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1

Back and side go bare, go bare,
Both foot and hand go cold;
But belly, God send thee good ale enough,
Whether it be new or old.

Bishop Still—Gammer Gurton's Needle. Act II.

2

I cannot eat but little meat,
My stomach is not good;
But sure I think that I can drink
With him that wears a hood.

Bishop Still—Gammer Gurton's Needle. Act II. Authorship of the song claimed for William Stevenson of Durham. (Died 1575) In Hutchinson's Songs of the Vine. Said to be found in old MS. See Skelton Works. Vol. I. Note to pages VII-X. Dyce's ed. Gammer Gurton's Needle claimed for John Bridges.

3

Absentem tedit cum ebrio qui litigat.
He hurts the absent who quarrels with a drunken man.

Syrus—Maxims.

4

While briskly to each patriot lip
Walks eager round the inspiring flip;
Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit
The quintessence of public spirit!

John Trumbull—McFingal. Canto III. L. 21.

5

We're gaily yet, we're gaily yet,
And we're not very fow, but we're gaily yet;
Then set ye awhile, and tipple a bit.
For we's not very fow, but we're gaily yet.

Vanbrugh—Provoked Wife. Act III. Sc. 2. Song—Colonel Bully.

6

They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.

Artemus Ward—Moses the Sassy. Programme.

7

Drink, pretty creature, drink!

Wordsworth—The Pet Lamb.

8

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

Xenophon—Anabasis. Bk. IV. Ch. V.

DUELLING

(See also Challenge)

9

It has a strange, quiek jar upon the ear,
That cocking of a pistol, when you know
A moment more will bring the sight to bear
Upon your person, twelve yards off or so.

Byron—Don Juan. Canto IV. St. 41.

10

Some fiery fop, with new commission vain,
Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man;
Some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast,
Provokes a broil, and stabs you for a jest.

Samuel Johnson—London. L. 226.

DUTY

11

Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.

Addison—Cato. Act IV. Sc. 4.

12

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise,

because it is our duty.

St. Augustine

13

He who is false to present duty breaks a
thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when
he may have forgotten its cause.

Henry Ward Beecher—Life Thoughts.

14

To do my duty in that state of life unto which

it shall please God to call me.

Book of Common Prayer. Catechism.

15

Maintain your post: That's all the fame you
need;
For 'tis impossible you should proceed.

Dryden To Mr. Congreve, on his Comedy "The Double Dealer."

16

Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.

Dryden—Eleonora. L. 178.

17

And rank for her meant duty, various,
Yet equal in its worth, done worthily.
Command was service; humblest service done
By willing and discerning souls was glory.

George Eliot—Agatha.

18

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil

another.

George Eliot—Daniel Deronda. Bk. VI. Ch. XLVI.

19

So nigh is graindeur to our dust,
So near is God to man.
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can.

Emerson—Voluntaries. St. 3. L. 13.

20

When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough:
I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

Fielding—Tom Thumb. Act I. Sc. 3.

21

In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Sea Studies.

22

Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung
But what is your duty? What the day demands.

Goethe—Sprüche in Prosa. III. 151.

23

Hath the spirit of all beauty
Kissed you in the path of duty?

Anna Katharine Green—On the Threshold.

24

Then on! then on! where duty leads,
My course be onward still.

Bishop Heber—Journal.

25

I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty:—
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?

Ellen Sturgis Hooper—Duty.