PEA, SWEET PEAR
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
In time of peace prepare for war.
Original not found, but probably suggested by "qui desiderat pacem, prseparet bellum." He who desires peace will prepare for war. Vegettus—Epitoma Rei Militaris. Lib. III. End of Prolog. A similar thought also in Dion Chrysostom. Livy. VI. 18. 7. Cornelius Nepos—Epaminondas. V. Statius—Thebais. VII. 554. Syrus—Maxims. 465.
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| text = He had rather spend £100,000 on Embassies to keep or procure peace with dishonour, than £100,000 on an army that would have forced peace with honour.
| author = Sir Anthony Weldon
| work = The Court and Character of King James.
| place = P. 185.
| note = (1650) Used by Disraeli on his return from the Berlin Congress on the Eastern Question, July, 1878.
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| text = <poem>But dream not helm and harness
The sign of valor true;
Peace hath higher tests of manhood
Than battle ever knew.
WHrrnER—Poems. The Hero. St. 19.
As on the Sea of Galilee,
The Christ is whispering "Peace."
Whtttier—Tent on the Beach. Kallundborg
Church.
When earth as if on evil dreams
Looks back upon her wars,
And the white light of Christ outstreams
From the red disc of Mars,
His fame, who led the stormy van
Of battle, well may cease;
But never that which crowns the man
Whose victory was peace.
WHmrERr—William Francis Barlletl.
The example of America must be the example
not merely of peace because it will not fight, but
of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not.
There is such a thing as a man being too proud
to fight. There is such a'thihg as a nation being
so right that.it does not need to convince others
by force that it is right.
Woodrqw Wilson—Address in. Contention
Hall. Philadelphia, May 10, 1915.
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Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
Young—Night Thoughts. Night V. L. 1,058.
• PEA, SWEET
Lathyrus Odoratus
The pea is but a wanton witch
In too much haste to wed,
And clasps her rings on every hand.
Hood—Flowers.
Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight;
With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white,
And taper fingers catching at all things,
To bind them all about with tiny rings.
Keats—1 Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little HM.
PEACOCK
For everything seemed resting on his nod,
As they could read in all eyes. Now to them,
Who were accustomed, as a sort of god,
To see the sultan, rich in many a gem,
Like an imperial peacock stalk abroad
(That royal bird, whose tail's a diadem.)
With all the pomp of power, it was a doubt
How power could condescend to do without.
To frame the little animal, provide
All the gay hues that wait on female pride:
Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire
The shining bellies of the fly require;
The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail,
Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.
Gay—Rural Sports.. Canto I. L. 177.
To Paradise, the Arabs say,
Satan could never find the way
Until the peacock led him in.
Leland—The Peacock.
"Fly pride," says the peacock.
Comedy of Errors. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 81.
Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while
And like a peacock sweep along his tail.
Henry VI. Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 5.
Why, he stalks up and down like a peacock,—
a stride and a stand.
Troilus and Cressida. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 251.
And there they placed a peacock in his pride,
Before the damsel
| author = Tennyson
| work = Gareth and Lynette.
PEACH
A little peach in an orchard grew,—
A little peach of emerald hue;
Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew
It grew.
Eugene Field—The Little Peach.
As touching peaches in general, the very name
in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth
evidently show that they were brought out of
Persia first.
ruin:—Natural History. Bk. XV. Ch. 13.
Holland's trans.
The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
James Whttcomb Riley—The Ripest Peach.
(See Carman under Apples)
PEAR
"Now, Sire,"quod she, "for aught that may bityde,
I moste haue of the peres that I see,
Or I moote dye, so soore longeth me
To eten of the smalle peres grene."
Chaucer—Canterbury Tales. The Merchantes
Tale. L. 14,669.
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The great white pear-tree dropped with dew from
leaves
And blossom}}, under {{sc|heavens of happy blue.
Jean Ingelow—Songs with Preludes. Wedlock.
