YOU CANNOT MAKE-YOU THAT CHUSE.

"You cannot make gross sin look clear; To revenge is not valour, but to bear." SHAKESPEARE.

"You may as well

Timon of Athens (First Senator),
Act III., Sc. V.

Forbid the sea for to obey the moon,
As, or by oath, remove, or counsel, shake
The fabric of his folly, whose foundation
Is pil'd upon his faith, and will continue
The standing of his body."

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SHAKESPEARE. The Winter's Tale (Camillo), Act I., Sc. II.
Vide-"I pray you think," etc.

'You may know him by his company."

WYCHERLEY. Love in a Wood (Sir Simon), Act I., Sc. I.

"You must be pretty deep to catch weasels asleep,

Says the proverb: that is take the Fair unawares"."

THOS. INGOLDSBY. A Lay of St. Gengulphus.
OLD PROVErb.

"You must cut your coat according to your cloth."
68 According to her cloth she cut her coat."

"You must practise

DRYDEN. The Cock and the Fox.

The manners of the time, if you intend

To have favour from it."

MASSINGER. The Unnatural Combat (Montreville),

Act I., Sc. I.

"You never know what life means till you die :
Even throughout life, 'tis death that makes life live,
Gives it whatever the significance.'

R. BROWNING. The Ring and the Book, XI., line 2375.

"You shall find us in our salt-water girdle."

SHAKESPEARE. Cymbeline (Cloten), Act III., Sc. I. "You shall never take a woman without her answer, unless you take her without her tongue."

SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It (Rosalind), Act IV., Sc. I.

"You take my house when you do take the prop

That doth sustain my house; you take my life
When you do take the means by which I live."

SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice (Shylock), Act IV., Sc. I.

"You that chuse not by the view,

Chance as fair, and chuse as true!
Since this fortune falls to you,

Be content and seek no new.
If you be well pleased with this,

And hold your fortune for your bliss,

Turn you where your lady is,

And claim her with a loving kiss."

SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice (Bassanio), Act III., Sc. II.

Inscription on the leaden casket.

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YOUNG MEN-YOUTH no less.

"Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both."

ADDISON. Cato (Syphax), Act II., Sc. V.

"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools." CHAPMAN. All Fools, Act V., Sc. I.

"Young men's love then lies

Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes."

SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence),
Act II., Sc. III.

"Young twigges are sooner bent than old trees."

LYLY. Euphues and his England.

"Your bait of falsehood takes the carp of truth.”

SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet (Polonius), Act II., Sc. I.

"Your 'if' is the only peace-maker; much virtue in 'if'."

SHAKESPEARE. As You Like It (Touchstone), Act V., Sc. IV.

"Your sorrow, only sorrow's shade,

Keeps real sorrow far away."

TENNYSON. Margaret.

"Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else, to

fat us; and we fat ourselves for maggots."

SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act IV., Sc. III.

"Youth, beauty, graceful action, seldom fail;

But common interest always will prevail :

And pity never ceases to be shown

To him who makes the people's wrongs his own."

DRYDEN. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. I., line 723.

"Youth calls for Pleasure, Pleasure calls for Love."

"Youth can reach

AKENSIDE. Love, An Elegy.

Where age gropes dimly." R. BROWNING. A Death in the Desert. "Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall;

A mother's secret hope outlives them all."

Vows can't change nature, priests are only men."

R. BROWNING. The Ring and the Book, I., 1056. "(For) youth no less becomes

The light and careless livery that it wears,
Than settled age his sables and his weeds,
Importing health and graveness."

SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet (King), Act IV., Sc. yỉ.

YOUTH ON THE PROW-ZED! THOU.

(In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ;) Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the helm." "Youth perpetual dwells in fountains,Not in flasks and casks and cellars."

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GRAY. The Bard.

LONGFELLOW. Drinking Song.

"Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know."

DENHAM. On Prudence, line 225.

"Zeal then, not charity, became the guide,
And hell was built on spite, and heav'n on pride."

POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. III., line 261.

"Zed! thou unnecessary letter!"

SHAKESPEARE. King Lear (Kent), Act II., Sc. II.

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

"A. W.": 16th century, 59, 61, 151, | BEACONSFIELD, Earl of: 1805-1881,
181, 220, 276.

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