A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 't is a task indeed to learn--to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows or makes you both polite and wise.

404 YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire v., Line 57.

=Converts.=

More proselytes and converts use t' accrue To false persuasions than the right and true; For error and mistake are infinite, But truth has but one way to be i' th' right.

405 BUTLER: _Misc. Thoughts,_ Line 113.

=Cooks.=

Heaven sends us good meat; but the devil sends cooks.

406 GARRICK: _Epigr. on Goldsmith's Retal._

=Coquette.=

Or light or dark, or short or tall, She sets a springe to snare them all; All 's one to her--above her fan She 'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.

407 T.B. ALDRICH: _Coquette._

=Corruption.=

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an unmeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

408 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Hon. Man's For.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3

At length corruption, like a general flood, (So long by watchful ministers withstood,) Shall deluge all; and avarice creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

409 POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. iii., Line 135.

=Counsel.=

Bosom up my counsel, You'll find it wholesome.

410 SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea.

411 POPE: _R. of the Lock,_ Canto iii., Line 7.

=Country.=

God made the country, and man made the town; What wonder, then, that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound, And least be threatened in the fields and groves?

412 COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. i., Line 749.

True patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good.

413 GEORGE BARRINGTON: _Prologue written for the Opening of the Playhouse at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 1796._

=Courage.=

What man dare, I dare.

Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd Rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcanian tiger.

Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

414 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

I dare do all that may become a man: Who dares do more is none.

415 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i., Sc. 7.

No thought of flight, None of retreat, no unbecoming deed That argued fear; each on himself relied, As only in his arm the moment lay Of victory.

416 MILTON, _Par. Lost,_ Bk. vi., Line 236.

=Court--Courtiers.=

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Whom I have soon to weed and pluck away.

417 SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

Not a courtier, Although they wear their faces to the bent Of the king's looks, hath a heart that is not Glad at the thing they scowl at.

418 SHAKS.: _Cymbeline,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

A mere court butterfly, That flutters in the pageant of a monarch.

419 BYRON: _Sardanapalus,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

=Courtesy.=

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy!

Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers,-- It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.

420 JAMES T. FIELDS: _Courtesy._

=Courtship.=

Bring, therefore, all the forces that you may, And lay incessant battery to her heart; Plaints, prayers, vows, ruth, and sorrow, and dismay,-- These engines can the proudest love convert.

421 SPENSER: _Amoretti and Epithalamion,_ Sonnet xiv.

She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd; She is a woman, therefore may be won.

422 SHAKS.: _Titus And.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

He that would win his dame must do As love does when he draws his bow; With one hand thrust the lady from, And with the other pull her home.

423 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto i., Line 449.

=Covetousness.=

When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness.

424 SHAKS.: _King John,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.