259. Sit omnis homo velox ad audiendum tardus ad loquendum.-Jam. i. 19. (Let every man be swift to hear and slow to speak.)

If we did but know the virtue of silence and slowness to speak commended by St. James, our controversies would of themselves close up. (Con. of the Church.)

Men of few words are best. (Hen. v. iii. 2.)

Be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech.

(All's Well, i. 3.)

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

(Ham. i. 3.)

260. Error novissimus pejor priori.-Matt. xxvii. 64. (So the last error (shall be) worse than the first.)

That one error fills him with faults, makes him run through all the sins. (Tw. G. Ver. v. 4.)

O Jove, a beastly fault! and then another fault. . . . Think on it, Jove, a foul fault! (Mer. Wiv. v. 1.)

If I could add a lie unto a fault I would deny it.

In religion,

(Mer. Ven. v. 1.)

(Ib. iii. 2.) (M. M. v. 1.)

What damned error, but some sober brow
Will bless it, and approve it with a text.
I have bethought me of another fault.
Is it frailty that thus errs? It is so too.
This is the greatest error of all the rest.
What error leads must err. (Tr. Cr. v. 2.)

(Oth. iv. 3.)
(M. N. D. v. 1.)

the last, I think,

What faults he made before
Might have found easy fines: but. . . . this admits no excuse.

(Cor. v. 5.)

261. Quæcumque ignorant blasphemant.-Jude 10. (They speak evil of those things which they know not.)

(See 2 H. VI. iv. 2, where Jack Cade orders the execution of the clerk because he can read, write, and cast accompt'; and ib. iv. 7, where he proposes to pull down the Inns of Court, burn

the records, and behead Lord Say because he has most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.)

You do blaspheme the good in mocking me.
Disparage not the faith thou dost not know.

(M. M. i. 5.)

(M. N. D. iii. 2.)

262. Non credimus quia non legimus. (We do not believe because we do not read-or have not read.) See Eph. iii. 4, or our Lord's frequent expostulations, 'Have ye never read?'

Writes me: That man, how dearly ever parted.

Cannot make boast to have that which he hath,

Nor feels not what he owes, but by reflection. (Tr. Cr. iii. 3.)
She hath been reading late

The tale of Tereus; here the leaf's turn'd down

Where Philomel gave up. (Cymb. ii. 2.)

Pol. What do you read, my lord?

Ham. Slanders, sir: for the satirical slave says here that old men have grey beards, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit. (Ham. ii. 2, and see Tit. And. iv. 1, 42–51.)

(Note that in the last five instances—the only ones in the plays which exhibit a person reading a book-the matter is such as it concerns the person addressed, or spoken of, to believe.)

263. Facile est ut quis Augustinum vincat, videant utrum veritate an clamore. (It is easy for any one to [get the better of refute Augustine, but let them look to it whether they do so by truth or clamour.)

"Tis not the bitter clamour of two eager tongues
Can arbitrate this cause. (R. II. i. 1.)

M

Tro. Peace, you ungracious clamours! peace, rude sounds!
Fools on both sides. Helen must needs be fair,

When with your blood you daily paint her thus.
I cannot fight upon this argument. (Tr. Cr. i. 1.)

264. Bellum omnium pater. (War is the father of all things.) According to Darwin, in the struggle for existence only the strongest survives.

265. De nouveau tout est beau. De saison tout est bon.

Why should proud summer boast

Before the birds have any cause to sing?

Why should I joy in any abortive birth?

At Christmas I no more desire a rose

Than wish for snow in May's new-fangled birth,

But like of each thing that in season grows. (L. L. L. i. 1.)
Even for our kitchen we kill the fowl of season. (M. M. ii. 2.)

How many things by seasons seasoned are

To their right praise and true perfection. (Mer. Ven. v. 1.)
Things growing are not ripe until their season. (M. N. D. ii. 2.)
Be friended with aptness of the season. (Cymb. ii. 3.)

(Upwards of fifty similar passages.)

266. Di danare, di senno e di fede
Ce ne manco che tu credi.

(See ante, No. 44.)

267. Di mentira y sagueras verdad. (Tell a lie and find a truth.)

To find out right with wrong—it may not be. (Rich. II. i. 3.)
I think 't no sin

To cozen him that would unjustly win. (All's Well, iv. 2.)

It is a falsehood that she is in, which is with falsehood to be combated. (Tw. N. Kin. iv. 3.)

(See No. 610 for quotations from later plays.)

268. Magna civitas, magna solitudo. (A great city or state is a great solitude.)

But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little magna civitas, magna solitudo. (Ess. Of Friendship.)

The poor deer. . . . left and abandoned of his velvet friends; "Tis right,' quoth he; thus misery doth part

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The glut of company.'

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Anon, a careless herd

Full of the pasture, jumps along by him,

And never stays to greet him: Ay,' quoth Jaques,

'Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;

"Tis just the fashion.' (As Y. L. ii. 1, 44-60.)

I, measuring his affections by my own,

That most are busy when they're most alone. (Rom. Jul. i. 1.)

(See Tim. Ath. iv. 1, 30–40.)

Fol. 89.

269. Light gaines make heavy purses.
(Quoted Essay Of Ceremonies and Respects.)

270. He may be in my paternoster indeed,
Be sure he shall never be in my creed.

For me, my lords, I love him not, nor fear him-there's my creed. As I am made without him, so I'll stand. (II. VII. ii. 2.)

271. Tanti causas-sciat illa furoris.-En. 5, 788. (She may know the causes of such furious wrath.)

Oth. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,

Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!
It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood . .
Yet she must die. (Oth. v. 2.)

Cas. Dear General, I never gave you cause. (Ib.)

Pol. I have found the very cause of Hamlet's lunacy .

Mad let us grant him, then; and now remains

That we find out the cause of this effect,

Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause..

I have a daughter. (Ham. ii. 2.)

...

Kath.

Alas! sir,

In what have I offended you? What cause

Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure?

272. What will you?

(Hen. VIII. ii. 4.)

What's your will? (Tw. Gen. Ver. iii. 1, 3; L. L. L. iv. 1, 52.) What's your will with me? (1 Hen. IV. ii. 4.)

273. For the rest.

For the rest. (L. L. L. vi. 138; R. II. i. 1; 3 H. VI. iii. 3.) Well, to the rest. (2 H. VI. i. 4, 63.)

For the rest. (Hen. VIII. ii. 3.)

274. Is it possible?

Is't possible. (Much Ado, i. 1, 120; twenty times.)

May this be possible. (John v. 6, 21.)

275. Not the lesse for that.

Ne'er the less. (Tam. Sh. i. 1.)

276. Allwaies provided (legal phrase).

Provided that you do no outrages. (Tw. G. Ver. iv. 1.)

Provided that he win her. (Tam. Sh. i. 2.)

Provided that. (R. II. iii. 3; Mer. Ven. iii. 2; Ham. v. 2; Per. v. 1; Cymb. i. 5.)