iii, i. For what are crowds undone To three essential partridges in one ? Pope, DuNCiAD, iv. Crammed to the throat with ortolans. Pope, Imitations of Horace, i. Till death untimely stopped his tuneful tongue. Pope, Epistlb to Harlev. One likes the pheasant's wing and one the leg. Pope, Satires, v. All as a partridge, plump, full-fed, and fair. Pope, Dunciad, ii. A little helpless innocent bird. Tennyson, Elaine. SALADS And there is salmons in both. henry v, iv, 7. saiads. Herbs that have on them cold dew o' the night. Cymbeline, iv, 2. I warrant there 's vinegar and pepper in 't. Twelfth Night, iii, 4. My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in blood. Antony and Cleopatra, i, 5. Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, half suspected, animate the whole. Sydney Smith. 6o QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Salads. Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well. King Lear, i, 4. Three several salads have I sacrificed, bedew'd with precious oil and vinegar. Beaumont and Fletcher, Woman Hater, i, 3. Bestrew'd with lettuce and cool salad herbs. Beaumont and Fletcher, Woman Hater, i, 3. Well read, - deeply learned and thoroughly- grounded in the hidden knowledge of all salads and all potherbs whatsoever. Beaumont and Fletcher, Woman Hater, i, 3. Here are Lettuces for every man's lips. Diet's Dry Dinner, 1599. Did I eat any lettuce to supper last night that I am so sleepy ? j. cooke, green's tu quoque. Just, as in nature, thy proportions be, As full of concord their variety. A. Cowley, To Mr. Hobbes. That sanguine inexperience loves to make. Cowper, The Valediction. A cheap but wholesome salad from the brook. CowJ>er, The Task, vi. Our Garrick 's a salad, for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar and saltness agree! Goldsmith, Retaliation. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Johnson, Rasselas, xii. Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. Johnson, Rasselas, xiii. I will have The beards of barbels served instead of salads. B. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 6l The tender lettuce brings on softer sleep. Saiads. W. King, Art of Cookery. Variety 's the very spice of life That gives it all its flavor. cowper, the task, iii. A good crier of green sauce. Rabelais. Oh ! herbaceous treat ! 'T would tempt the dying anchorite to eat. Sydney Smith. DESSERT The daintiest last to make the end most sweet. Dessert, Richard II, i, 3. Wasteful and ridiculous excess. king John, iv, 2. Any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook. II Henry IV, v, i. As brown in hue As hazel-nuts and sweeter than the kernels. Taming of the Shrew, ii, i. I can teach sugar to slip down your throat a million of ways. Dekker and Ford, Sun's Darling, ii, i. A box where sweets compacted lie. Herbert, Vertuk. Lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon. Keats, Eve of St. Agnes. Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air. Churchill, Gotham, ii, 20. *T is the dessert that graces all the feast, For an ill end disparages the rest. W. King, Art of Cookery. 62 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Dessert. Unlcss soHie swcetncss at the bottom He, Who cares for all the crinkling of the pie ? W.King. They call for dates and quinces in the pastry. Romeo and Juliet, iv, 4. The taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. I Henry IV, iii, 2. One poor pennyworth of sugar-candy to make thee longwinded. i henry iv, lii, 3. For he pretends too much, or is a fool, Who 'd fix those things where fashion is the rule. W, King. I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head. Lyiy, euphues. A wilderness of sweets. Miiton, paradise lost, v, 294. And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns. Milton^ CoMUS. All that 's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest. Moore, all that's bright. Can one desire too much of a good thing ? As You Like It, iv, i. The last taste of sweets is sweetest last. Richard II, ii, i. A dish fit for the gods. julius c^sar, ii, i. Pray, my lady Answerall, how do you like these preserved oranges ? Swift, Polite Conversations, ii. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 63 Here, sweetheart, here *s some green ginger Dessert, for thee. Beaumont and Fletcher, Knight of the Burning Pestle, ii. Trifles light as air. Othello, iii, 3. Syllabubs, etc. Gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Midsummer Night's Dream, v, 1. This bodiless creation ecstacy Is very tunning in. hamlet, iii, 4. Sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute. Hamlet, i, 3. If you will but speak the word, I will make you a good Syllabub, and then you may sit down in a Hay- cock and eat it, and Maudlin shall sit by and sing you' the good old song of the Hunt- ing in Chevy Chase. waiton, complete angler, xL You can make whipt cream ; pray what relief Will that be to a sailor who wants beef ? W. King, Art of Cookery. Thy white-wine, sugar, milk, together club To make that gentle viand — syllabub. W. King, MouNTOWN. With the desserts of poetry they fed him. Instead of solid meats t' increase his force. A. Cowley, To the Royal Society, Dream of a shadow ! a reflection, made From the false glories of the gay reflected bow Is a more solid thing than thou. A. Cowley, Life and Fame. 64 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Jelly. Feel, masters, how I shake ! ii henry iv, a, 4. Every part about me quivers. Romeo and Juliet, ii, 4. Right as an aspen leaf she 'gan to quake. Chaucer, Troilus and Creseide, ii. Marrons. And a large chestnut, the delicious meat Which Jove himself, were he a mouse, would eat. A. Ccnvley, Country Mouse. I am forbid Mince-pie. Xo tell the sccrcts of my prison-house. Hamlet, i, 5. Marchpane. Good thou, savc me a piece of Marchpane. Romeo and Juliet, i, 5. Some good curious March-panes made into The form of trumpets. W. Cartwrigkt, The Ordinary, ii, i. With such imitation Of form and color 't will deceive the eye Until the taste be ravish'd. Dekker and Ford, Sun's Darling, iv, i. Pudding. Pudding that might have pleased a Dean. Pope, Imitations of Horace, ii. Come, will you do as we do ? You are come in Pudding-time. Swi/t, polite conversations, ii. And lo ! two puddens smoked upon the board. Pope, Moral Essays, iii. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 6^ My morning incense and my evening meal, Pudding. The Sweets of Hasty Pudding. Barlow, The Hasty Pudding. Thou hast described a hot friend cooling. pium-pudding. Julius C^sar, iv, 2. Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire. Alexander Smith, A Life Drama. It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love. Merry Wives of Windsor, i, i. I always thought cold victual nice; — My choice would be vanilla ice. O. W. Holmes, Contentment. For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. Much Ado, v, i. Then farewell heat and welcome frost. Merchant of Venice, ii, 7. The forms of things unknown. Midsummer Night's Dream, v, i. Our mouths be cold. tempest, i, i. Who 's that calls so coldly? A piece of ice. Taming of the Shrew, iv, i. A mockery king of snow. Richard II, iv, I. Lack of kindly warmth. timon of Athens, ii, 2. A figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water. two Gentlemen of Verona, iii, a. 5 Ices. 66 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Ices. A thousand different shapes it bears, Comely in thousand shapes appears. A. Cowley, Ode on Wit. Blockhead! With a fork! Cowper,Yiovn. And parti-coloured troops, a shining train. Pope, Rapb of the Lock, iii. Miscellaneous. A deal of skimble skamble stuff, i henry iv, Hi, i. Glittering squares of colored ice, Sweetened with syrop, tinctured with spice, Creams, and cordials, and sugared dates, Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces. Limes, and citrons, and apricots. And wines that are known to Eastern princes. T. B. A Idrich, When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan. A porcelain dish, o'er which in many a cluster Plump grapes hung down, dead-ripe and without luster : A melon cut in thin delicious slices; A cake that seemed mosaic- work in spices: Two China cups with golden tulips sunny. And rich inside with chocolate like honey. T. B. A Idrich, The Lunch, The rose-lipp'd dawning Is not so melting, so deliciqus. Dekker and Ford, Sun's Darling, ii, i. Fruit. My news shall be the fruit to that great feast. Hamlet, ii, 2. I will make an end of my dinner, there *s pip- pins and cheese to come. Merry wives of Windsor, i, 2. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 67 Peaches, apricots, ^"^"i** And malecotoons, with other choicer plumbs. Will serve for large-sized bullets; then a dish Or two of pease for small ones. JV. Cart-wright, The Ordinary, ii, i. Give cherries at time of year or apricots ; and say they were sent you out of the country, though you bought them in Cheapside. B. Jonson, Silent Woman, iv, i. How gladly then he plucks the grafted pear, Or grape that dims the purple tyrants wear. Horace^ Country Life. • To Westminster Hall, where I met with W. Symons, etc., and with them to the Dogg, where we eat a musk melon, the first that I have eat this year. Pepys, Diary, August 23, 1660. Fat olives and pistachio's fragrant nut. And the pine's tasteful apple. /. phiups, Cider. In the name of the Prophet — figs! Horace Smith, Johnson's Ghost. Eas'd the putting off These troublesome disguises which we wear. Milton, Paradise Lost, iv. Doubtless God could have made a better berry, strawberries, but doubtless God never did. Dr. William Butler, In Walton's Angler, i, 5. We are yours i' the garden. winter's tale, i, 2. Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be. B. Jon.wn, Epigrams, cI. Cheese. 68 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Cheese. They Surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness. I Henry IV, iii, 2. More pleased to keep it till their friends could come. Pope, Satires, ii. You must eat no cheese ... it breeds melan- choly. B. Jonson, The Alchemist, iii. Pray does anybody here hate cheese? I would be glad of a bit. Swift, polite conversations, ii. Art thou come ? Why my cheese, my digestion ! Troilus and Cressida, ii, 3. Bachelor's fare; bread and cheese and kisses. Swift, Polite Conversations, i. Not a mouse shall disturb this. Midsummer Night's Dream, v, i. Roquefort, etc. J having been acquainted with the smell before ! Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv, 4. At which my nose is in great indignation. Tempest, iv, i. And smelt so ? pah ! hamlet, v, i. So may a glory from defect arise ! Browning. COFFEE Coffee. 'T is hot, it smokes! Lear,v, 3. With whose . . . smell the air shall be perfumed. II Henry VI, i, i. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 69 I have not slept one wink. cymbeune, ui, 4. coffee. The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Richard II, i, 3. Thou art all the comfort The gods will diet me with. Cymbeune, m, 4. An earthly paragon. Cymbeune, m, 6. By and by is easily said. Hamlet, m, 2. A little pot and soon hot. taming of the shrew, Iv, i. Although the last, not least. lear, i, i. The strength Of twenty men. Romeo and Juliet, V, 1. Water with berries in 't. tempest, i, 2. We would and we would not. Measure for Measure, iv, 4. One sip of this Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight Beyond the bliss of dreams. Muton, Comus. And for my soul I cannot sleep a wink. Pofe, Satires, i. O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, measure for measure, u, 2. I '11 none of it. Macbeth, v, 3. 70 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Coffee. ^nd now, while it is hot. henry viii, v, i. Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon. Pope, To Miss Blount. Coffee, which makes the politician wise. Pope, Rape of the Lock, iii. For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned. The berries crackle and the mill turns round. Pope, Rape of the Lock, iii. 'T is strong, and it does indifferent well. Twelfth Night, i, 3. A strong distillation. Merry wives of Windsor, iii, s- More black than ash -buds in the front of March. Tennyson, Gardener's Daughter. Black it stood as night. MUton, Paradise Lost, iL {^See Liqueurs under Wine.) Chapter III FOR ENDINGS OF DINNER MENUS, PROGRAMS, ETC. Let us take a ceremonious leave DinnerMenus. And loving farewell of our several friends. Richard II, i, 3. But lest too many dishes should cast you into a Surfeit, I will now take away ; yet so that, if I perceive you relish this well, the rest shall be in time prepared for you. Dekker, Gull's Hornbook. Let US leave here, gentlemen. cymbeline, i, 4. Let us not be dainty of leave-taking, But shift away. Macbeth, ii, 3. And go well satisfied. love's labour's lost, u, i. O calm hush'd rich Content Marston, Antonio and Mellida, i, 3. All is well that ends well. Heywood, proverbs, i, lo. My dinner was noble and enough. Pepys, Diary, Jan. 12, 1663. 71 7^ QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Dinner Menus. In the hopc to meet Shortly again and make our absence sweet. B. Jonson, Underwoods. Madam, I must take my leave ; come, gentle- men are you for a march ? Swift, Polite Conversations, i. The goodness of the night upon you, friends ! Othello, i, 2. If it were now to die, *T were now to be most happy. othello, ii, i. Who rises from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down ? Merchant of Venice, ii, 6. Since I have your good leave to go away, I will make haste. merchant of Venice, iii, 2. Speed the parting guest. poj>e, Odyssey, xv. Serenely full, the epicure would say. Fate cannot harm me, — I have dined to-day. Sydney Smith, Recipe for Salad. So comes a reckoning when the banquet 's o'er — The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more. Gay, The What D'ye Call It, ii, 9. Shrine of the mighty ! can it be That this is all remains of thee ?^ Byron, thb giaour. Gude nicht, and joy be wi' you a'. lady nairne. Must we part ? Well, if we must — we must — and in that case. The less is said the better, sheridan, the critic, ii, 2. The end must justify the means. Prior, hans Carvel. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 73 Soft ! I will go along. Romeo and Juuet,!, I. Dinner Menus. I have more care to stay than will to go. Romeo and Juliet, iii, 5. Farewell, Monsieur Traveler. as You Like it, iv, i. Depart at pleasure, leave us here. Titus Andronicus, v, 2. Let one attend him with a silver basin Full of rose water. taming of the Shrew, induction. Here late, with much ada I left to look upon them and went away. Pepys, diary, juiy 13, 1663. T is grievous parting with good company. George Eliot, Spanish Gypsy, ii. The rolling smoke involves the sacrifice. Pope, Dunciad, i. O go not yet ! II Henry VI, iii, 2. when some- ^ J thing follows. We '11 have dancing afterward. much ado, v, 4. When dinner 's done show me this piece. TiMON OF Athens, i, i. Good night and welcome, both at once, to those That go or tarry. troilus and cressida, v, i. What news, gentlemen, Have you any news for after dinner ? Methinks We should not spend our time unprofitably. B. Jonson, The Staple of News, iv, i. 74 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS After the And HOW farewell Till half an hour hence. tempest, iu, i. Left and abandon'd of his velvet friends. As You Like It, ii, i. If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world It is not worth leave-taking. Antony and Cleopatra, v, 2. Let me but meet you, ladies, one hour hence. Richard III, iv, i. I will go meet the ladies. Coriolanus, v, 4. If I like thee no worse after dinner I will not part from thee yet. Lear, i, 4. They are at the end of the Gallery; retired to their Tea and Scandal ; according to their An- cient Custom after Dinner. Congreve, Double Dealer, i, i. Men's Dinner. Lg^ ^s make an honorable retreat; though not with bag and baggage. - as you like it, iii, 2. Is he coming home? It seems he hath great care to please his wife. Comedy of Errors, ii, i. Good master doctor, see him safe convey'd Home to my house. Comedy of Errors, iv, 4. But 't is no wit to go. Why, may one ask ? romeo and juliet, i, 4. It is good morrow, is it not? Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock. I Henry IV, ii, 4. gUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 75 Hang Sorrow! Care will kill a cat — Men's Dinner. And therefore let 's be merry. George Wither, Christmas. After dinner to billiards, where I won an angel. Pepys, Diary, Sept. ii, 1665. I have fed like a farmer; I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.* Swift, polite Conversations, ii. For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain. Butler, Hudibras, iii, 3. From this day forward I '11 hate all breakfasts and depend on dinners. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, v, 3. You are welcome home, my lord. I thank you, madam. merchant of Venice, V, I. Protect me from the sin That dooms me to those dreadful words, " My dear, where have you been? " O. W. Holmes, On Lending a Punch Bowl. Sit, worthy friends, my lord is often thus. And hath been from his youth. Macbeth, iii, 4. What 'S done is done. Macbeth, iii, 2. Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him farther. Macbeth, iii, 2. My grief lies onward and my joy behind. Shakspere, Sonnets, 1. Then welcome refuge and a peaceful home. Cowper, Truth. His devious course uncertain, seeking home. Cowper, Task, iii, 3. 76 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Men's Dinner. I am not HOW That which I have been. Syron, Childe Harold, iv. And truant husband should return, and say, " My dear, I was the first who came away." Byron, Don Juan, i. I have hope to live and am prepared to die. Measure for Measure, iii, i. Farewell and stand fast. i henry iv, h, 2. ^ Good my lord, you are full of heavenly stuff. Henry VIII, iii, 2. Now my soul hath elbow-room. king John, v, 7. The game is up. Cymbeune, iii, 3. » So do I To put all relish from my memory Of parting, drown it. b. jonson, an elkgy. So, let me have But any reasonable thing to lead me home, I do not care though 't be a dog, so that He knows the way, or hath the wit t' enquire it^ W. Cartwright, The Ordinary, iv, 3. And greeted with a smile. cowj>er, charity. Ordained to guide the embodied spirit home. Cow/>er, Task, v. Fool was he that wished but a crane's short neck; Give me one. Nature, long as is a cable Or sounding Hne; and all the way a palate. To taste my meat the longer. Randolph, Muses' Looking-Glass. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 77 I witness with him Men's Dinner. That he dined not at home. comedy of Errors, v, i. We have heard the chimes at midnight. II Henry IV, iii, a. I am here, brother, full of heaviness. II Henry IV, iv, 5. . Drink some wine ere you go: fare you well. Much Ado, iii, 5. And carouse together like friends long lost. Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 12. Assume a virtue if you have it not. hamlet, iii, 4. Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, ** I told you so.'* Byron, Don Juan, xiv. A bad quarter of an hour. Rabelais. Come what may, I have been bless'd. Byron, The Giaour. A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn. coUridge, ancient Mariner. The stag at eve had drunk his fill. Scott, Lady op the Lake. A man 's a man for a' that. sums. There 's no place like home. j. h. Payne. The gray dawn is breaking. Z. M. Crawford, Kathleen Mavournebn. The survival of the Fittest. Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology, I, xii. 78 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Men's Dinner. We havc met the enemy and they are ours. Oliver H. Perry, 1813. I am a part of all that I have met. Tennyson^ Ulysses. How dull it is to pause, to make an end. Tennyson, Ulysses. I feel the old convivial glow ( unaided ) o'er me stealing, — The warm, champagny, old-particular, brandy- punchy feeling. O. W. Holmes, Postccenatica. Have you not day enough to sleep in, but you must sleep in the night too ? 'T is an arrant paradox. Randolph, Aristippus. And then be seen, for a hour or two to correct your teeth with some quill or silver instrument ; ... it skills not whether you dined or no . . or in what place you dined. Dekker, gull's hornbook. For head of a Then shall our namcs a^Mi'nSrwhe°re Familiar in his mouth as household words wriJun."^''*^*' Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. Henry V, iv, 3. I '11 tell you them all by their names as they pass by. • Troilus and Cressida, i, 2. Find those persons out Whose names are written there. Romeo and Juliet, i, 2. As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather. Julius Cesar, i, i. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 79 What is thy name ? I know thy quality. bifnk pag^e°on Henry V, iii, 6. a Menu, where names are to be And now subscribe your names. written. Love's Labour's Lost, i, i. Here is the scroll of every man's name which is thought fit. Midsummer Night's Dream, i, 2. Dost thou use to write thy name ? or hast thou a mark to thyself ? 11 henry vi, iv, 2. I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. Merry Wives of Windsor, iii, 2. I do beseech you ( Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers), What is your name ? tempest, iii, i. He will print them, out of doubt ; for he cares Lift of Names , -^ . ' of givers of a not what he puts mto the press. dinner. Merry Wives of Windsor, ii, i. T is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. And the high gods To do you justice make them ministers Of us and those that love you. Antony and Cleopatra, iii, 6. Gratitude is expensive. g//53^«, decline and fall. Bait the hook well. much ado about nothing, ii, 3. The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon who gives the dinner. MoUire, Amphitryon, iii, 5. On hospitable thoughts intent. Milton, Paradise Lost, v. '\ 80 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS List of Names Conduct Hie to mine host : we love him his^hly. of givers of a <=> • Dinner. Macbeth, i, 6. Framed in the prodigality of nature. Richard III, i, 2. Twixt such friends as we Few words suffice. taming of the shrew, i, 2. Thou shalt not choose but go : Do not deny. twelfth night, iv, i. I think we do know the sweet Roman hand. ' Twelfth Night, iii, 4. You see by the fineness and delicacy of their diet, diving into the fat capons, drinking your rich wines, feeding on larks, sparrows, potatoe- pies and such good unctuous meats, how their wits are refined and rarified. B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humour, ii, i. In the way of comfort to the weak I will go and eat, I will eat exceedingly and prophesy ; there may be a good use made of it too, now I thmk on t. