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26. FIRMNESS OF VIRTUE.

Virtue never will be mov'd,

Though lewdness court it in a shape of Heaven;
But Vice, though to a radiant Angel linkt,
Will sate itself of a celestial bed.

27. HYPOCRISY,

One may smile and smile and be a villain.

28.

With devotion's visage

And pious action we do sugar o'er

The Devil himself.

29. DOUBLE MEANING.

+The Harlot's cheek, beautied by plastering art, Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it, Than are vile meanings hid in specious words,

30. FUTURITY.

¶ Think of something after Death:

And let us rather bear the ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of.

31. BEAUTY AND VIRTUE.

Beauty cannot have better commerce than with honesty.

32. FLATTERY.

Let the false candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where profit follows fawning.

33. MUCH UNKNOWN.

§ There are more things in Heaven and Earth Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.

34. LOVE INSPIRES COURAGE.

Love leads the will to desperate undertakings
As oft as any passion under Heaven.

35. MANNERS OF AGE AND YOUTH,
It is as proper to old age

To cast beyond itself in it's opinions

As it is common for the younger sort
To lack discretion.

36.

CHANGE.

It is a transformation

When nor the 'exterior nor the inward man
Resembles that it was.

37. WISHES OF KINGS.

Kings, by their sovereign power,

Put their dread pleasures more into command
Than to entreaty.

38. CONCISENESS.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

39. TRUE INTEGRITY.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be a man pickt out of ten thousand.

40. MAN-HIS DIGNITY.

What a piece of work is Man! how noble in reason; how vast in faculties; in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an Angel; in apprehension how like a God! the beauty of the world; the paragon of animals.

41. COMPOSITION-SIMPLICITY.

In Dramatic Composition and all just writing a good method is wholesome as sweet; and by very much more handsome than fine.

42. POWER OF THE DRAMA.

A just and a well-acted Play

Makes mad the Guilty,

43. JUSTICE.

¶ Use every man after his desert.

44. DETECTION.

Murther, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

45. GENEROUS SENSIBILITY,

To the noble mind

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. 46. DRAMATIC ACTION.

Suit the action to the word; the word to the action with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of Naturę.

47. ACTORS.

Let those who play clowns speak no more than is set down for them. For there be that will themselves laugh to set some quantity of barren spectators to laugh also. This shews a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. 48. MAGNANIMITY.

+A Man truly great

Will be in suffering all as suffering nothing:
As one that Fortune's buffets or rewards
Hath taken with equal thanks.

49. EQUANIMITY.

Give me that man that is not passion's slave,
And I will wear him in my heart of hearts ;
In my heart's core.

50. LOVE AND APPREHENSION.

Fear and Love hold quantity:

In neither aught; or in extremity.

51.

Where Love is great the smallest doubts are Fear: Where little Fears grow great, great Love grows

52. PASSIONATE RESOLVES.

What to ourselves in passion we propose
The passion ending doth the purpose lose.

53. PASSION IN EXTREMES.

The violence of either grief or joy

*In either nought, would be clearer.

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Their own enactures with themselves destroy.

54.

Where joy most revels grief doth most lament; Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.

55. MUTABILITY OF LIFE.

This world is not for aye.

56.

The great man down, you mark his favourite flies; The poor advanc'd, makes friends of enemies.

57. FALSE FRIENDS.

He who not needs shall never lack a friend.

58. POSTHUMOUS FAME.

• A great man's memory may outlive his life half a 59. FRIENDSHIP FALSE.

[year, He who in want a hollow Friend doth try, Directly seasons him his Enemy.

60. CONSCIENCE.

Let the galled wince.

61. VIGILANCE AND SECURITY. Some must watch, while some sleep.

62. DUTIES RELATIVE TO THE PUBLIC. The single and peculiar life is bound

With all the strength and armour of the mind, To keep itself from 'noyance; but much more That Spirit on whose weal depend and rest The lives of many.

63. CHILDREN.

In what concerns a Child

'Tis meet that some more audience than a Mother, Since Nature makes them partial, should deterUpon it's merit.

64. PRAYER.

In prayer is two-fold force:

To be forestalled ere we come to fall,

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Say not "Forgive my crime," when still possest Of those effects for which thou did'st the crime.

66.

Who can be pardon'd and retain the offence.
67. DIVINE JUSTICE.

§ In the corrupted currents of this world,
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,
And in worst times the wretched prize itself
Buys out the Law. But 'tis not so above;
There is no shuffling: there the action lies
In it's true nature, and we ourselves compell'd,
E'en to the teeth and forehead of our faults,
To give in evidence.

68. MERCY.

Whereto serves mercy,

But to confront the visage of offence?

69. REPENTANCE.

+ Try what repentance can, what can it notBut what can aught when habits are so fixt That we cannot repent.

70. FRAUD AND PERJURY.

§ There are those

Who from the body of a contract pluck
It's very soul and sweet Religion make
A rhapsody of words.

71. PRAYER.

Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go. 72. APPREHENSION.

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.

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In the vile rankness of abandon'd times
Virtue itself of Vice must pardon beg,

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