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IVY-JEMMY DAWSON.

IVY.-Usurping ivy, briar, or idle moss;
Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion
Infect thy sap, and live on thy confusion.

SHAKSPERE.-Com. of Errors, Act II. Scene 2.
(Adriana to Antipholus of S.)

As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone,
And hides the ruin that it feeds upon.

COWPER.-The Progress of Error, Line 285.

JACK IN OFFICE.-I do despise them;
For they do prank them in authority,

Against all noble sufferance.

SHAKSPERE.-Coriolanus, Act III. Scene 1.
(The General to Lartius.)

JARS.-Hence jarring sectaries may learn
Their real int'rest to discern;

That brother should not war with brother,

And worry and devour each other.

COWPER.-Nightingale and Glow-worm.

JEALOUSY.-Be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus. SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 2. (Cassius to him.)

It is a monster,

Begot upon itself, born on itself.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act III. Scene 4.
(Emilia to Desdemona.)

O beware, my lord, of jealousy;

It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock

The meat it feeds on.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act III. Scene 3. (Iago to
Othello;) Merchant of Venice, Act III.
Scene 2.

JEMMY DAWSON-Though justice ever must prevail,
The tear my Kitty sheds is due;

For seldom shall she hear a tale

So sad, so tender, yet so true.

SHENSTONE. Jemmy Dawson, Verse 20.

Or Gallus' song, so tender and so true,

As e'vn Lycoris might with pity view!

ROSCOMMON.-On Translated Verse, Line 23.

JEPHTHA.—O Jephtha, judge of Israel,-what a treasure hadst thou!

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2.

(Hamlet and Polonius.)

JERKIN.-A man's body and his mind (with the utmost reverence to both I speak it) are exactly like a jerkin, and a jerkin's lining;-rumple the one, you rumple the other. STERNE.-Tristram Shandy, Chap. XLVIII.

JEST.-A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

Of him that hears it, never in the tongue

Of him that makes it.

SHAKSPERE.-Love's Labour's Lost, Act V.
Scene 2. (Rosaline to Biron.)

JEW.-Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act III.
Scene 1. (Shylock to Salarino.)

1. He left his old religion for an estate, and has not had time to get a new one.

2. But stands like a dead wall between church and synagogue, or like the blank leaves between the Old and New Testament. SHERIDAN.-The Duenna, Act I. Scene 3.

He was a Jew, and turned Catholic; but in his heart he is still as much a Jew as ever Pilate was: for, they say, he abjured for interest.

LE SAGE.-Gil Blas, Book VI. Chap. I.

I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act IV.
Scene 1. (Gratiano to Shylock.)

There's no living without these Israelites. I am an absolute bankrupt with every Christian creature.

O'BRIEN.-Cross Purposes, Act I. Scene 1.

JOB.-As poor as Job.

SHAKSPERE.-Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V.
Scene 5.

As wicked as Job's wife.

IBID. (Page and Ford.)

JOINT-The time is out of joint.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5.

(To Horatio and Marcellus.)

JOURNEY.—In the mid-journey of our life below,
I found myself within a gloomy wood,

No traces left, the path direct to show.

WRIGHT'S DANTE.-Inferno, Line 1.

JOY.-Joy ruled the day, and Love the night.
DRYDEN. The Secular Masque.

How much better it is to weep at joy, than joy at weeping.
SHAKSPERE.-Much Ado About Nothing, Act I.
Scene 1. (Leonato to Messenger.)

An infant when it gazes on a light,

A child the moment when it drains the breast, A devotee when soars the host in sight,

An Arab with a stranger for a guest,

A sailor when the prize has struck in fight,
A miser filling his most hoarded chest,

Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping,

As they who watch o'er what they love while sleeping.
BYRON.-Don Juan, Canto II. Stanza 196.

Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.

POLLOK.-The Course of Time, Book I.

JUDGES.-The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

POPE.-Rape of the Lock, Canto III. Line 21.

How, justice before I've dined! I tell you it's impossible.
ANONYMOUS.-Duke and No Duke, Act I.

Thieves for their robbery have authority,

When judges steal themselves.

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act II. Scene 2. (Angelo meditating on his intentions towards Isabel.)

He who the sword of heaven will bear,

Should be as holy as severe;

Pattern in himself, to know,
Grace to stand, and virtue go;
More or less to others praying,
Than by self-offences weighing.
Shame to him, whose cruel striking
Kills for faults of his own liking!

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act III.
Scene 2. (The Duke on Angelo's hypocrisy.)

JUDGES.-O noble judge! O excellent young man!
SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice,

Act IV.

Scene 1. (Shylock, when Portia directs Antonio to prepare his bosom for the knife.)

JUDGMENT.-'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

POPE.-On Criticism, Line 9.

Sir, if my judgment you'll allow

I've seen

-and sure I ought to know!

MERRICK.-The Chamelion.

JURIES.-They have been grand jurymen, since before Noah was a sailor.

SHAKSPERE.-Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 2. (Sir Toby to Fabian.)

Do not your juries give their verdict

As if they felt the cause, not heard it.

BUTLER.-Hudibras, Part II. Canto II. Line 365.

JUST.-The sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.

PSALM CXII. Verse 6.

Since the bright actions of the just
Survive unburied in the kindred dust.

WHEELWRIGHT's Pindar. -Olym. Ode, VIII.
Line 112.

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind,
E'en to the ashes of the just, is kind.

POPE. The Iliad, Book XXIV. Line 523.

[David lived about 1000 years before our Saviour, and the Psalms are more ancient than the writings of any classic now extant. Homer, one of the earliest classic writers, wrote about 840 years before the birth of Christ, and above 100 years after the death of Solomon, the son of David.-Sir JOHN BAYLEY'S Book of Common Prayer, 239. It appears evident that the writers of the Old Testament were the original and best authors, and that from them are borrowed numerous ideas attributed to the Poets themselves.-See DR. JOHNSON, on the Oriental Eclogues of Collins.]

To the height of this great argument
I may assert Eternal Providence,

And justify the ways of God to men.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 25.

Be just, and fear not :

Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,

Thy God's, and Truth's.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII. Act III. Scene 2. (Wolsey to Cromwell.)

Just are the ways of God,

And justifiable to men.

MILTON. Samson Agonistes, Line 293.

POPE has borrowed this idea in the following lines :-
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;
But vindicate the ways of God to man.

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epistle I. Line 15.

JUSTICE.-Ye gods! what justice rules the ball?
Freedom and Arts together fall!

POPE.-Choruses to Brutus.

Thus, if eternal justice rules the ball!

Thus shall your wives, and thus your children fall.
POPE.-Elegy to the Memory of a Lady.

And then, the justice;

In fair round belly, with good capon lin❜d,

With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances,

And so he plays his part.

SHAKSPERE.-As You Like it, Act II. Scene 7.
(Jaques on the Seven Ages of Man.)

Though justice be thy plea, consider this-
That in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation.

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act IV.
Scene 1. (Portia to Shylock.)

Yet I shall temper so

Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most
Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

MILTON. Paradise Lost, Book X. Line 77.

The dew of justice, which did seldom fall,
And when it dropt, the drops were very small.

BEAUMONT.-The Hermaphrodite, a Poem.

1. Do you not know me, Mr. Justice?

2. Justice is blind, he knows nobody.

DRYDEN.-The Wild Gallant, Act V. Scene 1.