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1

O name forever sad! forever dear!
Still breath'd in sighs, still usher'd with a tear.

Pope—Eloisa to Abelard. L. 31 .

2

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.

Proverbs. XXII. 1.

3

Byzantine Logothete.

 Term applied by Roosevelt to President Wilson. Taken from Hodgkin's Italy and Her Invaders, or Bury's Hist, of the Later Roman Empire. The officials of Byzantium were called Logothetes, "men of learning," "academic"; their foes were "barbarians." These men wrote notes to their foes, who read the notes and conquered the empire. Term defined by Pkop. Basil Gildebsleeve as "a scrivener," a subordinate who draws up papers." See N. Y. Tribune, Dec. 13, 1915.

4

Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue.

Rostand—Cyrano de Bergerac.

5

Ich bin der Letzte meines Stamms; mein Name
Endet mit mir.

I am the last of my race. My name ends with me.

Schiller—Wilhelm Tell. II. 1. 100.

6

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor!

Scott—Rob Roy Ch. XXXIV.

7

Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,
Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.

Scott—Waverley. Ch. XIII.

8

The one so like the other
As could not be distinguish'd but by names.

Comedy of Errors. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 52.

9

I would to God thou and I knew where a
commodity of good names were to be bought.
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 92.

10

Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words—
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.

Henry V. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 51.

11

And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter;
For new-made honour doth forget men's names.
King John. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 186.

12

When we were happy we had other names.
King John. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 7.

13

 cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act III. Sc. 2.
L. 17.

14

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
Othello. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 157.

15

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 43. ("Name" is "word" in Folio, and quarto of 1609.)

(See also Talmud)

16

I do beseech you—
Chiefly, that I might set it in my prayers—
What is your name?

Tempest. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 32.

17

I am thankful that my name is obnoxious to no pun.

Shenstone—Egotisms.

18

Ye say they all have passed away,
That noble race and brave;
That their light canoes have vanished'
From off the crested wave;
That mid the forests where they roamed
There rings no hunter's shout;
But their name is on your waters;
Ye may not wash it out.

Lydia Sigourney—Indian Names.

19

And last of all an Admiral came,
A terrible man with a terrible name,—
A name which you all know by sight very well;
But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.

Southey—The March to Moscow. St. 8.

20

I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade.

Swift—Polite Conversation. Dialogue II.

(See also Burton)

21

And the best and the worst of this is
That neither is most to blame,
If you have forgotten my losses
And I have forgotten your name.

Swinburne—An Interlude.

22

The myrtle that grows among thorns is a myrtle still.

Talmud. Sanhedrin. 44

(See also Romeo and Juliet)

23

No sound is breathed so potent to coerce
And to conciliate, as their names who dare
For that sweet mother-land which gave them birth
Nobly to do, nobly to die.

Tennyson—Tiresias.

24

O, Sophonisba, Sophonisba, O!

Thomson—Sophonisba.

25

Charmed with the foolish whistling of a name.

Vergil—Georgics. Bk. II. L. 72. Cowley's trans.

26

Neither holy, nor Roman, nor Empire.

Voltaire—Essay on the Morals of the Holy Empire of the Hapsburgs.