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When Time is broke, and no proportion kept *: So is it in the Music of Men's Lives.

461. INSENSIBILITY TO MORAL HARMONY.

There are who have the daintiness of ear To hear time broke in a disorder'd string; But for the concord of their state and time Have not an ear ||.

462. TIME RETALIATES ON IT'S WASTERS. ↑ Man wasteth Time, and then Time wasteth him. 463. THOUGHT OUR MEASURE OF TIME. Our thoughts are minutes.

464. PRIDE.

Pride must have a fall.

465. THOUGHTS SUPPRESST BY COMPULSION. What the Tongue dares not, that the Heart will say. 466. VICE-ABHORRED BY IT'S EMPLOYERS. They love not poison, that do poison need.

467. PARDON-WELL BECOMES A KING. No word like Pardon for Kings' mouths so meet. 468. JUDGEMENT OR SENTENCE CAPITAL not rendered against the absent.

Thieves are not judg'd but they are by to hear, Although apparent guilt be seen in them.

HENRY IV.

469. LABOUR SWEETENS LEISURE. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be ás tedious as to work. 470. CONTRAST.

* Bright metal on a sullen ground

* Veræ numerosque modosque ediscere vitæ. HOR.

Ergo Fidicen hoc videbit in fidibus; vir sapiens non videbit in vita:

CIC.

Will shew more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.

471. COURAGE RISES WITH OCCASION.
The blood more stirs

To rouze a Lion, than to start a Hare.

472. IMAGINATION MAGNIFIES EVILS. Imagination

Drives us beyond the bounds of patience. 473. HUMILITY.

Humility

Doth pluck allegiance from men's hearts *. 474. SATIETY.

The mouth that's surfeited with honey Doth loath the taste of sweets.

475. FLATTERY TO BE DISDAINED. Defy the tongues of soothers.

476. CAUTION NECESSARY. Needful it is to fear.

477. PROGNOSTIC.

The Southern wind

Doth by his hollow whistling on the leaves,
Foretell a tempest, and a blustering day.

478, JUSTICE HAS HEAVEN TO AID. God does defend us when our cause is just. 479. SUSPICION VIGILANT.

Suspicion is full of eyes.

480.

PRONE TO MISINTERPRET.

Interpretation will misquote our looks.

481. CIRCUMSPECTION.

Consider what you have to do,

482. LIFE-NOT TO BE MISEMPLOYED.
The time of Life is short:

To spend that shortness basely, 'twere too long.

* Compels them to love it.

483. WAR.

The Arms are fair *

When the intent of bearing them is just.

484. SUM OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC DUTY. Let each man do his best ||·

485. RIVALRY.

Two Stars keep not their motion in one sphere |||| . 486. DESPAIR.

¶ To Despair

Thought seems the slave of life, and life-time's 487. DISCRETION.

The better part of Valour is-Discretion.

488. RUMOUR.

Continual slanders ride.

[fool.

On Rumour's tongues

Rumour is a pipe

490. COMFORT-FALSE.

489.

Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.

[wrongs.

Smooth Comforts, false, are worse than real

491. CONTENTION WHEN IRRITATED.
Contention, like a horse

Full of high feeding, bears down all before him. 492. PROGNOSTIC PHYSIOGNOMICAL. Men's brows, like to a title-page,

Foretell the nature of a tragic volume.

493.

The cheek

Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.

Justa Bella quibus necessaria. LIV:
England expects every Man to do his Duty.

NELSON.

Till the Pallas of Olbers was discovered, and the Juno of Hardinge, after the Ceres of Piazzi, this seemed as true in the Letter as in the Figure. But the orbits of two at least of these three Planets are found to intersect each-other: which till then was unknown, except of Comets.

494. SUSPICION EAGER TO ACCUSE.

Suspicion hath a ready tongue.

495. FEAR-HOW APPREHENSIVE. He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he fear'd is chanc'd.

496. SLANDER OF THE DEAD MOST HEINOUS. He doth sin, that doth bely the dead.

497. ILL NEWS INFECTS THE BEARER. The bringer of unwelcome news

Hath but a losing office.

498, ILLS ARE MEDICINAL.

In poison there is physic.

499. WISDOM AND HONOUR.

Divorce not Wisdom from your Honour.

500. GAIN IMPATIENCE FOR IT DARING. Gain propos'd,

Choaks the respect of likely peril fear'd.
501. HOPE doubtful in COMMENCEMENT.
A cause on foot

Lives so in Hope, as in an early Spring
We see the appearing buds.

502. CIRCUMSPECTION.

When we mean to build,

We first survey the plot, then draw the model. 503. POPULARITY UNCERTAIN.

An habitation giddy and unsure

Hath he, that buildeth on the vulgar heart.

504. TIME.

We are Time's subjects.

505. IMAGINATION-IT'S POWER in adding

ideal Value.

[worst.

Past, and to come, seem best: things present,

506. WISDOM.

Let Wisdom be your guide.

507. ROYALTY.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

508. MUTABILITY.

The revolution of the times

Make mountains level, and the continent (Weary of solid firmness) melt itself

Into the sea!

509.

Chances mock,

And changes fill the cup of alteration
With divers liquors *.

510. PROGNOSTIC.

There is a History in all men's lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd:
The which observ'd, a man may prophecy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life.

511. RUMOUR.

Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo,
The numbers of the fear'd.

512. SICKNESS-HOW AGGRAVATED.
Unseason'd hours

Must add to sickness.

513. FAVORITISM.

That Man, that sits within a Monarch's heart,
And ripens in the sunshine of his favour,
Would he abuse the countenance of the King,
Alack, what mischiefs might he set abroach,
In shadow of such greatness.

*The passage whence this is taken has been made a Motto to a Poem of much original Genius and powerful Pathos---THE VISION OF SILVESTER.

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