the devil."

The old adage, which tells how

"He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay,"

is quoted in "Antony and Cleopatra" (ii. 7) by Menas:

"Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd,
Shall never find it more."

"Hold hook and line" ("2 Henry IV.," ii. 4). This, says Dyce, is a sort
of cant proverbial expression, which sometimes occurs in our early
writers ("Glossary," p. 210).

"Hold, or cut bow-strings"[879] ("A Midsummer-Night's Dream," i. 2).

[879] See page 394.

"Honest as the skin between his brows" ("Much Ado About Nothing," iii.
5).[880]

[880] "Handbook Index to Shakespeare," p. 392.

"Hunger will break through stone-walls." This is quoted by Marcius in
"Coriolanus" (i. 1), who, in reply to Agrippa's question, "What says the
other troop?" replies:

"They are dissolved: hang 'em!
They said they were an-hungry; sigh'd forth proverbs,--
That hunger broke stone-walls," etc.

According to an old Suffolk proverb,[881] "Hunger will break through
stone-walls, or anything, except Suffolk cheese."

[881] Bohn's "Handbook of Proverbs," 1857, p. 409.

"I scorn that with my heels" ("Much Ado About Nothing," iii. 4). A not
uncommon proverbial expression. It is again referred to, in the
"Merchant of Venice" (ii. 2), by Launcelot: "do not run; scorn running
with thy heels." Dyce thinks it is alluded to in "Venus and Adonis:"

"Beating his kind embracements with her heels."

"If you are wise, keep yourself warm." This proverb is probably alluded
to in the "Taming of the Shrew" (ii. 1):

"_Petruchio._ Am I not wise?

_Katharina_. Yes; keep you warm."

So, in "Much Ado About Nothing" (i. 1): "that if he have wit enough to
keep himself warm."

"I fear no colours" ("Twelfth Night," i. 5).

"Ill-gotten goods never prosper." This proverb is referred to by King
Henry ("3 Henry VI.," ii. 2):

"Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear
That things ill got had ever bad success?"

"Illotis manibus tractare sacra." Falstaff, in "1 Henry IV." (iii. 3),
says: "Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou dost, and do it with
unwashed hands too."

"Ill will never said well." This is quoted by Duke of Orleans in "Henry
V." (iii. 7).

"In at the window, or else o'er the hatch" ("King John," i. 1). Applied
to illegitimate children. Staunton has this note: "Woe worth the time
that ever a gave suck