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, i. End of What will this sister of mine do with rice ? Wedding Breakfast. Winter's Tale, iv, 3. Clubs cannot part them. as you like it, v, 2. The gods preserve you both. coriolanus, iv, 6. The glorious gods sit in hourly synod about thy particular prosperity. coriolanus, v, 2. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 8l Now sighs steal out and tears begin to flow ! v^ddin^ Pope, Essay on Criticism. Breakfast. Good luck Shall fling her old shoe after. Tennyson^ Will Waterproof. This comes off well and excellent. TiMON OF Athens, i, i. Prosperous life, long and ever happy ! Henry VIII, v, 5. And he to England shall along with you. Hamlet, iii, 3, But come, for England ! hamlet, iv, 3. We must speed for France, for France. King John, i, i. Take therefore shipping, post, my lord, to France. I Henry VI, v, 5. Had you not lately an intent, — speak truly — To go to Paris ? all 's well that ends Well, i, 3. Bid them blow towards England's blessed shore! II Henry VI, iii, 2. The Lord bless you ! God prosper your affairs ! ^ II Henry IV, iii, 2. To London with triumphant march. III Henry VI, ii, 6. Now for good luck, cast an old shoe after me. Heywood, Proverbs, i, 9. Each one betake him to his rest. pericles, ii, 3. Programs,°etc. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Midsummer Night's Dream, v, i. 6 8s QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS pro°ramf etc '^^^^ youf Icavc of all your friends. All 's Well, iv, 3. I multiply With one **We thank you" many thousands moe That go before it. winter's tale, i, 2. Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. Macbeth, iii, 4. Why take we hands, then ? Only to part friends. Love's Labour's Lost, v, 2. Abandon, — which is in the vulgar, leave. As You Like It, v, i. Let him walk from whence he came lest he catch cold on 's feet. comedy of errors, m, i. Something too much of this ! hamlet, m, 2. What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight ? I Henry IV, ii, 4. Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me. . i henry iv, m, 3. Let down the curtain, the farce is done. Rabelais. Some wee short hours ayont the twal ! Bums, Death and Dr. Hornbook. To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. Scott, Marmion (L'Envoy). Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. Thackeray, Vanity Fair. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 83 This palpable- gross play hath well beguiled ProSJams °etc The heavy gait of night. Midsummer Night's Dream, v, i. I thank you all ; I thank you, honest gentlemen ; good night ! Romeo and Juliet, i, 5. Gentlemen, prepare not to be gone; We have a trifling foolish banquet. Romeo and Juliet, i, 5. And so home, with much ado in an hour get- ting a coach. Pepys, Diary, Jan. 8, 1663. Turn over a new leaf. End of page of Middleton, Anything for a Quiet Life, v, 3. Now the battle 's ended. in henry vi, h, 6. ^"S°^^"^^^^^ ' ' Program. The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear. Tempest, m, i. Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. MUton, paradise lost, a. My ears were never better fed With such delightful pleasing harmony. PERICLES,iii, 5. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. Much Ado, ii, i. Silence was pleas'd. Muton, paradise lost, iv. Bare ruin'd choirs where late the sweet birds sang. Shakspere, Sonnets, Ixxiii. 84 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS End ot Musical J thank vou for your voices: thank you: Program. ^ l - Your most sweet voices. coriolanus, u, 3. I thank you for your music, gentlemen. Who is that that spake ? Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv, 2. That song to-night Will not go from my mind. othello, iv, 3. All that we ask is but a patient ear. Pope, Satires, iii. So may the fates preserve the ear you lend. Pope, D UNCI ad, iii. To stop my ear to their confounded stuff! Pope, Satires, vi. The all-composing hour Resistless falls; the Muse obeys the pow'r. Pope, D UNCI AD, iv. Your silence then is better than your spite. Pope, Essay on Criticism. I have not been more pleased with a snapp of musique, considering the circumstances of the time and place, in all my life anything more pleasant. Pepys, diary, juiy 27, 1663. And there heard both the vocall and the in- strumental musick, where the little fellow stood keeping time. Pepys, diary, nov. 17, 1667. O wearisome condition of humanity. Lord Brooke, Mustapha, v. ^^de"par^?'" Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; good night, good night ! hamlet, iv, s- QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 85 Depart not so; ^*d?wt***" Though this be all do not so quickly go. Richard II, i, 2. Gentlemen, The penance lies on you if these fair ladies Pass away frowning. henry viii, i, 4. I will most willingly attend your ladyship. Titus Andronicus. iv, i. Joy, gentle friends ! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts. Midsummer Night's Dream, v, i. None comes too early, none departs too late. Pope, Satires, ii. Get my Hoods and Tippet, and bid the Foot- man call a Cxhair. Congreve, Old Batchelor, ii, 4. Loather a hundred times to part than die. II Henry VI, iii, 2. Chapter IV TOBACCO AND WINES Cigars. Whose smokc like incense doth perfume. Titus Andronicus, i, i. Without the illness should attend it. Macbeth, i, 5. How use doth breed a habit in a man ! Two Gentlemen of Verona, v, 4. The god of my idolatry. romeo and juliet, h, 2. When I love thee not, Chaos is come again. Othello, ui, 3. O thou weed Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet. Othello, iv, 2. That 's meat and drink to me. Merry Wives of Windsor, i, i. Weeds wide enough to wrap a fairy in. Midsummer Night's Dream, ii, i. I '11 fume with them ! taming of the shrew, ii, i. The fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf Hamlet, i, 5. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Sj This Indian weed, now withered quite, Cigars, Though green at noon, cut down at night Shows thy decay — All flesh is hay : Thus think and smoke tobacco. Smoking Spiritualized. Thou art e'en such — Gone with a touch : Thus think and smoke tobacco. Smoking Spiritualized. And when the smoke ascends on high Then thou behold'st the vanity Of worldly stuff- Gone with a puff: Thus think and smoke tobacco. Smoking Spiritualized. And seest the ashes cast away Then to thyself thou mayest say That to the dust Return thou must: Thus think and smoke tobacco. Smoking Spiritualized. Whose raptures fire me and whose visions bless. Fope, Windsor Forest. The sum of earthly bliss. Milton, Paradise Lost, viii. The Indian weed ... Friend to the spirits which with vapours bland It gently mitigates, companion fit Of pleasantry and wine. j. Phiup. A free school For the education of young gentlemen, To study how to drink and take tobacco. Randolph, Muses' Looking-Glass. 88 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Cigars. xhe spirit of wine and tobacco walks in your brain. Dekker, Gull's Hornbook. Most sweet attendance with tobacco and pipes of the best sort shall be administered. B. Jonson, Every Man Out of his Humour, iii, i. Oh ! finer far Than fame or riches are The graceful smoke wreaths of this free cigar. George Arnold. A spirit all compact of fire Not gross to sink, but light and will aspire. SJiakspere, Venus and Adonis. His time is forever, everywhere his place. Cowley, Friendship in Absence. Let 's give fire in the works and noble vapours. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, ii, i. Never kneels but to pledge healths, nor prays, but for a pipe of pudding tobacco. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ii, i. You Still shall live ... Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths oi men. ^'^a^j/^r^, sonnets, ixxxi. Of gentle soul, to human race a friend. Pope's Odyssey, xix. The Indians for their pastime, doe take the smoke of the Tabaco ... to see the visions and things that represent unto them that wherein they doe delight. Nicholas Monardes, Joyfull Newes (1577). Though I profess myself her adorer, not her iriend. Cymbeline, i, 4. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 89 And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds. cigars. Richard II, iii, 1. Shall burn thee up and thou shalt turn To ashes. king John, iii, i. Practice is the best of all instructors. Publius Syrus, Maxims. By Hercules I do hold it and will affirm it, to be the most sovereign and precious herb that ever the earth tendered to the use of man. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iii, 2. He lets me have good tobacco, and he does not sophisticate it with sack-lees or oil. Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, i. I have my three sorts of tobacco in my pocket, my hght by me, and thus I begin. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, Induction. Come, look not pale ! Observe me / B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ii, i. It is become ... a point of good fellowship, and he that will refuse to take a pipe of tobacco among his fellows ... is accounted peevish and no good company. King James, Counterblast to Tobacco. There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. Lyiy, Euphues. An art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man. Walton, complete angler, i, I. Here 's most herculanean tobacco ! ha' some, acquaintance ? Dekker. 90 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Cigars. Thou silent power, whose welcome sway- Charms every anxious thought away. Ak^?iside. Lo, the poor Indian ! po^e, essay on man, i. And what comes then is master of the field ! PoJ>e, Moral Essays, L Sweet to the world, and grateful to the skies. Pope, Epilogue to Satires, ii. Soft peace she brings : wherever she arrives She builds our quiet. Prwr, charity. E*en in our ashes live their wonted fires. Gray, Elegy. Our best remains are ashes. Francis, Tr. of Horace's Odes, iv, 7. Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury. Addison, Cato, i, 4. A lasting, a sacred delight. Cow^er, catharina. For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die. Charles Lamb, Farewell to Tobacco. A noiseless wing To waft me from distraction. Byron, childeHarold, ih, 85. Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest. Byron, The Island, ii. Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe . . . Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties — give me a cigar ! Byron, The Island, ii. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 9I The man who smokes thinks like a sage and cigars, acts like a Samaritan. Bulwer Lytton, Night and Morning, vi. Me let the sound of great Tobaccoes praise A pitch above those love-sick Poets raise. Metamorphosis of Tabacco, 1602. Let me adore with my thrice-happy pen The sweet and sole delight of mortal man. Metamorphosis of Tabacco, 1602. It hath certain melHfluous delicacie which deliteth the senses and spirits of man with a mindful oblivion. W. Barclay, Nepenthes, 1614. Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight ! Milton, Paradise Lost, v. Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late. Milton, Paradise Lost, ix. fairest flower ! no sooner blown but blasted. Milton. And feel that I am happier than I knew ! Milton, Paradise Lost, viii. Thy clouds all other clouds dispel. And lap me in delight. c. sj>rague. To my cigar. To win the secret of a weed's plain heart. Lowell, Sonnets, xxv. But for your health and your digestion sake cigarettes be- . r 1' » 1 1 tween courses An aiter-dmner s breath, troilus and cressida, li, 3. or with coffee. Swift as a shadow, short as any dream. Midsummer Night's Dream, i, 1. 93 9^0TATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Cigarettes be- A breath thou art, tween courses /-- m n t i • n or with Coffee. Servilc to all the skyey influences. Measure for Measure, iii, i. But with my breath I can revive it. King John, iv, i. I never knew tobacco taken as a parenthesis before. B. Jonson, every Man Out of his Humour, iii, 3. For one puff more, and in that puff expires ! Pope, Moral Essays, i. A breath revives him or a breath o'erthrows. Pope, Satires, v. She sparkled, was exhaled and went to heaven. Young, Night Thoughts, v. I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse — borne away with every breath ! Byron, Sardanapalus, iv, i. How fading are the joys we dote upon ! John Norris, The Parting. Like Angels' visits short and bright. X, John Norris, The Parting. WINES, ETC. With Dinner. Qnc that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. coriolanus, ii, i. Is it so nominated in the bond ? Merchant of Venice, iv, i. Our trusty friend, unless I be deceived. Ill Henry VI, iv, 7. He *11 make the eyes of your understanding see double, and teach you to speak fluently, and utter your mind in abundance. Randolph, aristippus. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 93 Soft ! who comes here ? Juuus C^sar, iU, i. "^»*^ Dinner. Whom I commend to you as a noble friend of mine. cymbeline, i, 4. Yet I love good wine, As I love health and joy of heart, but temper- ately. Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit without Money, iii. Wine enough Cleopatra's health to drink. Antony and Cleopatra, i, 2. We '11 teach you to drink deep ere you depart. Hamlet, i, 2. We '11 have it all in drink; let meat and lodg- ing go; they are transitory, and show men mere- ly mortal. Beaumont attd Fletcher, The Scornful Lady, i. Fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in 't. Merry Wives of Windsor, iii, 5. Drink deep or taste not ! Pope, essay on criticism. Virtue is her own reward, is but a cold princi- ple. Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici. O, for the Universe, not a Drop more I beseech you. Congreve, Double Dealer, i, 5. And cloudy care has often took A gentle beamy smile reflected from thy look. Cowley, To Light. And wanting him to loose the sacred seal. Cowper, Conversation. 94 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS With Dinner, x^g j^orc thou stir it the worse it will be. Don Quixote, iii, 8. You too be wise, my Plancus : life's worst cloud Will melt in air, by mellow wine allay'd. Horace, Odes, i, 7.* From Sabine jar bring forth the sparkling wine, Four blooming springs have made it clear and good. Horace, Odes, i, 9. Some sweet oblivious antidote. Macbeth, v, 3. Bid that welcome Which comes to punish us, and we punish it. Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 14. This is nectar, the very nepenthe the gods were drunk with. Randolph, Aristippus. The cry is still "They come ! " Macbeth, v, 5. Let 's do it after the high Roman fashion. Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 15. I have immortal longings in me. Antony and Cleopatra, v, 2. Potations pottle-deep. Othello, ii, 3. He calls for wine. taming of the shrew, ih, 2. Come, come: good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used; exclaim no more against it. Othello, a, 3. A cup of wine, sir? A cup of wine that 's brisk and fine. II Henry IV, v, 3. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 95 When flowing cups pass swiftly round with Dinne». With no allaying Thames. Lovelace^ To Althea. Old wine to drink! Ay, give the slippery juice That drippeth from the grape thrown loose Within the tun. Robert H. Messinger, Give me the Old. I caused two bottles of wine to be carried from the Rose Taverne ; that was drunk up, and I had not the wit to let them know at table that it was I that paid for them, and so I lost my thanks for them. PeJ>ys, Diary, February 26, 1660. With that a Wizard old his cup extends. Pope, DuNCiAD, iv. A still and dumb-discoursive devil That tempts most cunningly. Troilus and Cressida, iv, 4. The more you drink, the more you crave. Pope, Satires, vi. Good wine needs no bush, as you like it. epilogue. 'T is the plump grape's immortal juice That does this happiness produce. charies Cotton. I prithee, take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink. As You like it, iii, 2. Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul. Pope, Eloisa to Abelard. But soft — by regular approach — not yet. Pope, Moral Essays, iv. Divine, nectareous juice. Pope, tr. of Odyssey, ix. 9^ QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS With Dinner. Bo^n but to banquet and to drain the bowl. Pope, Tr. of Odyssey, x. Drain we the cup. Friend, art afraid ? Spirits are laid In the Red Sea. Mantle it up; Empty it yet ; Let us forget, Round the old tree. Thackeray, The Mahogany Tree. This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk. Swi/t, Poutb conversations, ii. Ale, Beer, etc. J wonder what virtue is in this pewter-faced author, that it should make every one fall in love with it so deeply ? Randolph, Aristippus. I gulp my sorrows down Or see them drown In foamy draughts of old nut-brown. George Arnold. A pot of good double beer, neighbor; drink and fear not. ii henry vi, a, 3. I do now remember the poor creature, small beer. 11 henry iv, u, 2. And brought of mighty ale a large quart Chaucer, Miller's Tale. I can't cork down my indignation ; I froth up with fury ; I am pale with wrath and bitter with scorn. Thackeray, Notes of a Week's Holiday. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 97 Bring up the great tankard full, of October Aie, Beer, etc. or Sir John. Swi/t, polite conversations, n. Ale is meat, drink and cloth ; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. Swift, Polite Conversations, iii. And Alma Mater lie dissolv'd in Port. Miscellaneous. Pope, D UNCI AD, iii. From humble Port to imperial Tokay. Townley, High Life below Stairs, ii, i. He drains his draughts of Rhenish down. Hamlet, i, 4. Why, this same Madeira Wine has made me as light as a Grasshopper, congreve, old batchelor, iv, 9. Nothing but Claret wine. ii henrv vi, iv, 6. ciaret. Your honor's claret is good enough for me. Swift, Polite Conversations, ii. Then to avoid the gross absurdity Of a dry bottle, 'cause there must some blood Be spilt (on th' enemies' side, I mean) you may Have there a rundlet of brisk Claret, and As much of Alicant. W. Cartwright, The Ordinary, ii, i. Whereby it is a plain case, that Orthodox is a hard word, and Greek for Claret. Congreve, Way of the World, iv, ix. Cold and dry. MUton, Paradise Lost, x. Champagne. 7 98 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Champagne. Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe. Romeo and Juliet, iii, 3. Off with his head. Richard III, iii, 4. Of spirit so still and quiet. Othello, i, 3. Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures, kings. Richard III, v, 2. Sparkling in a golden cup. Ill Henry VI, ii, 5. Lily on liquid roses floating — So floats yon foam o'er pink champagne. John Kenyan, Champagne Rose. There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. Pope, Essay on Criticism. Burgundy; Bravc Burguudy, undoubted hope of France ! I Henry VI, iii, 3. Doubtless Burgundy will yield him help. Ill Henry VI, iv, 6. The vines of France and milk of Burgundy. King Lear, i, i. Half a dozen flasks of The red Burgundy marked a thousand. Farqufiar, The Inconstant, v. Sherry. Dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage. As You Like It, ii, 7. With excellent endeavour of drinking good and good store of fertile sherris. ii Henry iv, iv, 3. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 99 Mellowing with years, Like Amontillado Sherry. T. B. Aldrich, Vintage 1826. There was no lack of old Sherris sack, Of Hippocras fine, or of Malmsey bright. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends. Sherry. What a case am I in ! as you like it, epilogue. Liqueurs. Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth. King John, i, i. Which draught to me were cordial. Winter's Tale, 1, 2. That confection Which I gave him for cordial. cymbeline, v, 5. Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long. Goldsmith, the hermit. His orient liquor in a crystal glass. Muton, Comus. In small proportion we just beauties see And in short measures life may perfect be. B. Jonson, Good Life. For this relief much thanks. Hamlet, i, i. Cocktails. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. John Wesley, Sermons, no. 92. Thank you, good sir, I owe you one, Colman the Younger, The Poor Gentleman, i, 2. lOO QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Cocktails. For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart. And makes his pulses fly. N. P. IVz'lUs, Saturday Afternoon. The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. Dickens, Dombey and Son, xxHL Barkis is Willin*. Dkkens, David Copperfield, v. Drink, pretty creature, drink ! Wordsworth, The Pet Lamb. About some act That has no relish of salvation in 't. hamlet, iu, 2. That we would do, We should do when we would ; for this " would " changes. Hamlet, iv, ^. Poor Tom 's a- cold ! king lear, m, 4. It must be done like lightning. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iv, 5. But this denoted a foregone conclusion. Othello, iii, 3. A thing of custom; — 't is no other. Macbeth, iii, 4. What man dare, I dare ! Macbeth, in, 4. My firm nerves Shall never tremble. Macbeth, iii, 4. Even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips. Macbeth, i. 7. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS lOl One truth is clear : Whatever is, is right. Pope, Essay on Man, L Suit the action to the word. hamlet, m, 2. Plato, thou reasonest well. Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire ? Addison, Cato, v, i. His little nameless, unremembered acts. Wordsworth, Tintern Revisited. I am somewhat dainty in making a Resolution, because when I make it, I keep it. Congreve, Way of the World, iii, 15. Will you drink anything . . . before you eat ? Dinner 's almost ready. Congreve, Way of the World, iii, 16. Amiable weakness of human nature. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, xiv. Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. cow^er, the task, l How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour ! Waits, Divine Songs, xx. I have been there and still would go. Watts, Divine Songs, xxviuL My bane and antidote are both before me. ' Addison, Cato, v, i. T is as easy as lying. Hamlet, iii, 2. They fool me to the top of my bent, hamlet, iii, 2, So gloz'd the tempter ! Muton, paradise lost, ix. Cocktails. 