driven on by the flesh; and he
must needs go, that the devil drives."

"Neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring."[885] Falstaff says of
the Hostess in "1 Henry IV." (iii. 3): "Why, she's neither fish nor
flesh; a man knows not where to have her."

[885] See Bohn's "Handbook of Proverbs," pp. 160, 251.

"One nail drives out another." In "Romeo and Juliet" (i. 2), Benvolio
says:

"Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish:
Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die."

The allusion, of course, is to homoeopathy. The Italians say, "Poison
quells poison."

"Old men are twice children;" or, as they say in Scotland, "Auld men are
twice bairns." We may compare the Greek [Greek: Dis paides oi gerontes].
The proverb occurs in "Hamlet" (ii. 2): "An old man is twice a child."

"Out of God's blessing into the warm sun." So Kent says in "King Lear"
(ii. 2):

"Good king, that must approve the common saw,--
Thou out of heaven's benediction com'st
To the warm sun."

"Patience perforce is a medicine for a mad dog." This proverb is
probably alluded to by Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet" (i. 5):

"Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting,
Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting."

And again, in "Richard III." (i. 1):

"_Gloster._ Meantime, have patience.

_Clarence._ I must perforce: farewell."

"Pitch and Pay" ("Henry V.," ii. 3). This is a proverbial expression
equivalent to "Pay down at once."[886] It probably originated from
pitching goods in a market, and paying immediately for their standing.
Tusser, in his "Description of Norwich," calls it:

"A city trim,
Where strangers well may seem to dwell,
That pitch and pay, or keep their day."

[886] See Dyce's "Glossary," p. 323.

"Pitchers have ears." Baptista quotes this proverb in the "Taming of the
Shrew" (iv. 4):

"Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants."

According to another old proverb: "Small pitchers have great ears."

"Poor and proud! fy, fy." Olivia, in "Twelfth Night" (iii. 1), says:

"O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!"

"Praise in departing" ("The Tempest," iii. 3). The meaning is: "Do not
praise your entertain