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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| Page 174 |
| Thomas Middleton. (1580–1627) (continued) |
| 2016 |
| Turn over a new leaf. 1 |
| Anything for a Quiet Life. Act iii. Sc. 3. |
| 2017 |
| My nearest And dearest enemy. 2 |
| Anything for a Quiet Life. Act v. Sc. 1. |
| 2018 |
| This was a good week’s labour. |
| Anything for a Quiet Life. Act v. Sc. 3. |
| 2019 |
| How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer’s days! |
| No Wit, no Help, like a Woman’s. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 2020 |
| By many a happy accident. 3 |
| No Wit, no Help, like a Woman’s. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| Sir Henry Wotton. (1568–1639) |
| 2021 |
| How happy is he born or taught, That serveth not another’s will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! |
| The Character of a Happy Life. |
| 2022 |
| Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend. |
| The Character of a Happy Life. |
| 2023 |
| Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. 4 |
| The Character of a Happy Life. |
| 2024 |
| You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies,— What are you when the moon 5 shall rise? |
| On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia. 6 |
| Note 1. A Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen (1598). Turn over a new leaf.—Thomas Dekker: The Honest Whore, part ii. act i. sc. 2. Edmund Burke: Letter to Mrs. Haviland. [back] |
| Note 2. See Shakespeare, Hamlet, Quotation 28. [back] |
| Note 3. A happy accident.—Madame de Staël: L’Allemagne, chap. xvi. Cervantes: Don Quixote, book iv. part ii. chap. lvii. [back] |
| Note 4. As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.—2 Corinth. vi. 10. [back] |
| Note 5. ”Sun” in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (eds. 1651, 1654, 1672, 1685). [back] |
| Note 6. This was printed with music as early as 1624, in Est’s “Sixth Set of Books,” etc., and is found in many MSS.—Hannah: The Courtly Poets. [back] |
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