And baited it with all th' unmuzzled thoughts,
That tyrannous heart can think?

51

He reads much;

He is a great observer, and he looks

4—iii. 1.

Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, He hears no music:

Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a sort,

As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit
That could be moved to smile at any thing. 29-i. 2.

52

Be assured, you'll find a difference,

Between the promise of his greener days,

And these he masters now; now he weighs time,
Even to the utmost grain.

53

I am not a day of season,*

For thou may'st see a sunshine and a hail

20-ii. 4.

In me at once: but to the brightest beams

Distracted clouds give way.

54

I am richer than my base accusers,

11-v. 3.

That never knew what truth meant.

25-ii. 1.

55

He wears the rose

Of youth upon him; from which the world should note

Something particular.

56

His foes are so enrooted with his friends,
That, plucking to unfix an enemy,

He doth unfasten so, and shake a friend.

57

30-iii. 11.

19-iv. 1.

Let his lack of years, be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation; for I never knew so young a body with so old a head. 9-iv. 1.

i. e. Of uninterrupted rain.

58

I espy

17-i. 3.

Virtue with valour couched in thine eye.

59

While others fish with craft for great opinion,
I with great truth catch mere simplicity ;*

Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns,
With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.
Fear not my truth; the moral of my wit

Is-plain, and true,-there's all the reach of it.

60

An honest man he is, and hates the slime
That sticks on filthy deeds.

26-iv. 4.

37-v. 2.

61

I am not of that feather, to shake off
My friend when he must need me.†

27-i. 1.

62

As my hand has open'd bounty to you,

My heart dropp'd love, my power rain'd honour.

63

25-iii. 2.

What I did, I did in honour,

Led by the impartial conduct of my soul;

And never shall you see, that I will beg
A ragged and forestall'd remission.‡

64

What thou would'st highly,

That would'st thou holily.

65

I have ever loved the life removed;}

And held in idle price to haunt assemblies,

19-v. 2.

15-i. 5.

Where youth, and cost, and witless bravery, keeps.||

5-i. 4.

While others, by their art, gain high estimation, I, by honesty, obtain a plain simple approbation.

† Cannot but want my assistance.

If he will grant me pardon unasked, so-if not, I will not condescend to solicit it. § Retired. Showy dress resides.

66.

What a beggar his heart is,

Being of no power to make his wishes good;
His promises fly so beyond his state,

That what he speaks is all in debt, he owes
For every word.

67

Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly
Was fashion'd to much honour.

27-i. 2.

From his cradle,

He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading:
Lofty, and sour, to them that loved him not;
But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.

68

25-iv. 2.

That art most rich, being poor;

Most choice forsaken; and most loved despised!

69

34-i. 1.

I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir men's blood: I only speak right on.

70

29-iii. 2.

I was created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that, when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear: my comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face: thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better; and therefore tell me, will you have me?

71

His summer leaves all faded,

By envy's hand.

72

20-v. 2.

17-i. 2.

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion.

8-v. 2.

73

29-iii. 1.

I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd, and resting quality,
There is no fellow in the firmament.

Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens,

That one day bloom'd and fruitful were the next.

76

If I lose mine honour,

I lose myself.

77

21-i. 6.

3-iii. 4.

"Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour;

Mine honour, it.

30-ii. 7.

78

'Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait;

He rises on the toe: that spirit of his

In aspiration lifts him from the earth.

26-iv. 5.

79

I know not,

What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face;
But in my bosom shall she never come,

To make my heart her vassal.

30-ii. 6.

80

You shall find, his vanities fore-spent*
Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,
Covering discretion with a coat of folly;
As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots,
That shall first spring, and be most delicate.f

*Wasted, exhausted.

20-ii. 4.

What justness, beauty and dignity, in a base comparison! It is recorded of the expeller of the Tarquins, that he presented emblematically at Delphos, a solid rod of gold enclosed in a rough wooden staff.

81

A man by his own alms empoison'd,

And with his charity slain.

82

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.

83

His large fortune,

Upon his good and gracious nature hanging,

28-v. 5.

36-i. 2.

Subdues and properties to his love and tendance

Let me embrace thee, good old chronicle,

Thou hast so long walk'd hand in hand with time.

86

Because I cannot flatter, and speak fair,

26-iv. 5.

Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,

I must be held a rancorous enemy.

Cannot a plain man live, and think no harm,
But thus his simple truth must be abused
By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?

87

24-i. 3.

I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

88

I care not, (so much I am happy

Above a number,) if my actions

10-iii. 2.

Were tried by every tongue, every eye saw them,
Envy and base opinion set against them,
I know my life so even.

25-iii. 1.