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QUEM DEUS VULT PERDERE to RAINBOW

QUEM DEUS VULT PERDERE, PRIUS DEMENTAT.

Boswell’s Johnson, 1783.

Translated—Whom the Lord wishes to lose, he first deprives of reason; or, when God will punish, he will first take away the understanding.

Geo. Herbert.—Jacula Prudentum.

[After a long search [for this passage] for the purpose of deciding a bet, some gentlemen of Cambridge found it among the fragments of Euripides, where it is given as a translation of a Greek iambic.—Malone’s Note to Boswell’s Johnson.]

In quiet let him perish, for provident Jove hath deprived him of reason.

Buckley’s Homer.—The Iliad, Book IX. Page 161.

[The passage has reference to the condition of one who is advancing imperceptibly, though surely, to final ruin.—Kennedy, cited by Mr. Buckley, supra.]

QUESTION.—Her father lov’d me; oft invited me;
Still question’d me the story of my life
From year to year: the battles, sieges, fortunes,
That I have pass’d.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 3. (The Moor to the Senate.)

Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no fibs.

Goldsmith.—She Stoops to Conquer, Act III.

QUESTIONABLE.—Thou com’st in such a questionable shape
That I will speak to thee.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 4. (The Ghost Scene.)

QUIPS.—Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles,
Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles.

Milton.—L’Allegro, Line 27.

QUOTING—With just enough of learning to misquote.

Byron.—English Bards, Line 66.

RACE.—Herself the solitary scion left
Of a time-honour’d race.

Byron.—The Dream.

RACK.—Stretch’d on the rack of a too easy chair.

Pope.—The Dunciad, Book IV. Line 342.

RAGE.—They could neither of ’em speak for rage; and so fell a sputtering at one another like two roasting apples.

Congreve.—The Way of the World, Act II. Scene 8.

Such lines as almost crack the stage,
When Bajazet begins to rage.

Cowley.—Of Wit, Verse 7.