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Loyalty: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

O, rank is good, and gold is fair, And high and low mate ill; But love has never known a law Beyond its own sweet will!— WHITTIER — Amy Wentworth. St. 18.

Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer.— N. P. WILLIS — Love in a Cottage. St. 3.

He loves not well whose love is bold! I would not have thee come too nigh. The sun's gold would not seem pure gold Unless the sun were in the sky: To take him thence and chain him near Would make his beauty disappear.— WILLIAM WINTER — Love's Queen.

For mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast.— WORDSWORTH — Laodamia. St. 15.

Farewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever.— Sir THOMAS WYATT — Songs and Sonnets.

A Renouncing of Love.

It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue!— BURNS — Here's a Health to Them that's

Awa'. God save our gracious king, Long live our noble king, God save the king.— HENRY CAREY — God Save the King.

Now let us sing, long live the king.— COWPER — History of John Gilpin.

The first great work (a task performed by few) Is that yourself may to yourself be true.— WENTWORTH DILLON — An Essay on Translated Verse. L. 71.

Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain; The Queen commands, and we'll obey, Over the hills and far away. S.— GEORGE FARQUHAR — The Recruiting Officer. Act II. Sc. 2. (Quoted by

Swift and Gay.) Wake in our breast the living fires, The holy faith that warmed our sires; Thy hand hath made our Nation free; To die for her is serving Thee.— O. W. HOLMES — Army Hymn. St. 2.

Master, go on, and I will follow thee, To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.— Shakespeare — As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 69.

Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Rome more. C. Julius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 22. O, where is loyalty? If it be banish'd from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbour in the earth?— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. II. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 166.

The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act III. Sc. 6. L. 31.

To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 78.