Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go. f.

THOS. TUSSER-Five Hundred Points

Safe bind, safe find.

g.

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.

ScorT--Fortunes of Nigel. Ch. XXII.
Old Play.

of Good Husbandry. Against ill chances, men are ever merry;
But heaviness foreruns the good event.
Henry IV. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 2.

THOS. TUSSER- Five Hundred Points
of Good Husbandry.

१.

I shall show the cinders of my spirits
Through the ashes of my chance.

s.

Antony and Cleopatra. Act V. Sc. 2.

And grasps the skirts of happy chance,
And breasts the blows of circumstance.

t.

TENNYSON-In Memoriam. Pt. LXIII.

Naught venture, naught have.

น.

THOS. TUSSER-Five Hundred Points

of Good Husbandry. October's Extract.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.