102 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Cocktails. Even at your side, sir, and before your eyes. Cowper, Truth. "For what?" "An' please you, sir, to see a friend." C^w/^r, Epistle, iii. To make mankind in conscious virtue bold. Po/>e, Prologue to Addison's Cato. I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night. Hey wood, Proverbs, i, ii. Encourag'd at the sight of thee, To the cheek colour comes, and firmness to the knee. Cowley, to light. A modern ecstasy. Macbeth, iv, 3. That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. Milton, On Detraction. The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Measure for Measure, iii, i. Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes, and gives ! Pope, Moral Essays, iii. My fancy 's still awake Thoughtful of drink. J. Phmps, the Splendid Shilling. What will Mrs. Grundy say ? Thomas Morton, Speed the Plough, i, i. An auburn drink compose. Wholesome, of deathless fame. j. Phiups. Such is the custom of Branksome Hall. Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, i, 7. ' QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS IO3 Minister'st a potion unto me Cocktaiis. That thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself? Pericles, i, 2. I find the settled thirst still gnawing. J. Philips, The Splendid Shilling. Can you eat roots, and drink cold water ? TiMON OF Athens, v, i. He calls for something bitter, something sour. Pope, Imitations of Horace, ii, 2. Give me some drink ; and bid the apothecary Bring the strong poison. 11 henry vi, iii, 3. Come, I will go drink with you but I cannot tarry dinner. 11 henry iv, iii, 2. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more ! henry v, iii, 1. 'T is a stinger ! Middleion, More Dissemblers Besides Women, iii, 2. 'T is not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a Punch bowI. church-door ; but 't is enough, 't will serve. Romeo and Juliet, iii, i. A thing devised by the enemy. Richard iii, v, 3. Punch. A weak invention of the enemy. Richard III, v, 3 (Gibber's version). Fill Up the bowl then, fill it high. Fill all the glasses there ; for why Should every creature drink but I, Why, man of morals, tell me why? A. Cowley, Anacreontics, Drinking. 104 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Punch. And damn'd be him that first cries *' Hold, enough ! " Macbeth, v, 8. And since it is the nature of light things to as- cend, what better way or more agreeing to na- ture can be invented, whereby one might ascend to the height of knowledge, than a light head ? Randolph, Aristippus. The receipt hath been subscribed unto, by all those that have had to do with simples, with this moth-eaten motto probatum est. Dekker, Gull's Hornbook. Can we drink too much of that, whereof to taste too little tumbles us into a church yard ? Dekker, Gull's Hornbook. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. Merchant of Venice, iii, i. I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, '* I came, saw, and overcame." II Henry IV, iv, 3. He does it with a better grace but I do it more^ natural. twelfth night, u, 3. Yet have I something in me dangerous. Hamlet, v, i. Thy wish was father ... to that thought ! II Henry IV, iv, 5. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Henry v, ii, 4. The **why " is plain as way to parish church. As You Like It, ii, 7. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS lOJ Now let thy friendly hand Punch. Put strength enough to 't. king lear, iv, 6. As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. Sheridan, The Rivals, v, 3. Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression. B. Jonson, Masque of Hymen. Flow gently, I '11 sing thee a song in thy praise. Burns, Flow gently. Sweet Afton. Serenely pure and yet divinely strong. Po^e, Satires, vi. Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind. Prwr, Warmly pure and sweetly strong. Collins, To Simplicity. Whatever is best administered is best. Pope, Essay on Man, lii. There is something in this more than natural. Hamlet, ii, 2. Though this be madness, yet there is method in t. Hamlet, ii, 2. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. hamlet, h, 2. He that sips often at last drinks it up. Cowper, Progress of Error. Nothing great was ever achieved without en- thusiasm. Emerson, Circles. The silver stream her virgin coldness keeps. Pope, Windsor Forest. io6 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Punch. The torrent 's smoothness, ere it dash below ! Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming, iii, 5. Brandy. Tq awakc your dormouse valour, to put fire in your heart. twelfth night, iu, 2. As for the brandy, " nothing extenuate," and the water, "put nought in in malice." Douglas Jerrold, Shakspere Grog. Put this in any liquid thing you will. And drink it off. Romeo and Juliet, V, X. The real Simon Pure. Mrs. Centlivre, A Bold Stroke for a Wife, v. The Red Ratafia does your Ladyship mean, or the Cherry Brandy ? congreve, way of the world, iii, i. Whisky. Stands Scotland where it did ? Macbeth, iv, 3. Peat whiskey hot. Tempered with well-boiled water ! These make the long night shorter. R. H. Messinger, Give me the Old. An enemy unto you all! ii henry vi, i, i. Curse all his virtues ! They 've undone his country. Addison, Cato, iv, 4. Something given that way. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Lovers' Progress, i, i. Inspiring, bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn ! Bums, Tam o' Shanter. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS lOJ Now 's the day, and now 's the hour. Whisky. Bums, Bannockburn. O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. Bums, tam o* Shanter. Gentle Shepherd, tell me where. s. Howard. My nearest And dearest enemy. Middleton, Anything for a Quiet Life, v, x. Seasoned hfe of man preserved and stored up. Milton, Areopagitica. Let us sacrifice to the Muses. Plutarch. T is nothing when you are used to it. Swift, Polite Conversations, iii. There 's nothing like being used to a thing. Sheridan, The Rivals, v, 3. What 's one man*S poison, Signor, Miscellaneous. Is another's meat or drink. Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure, iii, 2. ^ ^ The lemon To vinous spirits added, ( heavenly drink ! ) J. Philips. ICED DRINKS And he that strives to touche a starre Mint juiep. Oft stumbles at a Strawe. Spenser, Faerie Queene. This cordial julep here, That flames and dances in his crystal bounds. Milton, Com us. 108 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS o u??*"""^* The delighted spirit Cobbler, etc. rr. , , . /• n i • i To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice. Measure for Measure, ili, i. When taken To be well shaken. Colman the Younger, The Newcastle Apothecary. Eft-soones they heard a most melodious sound. Spenser, Faerie Queene. Fie ! This is hot weather, gentlemen. II Henry IV, iii, 2. Which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach this hot weather. ii henry vi, iv, lo. Comfort me with cold. king John, v, 7. Out again to the Rose taverne, and there I did give them a tankard of cool drink, . . . the weather being very hot. Pepys, Diary, May 14, 1668. A grateful mixture forms Of tart and sweet. j. Phmps. Thou artificial wines shalt drain Of icy taste ; that in mid fervors best Slake craving thirst and mitigate the day. J. Philips. Thou 'rt indefatigably bent To toil, and omnifarious drinks wouldst brew. J. Philips. Though deep yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage ; without overflowing, full. Sir John Denhant, Cooper's Hill. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS IO9 When they are thirsty fools would fain have cobbie7,^etc. drink ! love's labour's Lost, v, 2. And purer spirits swell the sprightly flood. Pope, Windsor Forest. Whose liquid murmur heard new thirst excites. Milton, Paradise Lost, viL Then methought I heard a mellow sound. Tennyson, Vision of Sin. Chapter V TOASTS The Guest. Let him be so entertained amongst you as suits, with gentlemen of your knowing, to a stranger of his quality. Cymbeune, i, 4. I beseech you all be better known to this gentleman. cymbeune, i, 4. The true knight of Learning, the world holds him dear — Love bless him, Joy crown him, God speed his career. O. W. Holmes, A Parting Health. A diligent lecturer deserves eightpence a pint tuition. Randolph, Aristippus. The sense to value riches with the art To enjoy them, and the virtue to impart. Pope, Moral Essays, iii. Almost to all things could he turn his hand. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. Thou 'rt a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink. Twelfth Night, ii, 3. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 111 This do I drink to thee. Romeo and juuet, iv, 3. "^^^ ^"^^*- Has life a brighter hour Than waits the chosen guest who knows his power ? O. W. Holmes, The Banker's Dinner. Then, sliding gently from his own display- He laughs the learned dullness all away. O. W. Holmes, The Banker's Dinner. Dangle. He has a ready turn for ridicule — • his wit costs him nothing. Sir Fret, No, egad, — or I should wonder how he came by it ! sheridan, the critic, l We must receive him According to the honor of his sender. Cymbeline, ii, 3. Yet reverence, That angel of the world, doth make distinction Of place between high and low. cymbeline, iv, 2. Thou wilt say anon he is some kin to thee, Thou spend'st such high-day wit in praising him. Merchant of Venice, ii, 9. High in name and power, Higher than both in blood and life. Antony and Cleopatra, i, 2. Thy spirit which keeps thee is Noble, courageous, high, unmatchable. Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 3. This gentleman is happily arrived. My mind presumes, for his own good and ours* Taming of the Shrew, i, 2. 112 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS The Guest. L^^. >g ^qqj- ^jm and receive him. Lo, where he comes ! othello, h, i. Here 'S our chief guest. Macbeth, ui, I. You are wisely silent In your own worth, and therefore *t were a sin For- others to be so. Jiandol/k, Mvsks' Looking-Glass. It is requisite that a gentleman should not al- ways be plodding in one art, but rather be a gen- eral scholar, that is, to have a lick at all sorts of learning, and away. ifekker, gull's hornbook. I will not rob you of any of the credit : I am but a feeble instrument ; you are an Engineer. Wycherley, Love in a Wood, i. I awoke one morning and found myself famous. Byron. I courted fame but as a spur to brave And honest deeds. David Maiutt. Your name is great In mouths of wisest censure. othello, ii, 3. Here is a man — but 't is before his face ; I will be silent ! Troilus and Cressida, h, 3. This is a traveler. Sir, knows men and manners, and has plow'd up the sea so far, 'till both the poles have knock'd. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Scornful Lady, i. This most gallant, illustrate and learned gentle- man. Love's Labour's Lost, v, i. , QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS H^ A man that fortune's buffets and rewards "^^^ ^"^s*- Hast ta'en with equal thanks. Hamlet, iii, 2. What imports the nomination of this gentleman? Hamlet, v, 2. Great clerks have purposed To greet me with premeditated welcomes. Midsummer Night's Dream, v, i. Right welcome sir ! Ere we depart we '11 share a bounteous time. TiMON OF Athens, i, i. Strength of limb and policy of mind, Ability in means and choice of friends. Much Ado, iv, i. He hath a tear for pity and a hand Open as day for melting Charity. II Henry IV, iv, 4. Eminence, wealth, sovereignty ; Which, to say sooth, are blessings. Henry VIII, ii, 3. More is thy due than more than all can pay. Macbeth, i, 4. Not that we think us worthy such a guest, But that your worth will dignify our feast. B. Jonson, Epigrams, ci. He that should search all glories of the gown, And steps of all raised servants of the crown. He could not find than thee, of all that store. Whom fortune aided less or virtue more. B. JoTtson, Underwoods. By merit raised To that bad eminence. Muton, paradise lost, u. 8 114 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS The Guest. J ^q ^ot glvc you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter. Junius, Letter xii. May you live all the days of your life ! Sw//i(, Polite Conversations, li. A companion that is cheerful ... is worth gold. Walton, Complete Angler, iii. Be every birthday more a winner, Digest his thirty-thousandth dinner. Poj>e, To — . The nose of haut-gout, and the tip of taste. Pope, Moral Essays, ii. We attend thy reverend length of days With benediction and with praise. And hail thee in our public ways Like some great spirit fam'd in ages old. Akenside, Odes, vii. The soul which answered best to all well said By others, and which most requital made. John Cleveland. Let the learned and witty, the jovial and gay, The generous and honest compose our free state. B. Jonson, Leges Conviviales. I may chance have some odd quirks and rem- nants of wit broken on me, because I have rail'd so long against marriage. Much Ado about Nothing, ii, 3. Raillery, Raillery ! Madam, we have no Ani- mosity — We hit off a little wit now and then, but no Animosity. Congreve, The Way of the World, iii, 13. I shall see thee ere I die look pale with love. Much Ado about Nothing, i, i. QUOTATIO NS FOR OCCASIONS II5 Here you may see Benedick the married man. "^^^ Guest. Much Ado about Nothing, i, i. Oh, he has Witchcraft in his Eyes and Tongue; — when I did not see him I could have bribed a Villain to his Assassination. Congreve, The Way of the World, v, 8. My Resolution is to see Foreign Parts — I have set on 't — and when I 'm set on 't I must do 't. Congreve, The Way of the World, v, 13. To be a well favoured man is the gift of for- tune, but to write and read comes by nature. Much Ado about Nothing, iii, 3. But that modesty forbids that I should sound the trumpet of my own deserts, I could say, my choice manners have been such, as render me lov'd and remarkable to the princes of the blood. Beaumont and Fletcher, The EldIr Brother. I confess I do blaze to-day, I am too bright. Congreve, The Way of the World, ii, 4. Petulant *s my Friend, and a very honest Fel- low, and a very pretty Fellow, and a smattering — Faith and Troth, — a pretty deal of an odd sort of a Small Wit. Congreve, The Way of the World, i, 6. A Wit should be no more sincere than a Woman constant. congreve, the way of the World, i, 6. What art thou but black clothes ? Marston, Satires, ii. Greets with three cheers exulting, cowper, task, \. Whose homeopathic sagacity With an ocean of zeal mixed his drop of capacity. Lowell, Fable for Critics. Il6 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS The Guest. He has common sense in a way that 's uncommon. Hates humbug and cant, loves his friends hke a woman. Lowell, Fable for Critics. You 're not always sure of your game when you Ve treed it. LoweU, Fable for critics. I must post an anonymous letter to Britain. And show that this gall is the merest suggestion Of spite at my zeal on the Copyright question. Lowell, Fable for Critics. Humour's son! Made up of wisdom and of fun. Medley of all that 's dark and clear, Of all that 's foolish, all that 's dear. Praed, Eve of Battle. Child of an age that lectures, not creates. Lowell, The Cathedral. I see him coming ! let 's fall into admiration of his good parts, that he may overhear his own praise. Skackerley Marmion, The Antiquary, iii. Outstrips his compeers in each liberal science. Skackerley Marmion, The Antiquary, i. A man that has traveled and been careful of his time. Skackerley Marmion, The Antiquary, iii. It was the prettiest talking thing, and the wittiest withal, the neighbours took such delight to near it. skackerley Marmion, A Fine Companion, ii. I tell you my disposition, I am wholly ad- dicted to rarities, things that are new take me. Skackerley Marmion, A Fine Companion, L QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS HJ You 're welcome, a clergyman. Most learned reverend sir. henry viii, a, 2. Wait till you hear me from the pulpit, there you cannot answer me ! bisAop aibert Haven. Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve. Hamlbt, i, 2. This good man, This just and learned priest. henry viii, n, 2. You need but plead your honourable privilege. All 's Well, iv, 5. His office sacred, his credentials clear. Cowper, Task, ii. O most gentle pulpiter ! what tedious homily of love have you wearied your parishioners withal! As You Like It, iii, 2. Who is he that can twice a week be inspired, or has eloquence always on tap ? Lowell, BiGLOW Papers, ii, 3. Let me be privileged by my place and message To be a speaker free. troilus and Cressida, iv, 4. He serves a raw clergyman up with the toast ! O. W. Holmes, For After Dinner. Let me be blessed for the peace I make ! II Henry VI, ii, i. Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway. And fools who came to scoff remained to pray. Goldsmith, Deserted Village. He that negociates between God and man As God's Ambassador. Cowper, the task, u. Il8 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS A Clergyman. ^ j^an he was to all the country dear. Goldsmith, Deserted Village. When at his humble prayer you deign'd to eat, Saint as you are, a civil sinner's meat. crabbe. I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight. much ado, u, i. His preaching much but more his practice wrought A Hving sermon of the truths he taught. Dryden, Good Parson. He was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant. Butur, hudibras, i, i. The shepherd seeks the sheep and not the sheep the shepherd. * two Gentlemen of Verona, i, i. Look, the unfolding star calls up the shepherd. Measure for Measure, iv, 2. Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver and my friend profess'd. Romeo and Juliet, iii, 3. The gentleman is learned and a most rare speaker. Henry VIII, i, 2. I am persuaded devotion is the greatest plea- sure of his soul, and there is none hears him read without the utmost reverence. Steele, The Guardian, no. 65. More like a soldier than a man o' the church. II Henry VI, i, i. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 119 His words and works and fashion too All of a piece, and all are clear and straight. • Herbert, Constancy. Bound by my charity and my blest order. Measure for Measure, ii, 3. They have snared the shepherd of the flock. II Henry VI, ii, 2. To have a thin stipend, and an everlasting parish. Lord, what a torment 't is ! Beaumont and Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, i. A Clergyman. Let the trumpets blow That this great soldier may his welcome know. Troilus and Cressida, iv, 5. The Army 's at the door and in disguise. Buckingham, The Rehearsal. From heart of very heart, great Hector, welcome ! Troilus and Cressida, iv, 5. Hail to the chief who in triumph advances. Scott, Lady of the Lake, ii. You have yourself been a great fighter though now a man of peace. Merry wives of Windsor, ii, 3. A Soldier. Whose high deeds, Whose hot incursions and great name in arms Holds from all soldiers chief majority. I Henry IV, iii, 2. This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agree- able feetur. Lowell, Biglow Papers, ii. Of a valiant mind in wars, of great devise in time 01 peril. sir Antonle of Guevara, Familiar Letters. 120 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS A Soldier. jo me the cries of fighting fields are charms, Keen be my sabre and of proof my arms ! Dryden, Aurengzebe. To that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor To act in safety. Macbeth, iii, I. Famous throughout the world for warlike praise. Spenser, Faerie Queene. Health, peace, and many a bloodless year To fight his battles o'er. o. w. Holmes, 1865. Go seek thy peace in war, Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star. B. Jonsoft, Underwoods. He was a soldier good. But, by great Mars, the captain of us all. Never like thee. troilus and Cressida, iv, 5. I have no words, My voice is in my sword. Macbeth, v, 8. What my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove. , Richard II, i, i. To see great Hector in his weeds of peace. Troilus and Cressida, iii, 3. Gads — Daggers — Belts — Blades and Scab- bards, this is the very Gentleman ! Congreve, The Old Batchelor, li, i. Most illustrious Six or seven times honored captain-general. Troilus and Cressida, iii, 3. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 121 The winds sits in the shoulder of your sail a saiior. And you are stay'd for. hamlet, i, 3. A broadside for our Admiral, Load every crystal gun. o. w. Holmes, 1865. In peace, my boys, or war, Here 's to the brave upon the wave, the gallant English Tar. EUza Cook, the English Tar. There 's one whose fearless courage yet has never failed in fight, Who guards with zeal our country's weal, our freedom and our right, ehzu Cook, the English tar. How slow his soul sail'd on, How swift his ship. . cymbeline, i, 3. How does that honorable, complete and free- hearted gentleman ? Timon of Athens, iii, I. Welcome, brave captain and victorious lord. I Henry VI, iii, 4. Charming the narrow seas To give you gentle pass. henry v, ii, prol. We must bring you to our captain. Two Gentlemen of Verona, v, 3. Hath pass'd in safety through the narrow seas. Ill Henry VI, iv, 8. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident. CORIOLANUS, iii, I. His heart and hand both open and both free. Troilus and Cressida, iv, 5. 122 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS A Sailor. On this coast Suppose him now at anchor. pericles, v (Gower). Then is all safe, the anchor 's in the port. Titus Andronicus, iv, 4. When the sea was calm all boats alike Showed mastership in floating. coriolanus, iv, x. I desire no more delight Than to be under sail and gone to-night. Merchant of Venice, ii, 6. An Author. That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. Love's Labour's Lost, i, i. You two are book-men. love's labour's lost, iv, 2. Pray, let me hear you recite some of your Ver- ses, which to a Wit is a Favour, I 'm sure. Wycherley, Love in a Wood, ii. One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens. Othello, ii, i. A poet soaring in the high region of his fancies with his garland and singing robes about him. Milton, Reason of Church Government, Int. ii. Rhyme will undo you, and hinder your growth and reputation in court more than any- thing beside. B. Jonson, love's Welcome at Bolsover. But wrote he like a gentleman ? In rhyme, fine tinkling rhyme and flowing verse. With now and then some sense ! and he was paid for 't ! B. Jo?ison, the fortunate Isles. