1138. FORTITUDE.

Cleopatra.]

Affliction often hath no earthly Friend

But Resolution. '

1139. RESIGNATION subdues CALAMITY.
Bid that welcome

Which seems to punish us, and we punish it,
Seeming to bear it lightly.

1140. GRIEF-should be proportioned to the cause. Our size of sorrow,

Proportion'd to it's cause, must be as great. 1141. WISHES-folly of perpetually forming Wishers were ever Fools.

1142. SUICIDE.

[them.

It is Sin

To rush into the secret house of Death,

Ere Death dare come to us.

[dulged Errors.

1143. CONSCIENCE sometimes corrects long in

Nature will oft compel us to lament

Our most persisted deeds.

1144. ERROR-the best have some.

Their Nature mixes with the best

Some faults, to mark them Men *.

1145. CALAMITY extreme, rarely flatters itself. He does not greatly care to be deceiv'd

Who has no use for trusting.

1146. POMP imposes on the Weak.

How Pomp is follow'd!

1147, THOUGHT-should be free.

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

1148. INSTRUMENT-efficacy of a weak, How poor an instrument

May do a noble deed.

* Vitiis nemo sine nascitur: optimus ille

Qui minimis argetur.

HOR,

Cressida.]

1149. WOMAN.

A Woman is a dish for the Gods, if the Devil

Dress her not.

1150. EVENTS-Great.

High Events

Strike those that make them.

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.

1151. TIME.

Time must friend or end.

1152. HOPE deceitful.

The ample proposition that Hope makes
In all designs begun on Earth below,
Fails in the promis'd largeness.

1153. PRUDENCE false.

There is a Folly which is sauc'd with Discretion. 1154. SUCCESS-true is final.

Things won are done.

1155. DISAPPOINTMENT.

Checks and Disasters

Grow in the veins of Actions highest rear'd;
As knots by the conflúx of meeting sap,
Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain
Tortive and errant from his course of growth.
1156. CHECKS are TRIALS.

Checks are protractive trials of high Heaven
To find persistive constancy in men.

The fineness of which metal is not found
In Fortune's love: for then the bold and coward,
The wise and fool, the artist and unread,
The hard and soft, seem all affin’d and kin:
But in the wind and tempest of her frown,
Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan,
Puffing at all, winpows the light away;

Cressida.]

And what hath mass or matter by itself,
Lies rich in virtue and unmingled *.

1157.

In the reproof of Chance

Lies the true Proof of Men:

1158.

The Sea being smooth,

How many shallow bauble boats dare sail
Upon her patient breast, making their way
With those of nobler birth:

But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage
The gentle Thetis, and anon behold

The strong ribb'd bark thro' liquid mountains cut,
Bounding between the two moist elements

Like Perseus' horse! Where's then the saucy boat
Whose weak untimber'd sides but even now
Co-rival'd greatness? Either to harbour fled,
Or made a toast for Neptune.

Even so

Doth Valour's shew and valour's Worth divide In storms of Fortune: For in her

ness +

ray and bright

The Herd hath more annoyance by the Breeze Than by the Tyger: but when the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks,

And flies flee under shade,-why then the thing of

courage,

As rouz'd with

rage, with rage doth sympathize,

And with an accent tun'd in self-same key,

Returns to chiding Fortune.

1159. ORDER celestial.

The Heavens themselves, the Planets, and this

Observe degree, priority, and place;

Quadrisyllable.

[Earth

The Brize or Breeze Fly; the Gad-fly.

Cressida.]

Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
Office and custom in all line of order;
And therefore is the glorious planet SOL*
In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd
Amid the other.

1160. ORDER-political.

Degree being vizarded,

The unworthiest shews as fairly in the mask.

1161.

O when Degree is shak'd,

Which is the ladder of all high designs,

The Enterprize is sick!

1162.

How could communities,

Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities,
Peaceful commérce from dívidable shores,
The primogeniture and due of birth,
Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels,
But by degree, stand in authentic place?
1163. ORDER universal.

Take but degree away; untune that string;
And hark what discord follows! each thing meets
In meer oppugnancy: The bounded waters
Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores,
And make a sop of all this solid Globe:
Strength should be Lord of Imbecility;

And the rude Son should strike his Father dead.
Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong
(Between whose endless jar Justice resides)
Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Then every thing includes itself in power;

Here is more than a hint of the Copernican System. COPER. NICUS died 1548: 21 years before the Birth of SHAKESPEARE.

Power into will, will into appetite;
And appetite, an universal wolf*,

Cressida.]

So doubly seconded with will and power,
Must make perforce an universal prey,
And last, eat up himself.

1164.

§ In factious struggle for pre-eminence,
Order is scorn'd. The General's disdain'd
By him one step below: he by the next;
That next, by him beneath so every step
Exampled by the first face that is sick
Of his superior, grows to an envious feves
Of pale and bloodless emulation.

1165. WISDOM above FORCE,

There are who call Policy cowardice;
Count Wisdom as no member of the War;
Forestall presciènce, and esteem no act
But that of hand:--the still and mental parts
That do contrive how many hands shall strike
When fitness calls them on, and know, by measure
Of their observant toil, the Enemy's weight,...
They call this,-bed-work mappery; closet-War.
So that the Ram, that batters down the wall,
From the great swing and rudeness of his poise,
They place before his hand that made the engine,
Or those that with the fineness of their souls
By Reason guide it's execution.

1166. COMMANDER unpopular.

When that the General is not lik'd of the Hive,
To whom the Foragers should all repair,
What Honey is expected?

This looks like a Grand Allegory in the RUNIC Mythology; concerning the Wolf LOK, the destroying, subdued at last by the renovating Principle.