Why then Do you with cheeks abash'd behold our works; else But the protractive trials of great Jove, To find persistive constancy in men? I held it ever, 26-i. 3. Virtue and cunningt were endowments greater May the two latter darken and expend; Making a man a god. 177 Glory and Wealth, their temptation. 33-iii. 2. O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us! To have his pomp, and all what state compounds, 27-iv. 2. 178 Office. 'Tis the curse of service; Preferment goes by letter, and affection, Not by the old gradation, * Joined by affinity. † Knowledge. where each second 37-i. 1. Hasty, precipitate. Grief boundeth where it falls, Not with the empty hollowness, but weight.* 17-i. 2. Men may construe things after their fashion, Poor and content, is rich, and rich enough ;‡ Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness, 29-i. 8. 37-iii. 3. Wherein the pregnant ¶ enemy does much. 4-ii. 2. 183 Nature, its weakness. Strange it is, 30-v. 1. That nature must compel us to lament Our most persisted deeds. 184 Judgment governed by circumstances. Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks: 185 Virtue. 34-iv. 6. Virtue, that transgresses, is but patched with sin; and sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue. The first time that we smell the air, We wawl and cry: * That is, no griefs, evidently ence by reaction upon others. trasted to a bladder. 4-i. 5. affected, have a sympathetic influThe conceit is from a ball con† Entirely. 'I have learned in whatever state,' &c.-Phil. iv. 11. § Endless, unbounded. Winter, producing no fruits. Dexterous, ready fiend. When we are born, we cry, that we are come 34-iv. 6. Sometimes, hath the brightest day a cloud : Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold; 188 The camomile and youth contrasted. Though the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears. 189 Pride, its effects. Two curs shall tame each other: Pride alone 18-ii. 4. Must tarre* the mastiffs on, as 'twere their bone. 190 Men, their various characters. O heavens, what some men do, While some men leave to do! 26-i. 3. How some men creep in skittish Fortune's hall, While others play the idiots in her eyes! How one man eats into another's pride, While pride is fasting in his wantonness! 26-iii. 3. 191 Contentment, its happiness. 'Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, 'Tis a common proof t 25-ii. 3. That lowliness is young Ambition's ladder, 29-ii. 1. † Low steps. 193 Parental discipline neglected. Had doting Priam check'd his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.* 194 Deceiver of Females. How easy is it for the proper-falset In women's waxen hearts to set their forms! 4-ii. 2. To wilful men, 34-ii. 4. The injuries, that they themselves procure, 196 Prayers insincere, ineffectual. The gods are deaf to hot and peevisht vows; It is the purpose, that makes strong the vow; 197 Determination with consideration. What we do determine, oft we break. Purpose is but the slave to memory; Of violent birth, but poor validity: Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree; 198 Blessings underrated. It so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, 6-iv. 1. 199 Mediocrity of life. Full oft 'tis seen Our mean** secures us; and our mere defects Never any thing can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. 201 Mental passions, their effects. The passions of the mind, That have their first conception by mis-dread, 7-v. 1. And what was first but fear what might be done,* Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, 33-i. 2. 21-iii. 3. They that stand high, have many blasts to shake them; And, if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; 205 Treason and murder, handmaids. Treason and murder ever kept together, 24-i. 3. 5-ii. 1. 20-ii. 2. We still have judgment here; that we but teach O mischief! thou art swift To enter in the thoughts of desperate men! 15-i. 7. *But fear of what may happen. 35-v. 1. † And makes provision that it may not be done. |