Hast thou not learn'd me how
To make perfumes? distil? preserve? yea, so
That our great king himself doth woo me oft
For my confections?
The perfumed tincture of the roses.
Take your paper, too,
And let me have them very well perfumed,
For she is sweeter than perfume itself
To whom they go to.
Perfume for a lady's chamber.
PERILS
Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!
Ay me, how many perils doe enfold
The righteous man to make him daily fall!
PERSEVERANCE
Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.
The waters wear the stones.
Job. XIV. 19.
| seealso = (See also Lyly)
| topic = Perseverance
| page = 594
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{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>God is with those who persevere.
Koran. Ch. VIII.
For thine own purpose, thou hast sent
The strife and the discouragement!
The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble;
many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
Ltlt—Euphues. P. 81. Abber's Reprint.
(1579)
| seealso = (See also Job, Menagiana, Plutarch,
Henry VI)
| topic = Perseverance
| page = 594
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 12
| text = Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed sæpe cadendo.
| trans = The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.
| note = Quoted in the Menagiana, 1713. Probably first to use it was Richard, Monk of S. Victor; Paris. (Died about 1172. Scotchman by birth.) In his Adnotationes mysticæ in Psalmos he says: "Quid lapide durius, quid aqua mollius? Verumtamen gutta cavat lapidem non vi sed stppe cadendo." See Miqne's Patrologia iMwa. Vol. CXCVI. P. 389. Said to be by CHnwii.ns of Samos, by Simplicios—Ad Aristol. Physic. Ausndt. VIII. 2. P. 429. (Brand's ed.) Same idea in Lucretius I. 314; also in IV. 1282. Trans, of a proverb quoted by Galen. Vol. VIII. P. 27. Ed. by Kuhn, 1821, Given there: "Gutta cavat lapidem ssepe cadentis aqua;." Quoted by Bion. Also in Ovid—Ex Ponte. IV. X. L. 5. Note by Burman states Claudian was earliest user found in MS.
| seealso = (See also Lyly)
| topic = Perseverance
| page = 594
}}
{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse
Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,
Yet gives not o'er, though desperate of success.
Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch—Of the Training of Children.
We shall escape the uphill by never turning back.
Many strokes, though with a little axe.
Hew down and fell the hardest-timberd oak.
Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.</poem>
PHEASANT
Fesaunt excedeth all fowles in sweetnesse and
holsomnesse, and is equall to capon in nourishynge. Sir T. Elyot—The Castle of Hellh. Ch. VIII. </poem>
The fesant hens of Colchis, which have two
ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they
will set up and lay down as they list.
Pliny—Natural History. Bk. X. Ch.XLVIII.
Holland's trans.
See! from the brake the whirring pheasant
springs,
And mounts exulting on triumphant wings:
Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound,
Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
| author = Pope
| work = Windsor Forest.
| place = L. 111.
| note =
| topic =
| page = 594
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PHILADELPHIA
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| text = <poem>They say that the lady from Philadelphia
who is staying in town is very wise. Suppose I
go ask her what is best to be done.
Lucretia P. Hale—Peterkin Papers. Ch. I.
Hail! Philadelphia, tho' Quaker thou be,
The birth-day of medical honors to thee
In this country belongs; 'twas thou caught the flame,
That crossing the ocean from Englishmen came
And kindled the fires of Wisdom and Knowledge,
Inspired the student, erected a college,
First held a commencement with suitable state,
In the year of our Lord, seventeen sixty-eight.
