For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away.[6-4]

_The Ten Commandments of Love._

FOOTNOTES:

[2-1] In allusion to the proverb, "Every honest miller has a
golden thumb."

[2-2] Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.--HEYWOOD:
_Proverbes, part ii. chap. v._

Wode has erys, felde has sigt.--_King Edward and the Shepard, MS.
Circa 1300._

Walls have ears.--HAZLITT: _English Proverbs, etc._ (_ed. 1869_)
_p. 446._

[3-1] Also in _Troilus and Cresseide, line 1587._

To make a virtue of necessity.--SHAKESPEARE: _Two Gentlemen of
Verona, act iv. sc. 2._ MATTHEW HENRY: _Comm. on Ps. xxxvii._
DRYDEN: _Palamon and Arcite._

In the additions of Hadrianus Julius to the _Adages_ of Erasmus,
he remarks, under the head of _Necessitatem edere_, that a very
familiar proverb was current among his countrymen,--"Necessitatem
in virtutem commutare" (To make necessity a virtue).

Laudem virtutis necessitati damus (We give to necessity the praise
of virtue).--QUINTILIAN: _Inst. Orat. i. 8. 14._

[3-2] Haste makes waste.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbs, part i. chap. ii._

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.--PUBLIUS SYRUS:
_Maxim 357._

[3-3] Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting
solidity or exactness of beauty.--PLUTARCH: _Life of Pericles._

[3-4] E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.--GRAY: _Elegy,
Stanza 23._

[3-5] Frieth in her own grease.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbs, part i. chap.
xi._

[3-6] To see and to be seen.--BEN JONSON: _Epithalamion, st. iii.
line 4._ GOLDSMITH: _Citizen of the World, letter 71._

Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae (They come to see;
they come that they themselves may be seen).--OVID: _The Art of
Love, i. 99._

[4-1] Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is
which never entrusts his life to one hole only.--PLAUTUS:
_Truculentus, act iv. sc. 4._

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole
Can never be a mouse of any soul.

POPE: _Paraphrase of the Prologue, line 298._

[4-2] Handsome is that handsome does.--GOLDSMITH: _Vicar of
Wakefield, chap. i._

[4-3] Hee must have a long spoon, shall eat with the
devill.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbes, part ii. chap. v._

He must have a long spoon that must eat with the
devil.--SHAKESPEARE: _Comedy of Errors, act iv. sc. 3._

[4-4] Thales was asked what w