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 123 That 's of no consequence, all that can be said ^^ Author, is that two people happen'd to hit on the same thought — and Shakespeare made use of it first, that 'S all. Sheridan, The Critic, iu, i. I am sure if he be a good poet he has discov- ered a good tavern in his time. B, Jonson, News from the New World. Don't Stir, gentlemen ; 't is hixt an author. Le Sage, Gil Blas, iii, 2. Resigned to live, prepared to die. With not one sin but poetry. Pope, To — . You know it *s A terrible thing to be pestered with poets. Lowell, Fable for Critics. I 'm told you write in public prints ; ef true It 's nateral you should know a thing or two ! Lowell, BiGLOw Papers, ii, 6. His nature 's a glass of champagne with the foam on 't. As tender as Fletcher, as witty as Beaumont. Lowell, Fable for Critics. For of all compositions he thought that the sonnet Best repaid all the toil you expended upon it. Lowell, Fable for Critics. 'T is impossible ! The Players gone to dinner ! Igad, if they are, I '11 make 'em know what it is ^ to injure a Person that does them the honour to write for them ! Buckingham, The Rehearsal. But these master-poets they will have their own absurd courses; they will be informed of nothing! B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, Induction. 124 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS An Author. I begin shrewdly to suspect . . . the young man of a terrible taint, poetry ! B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, iii. When a man tells me such a one is a person of parts; "Is he so?" say I, what do I do but bring him presently to see this Play ; if he likes it I know what to think of him ! If not, your humble Servant, Sir; I '11 no more of him ! Buckingham, The Rehearsal. I love a ballad but even too well ; if it be dole- ful matter, merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed, and sung lamentably. Winter's Tale, iv, 4. No poet's verses yet did ever move, Whose readers did not think he was in love. B. Jonson, An Elegy. Plague on 't now. Sneer, I shall take it ill. — I believe you want to take away my character as an author. Then I am sure you ought to be very much obliged to me ! Sheridan, The Critic, i. Are you so preposterous in your opinion, to think that wit and elegancy in writing are only confined to stagers and book-worms ? Shackerley Marmion, The Antiquary, iii. 'T is a Poet, we call them Bards in our coun- try, sings ballads and rhymes. Dekker, Satiro-Mastix. An Actor or Singer. Matrons flung gloves. Ladies and maids their scarfs and handkerchiefs, Upon him. coriolanus, ii, i. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS I23 Speak a huffing part; I warrant you the gentle- ''^"sfn *er °' men will accept of it ! Beaumont and Fletcher^ Prol. to Knight of the Burning Pestle. A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. Love's Labour's Lost, ii, i. He will fetch you up a couraging part so in the garret, that we are all as fear'd I warrant you, that we quake again. Beaumont and Fletcher, Prol. to Knight of the Burning Pestle. His voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres. Antonv and Cleopatra, V, 2. And witch sweet ladies with my words and looks. Ill Henry VI, iii, 2. When thou dost act men think it not a play, But all they see is real. Randolph. An excellent song, and a sweet songster, and would have done rarely in a cage, with a dish of water and a hempseed. B. Jonson, Gipsies Metamorphosed. What a voice was here now ! Beaumont and Fletcher, Beggar's Bush, Ii. Not a better pipe at the play-house, . . . then he is as cheerful and has such a choice collection of songs ! Foote, The Cozeners, i. Puff. Now then for soft music. Sneer. Pray what 's that for ? Puff. It shows that Tilburina is coming : noth- ing introduces you a heroine like soft music. Here she comes. Sheridan, the critic, ii, 2. 126 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS °"*offife"^^^'^ Why may not an Atlas of State, such as my- self, that bears up the weight of a common- wealth, now and then for recreation's sake, be glad to ease his shoulders ? Shackerley Marmion, The Antiquary, ii. Whose high respect and rich validity Did lack a parallel. all 's well, v, 3. And bears his blushing honors thick upon him. Henry VIII, iii, 2. Statesman yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, In action faithful and in honor clear. Pope, Moral Essays, v. Thou art not for the fashion of these times. Where none will sweat but for promotion. As You Like It, ii, 3. Meantime forget this new-fall'n dignity And fall into our rustic revelry. As You Like It, v, 4. A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, Ef he must hev beliefs, nut to b'lieve 'em tu hard. Lowell, BiGLOw Papers, ii, 5. If we say 'n our pletform thet all men are bro- thers, We don't mean thet some folks ain't more so 'n some others. An' it 's wal understood thet we make a se- lection, An' thet brotherhood kin' o' subsides arter 'lection. Lowell, Biglow Papers, ii, 5. Blunt not his love. Nor lose the good advantage of his grace By seeming cold. ii henry iv, iv, 4. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS I27 With promise of high pay and great rewards. °" omS!^"*^ Ill Henry VI, ii, i. Let them behold the melancholy of a Magis- trate, and taste the fury of a citizen in office. Marston, Chapman and Jonson, Eastward Ho, iv, 2. This is a gentle provost : seldom when The steeled gaoler is the friend of men. Measure for Measure, iv, 2. Integrity And skill in thee now grew authority. B. Jonson, Underwoods. Let Others hail the rising sun, I bow to that whose course is run. Garrkk. The malevolence of fortune nothing Takes from his high respect. Macbeth, m, 6. Upon this land a thousand, thousand blessings, ou^ country. Henry VIII, v, 5. My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. Julius C^sar, iv, 3, And to his country " plenty, peace and wealth." W. King, Art of Cookery. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. Henry Clay, Speech, 1848. Our Federal Union ; it must be preserved. Andrew Jackson, On Jefferson's Birthday Celebration, 1830. Live the Commonwealth also And the men that guide it ! gaudeamus igitur. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see So long lives this. Shaksj^ere, Sonnets, xviii. 128 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Our Country. When pubHc blessings public peace attend, When glory is our motive, not our end. Young, Love of Fame, That man 's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best. Tennyson, Hands all Around. One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One nation, evermore ! o. w. Holmes, 1862. Fill the cup and let it come, I '11 pledge you a mile to the bottom. 11 henry iv, v, 3. Let them not live to taste this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace ! Richard III, v, s- Congress. For government, though high and low and lower, Put into parts doth keep in one consent. Henry V, i, 2. Arming myself with patience To stay the providence of some high powers That govern us below. Julius C^sar, V, 1. The President. Your high self. The gracious mark o' the land, winter's tale, iv, 4. The high east Stands, as the Capitol, directly here ! Julius C^sar, ii, i. Your Lordship may hold it for most certain that the office of President is not a little honor- able, but jointly therewith very tedious and bur- densome. Sir Antonie of Guevara, Familiar Epistles. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS I29 You were crOWn'd before The President. And that high royalty was ne'er pluck'd off. King John, iv, 2. With loyal blazon ever more be blest ! Merry Wives of Windsor, v, 5. The dignity and height of honor, richard hi, Iv, 4. Look in our eyes ! Your welcome waits you there, North, South, East, West, from all and every- where ! O. IV. Holmes, To The President. Where inward dignity joins outward state. Young, Love of Fame. The special head of all the land, i henrv iv, iv, 4. Both great in courage, conduct and in fame. Army and Yet neither envious of the other's praise; Their duty, faith and interest too the same, Like mighty partners, equally they raise. Dryden, Annus Mirabilis. Each able to sustain a nation's fate. Dryden, Annus Mirabilis. Your fortunes are alike in all. That in your country's service drew your swords. Titus Andronicus, i, i. Such strong renown as time shall ne'er decry. Pericles, iii, 2. Yet I love glory : — glory 's a great thing. Byron, Don Juan, viii. It is not so easy to be a brave man as the un- thinking part of mankind imagine. To dare is not all there is in it. steeu, spectator, no. 350. 9 Navy. 150 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Army and Por as pravcrs do remove sins even so doth armor defend from enemies. Sir Anionie of Guevara, Familiar Epistles. In avoiding Scylla we fall into Charybdis ! Trans, of Phillippe Gualtier, Alexandreis, v. All other greatness ... is only counterfeit, it will not endure the test of danger ; the great- ness of arms is only real. Other greatness burdens a Nation with its weight ; this supports it with its strength. Dryden, Account prefixed to Annus Mirabilis. Give them great meals of beef, and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like dev- ils. Henry V, iii, 7. Defenders of our soil ! Who from destruction save us ; who from spoil Protect the sons of peace. crabbe. A moderate pension shakes full many a sage. Byron, Don Juan, viii. He jests at scars that never felt a wound. Romeo and Juliet, ii, 2. I think You have heard of my poor services. Winter's Tale, iv, 4. Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the Sepulchre . . . Of the World's ransom. Richard II, ii, I. I have done the state some service and they know 't. Othello, v, 2. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS IQl Painful labour both by sea and land. Taming of the Shrew, v, 2. You have done well by water. And you by land. Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 6. By sea and land I '11 fight. Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 2. If you are at sea Or stomach-qualm'd at land, a dram of this Will drive away distemper. cymbeline, m, 4. To win renown Even in the jaws of danger and of death. King John, v, 2. Arms which to man ne'er-dying Fame afford. Congreve. Our age has much improv'd the Warrior's Art For fighting now is thought the weakest Part. Congreve. A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour. all 's well, iv, 5. Army and Navy. O happy art ! and wise epitome Of bearing arms ! Most civil soldiery ! B. Jonson, Underwoods. There *s not a. soldier of us all that, in the thanksgiving before meat, doth relish the petition well that prays for peace, measure for Measure, i, 2. The Army. Seeing gentle words will not prevail Assail them with the army. u henry vi, iv, 2. 132 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS The Army. Q it 's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' " Tom- my, go away," But it 's '' Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play. Rudyard Kipung, tommy. For it 's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' " Tommy, wait outside," But it 's " Special train for Atkins" when the trooper 'S on the tide. Rudyard KipUng, tommy. Then it 's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' *' Tommy, 'ow 's yer soul ? " But it 's '* Thin red line of 'eroes " when the drums begin to roll. Rudyard KiJ>lmg, Tommy. For the army is a school in which the miser be- comes generous and the generous prodigal. Don Quixote, xxxix. Ay me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ! Butler, HuDiBRAS, i, 3. In their ragged regimentals Stood the old Continentals Yielding not. G. H. MacMaster, Carmen Bellicosum. They are soldiers, Witty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit. Ill Henry VI, i, 2. He that is truly dedicate to war, Hath no self-love. ii henry vi, v, 2. To be tender-minded Does not become a sword. lear, v, 3. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS I33 No company can be more amiable than that of "^^^ Army, men of sense who are soldiers. Steele, Spectator, no. 162. With spirit of honour edged More sharper than your swords. henry v, ui, 5. Armour of safe defence the soldier hath . . . As well may serve to shield this land from woe. Peele, A Pageant. O behold, The Navy. The riches of the ship is come on shore ! Othello, ii, i. The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The best pilots have need of mariners besides sails, anchor and other tackles. B. Jonson, Discoveries. I '11 fight at sea. Antony and Cleopatra, iii, 7. With us at sea it hath been still observed ; and we are strong in custom. Pericles, iii, I. The ship is in her trim, the merry wind Blows fair from land. comedy of errors, iv, i Lords of the wide world and wild watery seas. Comedy of Errors, ii, i. Or, as it were the pageants of the sea. Merchant of Venice, i, i. Commands The empire of the sea. Antony and Cleopatra, i, 2. 134 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS The Navy. Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound With keels. Antony and Cleopatra, i, 4. Ships, Fraught with the ministers and instruments Of cruel war. Troilus and Cressida, prologue. And o'er green Neptune 's back With ships made cities. Antony and Cleopatra, iv, 14. Our ships you happily may think Are like the Trojan horse was stuff'd within With bloody veins. Pericles i, 4. Let Neptune hear me bid a loud farewell To these great fellows, Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 7. It is a theme as fluent as the sea. henry v, m, ^, As firm as laitn. Merry wives of Windsor, iv, 4. The strict discipline Of the church will teach you better thoughts. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, v. By the heavens' assistance and your strength. • III Henry VI, v, 4. Ten thousand Angels on her slumbers wait With glorious Visions of her future state. Dryden, Hind and Panther. Grace is grace, despite of all controversy. Measure for Measure, i, 2. Figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty. Pericles, v, 3. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS I35 One in hope and doctrine, The church. One in charity. 5. BaHng couid. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. henry viii, in, 2. Elect from every nation Yet one o'er all the earth. s. j. stone. For my authority bears of a credent bulk. Measure for Measure, iv, 4. It is in my authority to command The keys. winter's tale, i, 2. All the reverend fathers of the land And doctors learned. henry viii, u, 4. The Universal Church is just as much a reality as any particular nation is. F. D. Maurice, Biography, I, i66. That to believing souls Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. II Henry VI, il, i. There and there only is the power to save. Cowj^er, Progress of Error. Fortified by power divine, The Church can never fail. ckaries wesiey. We must bend unto all means That may give furtherance to the holy cause. B. Jonson, The Alchemist, iii Unshaken as eternal hills, Immovable she stands, A mountain that shall fill the earth, A house not made by hands. a. Cleveland Coxe. 136 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS The Church. ^hat all parts of the Land may equally par- take the plentiful and diligent preaching of the Jr aitn. MUton, An apology. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. Julius C^sar, iv, 2. The strength of Empire is in Religion. B. Jonson, Discoveries. The Press. ^ T is my vocation, Hal ; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. i henry iv, i, 2. Join we together for the public good In what we can. n henry vi, i, i. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour ? much Ado about nothing, ii, 3. What a pulpit the editor mounts daily, some- times with a congregation of fifty thousand with- in reach of his voice, and never so much as a nod- der, even, among them ! Loweii, biglow papers, i, 6. Behold the whole huge earth sent to me heb- domadally in a brown-paper wrapper. Lowell, Biglow Papers, i, 6. But to have the sweet babe of my brain served in pi ! Lowell, Fable for Critics, Preface. I am a printer, and a printer of news ; and I do hearken after them, wherever they be at any rates ; I '11 give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news. B. Jonson, News from the New World. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS I37 A gentleman . . . that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month. romeo and juuet, h, 4. I am by my place to know how to please the palates of the guests ; so you are to know the palates of the times. B. Jonson, Neptune's Triumph. The newspapers! — Sir, they are the most vil- lainous — licentious — abominable • — infernal — Not that I ever read them — No — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. Sheridan, The Critic, L Come, don't be faint-hearted, there has many a printer been raised to the pillory from as slen- der beginnings. Foote, the Devil upon two Sticks, ii. Praise me not too much. Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me ! Bryant, Homer's Iliad, x. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. Attributed to Napoleon i. Master! master! news, old news, and such news as you never heard of. The Taming of the Shrew, lii, 2. Though an angel should write, still 't is devils must print. Thomas Moore, The Fudges in England, iiL The unhappy man who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself but other men. Dryden, Prologue to Lee's CvEsar Borgia. The Press. The Press. 138 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS News is your food, and you enough provide, Both for yourselves and all the world beside. Dryden, Prologue to Lee's Caesar Borgia. How shall I speak thee or thy power address Thou god of our Idolatry, the Press ! Cowper, Progress of Error. Mightiest of the mighty means On which the arm of Progress leans. Sir John Bowring. Some tell, some hear, some judge of news, some make it. Dryden, Spanish Friar, iv. This folio of four pages, happy work Which not e'en critics criticise, cowper, the task, iv. Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapours Distress our fair ones — let them read the papers. Garrick, Prologue to Sheridan's School for Scandal. Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things, The fate of fighting cocks or fighting kings. Charles Sprague, Curiosity. Ask how to live ? Write, write, write anything ; The world 's a fine believing world, write news ! Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit without Money, ii. I would derive the name editor not so much from edo, to publish, as from edo, to eat, that be- ing the peculiar profession to which he esteems himself called. Loweii, biglow papers, i, 6. Let us laugh and hurra ! put our heart in our voice — With our Long Primer, Small Pica, Minion, Bourgeois ! Praed, King of Clubs. Here 's all the success it deserves ! Sheridan, School for Scandal, iii, 3. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS I39 And seeing the place getting rapidly cleared, Reporters. I, too, snatched my notes and forthwith disap- peared. Lowell, Fable for Critics. A chiel 's arriang ye takin' notes And, faith, he '11 prent it ! Burns, On captain Grose. I have ta'en a due and wary note upon 't. Measure for Measure, iv, i. Report me and my cause aright To the unsatisfied. hamlet, v, 2. At every interview their route the same. Cowper, Conversation. I can set down a story. Skakspere, Sonnets, Ixxxviii. Art is long and time is fleeting. The Arts. Longfellow, from Hippocrates. Arts that respect the mind were ever reputed nobler than those that serve the body. B. Jonson, Discoveries. It is my temper and I like it the better to affect all harmony. sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici. All passes. Art alone Enduring stays to us. Austin Dohson. Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone. Schiller, The Artist. Art is power. Long/ellow, Hyperion, iii, 5. The conscious utterance of thought by speech or action, to any end is art. Emerson, art. 140 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS The Arts. j^ our fine arts not imitation but creation is the aim. Emerson, A^t. Illusion on a ground of truth is the secret of the fine Arts. jouben. Architecture is frozen music. Schelling, Philosophy of Art. Architecture is the work of nations. Ruskin, Sculpture. A time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them. Ruskin, Seven Lamps of Architecture, Memory. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and the most akin to nature. B. Jonson, Discoveries. Art curbs Nature, Nature guideth Art. Marston, The Scourge of Villainy, ix, A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators and effect the noblest designs by easy methods. Burke, On the sublime and Beautiful, ii. As the arts advance towards their perfection the science of criticism advances with equal pace. Burke, On Taste. Art can never give the rules that make an art. Burke, On the Sublime and Beautiful, i, 19. So long as brain and heart Have faculty by nature to subsist Till each to razed oblivion yield his part Of thee, thy record never can be missed. Shakspere, Sonnets, cxxii. If Knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice. Shakspere, Passionate Pilgrim, v. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS I4I Full of great rooms and small the palace stood The Arts. All various, each a perfect whole. Tennyson, Palace of Art. The labor is not small, Yet winds the pathway free to all. Tennyson, Stanzas. Not Babylon Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equal' d in all their glories. MiUon, paradise Lost, i. Arts that polish life. Muton, paradise lost, m. All the arts Wait at my table, every man of quaHty Take sanctuary here ! I will be patron To twenty liberal sciences. Randolph, jealous lovers. The business of Art is not to represent things as nature makes them, but as she ought to make them. A ttributed to Raphael. Art is a natural product of humanity as vege- tation is a product of the soil. Charles L'Eveque, Spiritualism in Art. All these are mine, And let the world have peace or wars 'T is one to me. Tennyson, Palace of Art. Strength levels grounds, Art makes a garden tnere. Herbert, Church Militant. We will our youth lead on to higher fields. Educationc II Henry IV, iv, 4. 