as very difficult; he said, "To know
one's self."--DIOGENES LAERTIUS: _Thales, ix._

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.

POPE: _Epistle ii. line 1._

[5-1]
Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.

SHAKESPEARE: _Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2._

[5-2] Tyrwhitt says this is taken from the _Parabolae_ of ALANUS
DE INSULIS, who died in 1294,--Non teneas aurum totum quod
splendet ut aurum (Do not hold everything as gold which shines
like gold).

All is not golde that outward shewith bright.--LYDGATE: _On the
Mutability of Human Affairs._

Gold all is not that doth golden seem.--SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,
book ii. canto viii. st. 14._

All that glisters is not gold.--SHAKESPEARE: _Merchant of Venice,
act ii. sc. 7._ GOOGE: _Eglogs, etc., 1563._ HERBERT: _Jacula
Prudentum._

All is not gold that glisteneth.--MIDDLETON: _A Fair Quarrel,
verse 1._

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.--DRYDEN: _The Hind
and the Panther._

Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire (Everything is not gold that
one sees shining).--_Li Diz de freire Denise Cordelier, circa
1300._

[5-3] Many small make a great.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbes. part i. chap.
xi._

[5-4] Of two evils the less is always to be chosen.--THOMAS A
KEMPIS: _Imitation of Christ, book ii. chap. xii._ HOOKER:
_Polity, book v. chap. lxxxi._

Of two evils I have chose the least.--PRIOR: _Imitation of
Horace._

E duobus malis minimum eligendum (Of two evils, the least should
be chosen).--ERASMUS: _Adages._ CICERO: _De Officiis, iii. 1._

[6-1] Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother.--HEYWOOD:
_Proverbes, part ii. chap. ix._

[6-2] This wonder lasted nine daies.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbes, part
ii. chap. i._

[6-3] Ars longa, vita brevis (Art is long: life is
brief).--HIPPOCRATES: _Aphorism i._

[6-4] Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.--HEYWOOD:
_Proverbes, part ii. chap. v._

THOMAS A KEMPIS. 1380-1471.

Man proposes, but God disposes.[7-1]

_Imitation of Christ. Book i. Chap. 19._

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.[7-2]

_Imitation of Christ. Book i. Chap. 23._

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.[7-3]

_Imitation of Christ. Book iii. Chap. 12._

FOOTNOTES:

[7-1] Th