de of her purity.
1407
BYRON: _Siege of Corinth,_ St. 21.

=Purpose.=

Make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse;
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose.
1408
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i., Sc. 5.

=Purse.=

Who steals my purse steals trash; 't is something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands.
1409
SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

=Pygmies.=

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;
And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
1410
YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night vi., Line 309.

==Q.==

=Quacks.=

Out, you impostors!
Quack-salving cheating mountebanks!--your skill
Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.
1411
MASSINGER: _Virgin-Martyr,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

Void of all honor, avaricious, rash,
The daring tribe compound their boasted trash--
Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill:
All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.
1412
CRABBE: _Borough,_ Letter vii., Line 75.

=Quakers.=

Upright Quakers please both man and God.
1413
POPE: _Dunciad,_ Bk. iv., Line 208.

The Quaker loves an ample brim,
A hat that bows to no salaam;
And dear the beaver is to him
As if it never made a dam.
1414
HOOD: _All Round my Hat._

=Quarrels.=

Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel: but, being in,
Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee:
1415
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

They who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
1416
GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. i., Fable 34.

=Queen.=

She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.
1417
POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. iii., Line 208.

=Quickness.=

With too much quickness ever to be taught;
With too much thinking to have common thought.
1418
POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. ii., Line 97.

=Quiet.=

Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.
1419
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 42.

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
1420
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _The Cathedral._

=Quips.=

Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles,
Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles.
1421
MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 25.

=Quotation.=

The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
1422
SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

Nor suffers Horace more in wrong translations
By wits, than critics in as wrong quotations.
1423
POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. iii., Line 103.

==R.==

=Race.=

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race;
No tenth transmitter