Chapter GAZETTE to Evens of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1. (The Prince holding Yorick’s skull.)

GIFT.—A present is provided for my love; for I have myself marked the place where the airy wood-pigeons have built.

Davidson’s Virgil, by Buckley, Part IX.

I indeed will give presently to the maiden a ring-dove, having taken it from the juniper-for there it broods.

Banks.—Theocritus, Idyll V. Page 31.

I have found out a gift for my fair;
I have found where the wood-pigeons breed;
But let me that plunder forbear,
She will say ’twas a barbarous deed:
For he ne’er could be true, she averr’d,
Who could rob a poor bird of its young;
And I lov’d her the more when I heard
Such tenderness fall from her tongue.

Shenstone.—Ballad on Hope, Verse 5.

He ne’er consider’d it, as loath
To look a gift-horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would lay forth
No more upon it than ’twas worth.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto I. Line 489.

GIFTS.—Shallow—I know the young gentlewoman; she has good gifts.

Evens.—Seven hundred pounds, and possibilities, is good gifts.

Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I. Scene 1.

Not a vanity is given in vain.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 290.