And feebling such as stand not in their liking, 290 28-i. 1. When drums and trumpets shall I' the field prove flatterers, let courts and cities be 291 28-i. 9. Ingratitude is monstrous and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude. 292 28-ii. 3. The Providence that's in a watchful state, 293 26-iii. 3. We must not rend our subject from our laws, 294 25-i. 2. These exactions,— Most pestilent to the hearing; and to bear them, This makes bold mouths: Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze Allegiance in them: their curses now Live, where their prayers did; and it's come to pass, That tractable obedience is a slave To each incensed will. 295 It doth appear: for, upon these taxations, 25-i. 2. The clothiers all, not able to maintain 296 This double worship, 25-i. 2. Where one part does disdain with cause, the other Of general ignorance,-it must omit [dom, To unstable slightness; purpose so barr'd, it follows, Nothing is done to purpose: Therefore, beseech you, You that will be less fearful than discreet; More than you doubt the change of't; that prefer To jump a body with a dangerous physic, 297 It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot, Suffer it, and live with such as cannot rule, 298 I have in equal balance justly weigh'd 28-iii. 1. 28-iii. 1. What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we suffer, And find our griefs heavier than our offences. 19-iv. 1. 299 When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; What do we then, but draw anew the model To build at all? Much more, in this great work, The plot of situation, and the model ; Question surveyors; know our own estate, 300 19-i. 3. In cases of defence, 'tis best to weigh 20-ii. 4. 301 It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe: For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom, (Though war, nor no known quarrel, were in question,) But that defences, musters, preparations, Should be maintain'd, assembled, and collected, As were a war in expectation. * Luke xiv. 28, &c. 20-ii. 4. If we 302 Cannot defend our own door from the dog, 303 20-i. 2. They tax our policy, and call it cowardice; 304 Take heed 26-i. 3. How you awake the sleeping sword of war; 'Gainst him, whose wrongs give edge unto the swords That make such waste in brief mortality. 305 Will you again unknit This churlish knot of all-abhorred war? And move in that obedient orb again, Where you did give a fair and natural light; And be no more an exhaled meteor, A prodigy of fear, and a portent 20-i. 2. Of broached mischief to the unborn times? 18—v. 1. 306 "Tis better using France, than trusting: Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, Which he hath given for fence impregnable, In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies. 23-iv. 1. 307 The king-becoming graces, Are justice, verity, temperance, stableness, 308 15-iv. 3. That man, that sits within a monarch's heart, 309 19-iv. 2. Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread, And in themselves their pride lies buried, 310 They do abuse the king that flatter him: The thing the which is flatter'd, but a spark, Poems. To which that breath gives heat and stronger glowing; Whereas reproof, obedient and in order, Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err. 311 Majesty might never yet endure 33-i. 2. The moody frontier of a servant brow. 312 The strawberry grows underneath the nettle; 18-i.. |