142 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Education. Whilcst that the childe is young let him b*e in- structed in vertue and lytterature. Lyly, Anatomy of Wit. I know no disease of the soul but ignorance. B. Jonson, Discoveries. And all in sight did rise a birchen tree Which Learning near her little dome did stowe. Shenstone, The Schoolmistress. Delightful task ! To rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. Thomson, The Seasons, Spring. Tutor'd in the rudiments Of many desperate studies. as you like it, v, 4. For we should remember that nothing is more natural for people whose education has been neg- lected than to spell evolution with an initial ''r." Lowell^ Democracy. The riches of scholarship and the benignities of literature defy fortune and outlive calamity. Lowell, Books and Libraries. A comfortable quarantine where they could wait till the gates of life were opened to them, safe from any contagion of learning, except such as might be developed from previous infection ! I am speaking of a great while ago. Lowell, Harvard Anniversary. Make Knowledge circle with the winds But let her herald Reverence fly ijeiOre ner. Tennyson, Love thou thy Land. Earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star. Love's Labour's Lost, i, i. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS I43 What we want is not learning but knowledge; Education, that is the power to make learning answer its true end as a quickener of intelligence and a widener of our intellectual sympathies. Lowell, Books and Libraries. Institute A course of learning and ingenious studies. Taming of the Shrew, i, x. Base men by his endowments are made great. Richard II, ii, 3. O what learning is ! romeo and Juuet, iii, 3. Education we are often told is a drawing out of the faculties. Lowell, harvard anniversary. Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school. II Henry VI, iv, 7. Nor are they such That these great towers, trophies and schools should fall For private faults in them. timon of Athens, v, 4. v/Study is like the heaven's glorious sun. Love's Labour's Lost, i, i. In proportion as there are more thoroughly cultivated persons in a community will the finer uses of prosperity be taught and the vulgar uses of it become disreputable. Lowell, Harvard Anniversary. It is not the passing through these learnings that hurts us, but the dwelling and sticking about tiiem. B. Jonson, Discoveries. 144 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Education. J have evcr observed it to have been the office of a wise patriot ... to take care of the com- monwealth of learning. For schools — they are the Seminaries of State. js. jonson, discoveries. Therefore it were to be wish'd, that there reign'd not among the People of this Land such a general itching after Book-learning, and I be- lieve so many Free Schools do rather Hurt than (jrOOd ! Howell, Familiar Letters, iii, 8. Send thee manly patience with thy learning. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Elder Brother, ii, 3. Literature. So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical, twelfth night, i, i. Letters are, as it were, the bank of words and restore themselves to an author as the pawns of language. B. Jonson, discoveries. A health to poets ! all their days May they have bread as well as praise. T. Parnell To see the laurel-wreath, on high suspended, That is to crown our name when life is ended. Keats, Sleep and Poetry. Their verse had a quieting Effect after dinner, and seemed to suggest a Retreat to the shrine of a tranquil siesta. Lowell, Fable for Critics. "Stay, I *11 read you a scene," but he hardly began, Ere Apollo shrieked ''Help!" and the authors all ran. Lowell, Fable for Critics. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS I45 The wise Scandinavians probably called their Literature, bards by the queer-looking title of Scald, in a delicate way, as it were, just to hint to the world the hot water they always got into. Lowell, Fable for Critics, Preface. I never knew a man of letters ashamed of his profession. Thackeray, The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus. Which art our writers used to obscure their art. B. Jonson, The Alchemist, ii. Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. Milton, Areopagitica. Ready writing makes not good writing; but good writing brings on ready writing: yet, when we think we have got the faculty, it is even then good to resist it. B. Jonson, discoveries. Poetry with all its obscurity has a more gen- eral as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than . . . painting. Burke, On the Sublime and Beautiful, ii. Pray ye buy books, buy books, You have a learned head, stuff it with libraries, And understand 'em when ye have done. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, iv, 5. We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal. Sydney Smith, Memoir, I, 23. O blessed Letters ! that combine in one All ages past, and make one live with all. 10 Daniel, MusoPHiLUS. i46 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Literature. Literature is an avenue to glory. n Israeli, Literary Character. But now nothing is good that is natural. B. Jonson, Discoveries. Bright books ! the perspectives to our weak sights, The clear projections of discerning lights, Burning and shining thoughts, man's posthume day, The track of fled souls and their milkie way. Vaughan, Books. A little unbak'ed poetry, Such as the dabblers of our time contrive. Beaumont arid Fletcher, The Elder Brother, ii. No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope ? Sheridan, The Critic, iv, i. Madam, a circulating library in a town is an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. It blos- soms through the year ! Sheridan, the rivals, i, 2. But in this age a sect of writers are. That only for particular likings care, And will taste nothing that is popular. B. Jonson, Prologue to The Silent Woman. To show how much thou art degenerate. I Henry IV, iii, 2. Little infants of the time, Who write new songs and trust in tune and rhyme. Dryden, Epilogue to The Indian Emperor. Can it be That so degenerate a strain as this Should once set footing in your generous bosoms? Troilus and Cressida, ii, 2. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 147 The multitude commend writers, as they do Literature, fencers or wrestlers; who if they come in robust- iously, and put for it with a great deal of violence are received for the braver fellows. B. Jonson, Discoveries. We bring no imperfections, but our own ; Such faults as made are by the makers shown. Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxford. But after all, a poet must confess, His art 's, like physic, but a happy guess. Dryden, Epilogue to Aurengzebe. Poetry in the primogeniture, had many pec- cant humours, and is made to have more now through the levity and inconstancy of men's judgments. B. Jonson, DiscovEmzs. What stuff will please you next, the Lord can tell. Dryden, Prologue to The Kind Keeper. Each haughty poet will infer with ease. How much his wit must underwrite to please. Dryden, Epilogue to Dryden and Lee's CEdipus. The monument of vanished minds. Davenant, Gondibert, ii, 5. Who would excel, when few can make a test Betwixt indifferent writing and the best ? Dryden, Epilogue to Aurengzebe. You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin, sheridan, school for scandal, i, i. That place that does contain my books, my best companions, is to me A glorious court where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Elder Brother, i, 2. 148 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS The Critics. ]s^q author ever spared a brother, Wits are game-cocks to one another. Gay, fables. Who shall dispute what the reviewers say ? Churchill, Apology. Not all on books their criticism waste, The genius of a dish some justly taste And eat their way to fame. Young, love of fame. Almighty critics ! whom our Indians here Worship, just as they do the devil, for fear. Dryden, Prologue to The Indian Emperor. 2d Prol. Hold ! would you admit Forjudges all you see within the pit? 1st Prol. Whom would he then except, or on what score ? 2d Prol. All who, like him, have writ ill plays before. Dryden, Prologue to The Rival Ladies. A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ. Pope, Essay on Criticism. And since they will not admit of my Playes they shall know what a Satyrist I am. Buckingham, The Rehearsal. True; my power with the managers is pretty notorious. Sherldajt, The Critic, i. Now the plays are begun I shall have no peace. Sheridan, The Critic, i. Yet there are some (too many) that think nothing good that is so courteous as to come within their reach. Marston, Preface to The Scourge of Villainy. gUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 149 A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a The critics. good critic. Lowell, Shakspere Once More, Do not put me to 't, For I am nothing if not critical. oxHELLo.ii.i. Critics . . . whose opinion and patronage all writers solicit, and whose recommendation no manager dares refuse. Sheridan, the critic, i. Yet, scattered here and there, I some behold. Who can discern the tinsel from the gold. Dryden, Epilogue to Aurengzebe. The critic's lot is passing hard — Between ourselves, I think reviewers, When call'd to truss a crowing bard Should not be sparing of the skewers. Locker, Advice to a Poet. Critics to Plays for the same End resort, That Surgeons wait on Trials in a court For Innocence condemn'd they Ve no Respect, Provided they 've a Body to dissect ! Congreve, Epilogue to The Mourning Bride. You 're certain to be pleased where errors are ! Cibher, Prologue to Love Makes a Man. An excellent and true judge upon cause and reason; not because he thought so but because he knew so out of use and experience. B. Jonson, Discoveries. To judge of poets is only the faculty of poets; and not of all poets, but the best. B. Jonson, Discoveries. l^O QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS The Critics. He is onc of you ; A brother judgment, and, as I hear say, A cursed critic as e'er damned a play. Dryden, Prologue to Secret Love. Good savage gentlemen,, your own kind spare. Dryden, Epilogue to Secret Love. These cruel critics put me into passion. For in their lowering looks I read damnation. Epilogue to Dryden's Troilus and Cressida. The Stage. What nCWS On the RialtO ? merchant of Venice, i, 3. Children of later growth, we love the Play^ We love its heroes, be they grave or gay, From squeaking, peppery, devil-defying Punch To roaring Richard with his camel-hunch. O. W. Holmes, 1873. " The world 's a stage,"— as Shakspeare said one day; The stage a world — was what he meant to say. O. W. Holmes, A Prologue. Old men shall have good old plays to delight 'em : And you, fair ladies and gallants, that slight 'em. We '11 treat with good new plays, if our new wits can write 'em. Dryden, Prologue for the opening of the New Theatre in 1682. Thespis, the first professor of our art. At country wakes, sung ballads in a cart. Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxford. Is n't this flat conjuring. To make our ghosts walk ere we be dead ? Randolph, Muses' Looking-Glass. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS IJl Boldly I dare say The stage. There has been more by us in some one play Laughed into wit and virtue, than have been By twenty tedious lectures drawn from sin And foppish humour. Randolph, Muses' Looking-Glass. Whilst scenes, machines, and empty operas reign, And for the pencil you the pen disdain ; While troops of famished Frenchmen hither drive, And laugh at those upon whose alms they live ; Old English authors vanish, and give place To these new conquerors of the Norman race. Dryden, Prologue for the Opening of the New House in 1674. You now have habits, dances, scenes, and rhymes, High language often, ay, and sense sometimes. Dryden, Prologue to The Rival Ladies. When they do agree on the stage their una- nimity is wonderful ! Sheridan, T^m Critic, ii, a. Welcome shall they be ; And all the honours that can fly from us Shall on them settle, all 's well that ends well, iii, i. They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time ; after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. Hamlet, ii, 2. God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. hamlet, iii, i. The theatre, in proper hands, might certainly be made the school of morality ; but now, I am sorry to say, people seem to go there principally for their entertainment. Sheridan, the critic, l 1_52 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS The Stage. For we that live to please must please to live. Johnson, Opening of Drury Lane Theatre. We now prescribe, like Doctors in Despair, The Diet your weak appetites can bear. Since hearty Beef and Mutton will not do. Here 's Julep dance. Ptisan of song and show. Dryden, Prologue to Albion and Albanius. The players are my pictures and their scenes my territories. steeu, the tatler, no. 182. There is no human invention so aptly calcu- lated for the formation of a free-born people as that of a theatre. steeu, the tatler, no. 167. Dramatic writers were like Watchmen meant To knock down Vice — few answer their intent. Garrick, Prologue to Foote's Cozeners. True wit has seen its best days long ago ; It ne'er looked up since we were dipped in show, When sense in dogrel rhymes and clouds was lost, And dulness flourished at the actors' cost ; Nor stopped it here ; when tragedy was done, Satire and humour the same fate have run, And comedy is sunk to trick and pun. Dryden, Prologue to The Kind Keeper. The Law. Lawycrs are needful to keep us out of law. Proverb. Old father antic the law. i henry iv, \, 2. These fellows of infinite tongue, that can rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they do always reason themselves out again, henry v, v, 2. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 133 I am one of those gentle ones that will use the The Law. devil himself with courtesy. twelfth night, iv, 2. With an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies I fright them. henry v, v, 2. How low so ever the matter, I hope in God for high words. A high hope for a low heaven ; God grant us patience ! love's labour's lost, i, i. Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Hamlet,u, 2. These nice sharp quillets of the law. I Henry VI, ii, 4. Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep, measure for measure, a, 2. Would to God thou and I knew where a com- modity of good names were to be bought. I Henry IV, i, 2. The Stranger's help, the poor man's aid. Thy just defences made the oppressor afraid. B. JoHson, Underwoods. Litigious terms, fat contentions and flowing fees. Milton, Education. Plead much, read more, dine late or not at all. Pope, Satires, iv, 37. More authority, dear boy, name more ! Love's Labour's Lost, i, 2. Had you heard him first Draw it to certain heads, then aggravate ! B. Jonson, Volbone, iv. 1^4 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS The Law. Such virtuc is there in a robe and gown ! Prologue to Dryden's Troilus and Cressida. Nor pleads he worse who with a decent sprig Of bays adorns his legal waste of wig. Sheridan, Prologue to The Rivals. We surgeons of the law do desperate cures, Sir. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, iii. Bar. Substantial fearless souls that will swear suddenly, that will swear anything. Hen. They shall swear truth too. Bar. That 's no great matter ; for variety they may swear truth, else 't is not much look'd after. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, iii. I am a mortal man again, a Lawyer, My martial part I have put off. Beaumont and Fletctier, The Little French Lawyer, v. Dazzle mine eyes ? or do I see Two glorious Suns of Chancery ? Praed, Eve of Battle. The Law, our kingdom's golden chaine. Dekker, Satiro-Mastix. The majesty and power of law and justice. II Henry IV, v, 2. Oh 't is a blessed thing to have rich clients. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, iii. Men of your large professions that could speak To every cause and things — mere contraries, Till they were hoarse again, yet all be law. B. Jonson, Volpone, L Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argu- ment, He '11 bray you in a mortar! B. Jonson, The Alchemist, ii. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS '55 'Fore God, my intelligence Costs me more money than my share oft comes to. B. Jonson, The Alchemist, i. The Law. And sovereign law that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate sits empress. Sir William Jones, A State. The law : It has honored us ; may we honor it. Daniel Webster, May lo, 1847. Thet slow critter 'stablished law ; Onsettle thet and all the world goes whiz, A screw 's gut loose in everythin' there is. / Lowell, BiGLOW Papers, ii, 2. Do you, with all those blushing powers of face, And wonted bashful hesitating grace, Rise in the court and flourish on the case. Sheridan, Prologue to The Rivals. Though they do appear. As huge as high Olympus. julius c^sar, iv, 3. The Judiciary. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. Twelfth Night, ii, 5. Ye see, I first read a' the pleadings ; and then, after letting them wamble in my wame wi' the toddy two or three days, I gie my ain interlocu- tor. Lord Polkonimet. In giving liberal, in his speech reposed, m business affable, in hearing patient, prompt in expedition, gentle in chastisement, and benign in pardonmg. sir Antonle of Guevara, Familiar Epistles, 1^6 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS The Judiciary, J^^^^^ [^ j^jg judgments, true of his word, con- stant in that he takes in hand, secret in that he understandeth, large and bountiful in giving. Sir Antonie of Guevara, Familiar Epistles You weigh this well: Therefore still bear the balance and the sword. II Henry IV, v, 2. Medicine. The labour we delight in physics pain. Macbeth, ii, 3. Life and health which are both inestimable we have of the physican. b. jonson, discoveries. It is in the power of every hand to destroy us, and we are beholding unto every one we meet, he doth not kill us. sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici. Wherein 't is as dangerous to be sentenced by a physician as a Judge. Sir Thamas Browne, Religio Medici. I feel not in me those sordid and unchristian desires of my profession ; I do not secretly im- plore and wish for plagues, rejoice at famines. ... I desire everything in its proper season, that neither the men nor the times be out of temper. sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici. Physicians mend or end us. Secundum artem ; but although we sneer In health — > when ill, we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer. Byron, Don Juan, x. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 1^7 Health to the art whose glory is to give Medicine. The crowning boon that makes it life to live. O. W. Holmes, A Modest Request. As Adrian VI. said, he is very necessary to a populous Country for were it not for the Phy- sician, Men would live so long and grow so thick, that one could not live for the other; and he makes the P^arth cover all his Faults. But what Pope Adrian ( said ) of the Physician was spoken I conceive in merriment. Howell, P'AMiLiAR Letters, iii, 8. Or catches some doctor quite tender and young And basely insists on a bit of his tongue. O. W. Holmes. One that is able to undo the Company of Barber- Surgeons and College of Physicians, by making all diseases fly the country. Randolph, Aristippos. Then the Doctors ! O to hear The Doctors ! O to watch the thirsty plants Imbibing ! Tennyson, The Princess, ii. Medicine is to be praised when it is in the hands of a physician that is learned, grave, wise, stayed and of experience. Sir A ntonie of Guevara, Familiar Epistles. We will be brave, Puffe, now we have the med'- Cme. B. Jonson, The Alchemist, ii. O health ! health ! the blessing of the rich ! the riches of the poor ! who can buy thee at too dear a rate, since there is no enjoying the world without thee. Be then not so sparing of your purses, honorable gentlemen. b. jonson, volpone, ii. 58 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Medicine. I think you '11 force me to become your patient. Shackerley Marmion, The Antiquary, iii. The patient must minister to himself. Throw physic to the dogs. Macbeth, V, 3. The direful art To taint with deadly drugs. Pope, odyssey, i. I take not on me here as a physician. II Henry IV, iv, i. A good stout plague amongst 'em Or half a dozen new fantastical fevers ? Beaumont and Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, ii. The doctors are our friends; let 's please them well, For though they kill but slow, they are certain. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Spanish Curate, ii. Woman. ^ \ ^^ve half a dozen healths To drink to these fair ladies. henry viii, i, 4. From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes. That show, contain, and nourish all the world. Love's Labour's Lost, iv, 3. Ladies, you, whose gentle hearts do fear The smallest monstrous mouse. Midsummer Night's Dream, v, i. I '11 drink to her as long as there is a passage in my throat and drink in Illyria. Twelfth Night, i, 3. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 1^9 I have suffered more for their sakes — more woman, than the villainous inconstancy of man's dispo- sition is able to bear. Merry wives of Windsor, iv, 5. I shall break the laws of Mahomet this very- evening, and toast your health in a bumper. Cohnan {the Elder), Man and Wife, ii. Gentlewomen (I am sworn to put them in first) and gentlemen around ... I drink this good draught to your health here. B. Jonson, Prologue to Every Man out of his Humour. Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. Milton, Paradise Lost, ii. A creature of a most perfect and divine tem- per; one in whom the humours and elements are peaceably met, without emulation of precedence. