589 Honour and policy. Honour and policy, like unsevered friends, I' the war do grow together: Grant that, and tell me, 28-iii. 2. Drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment. 37-ii. 3. These should be hours for necessities, Not for delights; times to repair our nature To waste. 592 25-v. 1. 11-ii. 3. Not to woo honour, but to wed it. Believe not thy disdain, but presently Do thine own fortunes that obedient right, If you shall cleave to my consent,*-when 'tis, So I lose none, In seeking to augment it, but still keep My bosom franchised, and allegiance clear, 595 Caution in choosing friends. 15-ii. 1. Where you are liberal of your loves, and counsels, Like water from ye, never found again *Cleave to me constant. 25-ii. 1. If my offence be of such mortal kind, Can ransom me into his love again, Oh, you blessed ministers above, Keep me in patience; and with ripen'd Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up In countenance !* Give sorrow words; the grief, that does 1: Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bid Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentler 601 An over-regard for the world. You have too much respect upon the worl They lose it, that do buy it with nue! You talk of pride; O that you could turn your eyes towards the napes* of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves! 28-ii. 1. 605 Studies to be pursued according to taste and pleasure. Continue your resolve, To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy. Only, while we do admire This virtue, and this moral discipline, Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you: 12-i. 1. Nor Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. do not saw the air too much with your hand; but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature. 36-iii. 2. Hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and *With allusion to the fable, which says that every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own. † Harsh rules. Perhaps it should be ethics instead of checks. ↑ Animate. the very age and body of the time, his form and pres Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, 609 36-iii. 2. 37-v. 2. Submission to the will of God. Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou coin'st. O, see the monstrousness of man, When he looks out in an ungrateful shape! 17-i. 3. 611 27-iii. 2. Sincerity. May your deeds approve, That good effects may spring from words of love. Of your philosophy you make no use, 613 34-i. 1. 29-iv. 3. Benediction. The grace of heaven, 37-ii. 1. Before, behind thee, and on every hand, 614 Nature content with little. O, reason not the need our basest beggars 615 Plea of adversity. If ever you have look'd on better days; 34-ii. 4. If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church; Thou can'st tell, why one's nose stands i' the middle of his face? Why, to keep his eyes on either side his nose; that what a man cannot smell out, he may spy into. 34-i. 5. Those that I reverence, those I fear; the wise: 618 If we do now make our atonement well, 31-iv. 2. The benefit of reparation. Our peace will, like a broken limb united, 19-iv. 1. Weed your better judgments Of all opinion that grows rank in them. 620 Discretion necessary to old age. You are old; Nature in you stands on the very verge Of her confine: you should be ruled and led 621 10-ii. 7. 34-ii. 4. A heart fortified by patience. Since he stands obdurate, And that no lawful means can carry me 9-iv. 1. Go to your bosom; Knock there; and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault if it confess A natural guiltiness, such as his is, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue 5-ii. 2. *Hatred, malice. |