rown, or some ornament that resembled it, at the end
of their books." In "Troilus and Cressida" (iv. 5), Hector says:

"The fall of every Phrygian stone will cost
A drop of Grecian blood: the end crowns all;
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it."

[870] "Illustrations of Shakespeare," p. 199.

Prince Henry ("2 Henry IV.," ii. 2), in reply to Poins, gives another
turn to the proverb: "By this hand, thou think'st me as far in the
devil's book as thou and Falstaff, for obduracy and persistency: let the
end try the man."[871]

[871] See Green's "Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers," 1870,
pp. 319, 323.

"Fly pride, says the peacock." This is quoted by Dromio of Syracuse, in
"The Comedy of Errors" (iv. 3).[872]

[872] Halliwell-Phillipps's "Handbook Index to Shakespeare," p. 391.

"Friends may meet, but mountains never greet." This is ironically
alluded to in "As You Like It" (iii. 2), by Celia: "It is a hard matter
for friends to meet; but mountains may be removed with earthquakes, and
so encounter."

"Give the devil his due." In "Henry V." (iii. 7) it is quoted by the
Duke of Orleans.

"God sends fools fortune." It is to this version of the Latin adage,
"Fortuna favet fatuis" ("Fortune favors fools"), that Touchstone alludes
in his reply to Jaques, in "As You Like It" (ii. 7):

"'No, sir,' quoth he,
'Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune.'"

Under different forms, the same proverb is found on the Continent. The
Spanish say, "The mother of God appears to fools;" and the German one is
this, "Fortune and women are fond of fools."[873]

[873] Kelly's "Proverbs of All Nations," 1872, p. 52.

"God sends not corn for the rich only." This is quoted by Marcius in
"Coriolanus" (i. 1).

"Good goose, do not bite." This proverb is used in "Romeo and Juliet"
(ii. 4):

"_Mercutio._ I will bite thee by the ear for that jest.

_Romeo._ Nay, good goose, bite not."

"Good liquor will make a cat speak." So, in the "Tempest" (ii. 2),
Stephano says: "Come on your ways: open your mouth; here is that which
will give language to you, cat; open your mouth."

"Good wine needs no bush." This old proverb, which is quoted by
Shakespeare in "As You Like It" (v. 4, "Epilogue")--"If it be true that
good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no
epilogue"--refers to the custom of hanging up a bunch of twigs,