He that commends me to mine own content,
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
400
SHAKS.: _Com. of Errors,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

This is the charm, by sages often told,
Converting all it touches into gold:
Content can soothe, where'er by fortune placed,
Can rear a garden in the desert waste.
401
HENRY KIRKE WHITE: _Clifton Grove,_ Line 139.


=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.