=Contradiction.=

Woman’s at best a contradiction still. 402 POPE:  Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 270.

=Controversy.=

Great contest follows, and much learned dust
Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,
And truth disclaiming both.
403
COWPER:  Task, Bk. iii., Line 161.

=Conversation.=

A dearth of words a woman need not fear;
But ’t is a task indeed to learn—­to hear: 
In that the skill of conversation lies;
That shows or makes you both polite and wise.
404
YOUNG:  Love of Fame, Satire v., Line 57.

=Converts.=

More proselytes and converts use t’ accrue
To false persuasions than the right and true;
For error and mistake are infinite,
But truth has but one way to be i’ th’ right.
405
BUTLER:  Misc.  Thoughts, Line 113.

=Cooks.=

Heaven sends us good meat; but the devil sends cooks. 406 GARRICK:  Epigr. on Goldsmith’s Retal.

=Coquette.=

Or light or dark, or short or tall,
She sets a springe to snare them all;
All ’s one to her—­above her fan
She ’d make sweet eyes at Caliban.
407
T.B.  ALDRICH:  Coquette.

=Corruption.=

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are
Of an unmeasurable length:  they spread
Ev’rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence
Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.
408
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER:  Hon. Man’s For., Act iii., Sc. 3

At length corruption, like a general flood,
(So long by watchful ministers withstood,)
Shall deluge all; and avarice creeping on,
Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
409
POPE:  Moral Essays, Epis. iii., Line 135.

=Counsel.=

Bosom up my counsel,
You’ll find it wholesome.
410
SHAKS.:  Henry VIII., Act i., Sc. 1.

Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take—­and sometimes tea. 411 POPE:  R. of the Lock, Canto iii., Line 7.

=Country.=

God made the country, and man made the town; What wonder, then, that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound, And least be threatened in the fields and groves? 412 COWPER:  Task, Bk. i., Line 749.

True patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country’s good. 413 GEORGE BARRINGTON:  Prologue written for the Opening of the Playhouse at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 1796.

=Courage.=

What man dare, I dare. 
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
The arm’d Rhinoceros, or th’ Hyrcanian tiger. 
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble.
414
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4.

I dare do all that may become a man: 
Who dares do more is none.
415
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7.