193 Parental discipline neglected. Had doting Priam check'd his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.* 194 Deceiver of Females. How easy is it for the proper-falset In women's waxen hearts to set their forms! 4-ii. 2. To wilful men, 34-ii. 4. The injuries, that they themselves procure, 196 Prayers insincere, ineffectual. The gods are deaf to hot and peevisht vows; 197 Determination with consideration. What we do determine, oft we break. Purpose is but the slave to memory; Of violent birth, but poor validity: Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree; It so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack T the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. 199 6-iv. 1. Mediocrity of life. Full oft 'tis seen Our mean** secures us; and our mere defects Prove our commodities. 34-iv. 1. *1 Sam. iii. 12, 13. † Fair deceiver. Foolish. § Eccles. v. 4, 5. While. ** Mean signifies a middle state. * 200 Disinterestedness. Never any thing can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. 7-v. 1. 201 Mental passions, their effects. The passions of the mind, 33–i. 2. 202 Disquietude. Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied. 21-iii. 3. 203 Exaltation, its danger. They that stand high, have many blasts to shake them; And, if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. 24-i. 3. 204 Mercy pretended. Treason and murder, handmaids. 20-ii. 2. 206 Retributive justice. 15-i. 7. 207 Mischief. O mischief ! thou art swift To enter in the thoughts of desperate men! 35-v. 1. * But fear of what may happen. 208 Ambition. Ambition puff'd, Makes mouths at the invisible event; 36-iv. 4. Who cannot condemn rashness in cold blood? But who is man, that is not angry? The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. 211 27-iii. 5. 5-iii. 1. The past and future. O thoughts of men accurst! Past, and to come, seem best; things present, worst. 19-i. 3. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 15-v. 5. Willing misery Outlives incertain pomp, is crown'd before :‡ The one is filling still, never complete; *For aggravation. † Homicide in our own defence, by a merciful interposition of the law, is considered justifiable. i.e. Arrives sooner at the completion of its wishes. The other, at high wish. Best state, contentless, 214 Treason, silent in its operations. 27-iv. 3. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep; 215 Malice its extent. 22-iii. 1. To cut the head off, and then hack the limbs ; 216 The value of a good name. Good name, in man, and woman, Is the immediate jewel of their souls:‡ 29-ii. 1. Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands: But he, that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that, which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. 37--iii. 3. 217 Slander, certain in its aim. Slander, 36-iv. 1. Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter, As level as the cannon to his blank,§ Transports his poison'd shot. The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. There is a tide in the affairs of men, 36-v. 1. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows, and in miseries : Best states contentless have a wretched being-a being worse than that of the worst states that are content. † Malice. Prov. xxii. 1. § Mark. Spruce, affected. And we must take the current when it serves, 29-iv. 3. 220 Fortune. 16—iii. 4. 221 Natural defects impair virtues. Oft it chances in particular men, That, for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth, (wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin,) By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,* Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason; Or by some habit, that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners;--that these men,Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect; Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, tTheir virtues else (be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo) Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault: The dram of base Doth all the noble substance often dout, To his own scandal. 36_i. 4. 222 Insolence of power. 27-v. 5. 223 Riches not true which are to be courted. Conceit,|| more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count their worth. 35-ii. 6. 224 Natural affection. A grandam's name is little less in love, Than is the doting title of a mother; They are as children, but one step below. 24-iv. 4. a * Humour. | Do out. + Star, signifies a scar of that appearance. § Eccles. X. 4. || Imagination. |