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361.

What is spoken,

The body shall make good upon this earth;
Or the divine Soul answer it in Heaven.

362. CONTRAST.

The fairer and more crystal is the sky, The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. 363. MURTHer.

Innocent blood,

E'en like the blood of sacrificing Abel,
Cries from the tongueless caverns of the earth,
For justice and rough chastisement.

364. MALICE CRUEL.

Deep Malice makes too deep incision. 365. PLACABILITY.

Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed. 366. OBEDIENCE SHOULD BE DECISIVE. § When

Obedience bids-wait not a second bidding.

367. HONOUR.

Our life Kings may command, but not our shame. 368. DUTY NEARER THAN KINDRED.

Nearness of blood

Should nothing privilege, nor partialize
The unstooping firmness of the upright Soul.
369. FORTITUDE AGAINST FURY.

Rage must be withstood:

Lions make Leopards tame.

370. REPUTATION INESTIMABLE.
The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is-spotless Reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay.

371. COURAGE AND LOYALTY. A' jewel in a ten-times barr'd up chest Is a bold Spirit in a loyal breast.

372. HONOUR.

Our Honor is our Life; both grow in one: Take honor from us and our life is done. 373. ENTREATY.

†Those at entreaty commonly are ill Who were not born to sue but to command.

374. HEAVEN-SUBMISSION TO IT'S WILL. Put we our quarrel to the will of Heaven. 375. PUNISHMENT LEGAL.

Where Law and Justice strike,

Lament we may, but not avenge the dead.

376. IMAGINATION--WHERE INEFFECTUAL.

Who can hold a Fire in his hand

By thinking on the frozen Caucasus;
Or bate the fang of stern December's snow
By thinking of fantastic Summer's heat;
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
- By bare imagination of a feast.
The apprehension of a banisht good
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
377. GRIEF-SILENT.

Fell Sorrow's tooth does never rankle more
Than when it bites but lanceth not the sore.

378. DIVINE JUSTICE.

Heaven is the Widow's Champion and defence. 379. UNDUE SUBMISSION.

That which in mean men we entitle patience
Is pale cold Cowardice in noble breasts.

380. GRIEF.

Grief boundeth where it falls;

Not with the empty hollowness, but weight*.

381.

Grief makes one hour ten.

382. PLEASURE AND PAIN DIVIDE LIFE. Joy absent, Grief is present for that time. 383.

Sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done. 384. TRUTH,

Truth hath a quiet breast.

385. FALSE PLEASURE.

Things sweet to taste, prove in digestion sour. 386. EXILE.

All places that the eye of Heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports, and happy havens. 387. POWER; HUMAN.

Kings may cut short our days with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from us; but not lend a morrow: They can help Time to furrow us with age; But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage:

Their word is current with him for our Death, But dead, their Kingdom cannot buy our breath. 388. NECESSITY.

Teach thy necessity to reason thus;
There is no virtue like necessity.

389. CONFIDENCE IN HEAVEN.

+ Who look beyond this World Whate'er their soul holds dear may well believe To lie the way they go.

390. TRIALS RELIEVED BY PATIENCE. Gnarling Sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light ||.

* That is, no Griefs evidently affected have a sympathetic influence by re-action upon others. The conceit is from a Ball contrasted to a Bladder.

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391. DYING PERSONS ATTENDED TO.
The tongues of dying men

Enforce attention, like deep Harmony.

392. WORDS OF SUCH PRECIOUS.

Where words are scarce they 'are seldom spent in

393. END HOW ENDEARED.

[vain. More are men's Ends mark'd than their Lives

The setting Sun and Music at the close

(As the last taste of sweets) are sweetest. 394. LICENTIOUS WRITINGS.

There are found

[before

Lascivious meeters; to whose venom'd sound
The open ear of youth doth always listen.
395. FASHION.

Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity,
(So be it new, there's no respect how vile)
That is not quickly buzz'd into the ear.
396. WILFULNESS.

Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard,
Then all too late comes counsel to be heard.
397.

Direct not him, whose way his-self will choose.

398. PROFUSION.

Light Vanity, insatiate Cormorant,
Consuming means soon preys upon itself.

399. EXTREMES.

Violent Fires soon burn out themselves.

400.

Small showers last long; but sudden storms are

401. MISERY.

[short. Misery sometimes makes sport to mock itself.

402. FLATTERY.

Dying men rarely flatter those that live

+ Too oft the living flatter those that die.

403. IMPROVIDENCE.

Those who think too late,

See but the very wreck that they must suffer; And find the danger then inevitable

For suffering thus the causes of their wreck.

404.

"Tis rash to hear a fearful tempest sing, Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm: To see the wind sit sore upon our sails, And yet not furl them, but securely perish. 405. IMPATIENCE,

* Impatience is an Ague's privilege.

406. LIFE THE HAPPY LOVE IT. They love to live that Love and Honor have.

407. DEATH-THE UNHAPPY DESIRE IT. They love to die that Age and Sorrow have. 408. DEATH.

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe. 409. PREMATURITY.

The ripest fruit first falls.

410. HOPE AND FORTITUDE.

Hope and Fortitude

Can even through the hollow eyes of Death
Behold Life peering.

411. FRIENDSHIP.

Confidence

Should beget confidence: and those with whom We share our thoughts should share their own

412.

[with us. Spoken in confidence words are as thoughts.

413. MELANCHOLY HOSTILE TO LIFE.

Ye who would live,

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

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