Chapter 100
[Note 26: This expression is of much Creator antiquity, it appears in the Chronicle of Battel Abbey, from 1066 to 1176, page 27, Lower's Translation, and also in Piers Ploughman's Vision, line 13994.]
Book i. Chapter 23.
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.
Book iii. Chapter 12.
Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
FRANCIS RABELAIS.
1483-1553.
_Translated by Urquhart and Motteux_.
Book i. Chapter 1. Note 2.
To return to our muttons.
Book i. Chapter 5.
To drink no more than a sponge.
Appet.i.te comes with eating, says Angeston.
Book i. Chapter 11.
He looked a gift horse in the mouth.
By robbing Peter he paid Paul,...
and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.
He did make of necessity virtue.
Book iv. Chapter 23.
I'll go his halves.
Book iv. Chapter 24.
The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES.
1547-1616.
_Don Quixote_. _Translated by Jarvis_.
Part i. Book iv. Ch. 20.
Every one is the son of his own works.
Part i. Book iv. Ch. 23.
I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.
Part ii. Book i. Ch. 4.
Every one is as G.o.d made him, and often-times a great deal worse.
Part ii. Book iv. Oh. 16.
Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.
1554-1586.