Honour and policy, like unsevered friends,

I' the war do grow together: Grant that, and tell me,

In peace, what each of them by th' other lose,

That they combine not there.

28-iii. 2.

Drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

These should be hours for necessities, Not for delights; times to repair our nature With comforting repose, and not for us

37-ii. 3.

To waste.

592

25-v. 1.

Not to woo honour, but to wed it.

Believe not thy disdain, but presently
Do thine own fortunes that obedient right,

Which thy duty owes.

11-ii. 3.

If you shall cleave to my consent,*-when 'tis,

It shall make honour for you.

So I lose none,

In seeking to augment it, but still keep

My bosom franchised, and allegiance clear,
I shall be counsell'd.

595

Caution in choosing friends.

15-ii. 1.

Where you are liberal of your loves, and counsels,
Be sure, you be not loose: for those you make friends,
And give your hearts to, when they once perceive

The least rub in your fortunes, fall away

Like water from ye, never found again

But where they mean to sink ye.

If my offence be of such mortal kind,

That neither service past, nor present sorrows,

Nor purposed merit in futurity,

Can ransom me into his love again,
But to know so must be my benefit;

So shall I clothe me in a forced content,
And shut myself up in some other course,

To fortune's alms.

37-iii. 4.

Oh, you blessed ministers above,
Keep me in patience; and with ripen'd time,

Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up

7-i. 1.

5-v. 1.

Give sorrow words; the grief, that does not speak,

Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.

Your gentleness shall force,

More than your force move us to gentleness.

601

An over-regard for the world.

You have too much respect upon the world:
They lose it, that do buy it with much care.

602

The necessity of mental cultivation.

15-iv. 3.

10-ii. 7.

9-i. 1.

Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;

Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,

And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.

Forbearance.

22-iii. 1.

Now we have shown our power,

603

Let us seem humbler after it is done,

Than when it was a doing.

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,
Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks, I pray;
Or so devote to Aristotle's checks,f
As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured;
Talk logic with acquaintance that you have,
And practise rhetoric in your common talk;
Music and poesy use to quicken‡ you;
The mathematics, and the metaphysics,
Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you:
No profit grows, where is no pleasure ta'en;-

In brief, study what you most affect.

12-i. 1.

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. Nor 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 the very age and body of the time, his form and pres

sure.*

Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice.

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 !

611

17-i. 3.

27-iii. 2.

Sincerity.

May your deeds approve,

That good effects may spring from words of love.

Of your philosophy you make no use,
If you give place to accidental evils.

34-i. 1.

29-iv. 3.

The grace of heaven,

Before, behind thee, and on every hand,

Enwheel thee round!

614

Nature content with little.

O, reason not the need: our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:

Allow not nature more than nature needs,

Man's life is cheap as beast's.

If ever you have look'd on better days;

37-ii. 1.

34-ii. 4.

If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church;

If ever sat at any good man's feast;

If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear,

And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied;

Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. 10-ii. 7.

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.

617

Reverence due to wisdom.

34-i. 5.

Those that I reverence, those I fear, the wise:
At fools I laugh, not fear them.

618

The benefit of reparation.

If we do now make our atonement well,

Our peace will, like a broken limb united,

Grow stronger for the breaking.

31-iv. 2.

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
By some discretion, that discerns your state

Better than you yourself.

621

A heart fortified by patience.

10-ii. 7.

34-ii. 4.

Since he stands obdurate,

And that no lawful means can carry me

Out of his envy's* reach, I do oppose

My patience to his fury; and am arm'd

To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,

9-iv. 1.

622

Self-examination.

Go to your bosom;

The very tyranny and rage of his.

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

Against my brother.