229 No visor does become black villany, So well as soft and tender flattery. 33-iv. 4. 230 Who makes the fairest show, means most deceit. 33-i. 4. 231 Let them obey that know not how to rule. 22-v. I. 232 Fire cools fire, Within the scorched veins of one new burn'd. 16-iii. 1. 20-iii. 6. 233 Advantage is a better soldier, than rashness. 234 'Tis a good hearing, when children are toward; But a harsh hearing, when women are froward. 235 A victory is twice itself, when the achiever brings home full numbers. 6-i. 1. 236 To things of sale a seller's praise belongs. 8-iv. 3. 237 The sight of lovers feedeth those in love. 10-iii. 4. 238 Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure; Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Mea sure. 5-v. 1. 239 Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. 18-v. 4. 240 There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman, than report of valour. 4-iii. 2. 241 A friend i' the court is better than a penny in purse. 19-v. 1. 242 Pitchers have ears. 12-iv. 4. 243 The poor abuses of the time want countenance.* 18-i. 2. *If abuses want countenance, the misconduct of those who are called great is too ready to give them. 244 Small curs are not regarded when they grin ; But great men tremble when the lion roars. 22-iii. 1. 245 Affection is not rated* from the heart. 246 Hercules himself must yield to odds; 12-i. 1. And many strokes, though with a little axe, 247 All that glisters is not gold, Gilded tombs do worms infold. 22-ii. 1. 9-ii 7. Proves valueless. 251 A counterfeit, which, being touch'd, and tried, 16-iii. 1. 33-i. 2. 252 The plants look up to heaven, from whence They have their nourishment. 253 To the latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest. 18-iv. 2. 254 Time goes on crutches, till Love have all his rites. 6-ii. 1. 255 Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind: The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 23-v. 6. 256 Kindness, nobler ever than revenge. 10-iv. 3. 257 Do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. 12-i. 2. 26-ii. 3. 258 He'll be physician, that should be the patient. * Driven out by chiding. 259 We call a nettle, but a nettle; and The faults of fools, but folly. 28-ii. 1. 260 Things in motion sooner catch the eye, Than what not stirs. 26-iii. 3. 261 Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction. 30-i. 3. 262 Coronets are stars, And, sometimes, falling ones. 25-iv. 1. Or lose our ventures. 29-iv. 3. 263 We must take the current when it serves, 264 Stick to your journal course: the breach of 266 They that have the voice of lions, and the act of hares, are they not monsters? 26-iii. 2. 29-iv. 3. 267 A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. 268 Fortune knows, We scorn her most, when most she offers blows. 271 The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy ; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure. 26-ii. 3. 272 One sorrow never comes, but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor. 33-i. 4. 273 Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is. 26-i. 2 * Keep your daily course uninterrupted; if the stated plan of life is once broken, nothing follows but confusion. † Approbation. 274 Good words are better than bad strokes. 29-v. 1. 275 In time we hate that which we often fear. 278 Fortune brings in some boats, that are not steer'd. 31-iv. 3. 279 Make not your thoughts your prisons. 30-v. 2. 280 To such as boasting show their scars, A mock is due. 26-iv. 5. 281 Love's reason's without reason. 31-iv. 2. 282 Few words to fair faith. 26-iii. 2. 283 Britain's harts die flying, not our men. 31-v. 3. 284 To fear the worst, oft cures the worst. 26-iii. 2. 285 The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed By those that feel their sharpness. 34-v. 3. 286 There is no time so miserable, but a man may be true. 27-iv. 3. 287 Let us be sacrificers, but no butchers. 29-ii. 1. 288 What is aught, but as 'tis valued? 26-ii. 2. 289 Be not peevish* found in great designs. 24-iv. 4. 290 Our stomachs Will make what's homely, savoury. 31-iii. 6. 291 'Tis the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar.† * Foolish. 26-iii. 4. Blown up with his own bomb. 292 Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. 293 Stony limits cannot hold love out. 294 The public body,-doth seldom Play the recanter. 295 The labour we delight in, physics pain. 15-ii. 3. 296 He that keeps nor crust nor crum, Weary of all, shall want some. 34-i. 4. 297 Discourse is heavy, fasting. 31-iii. 6. 298 We'll set thee to school to an ant, to there's no labouring in the winter.* teach thee 34-ii. 4. Revenges hunger for that food 299 Use every man after his desert, and 'scape whipping? who shall 36-ii. 2. 300 27-v. 5. That you resolved to effect. 1-iii. 3. Which nature loathes. 301 Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose 302 Tyranny sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered. 34-i. 2. 303 When the day serves before black-corner'd night, Find what thou want'st by free and offer'd light. 27-v. 1. 304 Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. 36-v. 1. 25-i. 1. 306 Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, And manage it against despairing thoughts. 2-iii. 1. 307 Inconstancy falls off, ere it begins. 2-v. 4. 308 Nothing can come of nothing. 34-i. 1. * Prov. vi, 6, and xxx. 25. |