It is more blessed to give than to receive.--_John xx. 35._

[11-9] This proverb occurs in Rabelais, book i. chap. xi.; in
_Vulgaria Stambrigi, circa 1510_; in Butler, part i. canto i. line
490. Archbishop Trench says this proverb is certainly as old as
Jerome of the fourth century, who, when some found fault with
certain writings of his, replied that they were free-will
offerings, and that it did not behove to look a gift horse in the
mouth.

[12-1] RABELAIS: _book iv. chap. liv._ At my fingers'
ends.--SHAKESPEARE: _Twelfth Night, act i. sc. 3._

[12-2] The origin of the word "sleveless," in the sense of
unprofitable, has defied the most careful research. It is
frequently found allied to other substantives. Bishop Hall speaks
of the "sleveless tale of transubstantiation," and Milton writes
of a "sleveless reason." Chaucer uses it in the _Testament of
Love_.--SHARMAN.

[12-3] At their wit's end.--_Psalm cvii. 27._

[12-4] THOMAS HEYWOOD: _If you know not me, etc., 1605._ TARLTON:
_Jests, 1611._

[12-5] A relic of the Sumptuary Laws. One of the earliest
instances occurs, 1530, in the interlude of _Godly Queene Hester_.

[12-6] Qui est pres de l'eglise est souvent loin de Dieu (He who
is near the Church is often far from God).--_Les Proverbes
Communs. Circa 1500._

[12-7]
Rather to bowe than breke is profitable;
Humylite is a thing commendable.

_The Morale Proverbs of Cristyne_; translated from the French
(1390) by Earl Rivers, and printed by Caxton in 1478.

[12-8] Fair words never hurt the tongue.--JONSON, CHAPMAN,
MARSTON: _Eastward Ho, act iv. sc. 1._

[12-9] FLETCHER: _Valentinian, act ii. sc. 1._

[12-10] HUMPHREY ROBERT: _Complaint for Reformation, 1572._ LYLY:
_Euphues, 1579_ (Arber's reprint), _p. 107_.

[13-1] Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.--SIR H.
SHERES: _Satyr on the Sea Officers._ TOM BROWN: _AEneus Sylvius's
Letter._ DRYDEN: _Epilogue to the Duke of Guise._

[13-2] Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit (If the end be well,
all will be well).--_Gestae Romanorum. Tale lxvii._

[13-3]
Who that well his warke beginneth,
The rather a good ende he winneth.

GOWER: _Confessio Amantis._

[13-4] LYLY: _Euphues_ (Arber's reprint), _p. 288_.

[13-5] TUSSER: _Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, An
Habitation Enforced._ BUNYAN: _Pilgrim's Progress._ MATHEW HENRY