savage ran.
1577
DRYDEN: _Conquest of Granada,_ Pt. i., Act i., Sc. 1.

=Scandal.=

For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
1578
SHAKS.: _Lucrece,_ Line 1006.

You know
That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard,
And after scandal them.
1579
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

The whole court melted into one wide whisper,
And all lips were applied unto all ears!
The elder ladies' wrinkles curled much crisper
As they beheld; the younger cast some leers
On one another, and each lovely lisper
Smiled as she talked the matter o'er: but tears
Of rivalship rose in each clouded eye
Of all the standing army that stood by.
1580
BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto ix., St. 78

=Scars.=

He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.
1581
SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

Gashed with honorable scars,
Low in Glory's lap they lie.
1582
JAMES MONTGOMERY: _Battle of Alexandria._

=Scenes.=

For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes,
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise.
1583
ADDISON: _A Letter from Italy._

=Scepticism.=

Oh! lives there, heaven! beneath thy dread expanse,
One hopeless, dark idolater of chance,
Content to feed with pleasures unrefin'd,
The lukewarm passions of a lowly mind;
Who mouldering earthward, 'reft of every trust,
In joyless union wedded to the dust,
Could all his parting energy dismiss,
And call this barren world sufficient bliss?
1584
CAMPBELL: _Pl. of Hope,_ Pt. ii., Line 295.

Whatever sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.
1585
BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto i., Line 131.

=Sceptre.=

His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.
1586
SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Scholar.=

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading;
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
1587
SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar
Showed him the gentleman and scholar.
1588
BURNS: _The Twa Dogs_

The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.
1589
GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 356.

=School.=

And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
1590
SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 7.

Beside yon straggling fence that s