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ii, i. A creature fond and changing, fair and vain. The creature woman, rises now to reign. Thomas Parnell, Hesiod. Then to the sparkling glass would give his toast Whose bloom did most in his opinion shine. W. King. Fill to your mistress' lips, We drink this health to you. Pericles, ii, 3- We to ourselves prove false, By being once false forever to be true To those that make us both — fair ladies, you. Love's Labour's Lost, v, 2. Deep-sworn faith, peace, amity, true love Between our kingdoms. king John, iii, i. l6o QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Woman. You caii make fools of wits, we find each hour ; But to make wits of fools is past your power. Dryden, Prologue to Cleomenes. For the ladies, 't is Apollo's will, They should have power to save, but not to kill ; For Love and he long since have thought it fit, Wit live by beauty, beauty reign by wit. Dryden, Epilogue to The Indian Emperor. Whoe'er she be. That not impossible she, That shall command my heart and me. Crashaw, To HIS Supposed Mistress. Of her he loves and never can forget. Cowper, Charity. Drink ye to her that each loves best ! Campbell, Drink ye to Her. The one thing finished in this hasty world. Lowell, The Cathedral. Our sex you know was after yours designed ; The last perfection of the Maker's mind : Heaven drew out all the Gold for us, and left your Dross behind. Dryden, Prologue to Amphitryon. Whose name refines coarse lines and makes prose song. John Donne, Now, I consider, they are great helps to a man. Shackerley Marmton, The Antiquary, iii. Nature made Nothing but women dangerous and fair ; Therefore if you should chance to see 'em Avoid 'em straight, I charge you ! Davenant and Dryden, The Tempest, ii. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS l6l Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Woman Which to admire, we should not understand. Congreve, Love for Love, iv. Prosperity to the man that ventures most to please her i abber, love's last shift, iv. Yet, if he might his own grand jury call, By the fair sex he begs to stand or fall. Dryden^ Epilogue to All for Love. I ought to have my own way in everything, and what 's more I will, too. Sheridan, School for Scandal, ii, x. Fain. To give her her Due she has Wit. Mira, She has Beauty enough to make any Man think so, and Complaisance enough not to contradict him who shall tell her so. Congreve, The Way of the World, i, 3. Do you question me as an honest man should do, for my simple true judgment ; or would you have me speak after my custom, as being a pro- fessed tyrant to their sex ? Much Ado about Nothing, i, 1. Oh women, women When you are pleased you are the least of evils. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Little French Lawyer, iii. O the vanity of these Men ! . . . If they did not commend us, we were not handsome ! Congreve, The Way of the World, ii, 4. There is no point of the Compass to which they cannot turn, and by which they are not turned, and by one as well as another ; for Mo- tion not Method is their Occupation. Congreve, The Way of the World, ii, 6. l62 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Woman. Q womaii ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee To temper man : we had been brutes without you. Otway, Venice Preserved, i, i„ O woman ! perfect woman ! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil ! Beaumont and Fletcher^ Monsieur Thomas, iii, i. v^Something between a hindrance and a help. Words-worthy Michael. What man can pretend to be a beHever in love, who is an abjurer of wine ? T is the test by which the lover knows his own heart. Fill a dozen bumpers to a dozen beauties, and she that floats atop is the maid that has bewitched you. Sheridan, School for Scandal, iii, 3. Mrs. Mai. There 's a little intricate hussy for you ! Sir Anth, It is not to be wondered at, ma'am, — all this is the natural consequence of teaching girls to read. Sheridan, The Rivals, i, 2. I would send her, at nine years old, to a board- ing-school, in order to learn a Httle ingenuity and artifice. Then, sir, she should have a super- cilious knowledge in accounts ; — and as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries ;^ — -but above all, Sir Anthony, she should be mistress of orthodoxy, that she might not mis-spell and mis-pronounce words so shame- fully as girls usually do ; and likewise that she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying. Sheridan, The Rivals, \, 2, QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 163 Kings make their poets whom themselves think fit, Woman. But 't is your suffrage makes authentic wit. Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxford. /To love her was a liberal education. Steele, Tatler, no. 49. I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone. Pinkney, a Health. Women will love her that she is a woman More worth than any man ; men that she is The rarest of all women. winter's tale, y, i. Here is the lady that I sent for. Welcome, fair one ! Pericles, v, i. Here comes the lady ! O, so light of foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint. Romeo and Juliet, ii, 6. Best of comfort, and ever welcome to us. — Welcome lady. Antony and Cleopatra, iii, 6, Bless you my fortunate lady ! all 's Well, h, 4. Now the Lord bless that sweet face of thine ! II Henry IV, ii, 4. Bless you fair dame ! I am not to you known. Macbeth, iv, 2. To the unknown beloved, this, and my good WlSneS. Twelfth Night, ii, 5. •-^She is pretty to walk with. And witty to talk with. And pleasant too, to think on. SitckUng, Brennoralt, ii. 164 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Woman. }jip Womcn ? I ncvcr heard of them before, what are women like ? Prosp. Imagine something between young men and angels ; Fatally beauteous, and having killing eyes ; Their voices charm beyond the Nightingales ; They are all enchantment. Davenant and Dryden, The Tempest, iii. Is she not then beholding to the man That brought her for this high good turn so far ? Titus Andronicus, i, i. Do not these high strains of divination in our sister work some touches of remorse ? Troilus and Cressida, ii, 2. I see our wars Will turn into a peaceful comic sport When ladies crave to be encountered with. I Henry VI, ii, 2. I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace. Taming of the Shrew, v, 2. A Daniel come to judgment, yea a Daniel. The Merchant of Venice, iv, i. A never knew so young a body with so old a head. The Merchant of Venice, iv, i. Ladies ! (I hope there 's none behind to hear,) I long to whisper something in your ear, A secret, which does much my mind perplex. Dryden, Prologue to Lee's Princess of Cleves. A qualm of conscience brings me back agen. To make amends to you bespattered men. Dryden, Epilogue to Lee's Princess of Cleves. This it is to have a name in great men's fel- lowship. Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 7. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 165 Think of you ! To think of a Whirlwind, tho* Woman, 't were in a Whirlwind, were a case of more steady Contemplation ; a very Tranquillity of Mind and Mansion. Congreve, The Way of the World, ii, 6. What has a woman to do with politics, Mrs. Dangle ? Sheridan, The Critic,!, x. Why should not then we women act alone ? Or whence are men so necessary grown ? Dryden, Epilogue to The Maiden Queeh. I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began. Dry den. The Conquest of Granada, I, i, x. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Hamlet, iu, a. How shall we rank thee upon glory's page, Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage. Thomas Moore. Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet. Tennyson, To the Queen. Lady Froth. Between you and I, I had whim- sies and vapours but I gave them vent. Cyn. How pray. Madam ? Lady Froth. O I writ, writ abundantly; — do you never write ? Congreve, the double dealer, ii, I. For let 'em be clumsy, or let *em be slim, Young or ancient, I care not a feather; So fill a pint bumper quite up to the brim, And let us e'en toast them together. Sheridan, School for Scandal, fii, 3. i66 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS ^°"^*°- I wonder you will still be talking Signior Benedick, nobody marks you. Much Ado about Nothing, i, i. Our proper virtue is to range ; Take that away, you take our lives ; We are no women then, but wives. B. Jonson, Underwoods. But, O, ye lords of ladies intellectual ! Inform us truly, have they not henpecked you all? Byron, Don Juan, i. For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't. And if she won't, she won't ; so there 's an end on 't From a Pillar in the Dane John Field, Canterbury. Casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. O. W. Holmes, Poetry. Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome re- Stramt. Daniel Webster, Speech, May lo, 1847. V What will not woman, gentle woman, dare ? Southey, Madoc in Wales, li, 2. With all thy faults I love thee still. Cowj>er, The Task, ii. Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walk- ing on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all. Dr. Johnson, in Boswell's Life, II, ix. And for the fighting part, we may in time Grow up to swagger in heroic rhyme ; For, though we cannot boast of equal force. Yet at some weapons men have still the worse. Dryden, Epilogue Vo The Maiden Queen. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 167 For he who much has suffer'd much will know. Woman. Pope^ Odyssev, XV. Let independence be our boast. Ever mindful what it cost. Joseph Hopkinson, Hail, Columbia. They rose, but at their height could seldom stay. Dryden, Epilogue to Second Part of The Conquest of Granada. Then make no words' on 't, gallants, 't is e'en true. We are condemned to look and strut like you. Dryden, Prologue to The Maiden Queen. I will attend my husband, . . . And will have no attorney but myself. And therefore let me have him home with me. Comedy of Errors, v, i. Heaven prepares good men with crosses. B. Jonson, Discoveries. My sister is not so defenceless left As you imagine. MUton, Comus. All wild to found an University For maidens. Tennyson, The Princess, i. At last She rose upon a wind of prophecy. Dilating on the future. Tennyson, The Princess, u. For now he lives in fame though not in life. The Absent. Richard III, iii, i. No tongue ! ... be silent. tempest, iv, i. Only silence SUiteth best. Tennyson, To J. s. l68 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS The Absent. Consider you what services he has done for his country. coriolanus, i, i. Forever honour'd and forever mourned. Pope, Iliad, xxii. Here, say we drink this standing bowl of wine to him. Pericles, ii, 3. Conspicuous by his absence. Lord John Russell (From Tacitus). Here 's a health to them that *s awa, And here 's to them that 's awa. Burns. Let silence be commanded. henry viii, ii, 4. Not lost but gone before. Matthew Henry ( From Seneca ). There greet in silence, as the dead are wont. Titus Andronicus, i, i. Upon the silent shore of memory, Wordsworth, The Excursion, vii. Let it be tenable in your silence still, hamlet, i, 2. Slain manfully in arms In right and service of their noble country. Titus Andronicus, i, 2. No man shed tears for noble Mutius, He lives in fame. titus andronicus, i, 2. Their memory Shall as a pattern or a measure live. II Henry IV, iv, 4. Full character'd with lasting memory. Shakspere, Sonnets, cxxii. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 169 He stood a soldier to the last right end, ^he Absent. A perfect patriot, and a noble friend. B. Jonson, A Pindaric Ode. Gentlemen, have a little patience, they are spee^hSorfor 'Vn iinnn rnminrr incfnnfUr Some Special Speaker. e'en upon coming instantly. ^°slfeaker"^ B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, The Induction. Since you are to bear this persecution, I will at least give you the encouragement of a mar- tyr, you could never suffer in a nobler cause. Dryden, Account prefixed to Annus Mirabilis. Where it is so simple if not so easy a thing to hold one 's peace why add to the general confu- sion of tongues ? Lowell, Democracy. I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. 11 henry iv, i, 2. Whose words all ears took captive, all 's Weli., V, 3. Turn him to any cause of policy. The Gordian knot of it he will unloose. Familiar as his garter ; that when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still. Henry V, i, i. This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons pease, And-utters it again when God doth please. Love's Labour's Lost, v, 2. The gentleman is learned and a most rare speaker. Henry VIII, i, 2. But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, And leave them honeyless. Julius c^esar, v, i. 170 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Before ^he fear of every man that heard him was, peechesorfor ,,,,,, "^ - ' Some Special lest he should make an end. b. jonson, discoveries. Speaker. When I had spoken half an hour I had told them everything I knew in the world ! Agassiz. Thou canst not live on this side of the world, feed well, drink tobacco, and be honoured into the presence, but thou must be acquainted with all sorts of men. George Wilktns, Miseries of Inforced Marriage. He . . . had an excellent phantasy, brave notions and gentle expressions ; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped. B. Jonson, Discoveries. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. B. Jonson, Discoveries. Satire, he thinks, you ought not to expect. For so Reformed a Town, who dares correct ? Congreve, Prologue to The Way of the World. To be merry best becomes you ; for, out of question you were born in a merry hour. Much Ado about Nothing, ii, i. I now should wish another had my place, But that I hope to come off and with grace. Beaumont and Fletcher, Epilogue to The False One. Well, we are all mortal, much ado about nothing, i,i. This fellow comes to mock us. Gold or silver? Beaumont and Fletcher, 'Q-egga.^'s Bush, iii. Should he by chance a Knave or Fool expose. That hurts none here, sure here are none of those. Congreve^ Prologue to The Way of the World. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS IJl Importance is one thing and Learning 's an- speSh^J^orfor other: but a Debate 's a Debate, that I assert. Some special ' ' speaker. Congreve, The Way of the World, ili, 13. Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee. b. jomon, discoveries. The words are chosen, their sound ample, the composition full, the absolution plenteous, and poured out all grave, sinewy and strong. B. Jonson, Discoveries. Leave Business to Idlers and Wisdom to Fools; they have need of 'em : Wit be my Faculty and Pleasure my Occupation, and let Father Time shake his Glass. Congreve, the old Batchelor, i, I. Another flood of words ! a very torrent ! B. Jonson, Volfone, iii. He knows it is his only art so to carry it, as none but artificers perceive it. B. Jonson, Discoveries. I have known many excellent men that would speak suddenly, to the admiration of their hear- ers ; who upon study and premeditation have been forsaken by their own wits, and no way answered their fame. b. jonson, discoveries. Don't mind interrupting them whenever any thing strikes you. Sheridan, the critic, ii, 2. He utters them as he had eaten ballads. Winter's Tale, iv, 4. His words, like so many nimble and airy ser- vitors, trip about him at command. Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. Speaker. 172 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS spee^he^s'orfor ^ "^^^^ ^^^ follerin observations some^speciai ExtruHip'ry, like most other tri'ls o' patience. Lowell, BiGLow Papers, ii, 11. No, never say nothin' without you 're compelled tu. An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu. Lowell, BiGLOW Papers, ii, 5. And indeed I believe no man ever talked better. Each sentence hangs perfectly poised to a letter. Lowell, Fable for Critics. I am no orator as Brutus is. But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man. Julius C«:sar, iii, 2. Set up an hour-glass ; he '11 go on until The last sand make his period. W. Cariwright, The Ordinary, iii, 5. Beginning of healths are the premises and pledging the conclusion, for it must not be divided. Randolph, Aristippus. God bless thy lungs, good Knight. II Henry IV, v, 5. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. love's labour's lost, v, 2. Words do well When he that speaks them pleases those that hear. As You Like It, iii, 5. It would talk, — Lord ! how it talked ! Beaumont and Fletcher, Scornful Lady, v, i. Mingles with my friendly bowl. The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Pope, Satires, i. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS I73 Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. spee^he^orfor Pope, Odyssey^ xv, 433. Some Special I think, or hope at least, the coast is clear ; That none but men of wit and sense are here. Dryden, Prologue to Cleomenes. I have met many of these rattles that made a noise and buzzed. They had their hum, and no more. B. Jonson, Discoveries. Into the question whether the ability to ex- press ourselves in articulate language has been productive of more good or evil, I shall not here enter at large. Loweii, biglow papers, i, 4. A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller. Lowell, Biglow Papers, i, 4. An' John P. Robinson he Sez this is his view o' the thing to a T. Lowell, Biglow Papers, i, 3. An' let off the sp*eeches they 're ferful '11 spile. Lowell, Biglow Papers, i, 4. An' ef a man can, wen pervisions hev riz so, Eat up his own words, it 's a marcy it is so. Lowell, Biglow Papers, i, 4. My unpremeditated verse ! MUton, paradise lost, Ix. It is covenanted and agreed by and between the parties aforesaid, and the said spectators and hearers ... do for themselves severally covenant and agree to remain in the places their money or their friends have put them in, with patience, for the space of two hours and a half and somewhat more. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, Induction. Speaker. 174 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Before Speeches or for Some Special Speaker. I cannot tell a lie, Father, I did it. George Washington. Take all in good worth that is well intended, for nothing is purposed but mirth, mirth length- eneth long life : which, with all other blessings I heartily wish you. Dekker, Pref-ace to the gentle Craft. Let me bid you welcome to your country, and the longing expectation of these friends, that have almost languished for the sight of you. Shackerley Martnion, The Antiquary, i. I have been forcing my brain to the composi- tion of a few verses in behalf of your entertain- ment, and I never knew them flow so dully from me before. Shackerley Marmton, The Antiquary, iv. After Speeches. Ant. Reach me the paper. Leo. No, an author must recite his own works. Attt. Then I '11 sit and sleep ! Shackerley Marmion, The Antiquary, iv. What 's he that interrupts our quiet sorrow ? Shackerley Marmton, A Fine Companion, iii. Cannot a gentleman ruminate over his good parts but you must be troubling of him ? Shackerley Marmion, The Antiquary, i. The king himself did offer; — What, I pray ? He offered twice or thrice — to go away I Epigram on the King's sitting out Holyday's Play, The Marriage of the Arts (1630). Almost with ravished listening, could not find His hour of speech a minute. henry viii, i, 2 How his silence drinks up this applause ! Troilus and Cressida, ii, 3. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS IJJ Well said : that was laid on with a trowel. « After Speeches. As You Like It, i, 2. The rest is silence. hamlet, v, 2. But for this box of brains you had not laughed to-night. Buy this box of brains and the ten- ure of your wit shall be socage whereas now it is but fee-simple. Randolph, the conceited Peddler. It doth discover enormity, I '11 mark it more. I have not liked a paltry piece of poetry so well a good while. S. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, iii. Blest be this minute ; sanctify it, Time, 'Bove all thy Calendar. Randolph, jealous lovers. And then dreams he . . . Of healths five-fathom deep, romeo and Juliet, i, 4. Drink a health to me for I must hence. Taming of the Shrew, iii, 2. I drink to the general joy of the whole table. Macbeth, iii, 4. I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again. Macbeth, v, 3. Out of this silence yet I pick'd a welcome. Midsummer Night's Dream, v, i. I '11 drink to Master Bardolph, and to all the cavaleros about London. 11 henry iv, v, 3. The less inducement he has to tell all this, the more, I think you ought to be obliged to him ; for I 'm sure you 'd know nothing of the matter without it. Sheridan, The Critic, ii, 2. 176 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS sptelhes. ^^^* '^^ ^^^ ^"^ ^^ ^^^ finest and most laboured things I Skeridan, The Critic, ii, 2. He hath indeed better better'd expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how. Much Ado about Nothing, i, i. I am tipsie with laughing. If I had staid any longer I should have burst, — I must have been let out and piec'd in the sides like an unsiz'd camlet. Congreve, The Way of the World, iv, 8. But how is 't ? How is 't ? Nay prithee, good Asinius, deal plainly, do not flatter me, come, now ? Dekker, Satiro-mastix. Whilst we together jovial sit Careless, and crowned with mirth and wit, We '11 think of all the friends we know And drink to all worth drinking to ! charies Cotton. A health ! And here let Time hold still his restless glass, That not another golden sand may fall To measure how it passeth. Dekker and Ford, Sun's Darling, iv, i. Now one other health To our grand patron, called Good-fellowship, Whose livery all our people hereabout Are clad in. Dekker and Ford, Sun's Darling, iv, i. Chapter VI MISCELLANEOUS BICYCLE MEETS, AFTERNOON TEAS, ETC. Will guard your person while you take your rest, Bicycle Meet. And watch your safety. tempest, h, i. Punched full of deadly holes. Richard hi, v, 3. As true as truest horse that yet would never tire. Midsummer Night's Dream, iii, i. Invent some other tires ! Dekker and Ford, Sun's Darling, ii, i. I am ... a kind of lawless justice or usurp- ing martialist of authority that will kill any man with my Safety. ShackerUy Marmwn, The Antiquary, iii. We come to be informed by yourselves What the conditions of that league must be. I Henry VI, v, 4. As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched. King John, iv, «» I '11 put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes. midsummer night's dream, ii, i. j2 ' 177 17^ QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Bicycle Meet. J g^^ J g^ . I^q]^ J^q^ J gO^ Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow. Midsummer Night's Dream, iii, 2. Yet bear their bright officious lamps. Milton, Paradise Lost, ix. Running away when fear proposes the safety. All 's Well, i, i. With the swiftest wing of speed ! all 's well, iii, 2. I like the new tire . . . excellently. Much Ado, iii, 4. Swift and strong as new-fledged eagles. Shelley, Laon, v. Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. i henry iv, ii, 3. If I did not think thou had'st been an ignis fatuus or a ball of Wildfire there 's no purchase in money. ' i henry iv, iii, 3. Arrows fled not swifter toward their aim. II Henry IV, i, i. They that ride so, and ride not warily, fall. Henry V, iii, 7. I 'm of that mettle, so well pac'd and free, There 's no good riders that use spur to me. Middleton, No Wit, no Help like a Woman's, i. You ride by so fast on the headlong blast. Shelley, Faust, ii. Which gave my path its safety as I rode. Shelley, Laon, vi, 44. Their earth-convulsing wheels affi-ight the city. Shelley, Hellas. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS ijg Speak, brother, hast thou hurt thee with the fall ? Bicycle Meet. Titus Andronicus, ii, 3. Things which swiftest move seem to stand still. Cowley, Brutus. Swift as light thoughts their empty carrier run, Thy race is finished when begun ; Let a post-angel start with thee, And thou the goal of earth shalt reach as soon as ne. Cowley, Hymn to Light. Whirled by whim. t. PartuU, To an old beauty. Ring your bells. king John, ii, 2. Her hardy face repels the tanning wind. T. Pamell, Health. Not half so swiftly shoot along in air The gliding lightning or descending star. Pope, Tr. of Statius. When you whirl round the circle, sheiiey, faust, ii On their own axis as the planets run. Pope, Essay on Man, iii. Shall gravitation cease if you go by ? Pope, Essay on Man, iv. Swift, erect and unconfined. Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er man- kind. Pope, Iliad, ix, 628. The tempest itself lags behind. And the swift-winged arrows of light. Cowper, Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk. Sing, riding 's a joy ! For me I ride. Browning. t8o QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Bicycle Meet. A Warning bell. I Henry VI, iv, 2. Turn, turn my wheel ! Turn round and round Without a pause, without a sound. So spins the flying world away. Long/eiio-w, kkramos. Patchin' our patent self-blow-up agin ! Lowell, BiGLOW Papers, ii, 6. Fare you well ... I must a dozen mile to-night. II Henry IV, iii, 2. Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, or a bullet ? II Henry IV, iv, 3. My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. III Henry VI, iv, 3. Firm, rapid and elate. 5;i^//o', national anthem. The spirit of the time shall teach me speed. King John, iv, 2. But, chief of all, your safety ! king John, iv, 2. I was forced to wheel Three or four miles about. Coriolanus, i, 6. Strong as the axletree On which heaven rides. troilus and cressida, i, 3. Their speed makes night kindle. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, ii, 4. Attend me where I wheel, troilus and cressida, v, 7. Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill. Lear, ii, 4. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS iBl The wheel has come full circle, I am here. ^^^^y*^^'^ m««*- Lear, v, 3- Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about. Macbeth, i, 3. The handle toward my hand. Macbeth, h, i. Oh, how the wheel becomes it. hamlet, iv, s. Then may I set the world on wheels. Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii, i. I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. henky v, iii, 2. This world to me is like a lasting storm. Whirring me from my friends. Pericles, Iv, i. This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace. Petrarch, Triumph of Eternity. I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility. 11 henry iv, iv, 3. Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle. Mnton, paradise lost, viii, 163. With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er. Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Milton, Paradise Lost, viii, 83. We the globe can compass soon, Swifter than the wandering moon. Midsummer Night's Dream, iv, i. Dark night strangles the travelling lamp. Macbeth, ii, 4. l82 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Bicycle Meet. ^ reasonable hunting face to court the wind with. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Elder Brother, iii.. Therefore bear you the lantern. Much Ado about Notjiing, iii, 3. But say I warned ye ; Take heed, for heaven's sake, take heed. Henry VIII, iii, i. That haunted us in our familiar paths. Henry V, ii, 4. With smooth but arrowy speed. Shelley, Laon, xii, 19. Your fine elegant rascal, that can rise, And stoop, almost together ; . . . Shoot through the air as nimbly as a star ; Turn short as doth a swallow ; and be here, And there, and here, and yonder, all at once. B. Jonson, Volpone, iii. The Knight of the burning lamp, i henry iv, iii, 3. And have The citizens gape at her and praise her tires. B. Jonson, The Alchemist, iv. There is no turnspit dog bound to his wheel more servilely than you shall be to her wheel. Marston, Chapman and Jonson, Eastward Ho, ii, 3. Turns by its handle. Shelley, the Cyclops. Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub. Out of the path. king John, iii, 4. Any thing that 's mended is but patched. Twelfth Night, i, 5. Keep then the path. troilus and cressida, iii, 3. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 183 Will this gear ne'er be mended ? Bicycle Meet. Troilus and Cressida, i, i. Their flight must be swifter than fire. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, ii, 5. Peering in maps for . . . roads. Merchant of Venice, i, i. Taught their manage, and to that end riders dearly hired. As You like It, i, i. Come, wilt thou see me ride ? i henry iv, ii, 3. Is 't far you ride ? As far, my lord, as will fill up the time 'Twixt this and supper. Macbeth, iii, X. My custom always of the afternoon, hamlet, i, 5. Tea. To the Dominion of the Tea-table I submit . . . but restrain yourself to native and simple Tea-table drinks, as Tea, Chocolate and Coffee. Congreve, The Way of the World, iv, 5. For her own breakfast she '11 project a scheme. Nor take her tea without a stratagem. Young, Love of Fame. Tired nature's sweet restorer. Young, Night Thoughts, i. To warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. Bishop Berkeley, SiRis. The bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate wait on each. Cowper, The Task, iv. 184 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Teao Sweet converse sipping calm the fragrant lymph. Cowper, The Task iii. Thank God for tea ! What would the world do without tea ! How did it exist ? I am glad I was not born before tea. sidmy smith, memoir, i, 383. I wish they would be quiet and let me drink my tea. Swi/t, polite conversations, iii. Miss, will you be so kind as to fill me a dish of tea. Swift, Polite Conversations, ii. Indeed, Madam, your ladyship is very sparing of your tea: I protest the last I took was no more than water bewitched. Swift, Polite Conversations, i. Madam, I have burnt my hand with your plaguey tea-kettle. swi/t, polite conversations, i. They called for tea and chocolate And fell into their usual chat. / Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa. And afterwards I did send for a cup of tee (a China drink), of which I never had drunk before. Pepys, Diary, Sept. 2£, 1660. At every word a reputation dies. Pope, Rape of the Lock, iii, 15. Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey. Dost sometimes council take — and sometimes tea. Pope, Rape of the Lock, iii, 7. Tea ! Thou soft, thou sober, sage and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning. Gibber, Lady's Last Stake, i. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS l8^ What a deal of cold business doth a man Tea mispend the better part of life in ! In scattering compliments, tendering visits, gathering and vent- ing news, following feasts and plays, making a little winter-love in dark corners. B. Jonson, Discoveries. Ladies, your most obedient — mercy on me! here is the whole set ! a character dead at every word I suppose. SIteridan, School for Scandal, ii, 2. Strong tea and scandal — *' Bless me how refresh- ing ! " Garrick, Prologue to Sheridan's School for Scandal. ''What brought you here?" — '^ Oh nothing very rare, Six Tartars and a drag- chain." Byron, Don Juan, v, 15. The dial points at five. comedy of errors, v, i. Soon at five o'clock Please you I '11 meet with you. Comedy of Errors, i, 2. T is almost five o'clock, cousin ; 't is time you were ready. much ado about nothing, lii, 4. Our author fears not you ; but those he may Who, in cold blood, murder a man in Tea. Farquhar, Epilogue to the Constant Couple. There they '11 talk you dead. Pope, Essay on Criticism. They gossip'd side by side. cowper, the task, v. Come you this afternoon. romeo and Juliet, i, i. l86 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Tea. Small is the rest of those who would be smart, A moment's good thing may have cost them years Before they find an hour to introduce it ; And even theUy some bore may make them lose it. Byron, Don Juan, xiii, 109. No, Madam, my constant Drink is Tea, or a little Wine and Water ; 't is prescrib'd me by the Physicians for a Remedy against the Spleen. Farquhar, The Beaux' Stratagem, iii. Moved bj^ the Chinese nymph of tears, green tea ! Byron, Don Juan, iv, 52. Then there was small-talk ready when required ; Flirtation — but decorous. Byron, don juan, xiii, los. Thou Female-Tongue-running, Smile-Smooth- ing, Heart-opening, Wink-tipping Cordial. Cibber, The Lady's Last Stake, i. FOURTH OF JULY Fourth of July. What IS the fourth ? Pericles, ii, 2. A July's day. winter's tale, i, 2. Declare the cause. i henry vi, ii, s- Less noise, less noise ! 11 henry iv, iv, 5. What time we will our celebration keep. Twelfth Night, iv, 3. They are ever forward In celebration of this day. henry viii, iv, i. What cracker is this same that deafs our ears ? King John, ii, i. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 187 The nimble gunner Fourth of juiy. With linstock now the devilish cannon touches. Henry V, iii (Prologue). Zounds, I am afraid of this gunpowder. I Henry IV, v, 4. You must understand he goes but to see a noise that he heard. midsummer night's dream, iii, i. Cry out "Liberty, Freedom and Enfranchise- ment I Julius C^sar, iii, i. Let 's all cry "Peace, Freedom and Liberty." Julius C^sar, iii, 1. Ah! what noise is that ? Your pardon, Madam; only a harmless enter- tainment after my own country fashion. Gibber, The Double Gallant, v. An' folks don't want Fourth o' July t' interfere With the business-consarns o' the rest of the Year. Lowell, BiGLOw Papers, ii, 5. FOR A THANKSGIVING SERVICE OR DINNER We yield thee unfeigned thanks and praise, as Service, for all thy mercies, so especially for the returns of seed-time and harvest, and for crowning the year with thy goodness in the increase of the ground, and the gathering in of the fruits thereof. Thanksgiving, Book of Common Prayer. We give thee humble and hearty thanks for this thy bounty : beseeching thee to continue thy loving kindness to us; that our land may still yield her increase, to thy glory and our comfort. Collect for Thanksgiving Day, Book of Common Prayer. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Service. Give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people. I Chronicles, xvi, 8. Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works. i chronicles, xvi, 9. Glory and honour are in his presence ; strength and gladness are in his place. i chronicles, xvi, 27. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering and come before him: worship the Lord in the beauty of hoHness. I Chronicles, xvi, 29. O give thanks unto the Lord ; for he is good ; for his mercy endureth forever. I Chronicles, xvi, 34. Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength : so will we sing and praise thy power. Psalms, xxi, 13. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. psalms, ciii, 2. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction ; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies. psalms, dii, 4. Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. Psalms, ciii, 5. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised ; and his greatness is unsearchable, psalms, cxiv, 3. They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy right- eousness. Psalms, cxlv, 7. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 189 The eyes of all wait upon thee ; and thou givest Service, them their meat in due season. psalms, cxiv, 15. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. psalms, cxiv, 16. I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. Psalms, xlii, 4. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth; make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. psalms, xcviu, 4. Sing unto the Lord with the harp ; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. psalms, xcviii, 5. With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King. Psalms, xcviii, 6. Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase. Proverbs, iii, 9. So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. Proverbs, iii, 10. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most irllgn. Psalms, xcii, i. Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High. psalms, i, 14. I will go into thy house with burnt offer- ings : I will pay thee my vows. psalms, ixvi, 13. 190 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Service. Q biess our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard. psalms, ixvi, s. Let us come before his presence with thanks- giving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. Psalms, xcv, 2. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee. Psalms, cxlvii, 12-13. Being enriched in every thing to all bountiful- ness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to vJOd. II Corinthians, ix, u. Then he said unto them. Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared : for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength. Nehemiah, viii, 10. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God ; and all these things shall be added unto you. Luke, xii, 31, Tell them which are bidden. Behold I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Matthew, xxii, 4. If they obey and serve him they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleas- ures. Job, xxxvi, 11. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS I9I Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and service, rejoiced : for God had made them rejoice with great joy ; the wives also, and the children rejoiced : so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off. Nehemiah, xii, 43. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. Psalms, xxiv, i. Thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats and pease. Tempest, iv, i. Get thee to church o' Thursday. Romeo and Juliet, iii, 5. He did receive his letters and is coming. Dinner, Julius C^sar, iii, i. God will send more if the man will be thankful. As You Like It, iii, 2. For aught I see they are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. Merchant op Venice, i, 2. I must eat my dinner. tempest, i, 2. We sit to chat as well as eat, Nothing but sit and sit and eat and eat ! Taming of the Shrew, v, 2. Earth's increase, foison plenty, Barns and garners never empty. tempest, iv, i. We therefore have great cause of thankfulness. Henry V, ii, 2. Without the which there were no expectation of our prosperity. othello, a, i. 192 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Dinner. Surfcit IS the father of much fast. Measure for Measure, i, 3. I will come home to you, or if you will Come home to me. juuus c^sar, i, ». With smiling plenty, and fair prosperous days ! Richard III, v, 5. O, 't is sweet To fool when friends come home again ! Horace, Odes, ii, 7. But what say you to Thursday ? . . . O' Thursday be it then. romeo and Juliet, hi, 4. I think it rather consists of eating and drinking. Twelfth Night, ii, 3. We shall Do nothing but eat and make good cheer. II Henry IV, v, 5. (For Thanksgiving Turkey see page ^j.) CLUB DUES Club Dues. So yOU shall pay your fees. Winter's Tale, i, 2. Consent to pay this sum. comedy of errors, iv, i. To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt. Hamlet, iii, 2. Too little payment for so great a debt. Taming of the Shrew, v, 2. Yet that were but light payment. II Henry IV(Epil.). QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 193 He . . . prays your speedy payment ciubDues, TiMON OF Athens, ii, 2. To whom 't is instant due. Timon of Athens, ii, 2. I must trouble you again. i henry vi, v, 3. Pray you, take note of it. measure for measure, v, i. Give them their charge, Neighbour. Much Ado, iii, 3. Pardon me, I am but a guiltless messenger. As You Like It, iv, 3. My lord, vouchsafe me a word with you. Hamlet, iii, a. This weighty business will not brook delay. II Henry VI, i, i. We wait for certain money here. Timon of Athens, iii, 4. Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. I Henry VI, iii, 2. I am thus bold to put your Grace in mind Of what you promised me. Richard hi, iv, 2. I have promised, and I '11 be as good as my word. Merry Wives of Windsor, iii, 4. What 's to come is still unsure, twelfth night, ii, 3. This they have promised. 11 Henry vi, i, 2. He was ever precise in promise-keeping. Measure for Measure, i, 2. I have observed thee always for a towardly prompt spirit. Timon of Athens, iii, i. 13 Club Dues. 194 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Be pleased then To pay that duty which you truly owe. King John, u, i. Let me remember thee what thou hast prom- ised. Tempest, i, 2. The image of it gives me content already. Measure for Measure, iii, i. Here comes one with a paper. Love's Labour's Lost, iv, 3. Give him this letter. merchant of Venice, ii, 3. Haply I see a friend will save my life And pay the sum. comedy of errors, v, i. • I come by note, to give and to receive. Merchant of Venice, iii, 2. We think ourselves unsatisfied Till he hath found a time to pay us. I Henry IV, i, 3. Who never promiseth but he means to pay. I Henry IV, v, 4. You '11 pay me altogether? Will I live ? II Henry IV, ii, i. Doubt not of the day. iii henry vi, iv, ^. Words pay no debts. Troilus and Cressida, iii, 2, With more than common thanks I will receive it. TiMON OF Athens, i, 2. I '11 take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath. Pericles, i, 2. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS IQJ A word with one of you. Romeo and Juliet, iii, I. ^^^^ ^"««* I know this is a joyful trouble to you ; But yet 't is one. Macbeth, ii, 3. The reason of this ? I could render one. Timon of Athens, ii, 2. You will not pay for the glasses you have burst? The Taming of the Shrew (Induction). | Knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it. Comedy of Errors, iv, 4. Two-hundred -pound suppers and neither fid- ^ lers nor broken glasses reckoned. Dekker and Ford, Sun's Darling, iv, i. As I say, paying for them very honestly. Measure for Measure, ii, 1. Every tod yields. Winter's Tale, iv, 3. Oh, he that has no credit owes no debts ! T is time I were rid on 't. Middkton, the phcenix, ii, 2. GAMES mottos for prizes or headings for notices of meetings, etc. When we have matched our rackets to these Tennis. balls. Henry V, i, 2. You shall be welcome, madam, to my court. Love's Labour's Lost, ii, 1. 196 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Tennis. i^ is not Strength but art obtains the prize. Pope, Iliad, xxiii, 383. Balk'd are the Courts, and contest is no more. Pope^ Moral Essays, iii, 272. And courts to courts return it round and round. Pope, D UNCI AD, ii, 264. Players that offer service. Taming of the Shrew (Induction). He served with glory and admired success. Cymbeline, i, I. Play a set. henry v, i, 2. Item, that no woman shall come within a mile of my court. love's labour's Lost, i, i. The faith they have in tennis and tall stockings. Henry VIII, i, 3. Thou never sawest my new gallery and my tennis-court. Middleton, world Tost at Tennis. To be swift is less than to be wise. Pope, Iliad, xxiii, 384. 'T is more by art than force of num'rous strokes. Pope, Iliad, xxiii, 385. The poorest service is repaid with thanks. Taming of the Shrew, iv, 3. Base-baii. Why these balls bound ; there 's noise in it. All 's Well That Ends Well, ii, 3. But make you ready your Stiff bats and clubs. Coriolanus, i, i. Swift vengeance waits, and art subdues the strong. Pope, Odyssey, viii, 368. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 197 Like a disabled pitcher, of no use. Base-baii. Blair, The Grave. Where go you With bats and clubs ? Coriolanus, i, i. And when he caught it he let it go again ; and after it again. Coriolanus, i, 3. I '11 catch it ere it come to ground. Macbeth, iii, 5. Could I but catch it for them. TiMON OF Athens, v, i. There 's goodly catching. much ado, ih, 4. There be some sports are painful, and their labour Delight in them sets off. tempest, m, i. An I thought he had been valiant and so Fencing, cunning in fence, I 'Id have seen him damned ere I 'Id have challenged him. twelfth night, iii, 4. Let the foils be brought, the gentleman willing. Hamlet, v, 2. That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. Milton, CoMUS. A Master of Fence is more honourable than a Master of Arts; for good fighting was before good writing. Marston, The Mountebank's Masque. Boy. Sure, you must needs be very strong then. Bravo. Not so, neither, 't is courage in me. I do it by a sleight, an activity, and by that I can control any man's point whatever. Shackerley Marmion, The Antiquary, iii. 198 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Fencing. Strong-jointcd Samson f I do excel thee in my rapier as much as thou didst me in carrying gates. Love's Labour's Lost, i, 2. A hit, a very palpable hit. hamlet, v, 2. Blunt as the fencers' foils, which hit but hurt not. Much Ado, v, 2. I had a pass with him, rapier, scabbard and all. Twelfth Night, iii, 4. Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. hamlet, v, 2. Ay, there 's the point, sir. Marry, is it ; the very point of it. Merry Wives of Windsor, i, i. Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills. Hamlet, il, 2. And gave you such a masterly report For art and exercise in your defence And for your rapier most especial, hamlet, iv, 7. Archery. Draw, archcrs, draw your arrows to the head ! Richard III, v, 3. Many arrows, loosed several ways, Come to one mark. henry v, i, 2. T was I won the wager, though you hit the white. Taming of the Shrew, v, 2. A well-experienced archer hits the mark His eye doth level at. Pericles, i, I. