Like will to like: each creature loves his kind, Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind.

1697 HERRICK: _Aph. Like Loves His Like._

=Simplicity.=

And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, And captive good attending captive ill.

1698 SHAKS.: Sonnet lxvi.

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are.

In his simplicity sublime.

1699 TENNYSON: _Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington,_ St. 4.

=Sin.=

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhousell'd, disappointed, unaneled.

1700 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 5.

One sin, I know, another doth provoke; Murder's as near to lust, as flame to smoke.

1701 SHAKS.: _Pericles,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

In lashing sin, of every stroke beware, For sinners feel, and sinners you must spare.

1702 CRABBE: _Tales, Advice,_ Line 242.

But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.

1703 CAMPBELL: _Pl. of Hope,_ Pt. ii., Line 357.

I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!

1704 BURNS: _Epistle to a Young Friend._

Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.

1705 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto i., Line 215.

=Sincerity.=

I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely love.

1706 SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's power to thunder. His heart's his mouth: What his breast forges that his tongue must vent.

1707 SHAKS.: _Coriolanus,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

=Singing.=

But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims.

1708 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high.

Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low.

The universe's inward voices cry "Amen" to either song of joy and woe.

Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!

1709 MRS. BROWNING: _Sonnets, Seraph and Poet._

I send my heart up to thee, all my heart In this my singing!

For the stars help me, and the sea bears part.

1710 ROBERT BROWNING: _In a Gondola._

I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing.

1711 TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. xxi., St. 6.

Song forbids victorious deeds to die.

1712 SCHILLER: _Artists,_ St. 11.

=Singularity.=

No two on earth in all things can agree; All have some darling singularity.

1713 CHURCHILL: _Apology,_ Line 402.

=Sister.=

Oh, never say hereafter But I am truest speaker. You call'd me brother When I was but your sister.

1714 SHAKS.: _Cymbeline,_ Act v., Sc. 5.

=Skill.=

How happy is he born or taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill!

1715 WOTTON: _Character of a Happy Life._

=Skull.=

Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, Its chambers desolate, its portals foul; Yes, this was once ambition's airy hall, The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.

1716 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto ii., St. 6.

=Sky.=

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

1717 MRS. BARBAULD: _The Invitation._

The sky is changed,--and such a change. O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman!

1718 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 92.