If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you ll forget them all.
The Rape of the Lock. Canto ii. Line 17.
Note 1. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human. Robert Burns: Address to the Unco Guid. [back]
Note 3. Indocti discant et ament meminisse periti (Let the unlearned learn, and the learned delight in remembering). This Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to Horace, appeared for the first time as an epigraph to President Hénaults Abrégé Chronologique, and in the preface to the third edition of this work Hénault acknowledges that he had given it as a translation of this couplet. [back]