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 199 A mark marvellous well shot, for they both did hit it. Love's Labour's Lost, iv, i. Archery. Well won is still well shot. King John, i, i. I am your butt and I abide your shot. Ill Henry VI, i, 4. A' drew a good bow ; and dead ! a' shot a fine shoot. II Henry IV, lii, 2. You have hit the mark. Henry VIII, ii, i. A health to all that shot and miss'd. Taming of the Shrew, v, 2. A jewel Well worth a poor man's taking. lear, iv, 6. Lest too light winning make the prize light. Tempest, i, 2. 'T is deeds must win the prize. Taming of the Shrew, ii, i. Win me and wear me. much ado about nothing, v, i. Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast, Yet neither conqueror. iii henry vi, ii, 5. Prizes. This monument of the victory will I bear. II Henry VI, iv, 3. And is not this an honourable spoil ? A gallant prize ? i henry iv, i, i. Myself did win them both. II Henry VI, i, i. 200 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS P^^^^s- Such rewards As victors wear at the Olympian games. in Henry VI, ii, 3. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths. Richard III, i, i. A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. Much Ado about Nothing, i, i. Victory sits on our helms. Richard III, V, 3. To whom this wreath of victory I give. Pericles, ii, 3. We are the Jasons, we have won the fleece. Merchant of Venice, iii, 2. You won it, wore it, kept it. ii henry iv, iv, 5. He proved best man i' the field. coriolanus, ii, 2. Best of all Amongst the rarest of good ones, cymbkline, v, 5. I am the best of them. tempest, i, 2. She shall be dignified with this high honour. Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, 4. We have with a leaven'd and prepared choice Proceeded to you ; therefore take your honours. Measure for Measure, i, i. Some certain special honours it pleaseth his greatness to impart. love's labour's lost, v, i. Here . . . take this reward ; make merry, man. II Henry VI, i, 2. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 201 Hath any well-advised friend proclaimed Reward? Prizes. Richard III, iv, 4. Honour, high honour and renown ! As You Like It, v, 4. I wear it for a memorable honour, henry v, Iv, ^. Shall we wear these honours for a day? Or shall they last ? Richard III, iv, 2. Must be as boisterously maintained as gain'd. King John, iii, 4. O well done ! I commend your pains. Macbeth, iv, i. Besides commends and courteous breath. Gifts of rich value. merchant of Venice, ii, 9. The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honoured. shaks^ere, lucrece. What strong hand can hold his swift foot back ? Shakspere, Sonnets, Ixv. His glory is to subdue men. Love's Labour's Lost, i, 2. Being too strong for him, though he took up my legs sometime, yet I made shift to cast him. Macbeth, ii, 3. With surety stronger than Achilles' arm. Troilus and Cressida, i, 3. If thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose. Antony and Cleopatra, 11,3. You have wrestled well and overthown More than your enemies. as you like iT,i, 2. 202 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS P"^es. For his acts So much applauded. i henry vi, ii, 2. With voices and applause of every sort. Titus Andronicus, i, i. A better speech was never spoke before. Love's Labour's Lost, v, 2. He hath in this action outdone his former deeds doubly. CORIOLANUS, ii, I. Being nimble footed he hath outrun us. Two Gentlemen of Verona, v, 3. She will outstrip all praise, And make it halt behind. tempest, iv, x. He that runs fastest gets the ring. Taming of the Shrew, i, i. I pray you, sir, receive the money now. Comedy of Errors, iii, 2. I 'Id wish no better choice. pericles, v, i. Troilus is the better man of the two. Troilus and Cressida, i, 2. So doth the greater glory dim the less. Merchant of Venice, v, i. For an earnest of a greater honour. Macbeth, i, 3. And choice, being mutual act of all our souls, Makes merit her election, troilus and cressida, i, 3. Read and earn our prize. Tennyson, princess, iii. Right noble is thy merit. Richard ii, v, s, QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 203 Brave conquerors, — for so you are. Love's Labour's Lost, i, i It is a conquest for a prince to boast of I Henry IV, i, i Is not parchment made of sheepskins ? Hamlet, v, i Here 's a parchment with the seal of Caesar. Julius C^sar, iii, 2, The force of his own merit makes his way. Henry VIII, i, i Where nature doth with merit challenge. Lear, i, i. He hath been used Ever to conquer. Coriolanus, iu, 3 Prizes. I am a scribbled form drawn with a pen Upon a parchment. king John, v, ^. Even our sports are dangers ! Feats of sanguinary hue. B. Jonson, Underwoods. Cow^er, Annus 1789. Miscellaneous. Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury. I Henry IV, iv, i. Has never heard the sanguinary yell ? Covjper, The Task, iii, 335. They should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave. The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight. Prior, To Montague. To the last honours of the Butt and Bays. Pope, DuNCiAD, i, 168. 204 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Miscellaneous. Use your legs, take the start, run away. Merchant of Venice, ii, 2. ' I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. henry v, m, i. Show it a fair pair of heels. i henry iv, ii, 4. Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels, And fly like thought. king John, iv, 2. Well run, Thisbe. midsummer night's dream, v, i. You see they have fitted him to a T. Boswell, Life of Johnson, viii, 9. Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground I have tumbled past the throw. coriolanus, v, 2. That for six of the nine acres is counted the subtlest bowHng ground in all Tartary. B. Jonsoity Chloridia. I will strive with things impossible ; Yea, get the better of them. Julius c^sar, ii, i. And oar'd Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke. Tempest, ii, i. Certain issue strokes must arbitrate. Macbeth, v, 4. '; They shall know we have strong arms too. Coriolanus, i, i. Let music sound while he doth make his choice. Merchant of Venice, iii, 2. To know who hath obtained the glory of the day. I Henry VI, iv, 7. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS SOJ Whom right and wrong Miscellaneous. Have chose as umpire. love's labour's Lost, i, i. Let me be umpire in this doubtful strife. I Henry VI, iv, i. The champions are prepared. Richard ii, i, 3. There shall he practise . . . tournaments. Two Gentlemen of Verona, i, 3. Let these have a day appointed them For single combat. ii henry vi, i, 3. More remarkable in single oppositions. Cymbeline, iv, I. He turned me about with his finger and his thumb, as one would set up a top. CORIOLANUS, iv, 5. Eye to eye opposed Salutes each other with each other's form. TroiLus and Cressida, iii, 3. You imagine me too unhurtful an opposite. Measure for Measure, iii, 2. In single opposition, hand to hand. I Henry IV, i, 3. Both sides are even. Macbeth, iii, 4. FOR CARD PARTIES NOTIFICATIONS, OR MOTTOS FOR PRIZES Whist then, delightful whist, my theme shall be. A. Thompson (1791). When all were whist. Peeie, honour of the garter. Whist. 206 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS ^^^^^' A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. Ckarles Lamb, Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist. He calls again, I pray you answer him. Measure for Measure, i, 4. He echoes me. othello, iii, 3. I were best not call. I dare not call. Cymbeline, iii, 6. Call them again, my lord, and accept their suit. Richard III, iii, 7. Is 't not your trick ? Antony and Cleopatra, v, 2. Your strong hand shall help to give him strength. King John, ii, i. The greater throw May turn by fortune from the weaker hand. Merchant of Venice, ii, i. Whose weakness married with thy stronger state Makes me with thy strength to communicate. Comedy of Errors, ii, 2. I come to learn how you have dealt for him. King John, v, 2. I would be glad to receive some instruction from my fellow partner, measure for measure, iv, 2. Shall we give the signal ? king John, ii, i. * Your silence Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness draws My very soul of counsel ! troilus and Cressida, iii, 2. Till at the last I seem'd his follower, not partner. Coriolanus, V, 6. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 207 Make signal of thy hope. 11 henry vi, m, 3. There is expectance here from both the sides. Troilus and Cressida, iv, 5. I affirm against Aristotle that cold and rain congregate homogenes, for they gather together you and your crew, at whist, punch and claret. Swiftt To Dr. Sheridan, Jan. 25, 1725. He plays at whisk and smokes his pipe eight- and-forty hours together sometimes. Fargukar, Beaux' Stratagem, i, i. Endeavor to allure him on a vernal evening, when after a shower every leaf breathes fragrance and freshness, to saunter with you in the garden, and he pleads an engagement at whist or the bottle. Knox, Essays, no. 147. Whose game is whisk, whose treat a toast in sack. Pope, To Miss Blount. But what was this ? A game at whist. Hudibras, ii (1663). Talkers are no good doers. Richard hi, i, 3. Talk not to me, for I '11 not speak a word. Romeo and Juliet, iii, 5. Lady, wherefore talk you so ? i henry vi, v, 3. To babble and to talk is most tolerable and not to be endured. much ado about nothing, m, 3. Sweet, now, silence ! Tempest, Iv, r. Whist 208 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Miscellaneous. ^g there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out. Sheridan, the rivals, v, 3. But chance is like an amberill, — it don't take twice to lose it. Lowell, Biglow Papers, il, i. A snug and friendly game at cards. Cowper, Conversation. Patience and shuffle the cards. Cervantes, Don Quixote, ii, 23. I was bound to follow the suit, sir. Middleton, The Phcenix, ii, 3. I must complain the cards are ill-shuffled till I have a good hand. s-wi/t, thoughts. Therefore let 's have fresh ones, whate'er we pay for them. Pericles, iv, a. Have I not here the best cards for the game. To win this easy match ? king John, v, 2. Bid the players make haste. hamlet, iii, 2. Soon as she spreads her hand th' aerial guard Descends and sit on each important card. Pope, Rape of the Lock, iii, 32. A youth of Frolics, an old age of Cards. Pope, Moral Essays, ii, 244. But that this well-disputed game may end. Pope, DuNCiAD, ii, 245. And I took him very merry, playing at cards and much company with him. Pepys, Diary, March 7, 1663. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 209 With ease, Miscellaneous. Or with a little shuffling you may choose. Hamlet, iv, 7. Your skill shall, like a star i' the darkest night, Stick fiery off indeed. hamlkt, v, ».! My better cunning faints Under his chance. Antony and Cleopatra, u, 3. Consider, sir, the chance of war : the day Was yours by accident. Cymbeline, v, 5. ' What 's Trumpes ? Heywood, Woman Killed with Kindness (1603). The game is up. Cymbeline, iu, 3. As sure a card as ever won the set. Titus Andronicus, v, i. Which, if not victory, is yet revenge. Milton, Paradise Lost, ii, 105. They laugh that win. othello, iv, x. Be the players ready ? hamlet, iii, 2. Four champions fierce Strive here for mastery. Mutm, paradise lost, ii, 898. Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. hudibras, ii, 3. We are swinging round the circle. Andrew Johnson, 1866. In the sequence of degree From high to low. Timon of Athens, v, 1. T4 210 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Miscellaneous. Gentlemen whose chariots roll only upon the four aces are apt to have a wheel out of order. Vanbrugh, The Provoked Husband, ii. GOLF Golf. T\\\^ before all the world do I prefer. Titus Andronicus, iv, 2. It is a bewitching and infectious vice. Sir Walter Raleigh, To His Son, ix. Marry go before to field, he '11 be your follower. Romeo and Juliet, Hi, i. Whether you had not sometime in your life Err'd in this point which now you censure him ! Measure for Measure, il, i. Your play needs no excuse. Midsummer Night's Dream, v, i. Lest, in her greatness, by some mortal stroke one do deteat us. Antony and Cleopatra, v, i. Give him the cup. hamlet, v, 2. We want a boy extremely for this function. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Coxcomb, ii. Where will I get a little page, Where will I get a caddie ? thistle of Scotland, p. 8. You may with a small cost, purchase the dear acquaintance of the boys. Dekker, gull's Hornbook. I have a bag . . . here troubles me ; if you will help me to bear it. Merry Wives of Windsor, ii, 2. Fathers that bear bags shall see their children kind ! lear, ii, 4. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 211 One only thought can enter every head ; ^°^^- The thought of golf, to wit — and that engages Men of all sizes, tempers, ranks and ages. G. F. Carnegie, The Golfiad. When driving ceases, may we still be able To play the shorts, putt and be comfortable ! G. F. Carnegie, The Golfiad. It 's hardly in a body's pow'r To keep at times, frae being sour. Bums, To davie. Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. Burns, Tam o' Shanter. Have patience, gentle Julia ! Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii, 2. What man of good temper would endure this tempest of exclamation ? 11 henry iv, ii, i. Don't drive at a fellow-creature, so long as there is a reasonable chance of hitting him. W. E. Norris, The Apotheosis of Golf. So long as nature will bear up with this exer- cise, so long I daily vow to use it. Winter's Tale, iii, 2. Why hath thy queen Summoned me hither to this short-grass'd green ? Tempest, iv, i. And a' babbled of green fields. henry v, ii, 3. The rich advantage of good exercise. King John, iv, 2. Nothing of that wonderful promise to read him by his form. twelfth night, iii, 4. Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive. Burns, To A Haggis. 212 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS ^°^^- His English style and gesture fine. Burns, The Holy Fair. The plains adjoining without bush or stubble, all fair green grass. Sir Walter Raleigh, Discovkrie of Guiana. If the things enterprised succeeded well the ad- vice never came in question ; if ill . . . he then made his advantage by remembering his con- trary counsel. Sir Walter Raleigh, Prerogative of Parliaments. I '11 call for clubs. i henry vi, i, 3. Oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. king John, iv, 2. Allow me such exercises as may become a gentleman. As You like It, i, 1. On this green land Answer your summons. tempest, iv, i. Wha drudge and drive thro' wet and dry. Burns, To Davie. To anger them a' is a pity. Bums, tam glen. I see it driving o'er the plain. Bums, song. Match to match I have encounter'd him. II Henry VI, v, 2. Strength matched with strength, and power con- fronted power. King John, ii, 2. Among nine bad, if one be good, There 's yet one good in ten. All 's Well That Ends Well, i, 3. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 213 Why should their liberty than ours be more ? ^°^^- Because their business still lies out o' door. Comedy of Errors, ii, i. Driving their balls from whin or tee. Ramsay, Poems, II, 205. All that is managed for ye like a tee'd ball. Scott, Rbdgauntlet, I, 302. How jocund did they drive. Gray, elegy. Put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath. Richard III, v, 3. Through holes yourselves have made. Pojie, DuNciAD, iv. To those . . . fields, Where noble fellows strike. All 's Well That Ends Well, ii, 3. Their arms are set like clocks, still to strike on. I Henry VI, i, 2. Strike, brave boys, and take your turns. Titus Andronicus, ii, i. Anon he finds him Striking too short. hamlet, ii,2. Put him quite beside his patience. I Henry IV, iii, i. This would make mercy swear. Measure for Measure, iii, 2. Ardent they grasp the ball-compelling clubs. Thomas Mathison, The Goff, ii. Time-honored Golf! I heard it whispered once That he who could not play was held a dunce On old Olympus, when it teemed with gods. G. F. Carnegie, The Golfiad. 214 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Golf. What subtle hole is this ? titus andronicus, u, 3. I train'd thy brethren to that guileful hole. Titus Andronicus, v, x. Not fierce and terrible Only in strokes. coriolanus, i, 4. So they Doubly redoubled strokes. Macbeth, i, 2. The most terrible and nimble stroke, lear, iv, 7. A dangerous driver. Bishop Mountague, Appeal to C^sar, p. 80. The joy, the danger and the toil o'erpays ; 'T is exercise and health and length of days. CowJ>er, Progress of Error. There is no great Honour in getting a Victory when Odds is taken. Bailey, Trans, of Colloquies of Erasmus, I, 82, Then shall we have a match. I have letters sent me That set him high in fame. \ All 's Well that Ends Well, v, 3. So high a style . . . that no man living shall come over it. much ado about nothing, v, 2. While here we march Upon the grassy carpet of this plain. Richard II, iii, 3. Censure of manners, when it exceedeth the quality of offences, doth seem rigorous in these matters. sir Waiter Raleigh, The Cabinet Council. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Good driver ! j. wnson, the projector, \. ^°^^' Speaking much also is a sign of vanity ; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds. Sir Walter Raleigh, To His Son, iv. The harder match'd, the greater victory. Ill Henry VI, v, i. Turn thy solemness out o' door, and go along with us. CORIOLANUS, i, 3. What good sport is out of town to-day ! Troilus AND Cressida, i, I. To the most wholesome physic of thy health- givmg air. Love's Labour's Lost, i, i. Lay aside life-harming heaviness. Richard ii, h, 2. The hour is fixed ; the match is made. Merry Wives of Windsor, ii, 2. Half- won is match well made ; match and well make it. ' all 's well that ends well, iv, 3. Welcome, grave stranger, to our green retreats. Where health with exercise and freedom meets. Scott, The Poacher. Must wayward fortune's adverse hand For ever, ever keep me here ? Burns, The Banks of Nith. Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience. a. Lang, socrates on the links. To smell a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body. Fuller, Holy State. 2l6 QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS Golf. Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper Sprinkle cool patience. hamlet, m, 4. Success for aye to the guid auld game, To the grand old game of the gowff. Thomas Dykes, The Game 'mang the Bonnie Green Knowes. At threescore and ten we are " stemied " men, And we 've leeved it every hour, But say not at all we will loft our ball And hauff the hole in fower. Then dormy hame we can sing through the round, And die like golfers keen, We Ve played fu' weel the short game and lang, The game on the golfing-green. Thomas Dykes, The Game 'mang the Bonnie Green Knowes. ' When a gentleman is disposed to swear it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. Cymbeline, ii, i. 'T is the first time that ever I was forc'd to scold. CORIOLANUS, V, 6. An' nen he showed us little holes All bored there in the ground. James Whitcomb Riley, The Doodle-Bug's Charm. Till now amaist on every knowe Ye '11 find ane plac'd. Bums, To W. Simpson. Keep me in temper : I would not be mad ! Lear, i, 5. O you blessed ministers above Keep me in patience ! measure for measure, v, i. Calmly, good Laertes! HAMLET,iv,5. Play on, play on ; I am with you there. N. P. Willis, Saturday Afternoon. QUOTATIONS FOR OCCASIONS 217 The rapturous charm o' the bonnle green knowes. ^°^^- Burns, Song. This trim sward of velvet green Were carpet for the Fairy Queen. Scott, Bridal of Triermain, ii, 6. Now the god of this people is the Lynx, which I did not myself see. A. Lang, Herodotus in Saint Andrews. Have you never seen a cat wash her face? . . . Just such a stir they keep. Beaumont and Fletcher, Tv.^ Coxcomb,!. I know you by the waggling of your head. Much Ado, ii, i. INDEX Almonds, salted, 31. AmiiversarieB, 29. Archery, 198. Artioliokes, 55. Asparagus, 54. AtMetics, 195. Ball, masked, 20. Baseball, 196. Beef, 49. Bicycle meets, 177. Birthdays, 29. Boar's Head, 52. Brandy, 106. Cards (mlsceUaneous), 208. Caviare, 31. Celery, 31. Chafing dish preparations, 42. Cheese, 67. Chickens, 62. Cigarettes, 91. Cigars, 86. Clams, 34. Club dues, 194. Cocktails, 99. Coffee, 68. Cold dishes, 44. Corn and beans, 55. Crabs, 41. Cucumbers, 55. Dance, beginning of, 19; Inter- mission during, 25. Dessert, 61. Deviled bones, 44. Dinner menu, beginning of, 1; ending of, 71 ; after ladies go, 74 ; men's dinner, beginning of, 8 ; ending of, 74 ; small dinner. 6 ; when something follows, 73 ; without wine, 7. Drinks, iced or mixed, 107. Duck and onions, 53. Entries, 42. Fencing, 197. Fiah, 38. Fourth of July, 186. Frogs' legs, 45. Fruit, 66. Game, 58. Games, 195. Golf, 210. Goose, 54. Horseradish, 32. Ices, 65. Jelly, 64. Ladies, to receive, 27 ; when la- dies depart, 84. Lamb, 50. Lemonade, 8. Liqueurs, 99. Lobsters, 40. Macaroni, 55. Marchpane, 64. Marrons, 64. Mince pie, 64. Mushrooms, 55. Music, 16, 24, 84. Mutton, 50. Names on blank page of menu, for, 78 ; givers of a dinner, for list of, 79. 219 220 INDEX Olives, 33. Ouions, 55. Oysters, 34. Pancakes, 44. Pasties, 46. Pat6 de foie gras, 46. Peas, green, 56. Pickles, 32. Pig, roast, 51. Pork and heans, 46. Potatoes, 57. Prizes, for, 199. Program or announcement, be- ginning of, 14 ; ending of, 81 ; musical, beginning of, 16; in- termission during, 24; ending of, 84. Pudding, 64. Punch, 103. Badlshes, 33. Salads, 69. Sauces, 47. Shrimps, 41. Sorbets, 54. Souffles, 45. Soup, 36. Spaghetti, 57. Special songs, etc., 25. Suppers, 22. Surprises, 47. Syllabubs, etc., 63. Army, The, 131. Army and Navy, The, 129. Arts, The, 139. Author, An, 122. Church, The, 134. Clergyman, A, 117. Congress, 128. Country, Our, 127. Critics, The, 148. Education, 141. Guest, The, 110. Judiciary, The, 155. Law, The, 152. Literature, 144. Medicine, 156. Navy, The, 133. President, The, 128. Press, The, 136. Public office. One in, 126^ Reporters, The, 139. Sailor, A, 121. Singer, A, 124. Soldier, A, 119. Speaker, Special, 169. Speeches, Before, 169. Speeches, After, 174. Stage, The, 150. Woman, 158. Trout, 39. Turkey, 53. Turtle, 42. Veal, 50. Venison, 51. Tea, afternoon, 183. Terrapin, 42. Tenuis, 195. Thanksgiving, 187. Toasts : Absent, The, 167. Actor, An, 124. Wedding breakfast, beginning of, 12 ; ending of, 80. Welsh rabbit, 48. Whisky, 106. Whist, 205. Whitebait, 40. Wine, etc., 92. / OVERDUE. —=====- i OCT 18 1939^1_LQAN-DEPTr-^ — wr^tigsr laW-lW 5 77 \M LD 21-100rn-7;33 _ I.e. BERKELEY LIBRARIES C03114253H