All these you may avoid, but the Lie direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. Í knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel; but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, If you said so, then I said so; and they shook hands, and swore brothers. Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If. v. As You Like It. Act V. Sc. 4. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. Hamlet-Act I. Sc. 5.

20.

By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by overrunning.

C. Henry VIII. Act I. Sc. 1.

"Chance, though blind, is the sole Author of the creation."

0. J. X. B. SAINTINE--Picciola. Ch. III. Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

p. GEORGES SAND-Handsome Lawrence. Ch. II.

Chance will not do the work-chance sends the breeze;

But if the pilot slumber at the helm,
The very wind that wafts us towards the port
May dash us on the shelves. The steersman's
part

Is vigilance, blow it rough or smooth.
q. SCOTT--Fortunes of Nigel. Ch. XXII.
Old Play.

Against ill chances, men are ever merry;
But heaviness foreruns the good event.
T. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 2.
I shall show the cinders of my spirits
Through the ashes of my chance.

S. Antony and Cleopatra. Act V. Sc. 2.

All things that we ordained festival,
Turn from their office to black funeral:
Our instruments, to melancholy bells:
Our wedding cheer, to a sad burial feast;
Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,
And all things change them to the contrary.
h. Romeo and Juliet. Act IV. Sc. 5.

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
i. Tempest. Act I.

Sc. 2.

The love of wicked friends converts to fear;
That fear, to hate; and hate turns one or both,
To worthy danger, and deserved death.
m. Richard 11. Act V. Sc. 1.

This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth

The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms,

And bears his blushing honours thick upon him.

n. Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. This world is not for aye; nor 'tis not strange, That even our loves should with our fortunes change.

0.

Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2.

From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

S. SOUTHWELL-Time Go by Turns.
His honour rooted in dishonour stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
t. TENNYSON. Idyls of the King. Elaine.
Line 885.

Life is arched with changing skies:
Rarely are they what they seem:
Children we of smiles and sighs-
Much we know but more we dream.
WILLIAM WINTER-Light and Shadow.

น.

As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejection do we sink as low. WORDSWORTH--Resolution and

v.

Independence. St. 4.