508 There is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties have not craft enough to colour. 509 Being fed by us, you used us so 36-ii. 2. That even our love durst not come near your sight, 18-v. 1. 510 Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye. 24-iv. 2. 511 A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains, And as, with age, his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers. 512 A fearful eye thou hast: Where is that blood, 513 1-iv. 1. 16-iv. 2. His face, though full of cares, yet show'd content; An humble gait, calm looks, eyes wailing still, But, like a constant and confirmed devil, He entertain'd a show so seeming just, *The cuckoo's chicken, who being hatched and fed by the sparrow, in whose nest the cuckoo's egg was laid, grows in time able to devour her nurse. † Education. And therein so ensconced his secret evil, 514 Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.* 515 Poems. 5-iii. 1. The middle of humanity thou never knewest, but the extremity of both ends. When thou wast in thy gilt, and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity; in thy rags thou knowest none, but art despised for the contrary. 516 He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause 517 27-iv. 3. 15-v. 2. Allowed by order of law a furred gown to keep him warm; and furred with fox and lamb-skins too, to signify, that craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing. 518 Why should we be tender, To let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us; 519 In seeking tales and informations, Against this man, (whose honesty the devil 5-iii. 2. 31-iv. 2. And his disciples only envy at,) Ye blew the fire that burns ye. 520 25-v. 2. Whose disposition, all the world well knows, Will not be rubb'd, nor stopp'd. *An establish'd habit. 34-ii. 2. For too much finical delicacy. [Here is the depth, precision, and acuteness, of Aristotle.] 521 His show Beguiles him, as the mournful crocodile 522 This cur is venom-mouth'd, and I 22-iii. 1. Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore, best 25-i. 1. 523 He hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition. Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, 526 27-iii. 6. If thou wert honourable, Thou would'st have told this tale for virtue, not 527 31-i. 7. How fairly this lord strives to appear foul! takes virtuous copies to be wicked; like those, that, under hot ardent zeal, would set whole realms on fire. Of such a nature is his politic love. *i. e. In the flowers growing on the bank. Flies of a season. 27-iii. 3. † Skin. § Jacks of the clock. 528 I would not buy Their mercy at the price of one fair word; 529 28-iii. 3. He hath no friends, but who are friends for fear. 530 Thou disease of a friend, and not himself! 531 24-v. 2. 27-iii. 1. How he coasts, But in this point And hedges, his own way.* All his tricks founder, and he brings his physic If the devil have given thee proofs for sin, 5-iii. 2. 534 Too bad for bad report. 31-i. 1. 535 Thou know'st no law of God nor man; No beast so fierce, but knows some touch of pity. 536 O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical! 24-i. 2. *Not to take the direct and open path, but to steal covertly through circumvolutions. Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! 537 Is not thy kindness subtle, covetous, 35-iii. 2. If not a usuring kindness; and as rich men deal gifts, Expecting in return twenty for one? 538 27-iv. 3. He that will give good words to thee, will flatter Beneath abhorring. 539 This top-proud fellow, (Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but 28-i. 1. 25-i. 1, 25-iii. 2. False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. 542 34-iii. 4. Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain [sion Which are too intrinset t' unloose: smooth every pasThat in the nature of their lords rebels; Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; *Honest indignation. † Perplexed. |