What's the matter, That this distempered messenger of wet, The many-colour'd Iris, rounds thine eye? e. All's Well That Ends Well. Ac. I. Sc. 3. Why, man, if the river were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears: if the wind were down, I could drive the boat with my sighs. f. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II.

Sc. 3. Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some divine despair. 9. TENNYSON-The Princess. Canto IV. Line 22.

The big round tears run down his dappled face,

Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,

Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze,

Th' all giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

S.

MILTON-Comus. Line 720.

O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health.

When God with these forbidden made choice to rear

His mighty champion, strong above com

pare,

Whose drink was only from the liquid brook. t. MILTON-Samson Agonistes.

Line 556. Well observe

The rule of Not too much, by temperance

taught

In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

น. MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. XI. Line 531.

Coffee which makes the politician wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

Line 516.

v.

Certain winds will make men's temper bad. GEORGE ELIOT-Spanish Gypsy. Bk. I.

m.

The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness, the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel, the cripple. n Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 2.

POPE-Rape of the Lock. Canto III. Line 117.

Ask God for temperance, that's the appliance only Which your disease requires.

20.

Henry VIII. Act I. Sc. 1.

Make less thy body, hence, and more thy grace; Leave gormandizing,

Henry IV. Pt. II.

Act V. Sc. 5.

Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination.

C. BACON-Essay. Of Custom.

Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which

Men are and ought to be accountable,
If not to Thee, to those they influence;
Granthis, we pray Thee, and that all who
read,

Or utter noble thoughts, may make them theirs,

And thank God for them, to the betterment Of their succeeding life.

d. BAILEY--Festus. Sc. A Country Town.

Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.

e. BAILEY-Festus. Sc. Home.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art in life is to have as many of them as possible. BOVEE-Summaries of Thought.

f.

Thought.

Go, speed the stars of Thought
On to their shining goals;-
The sower scatters broad his seed,
The wheat thou strew'st be souls.
EMERSON-Introduction to Essay.

t.

Canto I. St. 8.

Of

Intellect.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

u.

EMERSON-Representative Men.

Shakespeare.

Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.

v. EMERSON-Fate.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. 10. EURIPIDES-Hippolytus. 438.

Men possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

x.

FROUDE-Short Studies on Great

Subjects. The Colonies Once More. Those that think must govern those that toil. y. GOLDSMITH-The Traveller. Line 372. Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. GRAY-Progress of Poesy. III. 2. Line 4.

2.