DUST.-What is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VI. Part III. Act V.
Scene 2. (Warwick.)

SHAKSPERE.-Cymbeline, Act IV. Scene 2.
(Imogen to Aviragus.)

Mean and mighty, rotting

Together, have one dust.

SHAKSPERE.-Cymbeline, Act IV. Scene 2.
(Belarius.)

DUTY-Trimm'd in forms and visages of duty.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act I. Scene 1. (Iago.)

Never any thing can be amiss

When simpleness and duty tender it.

SHAKSPERE.-Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V.
Scene 1. (Theseus.)

My noble father,

I do perceive here a divided duty:

To you, I am bound for life and education;
My life and education both do learn me

How to respect you; you are the lord of duty;-
I am hitherto your daughter: But here's my husband.
SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act I. Scene 3.
(Desdemona to her Father.)

Stern daughter of the voice of God!

WORDSWORTH.-Ode to Duty, Vol. V. Page 46.

Duty demands, the parent's voice

Should sanctify the daughter's choice,
In that, is due obedience shewn;

To choose, belongs to her alone.

ED. MOORE.-Fable VI.

Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.
ADDISON. Cato, Act IV. Scene 4.

DYING.-"Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord,
When men are unprepar'd, and look not for it.

SHAKSPERE.-King Richard III. Act III. Scene 2.
(Catesby to Hastings.)

EAGLE.-That eagle's fate and mine are one,
Which, on the shaft that made him die,
Espy'd a feather of his own,

Wherewith he wont to soar so high.

WALLER.-To a Lady singing.

Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume
To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom.
TOM MOORE.-Corruption, Vol. III. Page 25

So the struck eagle,

View'd his own feather on the fatal dart,
And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart;
Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel
He nurs'd the pinion which impelled the steel.

BYRON.-English Bards. (On Kirke White.)

EAR.-Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 3.
(Polonius to Laertes.)

Bosom up my counsel,

You'll find it wholesome.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII. Act I. Scene 1. (Northumberland to Buckingham.)

For these two years hath the famine been in the land; and yet there are five years, in which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

GENESIS, Chap. XLV. Verse 6.

The oxen likewise, and the young asses that ear the ground, shall eat clean provender.

ISAIAH, Chap. XXX. Verse 24.

I have, God wot, a largë field to ear;

And weakë be the oxen in my plough,

CHAUCER.-The Knight's Tale, Line 888.

He that ears my land spares my team, and gives me leave to

in the crop.

SHAKSPERE.-All's Well that Ends Well, Act I.
Scene 3. (Clown to the Countess.)

EAR.

Let them go

To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,

For I have none.

SHAKSPERE.-King Richard II. Act III. Scene 2. (The King to Aumerle.)

EARLY.-My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 5.
(Juliet to her Nurse.)

I rise with the lark.

ANONYMOUS.-The Maid of the Oaks, Act II.
Scene 3.

Prevent your day at morning.

BEN JONSON.-The Alchemist, Act II. Scene 1.

I keep close to my business; this morning at my books before three.

COLLET.-Relics of Lit., 245; Quoting Howard on Laz.

Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.

SMART'S HORACE.-Book II. Epi. I.

Thus we improve the pleasure of the day,
While tasteless mortals sleep their time away.

MRS. CENTLIVRE.-The Wonder, Act III.
Scene 2.

EARN.-I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

SHAKSPERE. As you Like it, Act III. Scene 2. (Corin to Touchstone.)

EARTH.-Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earth.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-Bonduca, Act IV.
Scene 3.

Earth, lie gently on their aged bones.

MAY.-The Old Couple, Act I.

And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast.

POPE.-Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady, Line 64.

H

EARTH.-Light lie the earth; and flourish green the bough. PRIOR.-Ode to the Memory of Colonel Villiers,

Line 88.

The earth, that's nature's mother, is his tomb.

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act II.
Scene 3. (Friar Laurence.)

I speak of that learning which makes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

CICERO.-By Yonge, Tusculan Disp. Book V.
Div. 36.

Earth, sea, and air.

SHAKSPERE.-Pericles, Act I. Scene 4. (Cleon.)
THOMSON.-Liberty, Part II.

See through this air, this ocean, and this earth.
POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. I. Line 233.

Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three.

ROBERT MONTGOMERY.-On Woman.

Earth, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood!
SHELLEY.-The Alastor.

By Him who made the ocean, earth, and air.
POPE.-January and May, Line 208.

Air, earth, and seas, obey'd th' Almighty nod,
And with a general fear confess'd the God.

DRYDEN.-Ovid's Meta. Book I.

Upon this he has power given him over three spirits; one for earth, another for air, and a third for the sea.

GOLDSMITH.-Essays; Rules for raising the

Devil.

Thou sure and firm-set earth,

Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
The very stones prate of my whereabout,

And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act II. Scene 1.
(In the Dagger scene.)

EARTH.-All heaven resounded, and had earth been then,
All earth had to her centre shook.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book VI. Line 217.

EASE.-Ease leads to habit, as success to ease,
He lives by rule who lives himself to please.

CRABBE. Tales of the Hall, Book II.

He lives at ease that freely lives.

BARBOUR.-TO Freedom, Line 4.

EASY.-Tis as easy as lying.

Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2.

SHAKSPERE.

(Hamlet to Guildenstern.)

EAT.-He hath eaten me out of house and home.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part II. Act II.
Scene 1. (Hostess to Chief Justice.)

EAVES-DROPPER.-I'll play the eaves-dropper. SHAKSPERE.-King Richard III. Act V. Scene 3. (The King to Ratcliff.)

EBLANA.-The classic name for Dublin.

Eblana! much lov'd city, hail!

Where first I saw the light of day.

DERRICK.-Boswell's Johnson.

EDUCATION.-"Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

POPE.-Moral Essays, I. Part II.

Just education forms the man.

GAY.-Fable XIV. Part II.

A free school

For th' education of young gentlemen,

To study how to drink and take tobacco.

RANDOLPH.-The Muses' Looking-glass, Act III.
Scene 1.

If you suffer your people to be ill educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them,you first make thieves and then punish them!

SIR THOMAS MORE.-Utopia, Page 21.
(Bishop Burnett.)