[162:A] This is sometimes rendered "saddling the wrong horse." Cicero, before the Christian era, thus quoted it. His writings and orations teem with proverbs--the foolishness of trying to kill two birds with one stone, the undignified spectacle of a tempest in the classic equivalent of a tea-cup, the statement that while there is life there is hope, and many other such adages familiar to ourselves being introduced. [165:A] "Give a dog an ill name and hang him, and it may be added, if you give a man, or race of men, an ill name, they are very likely to do something that deserves hanging."--WALTER SCOTT, _Guy Mannering_. The French say, "Le bruit pend l'homme." "_Clown._ Oh, Maister, you are half-hanged! "_Nobody._ Hanged. Why, man? "_Clown._ Because you have an ill name: a man had almost as good serve no master as serve you."--"Nobody and Somebody," 1606. [166:A] "Qui veut noyer son chien, l'accuse de rage." [167:A] A school-boy, writing an essay on the cat, put down that it was said to have nine lives, but he added that he did not now need them, because of Christianity. This, quaint as it is, has a great truth wrapped up in it--the love of mercy, including kindness to animals, that is one of the points of the teaching of Christ. [168:A] John Dunton, for instance, wrote in the year 1705, "A cat may look on a Queen, or a Satyr on her present Majesty." [168:B] Tusser. "Fray" may be taken as foray, while "fay" is faith--_i.e._ by my faith. [170:A] The Germans vary this into, "Wenn der Esel auch eine Löwenhaut trägt, die Ohren gucken vor"--"Even when the donkey wears the lion's skin its ears peep out and betray it." [171:A] "As long as I am riche reputed With solemn voyce I am saluted; But wealthe away once worne, Not one wyll say 'Good morne.'" --_Harleian MS., sixteenth century._ [171:B] "Jesus did vouchsafe to aunswere by a riddle and a prouerbiall saying: teaching that it was an other manier of kyngdome whereof the prophetes had spoken."--_Udall._ [172:A] A quaint old English proverb warns us that "A hog upon trust grunts until he is paid for," a very discomposing habit. [172:B] "For thilke verrei prouerbe befelde to him--The hound turnyde agen to his castyng, and a sowe to waischen in walewing in fenne."--_2 Peter_, chap. ii. Wyclif's translation. [174:A] The date we have given is that of Suetonius, from whose writings we quote it. It was probably an ancient saying in his day. [175:A] "Dat Deus immiti cornua curta bovi."