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1561
COLERIDGE: _Christabel,_ Conclusion to Pt. i.
=Salt.=
Alas! you know the cause too well;
The salt is spilt, to me it fell.
1562
GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. i., Fable 37.
Why dost thou shun the salt? that sacred pledge,
Which once partaken blunts the sabre's edge,
Makes even contending tribes in peace unite,
And hated hosts seem brethren to the sight.
1563
BYRON: _Corsair,_ Canto ii, St. 4.
Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
1564
POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. xi., Line 153.
=Salvation.=
About some act
That has no relish of salvation in 't.
1565
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.
Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That in the course of justice none of us
Should see salvation.
1566
SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.
=Sands.=
Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands;
Courtesied when you have, and kiss'd
The wild waves whist.
1567
SHAKS.: _Tempest,_ Act i., Sc. 2
Here are sand, ignoble things,
Dropt from the ruined sides of kings.
1568
BEAUMONT: _On the Tombs of Westminster Abbey._
=Satan.=
To whom the arch-enemy,
And thence in heaven call'd Satan,--with bold words
Breaking the horrid silence, thus began.
1569
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 81.
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
1570
WATTS: _Divine Songs,_ Song 20.
And Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.
1571
COWPER: _Exhortation to Prayer._
=Satiety.=
They surfeited with honey; and began
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
More than a little is by much too much.
1572
SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.
With pleasure drugg'd he almost long'd for woe,
And e'en for change of scene would seek the shades below.
1573
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto i., St. 6.
=Satire.=
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet;
I only wear it in a land of Hectors,
Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors.
1574
POPE: Satire i., Line 69.
Prepare for rhyme--I'll publish, right or wrong;
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
1575
BYRON: _Eng. Bards,_ Line 5.
In general satire, every man perceives
A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.
1576
CRABBE: _Advice,_ Line 244.
=Savage.=
I am as free as Nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble
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