Chapter DEVELOPED to DIE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

DEVELOPED to DIE

DEVELOPED.—1. What’s the meaning of this? 2. That Gentleman can tell you—’twas he enveloped the affair to me.

Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act V. Scene 1.

DEVIL.—The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. near the end.

What, can the devil speak true?

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act I. Scene 3. (Banquo.)

The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 3. (Antonio to Bassanio.)

And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends, stolen forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act I. Scene 3. (Solus.)

Qui non dat quod habet, Dœmon infra ridet.

Anonymous.—

The devil below laughs at him who will not give of that which he has.

[The Latin is from an inscription over a well at Wavertree, and bears date A.D. 1414, or in the 2nd year of the reign of King Henry the 5th.—Each letter is a capital, and between each capital is a period, so that the reader is for some time puzzled to make it out.]

The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be;
The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.

Rabelais.—Vol. II. Book IV. Chap. XXIV.

DEVOTION.—With devotion’s visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o’er
The devil himself.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1. (Polonius to Ophelia and the King.)

DEW.—The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning.

Psalm CX. Verse 3; and Spenser:—

Her birth was of the womb of morning dew,
And her conception of the joyous prime.

Fairy Queen, Book III. Canto VI.

DEW-DROP.—And like a dew-drop from the lion’s mane,
Be shook to airy air.

Shakespeare.—Troilus and Cressida, Act III. Scene 3. (Patroclus to Achilles.)

DIDO AND ENEAS.—When Dido found Eneas would not come,
She mourned in silence, and was Di-do- dum.

V. Notes and Queries 68; Porson, the supposed author.