I found the line thus given:

"Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter."

The same idea, I believe, occurs in Ovid. Query whether it is not
a thought naturally presenting itself to the mind, reflected by
memory, confirmed by experience, and which some Mimic author has
made proverbial by his terse, gnomic form of expression.

S.H.

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PARALLEL PASSAGES.

I take the liberty of sending you several parallel passages, which may
probably appear to you worthy of insertion in your valuable paper.

1.

"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."

Shakspeare: _Julius Cæsar_.

"There is an hour in each man's life appointed
To make his happiness, if then he seize it."

Beaumont and Fletcher: _The Custom of the Country_.