JOHN SELDEN. 1584-1654. Equity is a roguish thing: for law we have a measure, know what to trust to; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be? One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same in the Chancellor's conscience. Table Talk. Equity. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet. Friends. Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide. Judgments. No man is the wiser for his learning wit and wisdom are born with a man. Learning. Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is. Libels. Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.1 Syllables govern the world. Pope. Power. 1 Behold, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed. Oxenstiern (1583-1654). IZAAK WALTON. 1593-1683. THE COMPLETE ANGLER. Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge. The Author's Preface. I shall stay him no longer than to wish. . . that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a fishing. I am, Sir, a Brother of the Angle. Ibid. Parti. Ch. i. everybody's busi I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, That which is ness is nobody's business. Part i. Ch. ii. We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler1 said. of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did" and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. Parti. Ch. 5. 1 William Butler, styled by Dr. Fuller in his Worthies (Suffolk) the "Æsculapius of our Age"; he died in 1621. This first appeared in the second edition of The Angler, 1655. Roger Williams, in his Key into the Lan [Complete Angler continued. Thus use your frog: put your hook, I mean the arming wire, through his mouth, and out at his gills, and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to the arming wire of your hook, or tie the frog's leg above the upper joint to the armed wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him. Parti. Ch. 8. This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. All that are lovers of virtue, and go a-Angling. Parti. Ch. 8. ... be quiet, Parti. Ch. 21. FRANCIS QUARLES. 1592 – 1644. Death aims with fouler spite At fairer marks.1 Divine Poems, Ed. 1669. Sweet Phosphor, bring the day Whose conquering ray May chase these fogs; Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! Sweet Phosphor, bring the day; Light will repay The wrongs of night; Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! Emblems, Book i. 14. guage of America, 1643, p. 98, says: "One of the chiefest Doctors of England was wont to say, that God could have made, but God never did make, a better berry." 1 Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. Young, Night Thoughts, v. Line 511. Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise. Emblems. Book ii. 2. This house is to be let for life or years; Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears; Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known, She must be dearly let, or let alone. Ibid. Book ii. 10, Ep. 10. The slender debt to nature 's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made. Ibid. Book ii. 13. The next way home 's the farthest way about. Ibid. Book iv. 2. Epig. 2. GEORGE HERBERT. 1593 - 1632. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, Virtue. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Ibid. Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine. The Elixir. A verse may find him who a sermon flies, The Church Porch. Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie ; Ibid. Chase brave employments with a naked sword Throughout the world. Ibid. Sundays observe: think when the bells do chime 'Tis angel's music. Ibid. The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence. Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ibid. Sin. The Church Militant. Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him. If goodness lead him not, yet weariness Man. The Pulley. Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? 1 And he that does one fault at first, And lies to hide it, makes it two. The Size. Watts, Song xv. |