The Lake Gun http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2328/2328-h/2328-h.htm (1851)
“In cloud-ships the gods are wont to travel, and wise cotters have legends that keep them from certain high peaks at night when it is cloudy, for the gods are not lenient as of old.”
Fiction, The Other Gods (1921)
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“If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.”
[S}i sapias, sapias : habeus quod di dant boni.
Rudens, Act IV, sc. 7, line 3; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Variant translation: [A] word to the wise! Keep what the Gods have given you. (translation by Cleveland King Chase)
Rudens (The Rope)
Spoken prelude (varies slightly among versions)
Atlantis (1968)
Low Barometer http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2934.html, st. 2 (1926).
Poetry
43 Alexander
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders