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them long. * * * * * NATHANIEL LEE. 1655-1692. _Alexander the Great_. Act i. Sc. 3. Then he will talk--ye gods, how he will talk! Act iv. Sc. 2. When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. * * * * * TOM BROWN. --1704. _Dialogues of the Dead_. I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this alone I know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.[7] [Note 7: "Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; Hoc tautum possum dicere, non amo te." _Martial_, Ep. I. xxxiii.] * * * * * THOMAS SOUTHERN. 1659-1746. _Oroonoka_. Act ii. Sc. 1. Pity's akin to love. DANIEL DEFOE. 1661-1731. _The True-Born Englishman_. Part i. Line 1 Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. * * * * * LOUIS THEOBALD. 1688-1744. _The Double Falsehood_. None but himself can be his parallel. * * * * * MATTHEW PRIOR. 1664-1721. _English Padlock_. Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind. * * * * * _Henry and Emma_. That air and harmony of shape express, Fine by degrees, and beautifully less. * * * * * _The Thief and the Cordelier_. Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart, And often took leave; but was loth to depart. _Epilogue to Lucius_. And the gray mare will prove the better horse.[8] [Note 8: See Hudibras, Part ii. Canto ii. line 698. Mr. Macaulay thinks that this proverb originated in the preference generally given to the gray mares of Flanders over the finest coach-horses of England.--History of England, Vol. I. Ch. 3.] * * * * * _Imitations of Horace_. Of two evils I have chose the least. * * * * * _Epitaph on Himself_. Here lies what once was Matthew Prior; The son of Adam and of Eve: Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher? * * * * * _Ode in Imitation of Horace_. B. iii. Od. 2. And virtue is her own reward. * * * * * COLLEY CIBBER. 1671-1757.
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