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414. AGE AND SICKNESS FRETFUL. With little of resentment we impute Harsh words to wayward sickliness and age. 415. AFFECTION PATIENT.

Tender Duty makes us suffer wrong.

416. HOPE NOT TO PROFIT BY EVIL. + Be it ever of bad courses understood, That their events can never fall out good. 417. FEAR.

Urge doubts to them that fear.

418. GRIEF EVER MAGNIFIES.

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows.
419. SORROW DISTORTS APPEARANCES.
Apprehensive Sorrow's eye
As for things true weeps things imaginary,
Dividing one entire to many objects;
Like pérspectives which, wrily gazed upon,
See nothing but confusion; used aright
Distinguish forms * :-Thus Care's disorder'd eye
Finds multiplying shapes of Grief to wail,
Which lookt on as they are, are nought but
[shadows.

420. PRESENTIMENT.

+ Commonly, or ever,

Presentiment of ill we may derive

From some fore-father grief.

421. ADVERSITY TRIES FRIENDSHIP.

Whoever hath abus'd Prosperity,

Soon comes the sick hour that his surfeit made : Then shall he try his friends that flatter'd him. 422. HOPE-HOW SWEET.

The Hope to joy is little less in joy

This curious double allusion to an optical experiment, not even now very familiar, shews the strength, comprehensiveness, and subtilty of the Poet's observation. The Anamorphosis Cylinder and Polymorphic Prism are both introduced.

Than hope enjoy'd.

423. HOPE DECEITFUL. Hope is a flatterer, a parasite,

A keeper-back of death.

424. COMFORT-HER TRUE ABODE. Comfort's in Heaven, and we are on the Earth. 425. CONVERSATION SHORTENS THE WAY. Sweet Discourse

Maketh the hard way sweet and délectable * 426. INATTENTION.

That is not forgot

That never was remember'd.

427. GRACE.

Grace in a graceless mouth is but prophane.

428. GOODNESS.

Goodness accounts itself in nought so happy As in a soul remembering the good.

429. HUMILITY INTERIOR.

Shew Heaven the humbled heart, and not the 430. SICKNESS AND AGE.

[knee. Sickness and Age have privilege to be bold. 431. EVILS INCURABLE, COMPARATIVELY DISREGARDED.

Things past redress are past care.

432. EVIL not to be done To PRODUCE GOOD. To find out Right with Wrong-It may not be. 433. SIGNS OF APPROACHING ANARCHY. At approach of lawless times

Wise men look sad; and ruffians dance and leap: The one in fear to lose what they enjoy;

* Cantantes licet usque, minus via lædet, eamus. Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo.

VIRG.

Rather than..." I will have Mercy; and not Sacrifice :" is a similar phrase.

The other to enjoy by rage and war.

434. EXILE.

Bitter is the bread of Banishment.

435. DAY AND NIGHT.

When the searching eye of Heaven is hid Behind the Globe, and lights the lower world, Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen, In murthers and in outrage: but behold Then when from under this terrestrial ball He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines, And darts his light through every guilty hole; Then treasons, murthers, and detested sins Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves. 436. LABOUR AND REST.

Awhile to work; and after, holiday.

437. ALL JUST MEANS TO BE USED. The means that Heaven yields must be embrac'd, And not neglected :...else Heaven would, And we will not; Heaven's offer we refuse, The proffer'd means of succour and redress. 438. CARE.

What loss is it to be rid of Care?

439. JUSTICE THE MEASURE OF GREATNESS. Strives any one to be as great as we?

Greater he cannot be unless more just *,

+ More true to Men, to Heaven, and his own Heart. 440. DEATH.

Death will have his day.

441.

Nothing can we call our own but Death;
And that small model of the barren earth,
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
*So Agesilaus: in the Poet's justly favourite Plutarch,

442. LOVE CHANGES INTO HATE.

Sweet Love changing his property,

Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate. 443. ROYALTY.

Within the hollow Crown,

That rounds the mortal temples of a King,
Keeps Death his Court: and there the Antic sits,
Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp ;
Allowing him a breath, a little scene

To monarchize, be fear'd, and kill with looks;
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,

As if this flesh, which walls about our life,
Were brass impregnable.

444. REMEDY; NOT COMPLAINT.

+ Good men and wise wail not their present woes, But presently prevent the cause to wail.

445. FEAR INCREASES DANGER.

To fear the Foe, since Fear oppresseth strength, Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe. 446.

Fear, and be slain-no worse can come, to fight. To fight and die is Death destroying Death *; Where fearing dying pays Death servile breath. 447. DISTRESS AGGRAVATED-HOW. He plays the torturer by small and small, Who lengthens out the worst that must be spoken. 448. MORTALITY.

Mock not flesh and blood

With solemn reverence.

Epaminondas, Wolfe, Montgomery, Abercromby, Nelson, thought and felt thus. And in the Sarpedon of Homer there is a similar spirit. Louis the XVIth, Frederick the Great of Prussia, and the Emperor Joseph, all, I think, forbade kneeling to them.

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449. PROGNOSTICS.

Men judge by the complexion of the sky
The state and inclination of the day.

450. FLATTERY THE WORST SLANDER.
He does me double wrong,

That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue, 451. GENTLENESS.

Fight with gentle words.

452.

To speak of Joy, when altogether wanting, Doth but remember us the more of sorrow; Or if of Grief, being altogether had,

It adds more sorrow to our want of joy. 453. LAMENTATIONS AID NOT.

Tears shew their love; but want their remedies. 454. CALAMITY QUICK.

Nimble Mischance is ever light of foot. 455. GRIEF.

Grief lies within:

And the external manners of lament
Are merely shadows to the unseen grief,
That swells with silence in the tortur'd soul.

456. WICKEDNESS HAS NO FRIENDSHIP. The love of wicked friends converts to fear.

457. PROVIDENCE UNIVERSAL. Heaven hath a hand in all events.

458. AMBITION BOUNDLESS.

Thoughts tending to Ambition, still do plot
Unlikely wonders.

459. SELF-COMPLACENCY.

Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves. 460. MUSIC.

How sour sweet Music is,

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