Capital crimes, chewed, swallowed and digested, appear before us.

SHAKESPEARE (Henry V. 11. 2.) 1600. You'll forbear to swallow

What he cannot chew; nay 'tis injustice truly that you should starve

For that which only he can feast his eye withal
And not digest.

MARSTON (The Fawn III. 3.) 1606. ?

FOOLISH IGNORANT INDIAN.

Whose hand, like the base Indian, throws a pearl away richer than all his tribe.

SHAKESPEARE (Othello v. 2.) 1622. The jewels that she wore, more worth than all her tribe.

WEBSTER (Appius and Virginia Iv. 1.) 1654. I prize my life at no more value than a foolish ignorant Indian does a diamond.

CHAPMAN (Revenge for Honour v. 2.) 1654. SLEEPS BURIED IN SILENCE AND OBLIVION The earliest antiquity lies buried in silence and oblivion.

BACON (PREFACE. Wisdom of the Ancients). 1609. ....lies wrapt in eternal silence.

SPENSER (Fairy Queen Bk. 1. 1. XLI.) 1590-1609. ....and in oblivion ever buried is.

IBID (II. 3.)

Go, bury thy head in silence and let oblivion

be thy utmost hope.

MARSTON (The Fawn v. 5.) 1606.

Sleep in sweet oblivion.

IBID (Sophonisba 1. 1.) 1606.

May the cause.... be buried in everlasting silence. MASSINGER (Unnatural Combat 11. 1.) 1639.

Slept in silence.

BEAUMONT & FLETCHER (Philaster III. 1.)

1613?-1620.

....buried in oblivion.

FLETCHER (Monsieur Thomas 1. 1.) 1639.

KYD (Cornelia) 1594.

Cæsar that in silence might have slept.

Slept still in oblivion.

CHAPMAN (Revenge for Honour 1. 2.) 1654.

HELEN OF TROY

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

MARLOWE (Faustus) 1588-1604.

She is a pearl whose price

Hath launched above a thousand ships.

SHAKESPEARE (Tr. and Cressida) 1599-1609.

I tell thee, sweet, a face not half so fair
As thine hath arm'd whole nations in the field
And brought a thousand ships to Tenedos
To sack lamented Troy.

RACK.

MAY (The Heir III) 1620.

I include the following references to "rack because the well known passage in The Tempest has caused commentators perplexity, some thinking that "leave not a rack behind" should be amended to "wreck behind.

The winds in the upper regions which move the clouds above, which we call the rack.

BACON (Sylva Sylvarum) 1622.

Like inconstant clouds

That rack upon the carriage of the winds. ANON (Edward III. II. 1.) 1596.

Shall I stray into the middle air

And stay the sailing rack?

FLETCHER (Faithful Shep. v. 5.) 1610.

The sun sat lordly in his pride

Not shadowed with the veil of any cloud.

The welkin had no rack.

GREENE (Never too late) 1590.

Leave not a rack behind.

SHAKESPEARE (Tempest) 1623.

Beating the clouds into their swiftest rack. PEELE (David and Bathsheba) 1599.

THROUGH SMALL CRANNIES

You may see great objects through small crannies. BACON (Sylva Sylvarum) 1627. I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion.

SHAKESPEARE (Love's Labour's Lost v. 2.) 1598. Aliena... could see day at a little hole.

LODGE (Rosalynde) 1590.

I see this love you speak of through your daughter although the hole be little.

BEAUMONT & FLETCHFR (Knight of the
Burning Pestle IV. 3.) 1611-1613.

OLD MOLE !

Old mole, canst work.... so fast?

SHAKESPEARE (Hamlet) 1603.

Work you that way, old mole?

FORD ('Tis Pity 1. 2.) 1633.

This mole does undermine me.

WEBSTER (Duchess of Malfi 11. 3.) 1616-1623. I give all the world leave to whet their wits against me; work like moles to undermine me. MARMION (Antiquary 1.) 1641.

He had so many moles undermining him.

BACON (Henry VII.) 1622. We... will undermine their secret works though they have digged like moles.

MASSINGER (Great Duke of Florence 111. 1.) 1636. LOVE CREEPS

This history being but a leaf or two, I pray your pardon if I send it for your recreation, considering that Love must creep where it cannot go.

BACON (Letter to KING JAMES). Love will creep in service where it dare not go. SHAKESPEARE (Two Gentlemen of Verona Iv. 2.)

1623. I remember the saying of Dante that love cannot roughly be thrust out, but it must easily creep.

GREENE (Mamillia) 1584.

Love is a fire, love is a coal

Whose flame creeps in at every hole.
PEELE (The Hunting of Cupid) 1591.

Love ought to creep.

Love should creep.

GREENE (Friar Bacon) 1594.

LYLY (Endymion III. 4.) 1597. Now what is love? I will you show A thing that creeps and cannot go.

HEYWOOD (Rape of Lucrece) 1608.

Yet what is love, good shepherd show.
A thing that creeps, it cannot go.

SIR W. RALEIGH.

Love.... creeps in at a mouse hole.

MIDDLETON (The Changeling III. 3.) 1621.

LOVERS' PERJURIES 1

At lovers perjuries they say Jove laughs.

SHAKESPEARE (Romeo and Juliet) 1591. Jove himself sits and smiles at lovers perjuries. DAY (Humour out of Breath iv. 1.) 1608.

No pain is due to lovers perjury
If Jove himself laugh at it.

FIELD & MASSINGER (Fatal Dowry Iv. 2.)

The Gods.... laughers at lovers deceits.

[1632.

LYLY (Endymion 1. 2.) 1591.

Venus be thou propitious to my wiles
And laugh at lovers perjuries.

ANON (True Trojans 11. 1.) 1633.

LOVE A FOLLY

Love.... the child of folly.

BACON (Essay, Of Love.) 1612.

Love is folly.... 'tis madness.

GREENE (Philomela) 15— — By love the young and tender wit is turned to folly.

SHAKESPEARE (Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.

That mad fit which fooles call Love.

1.) 1623.

SPENSER (Hymns) 1611.

I from Ovid.