Note 1. Gascoigne: Roses, 1575. Title of a Book of Epigrams, 1608.Beaumont and Fletcher: The Scornful Lady, act i. sc. 1; The Sea Voyage, act i. sc. 2. [back]
Note 2. To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast.William Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV. act iv. sc. 2. [back]
Note 3. Be the day short or never so long, At length it ringeth to even song. Quoted at the Stake by George Tankerfield (1555). Fox: Book of Martyrs, chap. vii. p. 346. [back]
Note 4. Jack Jugler, p. 46.Francis Rabelais: book i. chap xi. Blackloch: Hatchet of Heresies, 1565.Samuel Butler: Hudibras, part ii. canto iii. line 263. [back]
Note 5. What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.Pilpay: The Two Fishermen, fable xiv.
It will never out of the flesh that s bred in the bone.Ben Jonson: Every Man in his Humour, act i. sc. 1. [back]
Note 6. None so deaf as those that will not hear.Mathew Henry: Commentaries. Psalm lviii. [back]
Note 7. He has the wrong sow by the ear.Ben Jonson: Every Man in his Humour, act ii. sc. 1. [back]