Nor are those empty-hearted, whose low sound 32 Pride's mirror. 34-i. 1. He, that is proud, eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise. Labouring art can never ransom nature 26-ii. 3. -Nature is made better by no mean, Which does mend nature,—change it rather: but 34 11-ii. 1. & 13-iv. 3. Detraction. The greatest are misthought For things that others do; and, when we fall, 35 Dissimulation. 30-v. 2. That we were all, as some would seem to be, 36 Custom, supreme in its power. 5-iii. 2.. What custom wills, in all things should we do,'t, 37 Hardened impiety.. 28-ii. 3. When we in our viciousness grow hard, (O misery on't!) the wise gods seel2 our eyes; w Reverberates. x Merits, or demerits. y Overlook. z Close up. In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us 38 30-iii. 11. Procrastination. Fearful commenting Is leaden servitorb to dull delay; Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. 39 Virtue contrasted with Vice. 24-iv. 3. What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ?c 40 The wretchedness of human dependence. 22-iii. 2. Is that poor man, that hangs on princes' favours! 41 Prayers denied, often profitable. We, ignorant of ourselves, 25-iii. 2. Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers By losing of our prayers.e 30-ii. 1. Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. 43 Recreation, a preventive of Melancholy. Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue, (Kinsman to grim and comfortless Despair ;) a Rom. i. 28. 2 Thess. ii. 11. Isa. xliv. 20. 11—i. 1. 14-v. 1. b Timorous thought and cautious disquisition are the dull attendants Hope and Despair. The instant action (a cause on foot) Lives so in hope, as in an early spring We see th' appearing buds; which, to prove fruit, 45 Courage. By how much unexpected, by so much 46 Pride, its universality. 19-i. 3. 16-ii. 1. That can therein tax any private party? That says, his bravery is not on my cost There then; How, what then? Let me see wherein Why then, my taxing like a wild-goose flies, 47 many people, under two commands, Should Hold amity Ph 48 10-ii. 7. Contentment. How, in one house, 34-ii. 4. Effrontery of Vice. I ne'er heard yet, That any of these bolder vices wanted Less impudence to gainsay what they did, Than to perform it first. h Matt. vi. 24. 13-iii. 2. 49 Self-delusion. What things are we! Merely our own traitors. And as in the common course of all treasons, we still see them reveal themselves, till they attain to their abhorred ends; so he, that contrives against his own nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself.k 11-iv. 3. The jewel, best enamelled, Will lose his beauty; and though gold 'bides still, 14-ii. 1. The shrug, the hum, or ha; these petty brands, For calumny will searm Virtue itself:-these shrugs, these hums, and ha's, When you have said, she's goodly, come between, Ere you can say, she's honest. 52 Impediments increase desire. 13-ii. 1. All impediments in fancy's" course 53 Reputation invaluable. 11-v, 3. The purest treasure mortal times afford, Foundations fly the wretched; such, I mean, k i.e. Betrays his own secrets in his own talk. 17-i. 1. 31-iii. 6. 1 Gold will long bear the handling; however, often touching will wear even gold; just so the greater character, though as pure as gold itself, may in time be injured by the repeated attacks of falsehood and corruption. m Brand as infamous. n Love. 55 Rumour, its diffusiveness. Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures ; That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, 56 The same. 19-Induction. Loud Rumour speaks: In companions 19-Induction. That do converse and waste the time together, 58 Friendship. Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love: 9-iii. 4. Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent: for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.P 59 Happiness, where delusive. 6-ii. 1. O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! 60 The effect of show on weak minds. 10-v. ii. The fool multitude, that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach; Which pries not to th' interior, but, like the martlet, here. "Therefore. Let, which is found in the next line, is understood p Passion. |