A harmless necessary cat.

272 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day.

273 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

=Cataract.=

The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion.

274 WORDSWORTH: _Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey._

=Cathedrals.=

The high embower'd roof, With antique pillars, massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

275 MILTON: _Il Penseroso,_ Line 157.

=Cato.=

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.

276 POPE: _Prologue to the Satires,_ Line 207.

=Cattle.=

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee.

277 CHARLES KINGSLEY: _The Sands of Dee._

=Cause.=

And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself.

278 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

=Caution.=

Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

279 SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act ii, Sc. 1.

Know when to speak; for many times it brings Danger, to give the best advice to kings.

280 HERRICK: _Aph. Caution in Council,_

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

281 FRANKLIN: _Poor Richard._

=Caverns.=

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

282 COLERIDGE: _Kubla Khan._

=Celibacy.=

But earthly happier is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.

283 SHAKS.: _Mid. N. Dream,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain But our destroyer, foe to God and man?

284 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 748.

=Censure.=

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

285 POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. x., Line 293.

=Ceremony.=

Ceremony was but devised at first To set a gloss on faint deeds--hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 't is shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

286 SHAKS.: _Timon of A.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Challenge.=

There I throw my gage, To prove it on thee, to the extremest point Of mortal breathing.

287 SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Chance.=

That power Which erring men call Chance.

288 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 587.

All nature is but art unknown to thee, All chance, direction, which thou canst not see.

289 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. i., Line 289.

=Change.=

All but God is changing day by day.

290 CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Prometheus._

When change itself can give no more, 'T is easy to be true.

291 CHARLES SEDLEY: _Reasons for Constancy._