The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-10
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Leave not ,rreck behind"

The seven ages of life are then de-
picted, and among them is
The whining school-boy, with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingy to school,"
The passage closes thus:
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventfu history,
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth sans eyes, sans taste sans-everything"
This last line is frequently quoted,
with such variations as may be needed,
to describe other defects than those of
second childhood sans being the
French word for " without" and pro-
nounced somewhat like " song"
OF course in prose writing of the
present day an article would be required
before " snail " in such a sentence as
the foregoing. But this is not only
verse, but it was written almost three
hundred years ago, when rules were
not altogether as they are now.
Two of the quotations that were sent
by" Eunice - are from this same play.
One is part of song in the scene from
which we have already quoted
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
That dost not bite so nigh,
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remembered not"
as You Like II, Act H., Scene l.
This play is characterized by Richard
Grant White as " Shakespeare's most
charming and most frequently read
comedy" AS we may not have any
extended outline of it, the Scribe will
mention some points in it which it is
well for every one to know. 1t is in
this play that the beautiful friendship
and consistency of the cousins, Rosalind
and Celia, are pictured. Rosalind's
father, the rightful duke, has been
banished by his brother, usurper and
the father of Celia. The rightful duke
and his attendants have taken up their
abode in the Forest of Arden, and it
is the wintry cold of this retreat that is
alluded to in the song from which the
above quotation is made. Yet the good
duke bears his trials bravey, and says
of the biting wind
This is no hattery these are counsellors
That feengly persuade me what am"
Then follows the other quotation of
Eunice'
"Sweet are the uses of adversely;
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet precious jewel in his head;
And this our life exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks
Sermons in stones, and good in everything"
Act H., Scene !.
1t was the fair young Rosalnd in
this play who was moved to exclaim,
go, how full of briars is this working
day world" We hope the boys and
girls have not begun yet to echo this
exclamation, but doubtless most of
their fathers and mothers have at some
time realized the force of it,
The remaining quotation sent by
Eunice is from Henry Will, act | :,
scene l.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do SINCE YOURSELF we may outrun
BY violent swiftness that which run at,
And lose by overrunning"
There still remain the quotations
sent by b. H. A." which have not
been noticed. The following are two
of them
what fools these mortals bel"
Puck, in Midsummer Nighfs Dream, Act Ill.,
Scene 2.
For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty a woman's fe?"
-Biron, in Love's Laboars Lost, Act w. Scene 3
In regard to the play in which thi,
last quotation is found we may here
take the opportunity to say tina
"Love's Labour's Lost" is one of thu
earliest, and is generally the least es
teemed, of any of Shakespeare's come
dies. Yet there is in it vein of satir,
aimed so keenly at certain foibles o
human life that those who censur,
the play as a whole recognize thu
merit of some portions of it. TIL,
young King of Navarro and three o
his lords made VOW to give them
selves to study for three years, durin!
which time they were to live abstemi
ously and to deny themselves the pleas
ures OF society, especially the compan
of ladies. But circumstances whicl
they could not control brought to tn
court of Navarro young Fren0