nd all the rest have xxxi.

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_The Return from Parnassus_. 4to. London. 1606.

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November,
February eight-and-twenty all alone,
And all the rest have thirty-one;
Unless that leap year doth combine,
And give to February twenty-nine.

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_Lines used by Joint Hall, in encourage the
Rebels in Wat Tyler's Rebellion. Hume's
History of England_, Vol. I. Chap. 17.

Note i.

When Adam dolve, and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?

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_From the Garland, a Collection of Poems_.

1721, by Mr. Br--st, author of a Copy of
Verses called "The British Beauties."
Praise undeserved is Satire in disguise.[25]

[Note 25: This line is quoted by Pope, in the 1st Epistle of
Horace, Book ii,--"Praise undeserved is _Scandal_ in disguise."]

THOMAS A KEMPIS.
1380-1471.

_Imitation of Christ_.

Book i. Chapter 19.

Man proposes, but God disposes.[26]

[Note 26: This expression is of much Creator antiquity, it appears in
the Chronicle of Battel Abbey, from 1066 to 1176, page 27, Lower's
Translation, and also in Piers Ploughman's Vision, line 13994.]

Book i. Chapter 23.

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

Book iii. Chapter 12.

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

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FRANCIS RABELAIS.
1483-1553.

_Translated by Urquhart and Motteux_.

Book i. Chapter 1. Note 2.

To return to our muttons.

Book i. Chapter 5.

To drink no more than a sponge.

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Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston.

Book i. Chapter 11.

He looked a gift horse in the mouth.

By robbing Peter he paid Paul,...
and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.

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He did make of necessity virtue.

Book iv. Chapter 23.

I'll go his halves.

Book iv. Chapter 24.

The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he.

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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES.
1547-1616.

_Don Quixote_. _Translated by Jarvis_.

Part i. Book iv. Ch. 20.

Every one is the son of his own works.

Part i. Book iv. Ch. 23.

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my
will, and havin