Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies?

1400 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. i., Line 205.

'T is Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

1401 COWPER: _A Fable. Moral._

=Prudence.=

Henceforth His might we know, and know our own, So as not either to provoke, or dread New war, provoked.

1402 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 643.

Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

1403 ROBERT LOWTH: _Choice of Hercules,_ i.

=Prudery.=

Yon ancient prude, whose wither'd features show She might be young some forty years ago, Her elbows pinion'd close upon her hips, Her head erect, her fan upon her lips, Her eyebrows arch'd, her eyes both gone astray To watch yon amorous couple in their play, With bony and unkerchief'd neck defies The rude inclemency of wintry skies, And sails, with lappet-head and mincing airs, Duly at chink of bell to morning prayers.

1404 COWPER: _Truth,_ Line 13.

=Pulpit.=

And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, Was beat with fist instead of a stick.

1405 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i, Canto i., Line 11.

=Punishment.=

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed, add wings.

1406 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 699.

=Purity.=

'Tis said the lion will turn and flee From a maid in the pride of her purity.

1407 BYRON: _Siege of Corinth,_ St. 21.

=Purpose.=

Make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse; That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose.

1408 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i., Sc. 5.

=Purse.=

Who steals my purse steals trash; 't is something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands.

1409 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

=Pygmies.=

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales.

1410 YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night vi., Line 309.

==Q.==

=Quacks.=

Out, you impostors!

Quack-salving cheating mountebanks!--your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.

1411 MASSINGER: _Virgin-Martyr,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash-- Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill: All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.

1412 CRABBE: _Borough,_ Letter vii., Line 75.

=Quakers.=

Upright Quakers please both man and God.

1413 POPE: _Dunciad,_ Bk. iv., Line 208.

The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam.

1414 HOOD: _All Round my Hat._

=Quarrels.=

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel: but, being in, Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee: 1415 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

They who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose.

1416 GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. i., Fable 34.

=Queen.=

She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.

1417 POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. iii., Line 208.

=Quickness.=

With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.