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Krans. The dozen white louses do become an old coat well : 

 it agrees well passant ; it is a familiar beast to man, and signifies 

 love." — Merry Wives of Windsor, i., 1. 



In conclusion I must say with Mark Antony — 



" I am no orator." — Julius Caesar, iii,, 2. 



Yet, as King Richard's queen, Elizabeth says — 



" An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told." 



Flichard 111., iv., 4. 

 and Theseus says — 



" For never anything can be amiss 

 When simpleness and duty tender it." 



yiidsinmner Nitihfs Dream, v., 1. 



May I beg you to excuse this thing of 



" Shreds and patches." — Hamlet, iii., 4. 



and trust that you have not found it 



" Weary, stale, flat and unprofitable." — Hauilet, iii., 2. 



In his reply to the Vote of Thanks the President said that he 

 might use words put into the mouth of Hamlet 



" Beggar that I am, for I am even poor in thanks. 

 But I thank you." — Hamlet, ii., 2. 



and expressed the hope that he might be able to feel with Ariel, 

 when his time came to vacate the chair that — 



" I have done thee worthy service ; 

 Told thee no lies; made no mistakings." 



Tempest, i., 2. 



Addendum : — p. 30. Insert — 



And Hotspur explains as one of the reasons of his anger with 

 Mortimer's father — 



" With telling me of the moldwarp of the ant." 



/. Henry 71'., iii., 1. 



N.B. — I am indebted to Mr. Brooks for pointing out that the 

 word " pismire" is an old English name for ant. 



"Pismire" is once used by the poet. Hotspur in his graphic 

 description of his feelings when he hears of " this vile politician 

 Bolingbroke " says — 



" I am whipp'd and scourged with rods. 

 Nettled, and stung with pismires." 



/. Henry IV., i., 240. 



