So much I challenge, that I may profess
Due to my lord.

651

The venomous effects of jealousy.

37-i. 3.

It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.

652

O beware of jealousy;

Equivocation.

But yet,

37-iii. 3.

I do not like but yet, it does allay

The good precedence ;* fye upon but yet:
But yet is as a gaoler to bring forth

Some monstrous malefactor.

653

Violent delights have short duration.

30-ii. 5.

Violent delights have violent ends,

And in their triumph die; like fire and powder,

Which, as they kiss, consume: the sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Therefore, love moderately; long love doth so,
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.†

35-ii. 5.

For love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place; Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.

36-iii. 4.

That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat
Of habit's devil, is angel yet in this;
That to the use of actions fair and good
He likewise gives a frock, or livery,
That aptly is put on: Refrain to-night:
And that shall lend a kind of easiness

To the next abstinence; the next more easy:
For use almost can change the stamp of nature,
And either curb the devil, or throw him out
With wondrous potency.

* Preceding.

36-iii. 4.

† Precipitation produces mishap.

Leave her to heaven,

And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.

Thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
O, throw away the worser part of it,

And live the purer with the other half.
Grief not to be cherished.

658

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

36-i. 5.

36-iii. 4.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the foul* bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart?

660

Resignation to the will of God enjoined.

Do not, for ever, with thy vailed lids

Seek for thy nobler father in the dust:

17-ii. 2.

15-v. 3.

Thou know'st, 'tis common; all, that live, must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

661

36-i. 2.

If I

The value of faithful servants.

Had servants true about me;† that bare eyes
To see alike mine honour, as their profits,
Their own particular thrifts,—they would do that,
Which should undo more doing.

662

The severity of age to youth.

13-i. 2.

You, that are old, consider not the capacities of us that are young; you measure the heat of our livers with the bitterness of your galls.

Deal mildly with his youth;

19-i. 2.

For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more. 17-ii. 1.

*All the editions read stuff'd, which is evidently wrong. It should be foul bosom, as in As You Like It: "Cleanse the foul body of the infected world."-Act. ii. scene 7. † Eph. vi. 5-7.

Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
Not you correct them.

Let us be keen, and rather cut a little,
Than fall, and bruise to death.

25-iii. 2.

5-ii. 1.

Turn head, and stop pursuit: for coward dogs
Most spend their mouths,* when what they seem to

threaten,

I hate ingratitude more in a man,

Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,

Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.

20-ii. 4.

668

4-iii. 4.

Anger controlled.

Pray be counsell'd:

I have a heart as little apt as yours,

But yet a brain, that leads my use of anger,

To better vantage.

28-iii. 2.

Though all the world should crack their duty to you,
And throw it from their soul; though perils did

Abound, as thick as thought could make them, and
Appear in forms more horrid; yet my duty,
As doth a rock against the chiding flood,
Should the approach of this wild river break,
And stand unshaken yours.

670

Kindness to be exercised.

25-iii. 2.

The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness,
And time to speak it in; you rub the sore,
When you should bring the plaster.

*Waste, exhaust.

1-ii. 1.

God's benison go with you; and with those
That would make good of bad, and friends of foes !*

15-ii. 4.

672 The act of opposing one thing to another.
Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,
And think, perchance, they'll sell; if not,
The lustre of the better shall exceed,
By showing the worse first.

26-i. 3.

The power, that I have on you, is to spare you;
The malice towards you, to forgive you.

31-v. 5.

Service shall with steeled sinews toil;

676

And labour shall refresh itself with hope.

The necessity of forethought.

Doubt and suspect, alas, are placed too late:

You should have fear'd false times, when you did

feast:

Suspect still comes, where an estate is least.

677

Drunkenness.

27-iv. 3.

It hath pleased the devil, drunkenness, to give place to the devil, wrath: one imperfectness shows me another, to make me frankly despise myself.

20-ii. 2.

In whose breast

37-ii. 3.

678

Implacability.

Not to relent, is beastly, savage, devilish.

24—i. 4.

Like a shepherd,

Approach the fold, and cull the infected forth.
But kill not all together.

681

The wisdom of concealment.

I will keep her ignorant of her good,

To make her heavenly comforts of despair
When it is least expected.

27-v. 5.

5-iv. 3.

Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou hasten thy trial.

11-ii. 3.

Dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.

15-i. 7.

I would, you would make use of that good wisdom whereof I know you are fraught ;* and put away these dispositions, which of late transform you from what you rightly are.

34-i. 4.

Who is't can say, I am at the worst?

34-iv. 1.

That they may seem the taints of liberty:

The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind;
A savagenesst in unreclaimed blood,
Of general assault.‡

36-ii. 1.