623 Precipitancy to be avoided. Reason with the fellow, Before you punish him, Lest, you should chance to whip your information, 624 Accusation to be supported by knowledge. Upon surmises; all proofs sleeping else, 28-iv. 6. 13-iii. 2. My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear: To your well-practised, wise intentions. 19-v. 2. Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books. Keep thy foot Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, *Palm of the hand. 36-i. 3. 36-i. 3. 36-i. 3. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, 36-i. 3. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice: 36-i. 3. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy: 36-i. 3. Neither a borrower, nor a lender be: And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.f 634 36-i. 3. The same. To thine ownself be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, 635 Parents to be consulted in marriage concerns. Reason, my son 36-i. 3. Should choose himself a wife; but as good reason, But fair posterity) should hold some counsel 13-iv. 3. Women are as roses; whose fair flower, Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. 637 4-ii. 4. The danger of dalliance. Do not give dalliance Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw To the fire i' the blood. * Opinion. 1-iv. 1. † Economy, thriftiness. 638 Chastity. The heavens hold firm The walls of thy dear honour; keep unshaked 31-ii. 1. Beware of them, Diana; their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust, are not the things they go under :* many a maid hath been seduced by them; and the misery is, example, that so terrible shows in the wreck of maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade succession, but they are limed with the twigs that threaten them. I hope, I need not to advise you farther; but, I hope, your own grace will keep you where you are, though there were no farther danger known, but the modesty which is so lost. 11-iii. 5. When the blood burns how prodigal the soul Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence; Do not believe his vows: for they are brokers The chariest maid is prodigal enough, 36-i. 4. 36-i. 4. They are not the things for which their names would make them pass. Implorers. Favours, objects of entreaty. § Most cautious. Too oft before their buttons be disclosed; Weigh what loss your honour may sustain, 36-i. 3. Or lose your heart; or your chaste treasure open Fear it, fear it, And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. 644 Example and precept. Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, 36-i. 3. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; 645 Beauty heightened by goodness. 36-i. 3. The hand, that hath made you fair, hath made you good the goodness, that is cheap in beauty, makes beauty brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of your complexion, should keep the body of it ever fair. 5-iii. 1. 646 Grief alleviated by submission to Heaven. Your part in her you could not keep from death; * Believing. Careless, Licentious. † Listen to. O, in this love, you love your child so ill, 647 Conjugal affection needful in wives. 35-iv. 5. Fie, fie, unknit that threat'ning unkind brow; 12-v. 2. Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, I am ashamed, that women are so simple 12-v. 2. To offer war, where they should kneel for peace; When they are bound to serve, love, and obey. 650 The same. My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty: To you, I am bound for life, and education; My life and education, both do learn me 12-v. 2. How to respect you; you are the lord of duty, I am hitherto your daughter: but here's my husband; And so much duty as my mother show'd To you, preferring you before her father, *Gentle tempers. |