57. (265, 256.), and by
Wyttenbach on Plutarch, _De Audiendis Poetis_, p. 17. B. (pp.
190, 191.)"
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"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
Congreve's _Mourning Bride_, act i. sc. i. l. 1.
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"L'appetit vient en mangeant."
Rabelais, _Gargantua_, Liv. i. chap. 5. (vol. i. p. 136, ed. Variorum.
Paris, 1823. 8vo.)
This proverb had been previously used by Amyot, and probably also
by Jerome le (or de) Hangest, who was a Doctor of the Sorbonne, and
adversary of Luther, and who died in 1538.--Ibid. p. 136 (_note_ 49.).
* * * * *
I know not how old may be "to put the cart before the horse." Rabelais
(i. 227.) has--
"Il mettoyt la charrette devant les beufz."
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"If the sky falls, we shall catch larks."
Rabelais (i. 229, 230.):--
"Si les nues tomboyent, esperoyt prendre alouettes.
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