s Charites Veneri assistunt, dominamque sequuntur:
Hincque voluptates, atque alimenta parant;
Laetitiam Euphrosyne, speciosum Aglaia nitorem;
Suadela est Pithus, blandus et ore lepos.
Cur nudae? mentis quoniam candore venustas
Constat, et eximia simplicitate plucet.
An quia nil referunt ingrati, atque arcula inanis
Est Charitum? qui dat munera, nudus eget.
Addita cur nuper pedibus talaria? _Bis dat_
_Qui cito dat_--Minimi gratia tarda preti est.
Implicitis ulnis cur vertitur altera? gratus
Fenerat: huic remanent una abeunte duae.
Jupiter iis genitor, coeli de semine divas
Omnibus acceptas edidit Eurynome."

Now here we have the proverb clearly enough.

I subjoin the note upon the lines in which it appears.

"Bis dat qui cito dat," in Mimis Publii. "Beneficium inopi bis dat,
qui dat celeriter." Proverb, Bis dat, &c.

Referring to the Sentences of Publius Syrus, published, with the
additional Fables of Phaedrus, from the Vatican MSS., by Angelo Mai,
I found the line thus given:

"Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter."

The same idea, I believe, occurs in Ovid. Query whether it is not
a thought naturally presenting itself to the mind, reflected by
memory, confirmed by experience, and which some Mimic author has
made proverbial by his terse, gnomic form of expression.

S.H.

* * * * *

PARALLEL PASSAGES.

I take the liberty of sending you several parallel passages, which may
probably appear to you worthy of insertion in your valuable paper.

1.

"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."

Shakspeare: _Julius Caesar_.

"There is an hour in each man's life appointed
To make his happiness, if then he seize it."

Beaumont and Fletcher: _The Custom of the Country_.

"There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel
For each man's good--"

Chapman: _Bussy d'Ambois_.

2.

"The fann'd snow,
That's bolted by the northern blast thrice o'er."

Shakspeare: _A Winter's Tale_.

"Snow in the fall,
Purely refined by the bleak northern blast."

Davenport: _The City Nightcap_.

3.

"Like pearl
Dropt from the opening eyelids of the morn
Upon the bashful rose."

Middleton: _The Game at Chess_.

"Together both, ere the high lawns appeared
Under the opening eyelids of the morn,
We drive afield."

Milton: _Lysidas_.

4.