The Spectator Volume Iii Part 157

'You will easily find a worse woman; a better the sun never shone upon.'

528. Ovid, Met. ix. 165.

'With wonted fort.i.tude she bore the smart, And not a groan confess'd her burning heart.'

(Gay).

529. HOR. Ars Poet. 92.

'Let everything have its due place.'

(Roscommon).

530. HOR. 1 Od. x.x.xiii. 10.

'Thus Venus sports; the rich, the base, Unlike in fortune and in face, To disagreeing love provokes; When cruelly jocose, She ties the fatal noose, And binds unequals to the brazen yokes.'

(Creech).

531. HOR. 1 Od. xii. 15.

'Who guides below, and rules above, The great Disposer, and the mighty King: Than he none greater, like him none That can be, is, or was; Supreme he singly fills the throne.'

(Creech).

532. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 304.

'I play the whetstone; useless, and unfit To cut myself, I sharpen other's wit.'

(Creech).

533. PLAUT.

'Nay, says he, if one is too little, I will give you two; And if two will not satisfy you, I will add two more.'

534. JUV. Sat. viii. 73.

'--We seldom find Much sense with an exalted fortune join'd.'

(Stepney).

535. HOR. 1 Od. xi. 7.

'Cut short vain hope.'

536. VIRG. aen. ix. 617.

'O! less than women in the shapes of men.'

(Dryden).

537.

'For we are his offspring.'

(Acts xvii. 28.)

538. HOR. 2 Sat. i. 1.

'To launch beyond all bounds.'

539. QUae GENUS.

'Be they heteroc.l.i.tes.'

540. VIRG. aen. vi. 143.

'A second is not wanting.'

541. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 108.