Due to my

So much I challenge, that I may profess lord.

37-i. 3. 651

The venomous effects of jealousy.

O beware of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.

37-iii. 3. 652

Equivocation.

But yet,

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.

30-i. 5. 653 Violent delights have short duration.

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.t 35-ji. 5.
654

Delusion.
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-ji. 4. 655

The force of habit.
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.

656

Conscience.

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

36-i. 5. 657

Needful severity.
Thou hast cleft iny heart in twain.

O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half. 36-iii. 4. 658

Grief not to be cherished.
Lay aside life-harming heaviness,
And entertain a cheerful disposition. 17-ii. 2.
659

Mental anguish.
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 ?

15-v. 3. 660 Resignation to the will of God enjoined. Do not, for ever, with thy vailed lids Seek for thy nobler father in the dust: Thou know'st, 'tis common; all, that live, must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

36-i. 2. 661 The value of faithful servants.

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

13-1. 2. 662

The severity of age to youth. 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.

19-i. 2. 663

Youth.

Deal mildly with his youth;
For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more.

664

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

25-iii. 2.

665

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

5-ii. 1.

666

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

threaten, Runs far before them.

20-ii. 4. 667

Ingratitude.
I hate ingratitude more in a man,
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.

4-iii. 4. 668

Anger controlled.

Pray be counsellid:
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. 669

Fidelity. 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.

25—iji. 2. 670

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

671

Benignity. 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. 673

Forgiveness.
The power, that I have on you, is to spare you;
The malice towards you, to forgive you. 31-v. 5.
674

Melancholy.
Fish not with this melancholy bait,
For this fool's gudgeon, this opinion.

9-i. 1. 675

Servitude. Service shall with steeled sinews toil; And labour shall refresh itself with hope. 20ii. 2. 676 The necessity of forethought.

In whose breast 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.

27-iv. 3. 677

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

37-ii. 3. 678

Implacability. Not to relent, is beastly, savage, devilish. 24-i. 4. 679

Simplicity's plea.

Let me know my trespass By its own visage: if I then deny it, 'Tis none of mine.

680

Mercy.

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

27-v. 5. 681

T'he wisdom of concealment.
I will keep her ignorant of her good,
To make her heavenly comforts of despair
When it is least expected.

5-iy. 3. 682

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

11-ii. 3. 683

Past sorrows not to be cherished. Let us not burden our remenıbrances With a heaviness that's gone.

1.-v. 1. 684

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

15-i. 7. 685

Reflection. 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. 686

Extremity. Who is't can say, I am at the worst ? 34-iv. 1. 687

Reason. Mingle reason with your passion.

34-ii. 4. 688

Tenderness in judging.

Breathe his faults so quaintly,
That they may seem the taints of liberty :
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind;
A savagenesst in unreclaimed blood,
Of general assault. I