&c. Plura vellem per Charites, sed non licet per Musas.

Besides all manner of tortures, brazen bulls, racks, wheels, strappadoes, guns, engines, &c. Ad unum corpus humanum supplicia plura, quam membra: We have invented more torturing instruments, than there be several members in a man's body, as Cyprian well observes.

Frustra fit per plura (as the saying is) quod fieri potest per pauciora; 300 simples in a julep, potion, or a little pill, to what end or purpose?

For to invert that verse of Martial, and with Hierom Wolfius to apply it to my present purpose, sunt mala, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt bona plura; some is good, some bad, some is indifferent.

plura de his et specialia habet aphorismata, longo proculdubio usu confirmata, et ab experientia multa perfecta, inquit commentator ejus Cardanus.

Peter Abelard the philosopher, as he tells the tale himself, being set by Fulbertus her uncle to teach Heloise his lovely niece, and to that purpose sojourned in his house, and had committed agnam tenellam famelico lupo, I use his own words, he soon got her good will, plura erant oscula quam sententiae and he read more of love than any other lecture; such pretty feats can opportunity plea; primum domo conjuncti, inde animis, &c.

Plura qui volet de remediis amoris, legat Jasonem Pratensem, Arnoldum, Montaltum, Savanarolum, Langium, Valescum, Crimisonum, Alexandrum Benedictum, Laurentium, Valleriolam, e Poetis Nasonem, e nostratibus Chaucerum, &c., with whom I conclude,

Porta, &c., plura invenies, et multo his absurdiora, uti et in Rhasi, ne mulier virum admittat, et maritum solum diligat, &c.

De quo plura legas in Boissardo, lib. 1. de praestig. 1255.

Plura faciunt homines e consuetudine quam e ratione.

Cum sexagenis, dum plura recluserit aetas, Myriadas ter mille homini dat terra[m] colendas.

Harwood is to be with us this evening with Fanny, who comes to introduce a literary lady, who wants to see me,and whose portentous name is Plura, in English "many things."

Plura I do not identify.

See Derwent Coleridge "Pizarro," Sheridan's play Plantus, Joseph Plea of the Midsummer Fairies Plumer family Plura, a mysterious woman "Poetic Sympathies," by George Dyer Poetry for Children Poets' dinner party "Poet's Epitaph," by Wordsworth Political Decameron, The Pompey, Lamb's dog Poole, John Thomas.

Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A Diis plura feret Hor.

Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A Diis plura feret Hor.

[Footnote 2: Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit, Aut humana parum cavit natura.

He does it, though he hates it; for he has sufficient insight to know that self-denial in some form or other is the inevitable destiny of mortal man: sooner or later it has to be undergone by all, whether we like it or not "Quanto quisque sibi plura

negaverit Ab dis plura feret" Horace never wrote anything truer than that, though we are not to suppose that the second line will necessarily come true in this life.

Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A Diis plura feret Hor.

Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A Diis plura feret Hor.

[Footnote 2: Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit, Aut humana parum cavit natura.

Ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendor maculis, quas aut Incuria fudit, Aut Humana parum cavit Natura.

'Sunt bona, sunt quædam mediocria, sunt mala plura Quæ legis.' Mart.

Nam multo plura reperiuntur, apud veteres, quae nobis probanda sint, quam quae repudianda.