"O curse of kings! Infusing a dread life into their words, And linking to the sudden transient thought The unchangeable, irrevocable deed!"--Coleridge, _Death of Wallenstein_, v. 9. * * * * * "Conscience! . . . . . . Your lank jawed, hungry judge will dine upon 't, And hang the guiltless rather than eat his mutton cold."--C. Cibber, _Richard III_. "The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine."--Pope, _Rape of the Lock_, iii. 21. HARRY LEROY TEMPLE. "Death and his brother Sleep." Quoted (from Shelley) with parallel passages from Sir T. Browne, Coleridge, and Byron in "N. & Q.," Vol. iv., p. 435. Add to them the following: "Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born." _Samuel Daniel_, Spenser's successor as "voluntary Laureate." "Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, Brother to Death."--Fletcher, _Valentinian_. "The death of each day's life."--Shakspeare, _Macbeth_, Act II. Sc. 2. "Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed."--_Bishop Ken._ "We thought her sleeping when she died; And dying, when she slept."--_Hood._ "Somne levis, quanquam certissima mortis imago Consortem cupio te tamen esse tori; Alma quies, optata, veni, nam sic sine vita Vivere quam suave est; sic sine morte mori."--_T. Warton._ [_Finely translated by Wolcot._] "Come, gentle sleep! attend thy vot'ry's pray'r, And, though Death's image, to my couch repair; How sweet, though lifeless, yet with life to lie, And, without dying, oh, how sweet to die!" "While sleep the weary world reliev'd, By counterfeiting death revived."--Butler, _Hudibras_. "Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, And look on death itself!"--Shakspeare, _Macbeth_, Act II. Sc. 3. "Nature, alas! why are thou so Obliged unto thy greatest foe? Sleep that is thy best repast, Yet of death it bears a taste, And both are the same things at last."--Dennis, _Sophonisba_. "Great Nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast."--Shakspeare, _Macbeth_, Act II. Sc. 2. CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A. "Nothing doth countervail a faithful friend."--_Ecclesias._ vi. 15. "Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico."--Hor. _Sat._ v. 44. "If thou wouldst get a friend, _prove him_ first, and be not hasty to credit him."--_Ecclesias._ v. 7. "_Diu cogita_, an tibi in amicitiam aliquis recipiendus sit: cum placuerit fieri, toto illum pectore admitte: tam audacter cum illo loquere, quam tecum."--Seneca, _Epist._ iii. "Quid dulcius, quam habere amicum quicum omnia audeas sic loquere quam tecum."--Cic., _de Amic._ 6. "The friends thou hast, and their _adoption tried_, Grapple them to thy heart with hoops of steel." * * * * *