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Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed.

17-i. 1.

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This fester'd joint cut off, the rest rest sound;
This, let alone, will all the rest confound.

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Conquer fortune's spite,

By living low, where fortune cannot hurt you.

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It is needful that you frame the season for your own

harvest.

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6-i. 3.

An had you an eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels, than fortunes before you.

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The danger of extremes.

4-ii. 5.

I shunn'd the fire for fear of burning;
And drench'd me in the sea, where I am drown'd.

2-i. 3.

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Bid a sick man in sadness make his will;
Ah, word ill-urged to one that is so ill!

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35-i. 1.

Conceit and grief and eager combat fight;
What wit sets down, is blotted straight with will;
This is too curious-good, this blunt and ill:
Much like, a press of people at a door,
Throng her inventions, which shall go before.

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I told ye all,

Poems.

When we first put this dangerous stone a rolling, 'Twould fall upon ourselves.*

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25-v. 2.

Take heed, lest by your heat you burn yourselves.

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22-v. 1.

The broken rancour of your high-swoln hearts,
But lately splinted, knit, and join'd together,
Must gently be preserved, cherish'd, and kept.

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24-ii. 2.

How shalt thou hope for mercy, rend'ring none?

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Farewell: The leisure and the fearful time
Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love,

And ample interchange of sweet discourse,

9-iv. 1.

Which so-long-sunder'd friends should dwell upon.

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24-v. 3.

Benediction.

What heaven more will

That thee may furnish,† and my prayers pluck down,

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11-i. 1.

28-i. 5.

↑ Furnish,' that may help thee with more and better qualifica

tions.

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The best wishes, that can be forged in your thoughts, be servants to you!

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11-i. 1.

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The benediction of these covering heavens
Fall on your heads like dew!

31-v. 5.

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Devotion.

God knows, of pure devotion.*

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Consolation to believers.

Now, God be praised! that to believing souls
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!

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22—ii. 1.

22-ii. 1.

There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come the readiness is all. 36-v. 2.

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Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,

When our deep plots do pall;† and that should teach

* John iv. 24. Phil. iii. 3.

† Fail.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,

Rough-hew them how we will.

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36-v. 2.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell; Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace Yet grace must still look so.

15-iv. 3.

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The immortal part needs a physician; though that be sick, it dies not.

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"Tis a vile thing to die,

19-ii. 2.

When men are unprepared, and look not for it.

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The same.

Men must endure

24-iii. 2.

Their going hence, even as their coming hither:
Ripeness is all.

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34-v. 2.

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,

When death's approach is seen so terrible!

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Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul,

To counsel me to make my peace with God,
And art thou yet to thy own soul so blind,
That thou wilt war with God?*

22-iii. 3.

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24-i. 4.

The brevity of life.

The time of life is short;

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To spend that shortness basely, were too long,
If life did ride upon a dial's point,

Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

* Ps. lv. 21.

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Whereto serves mercy,

But to confront the visage of offence?

And what's in prayer, but this two-fold force,-
To be forestalled, ere we come to fall,
Or pardon'd, being down?

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God the cause of all causes.

He that of greatest works is finisher,

Oft does them by the weakest minister:

So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown,

36-iii. 3.

When judges have been babes.* Great floods have flown

From simple sources;† and great seas have dried,
When miracles have by the greatest been denied.‡
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits,
Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits.

It is not so with Him that all things knows,
As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows:
But most it is presumption in us, when

The help of Heaven we count the act of men.

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Fall of man and redemption.

11-ii. 1.

All the souls that were, were forfeit once;}
And He, that might the vantage best have took,
Found out the remedy ?|| How would you be,
If He, which is the top of judgment, should
But judge you as you are?¶ O, think on that,
And mercy then will breathe within your lips,
Like man new made.**

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The quality of mercy is not strain'd:

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven

*An allusion to Daniel judging the two elders. xi. 25, and 1 Cor. i. 27.

5-ii. 2.

See also Matt.

ti. e. When Moses smote the rock in Horeb.-Exod. xvii. 5, 6, &c. Referring to the children of Israel passing the Red Sea, when miracles had been denied by Pharaoh.

§ Rom. iii. 10-23.

TPs. cxxx. 3.

John iii. 16.

** Eph. iv. 24-32.

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