{376}[484] ["I at this time got a post, being for fatigue, with four others. We were sent to break biscuit, and make a mess for Lord Wellington's hounds. I was very hungry, and thought it a good job at the time, as we got our own fill, while we broke the biscuit,--a thing I had not got for some days. When thus engaged, the Prodigal Son was never once out of my mind; and I sighed, as I fed the dogs, over my humble situation and my ruined hopes."--_Journal of a Soldier of the 71st Regiment_, 1806 to 1815 (Edinburgh, 1822), pp. 132, 133.] [485] ["We are assured that Epaminondas died so poor that the Thebans buried him at the public charge; for at his death nothing was found in his house but an iron spit."--Plutarch's _Fabius Maximus_, Langhorne's translation, 1838, p. 140. See, too, Cornelius Nepos, _Epam_., cap. iii. "Paupertatem adeo facilè perpessus est, ut de Republica nihil præter gloriam ceperit."] [486] [For Pitt's refusal to accept £100,000 from the merchants of London towards the payment of his debts, or £30,000 from the King's Privy Purse, see _Pitt_, by Lord Rosebery, 1891. p. 231.] {377}[iu] _To_ you _this_ one _unflattering Muse inscribes_.--[MS. erased.] {377}[iv] _He strips from man his mantle (which is dear_ _Though beautiful in youth) his carnal skin_.--[MS. erased.] [487] [_Hamlet_, act iii. sc. i, line 56.] [488] ["O dura messorum ilia!" etc.-Hor., _Epod._ iii. 4.] [iw] _Ye iron guts_----.--[MS. erased.] {379}[489] ["Ce n'est qu'à l'édition de 1635 qu'on voit paraître la devise que Montaigne avait adoptée, le _que sais-je_? avec l'emblème des balances. ... Ce _que sais-je_ que Pascal a si sévèrement analysé se lit au chapitre douze du livre ii; il caractérise parfaitement la philosophie de Montaigne; il est la conséquence de cette maxime qu'il avait inscrite en grec sur les solives de sa librairie: 'Il n'est point de raisonnement au quel on n'oppose un raissonnement contraire.'"--_Oeuvres de ... Montaigne_, 1837, "Notice Bibliographique," p. xvii.] [490] [Concerning the Pyrrhonists or Sceptics and their master Pyrrho, who held that Truth was incomprehensible (_inprensibilis_), and that you may not affirm of aught that it be rather this or that, or neither this nor that (οὐ μᾶλλον οὕτως ἔχει τόδε ἢ ἐκείνως ἢ οὐδετέρως), [Greek: (ou) ma~llon ou(/tôs e)/chei to/de ê)\ e)kei/nôs ê)\ ou)dete/rôs),] see Aul. Gellii _Noct. Attic._, lib. xi. cap. v.] [491] See _Othello_, [act ii. sc. 3, lines 206, 207: "Well, God's above all, and there be souls must be saved; and there be souls must not be saved--Let's have no more of this."] {380}[492] [_Hamlet_, act v. sc. 2, lines 94, 98, 102.] [493] [For "Lycanthropy," see "The Soldier's Story" in the _Satyricôn_ of Petronius Arbiter, cap. 62; see, too, _Letters on Demonology, etc._, by Sir W. Scott, 1830, pp. 211, 212.]