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989. _Care keeps the conquest. _ Perhaps jotted down with reference to
the Governorship of Exeter by Sir John Berkeley: see Note to 745.

992. _To the handsome Mistress Grace Potter. _ Probably sister to the
Mistress Amy Potter celebrated in 837, where see Note.

995. _We've more to bear our charge than way to go. _ Seneca, Ep. 77:
quantulumcunque haberem, tamen plus superesset viatici quam viae, quoted
by Montaigne, II. xxviii.

1000. _The Gods, pillars, and men. _ Horace's Mediocribus esse poetis
Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae (_Ars Poet. _ 373).
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poets hung up their epigrams in public places.

1002. _To the Lord Hopton on his fight in Cornwall. _ Sir Ralph Hopton
won two brilliant victories for the Royalists, at Bradock Down and
Stratton, January and May, 1643, and was created Baron Hopton in the
following September. Originally a Parliamentarian, he was one of the
king's ablest and most loyal servants.

1008. _Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. _ Terence, _Haut. _
IV. ii. 8: Nihil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari posset.

1009. _Labour is held up by the hope of rest. _ Ps. Sallust, _Epist. ad
C.