them long.

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NATHANIEL LEE.
1655-1692.

_Alexander the Great_.

Act i. Sc. 3.

Then he will talk--ye gods, how he will talk!

Act iv. Sc. 2.

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.

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TOM BROWN.
--1704.

_Dialogues of the Dead_.

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell;
But this alone I know full well,
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.[7]

[Note 7: "Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare;
Hoc tautum possum dicere, non amo te."
_Martial_, Ep. I. xxxiii.]

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THOMAS SOUTHERN.
1659-1746.

_Oroonoka_.

Act ii. Sc. 1.

Pity's akin to love.

DANIEL DEFOE.
1661-1731.

_The True-Born Englishman_.

Part i. Line 1

Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And 'twill be found upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.

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LOUIS THEOBALD.
1688-1744.

_The Double Falsehood_.

None but himself can be his parallel.

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MATTHEW PRIOR.
1664-1721.

_English Padlock_.

Be to her virtues very kind;
Be to her faults a little blind.

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_Henry and Emma_.

That air and harmony of shape express,
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.

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_The Thief and the Cordelier_.

Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart,
And often took leave; but was loth to depart.

_Epilogue to Lucius_.

And the gray mare will prove the better horse.[8]

[Note 8: See Hudibras, Part ii. Canto ii. line 698. Mr. Macaulay
thinks that this proverb originated in the preference generally given to
the gray mares of Flanders over the finest coach-horses of
England.--History of England, Vol. I. Ch. 3.]

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_Imitations of Horace_.

Of two evils I have chose the least.

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_Epitaph on Himself_.

Here lies what once was Matthew Prior;
The son of Adam and of Eve:
Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher?

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_Ode in Imitation of Horace_. B. iii. Od. 2.

And virtue is her own reward.

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COLLEY CIBBER.
1671-1757.