Ariosto.—Orlando Furioso, Canto III. Stanza 62. (Rose’s Translation.)
An old hat, and the humour of forty fancies pricked in’t for a feather.
Shakespeare.—Taming of the Shrew, Act III. Scene II. (Biondello’s description of Pertruchio’s lackey.)
FAR.—Beneath the good how far—but far above the great.
Gray.—Progress of Poesy, Last Line.
Far fetch’d, and little worth.
Cowper.—The Task, Book I. Line 243.
Thus far into the bowels of the land
Have we march’d on without impediment.
Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act V. Scene 2. (Richmond.)