'All you who think the city ne'er can thrive Till every cuckold-maker's flay'd alive, Attend.'

(Pope).

275. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 300.

'A head, no h.e.l.lebore can cure.'

276. HOR. 1 Sat. iii. 42.

'Misconduct screen'd behind a specious name.'

277. OVID, Met. lib. iv. ver. 428.

'Receive instruction from an enemy.'

278. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 250.

'I rather choose a low and creeping style.'

279. HOR. Ars Poet. v. 316.

'He knows what best befits each character.'

280. HOR. 1 Ep. xvii. 35.

'To please the great is not the smallest praise.'

(Creech).

281. VIRG. aen. iv. 64.

'Anxious the reeking entrails he consults.'

282. VIRG. aen. viii. 580.

'Hopes and fears in equal balance laid.'

(Dryden).

283. PERS. Prolog. ver. 10.

'Necessity is the mother of invention.'

(English Proverbs).

284. VIRG. Ecl. vii. 17.

'Their mirth to share, I bid my business wait.'

285. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 227.

'But then they did not wrong themselves so much, To make a G.o.d, a hero, or a king, (Stript of his golden crown, and purple robe) Descend to a mechanic dialect; Nor (to avoid such meanness) soaring high, With empty sound, and airy notions fly.'

(Roscommon).

286. TACIT. Ann. I. xiv. c. 21.

'Specious names are lent to cover vices.'

287. MENAND.

'Dear native land, how do the good and wise Thy happy clime and countless blessings prize!'

288. HOR. 1 Ep. vi. 10.

'Both fear alike.'

289. HOR. 1 Od. iv. 15.