A Peace is of the nature of a conquest;

[morrow."

For then both parties nobly are subdued,
And neither party loser.

516. LUXURIANCE.

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.

517. PASSION.

When means and lavish manners meet together,
O with what wings do hot affections fly
Toward fronting peril.

518. AFFLICTIONS PROFITABLE.

Turn past evils to advantage.

519. FORTUNE.

Fortune doth never come with both hands full:
She either gives a stomach and no food-
Such are the poor, in health :-or else a feast
And takes away the stomach-such the rich,
That have abundance, and enjoy it not.

520. ROYALTY.

O Majesty,

When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit Like a rich armour worn in heat of day,

That scalds with safety.

521. AVARICE.

How quickly Nature falls into revolt

When gold becomes the object!

For this the foolish over-careful Fathers

Have broke their sleep with thought, their brains

Their bones with industry:

[with care,

For this they have engrossed and pil'd up

The canker'd heaps of strange atchieved gold:
For this they have been thoughtful to invest
Their Sons with arts, and martial exercises :-
When, like the bee, culling from every flower
The virtuous sweets;

They bring it to the hive; and, like the bee,
Are murther'd for their pains.

522. AGE.

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE.

VOL. II.

523. POPULARITY.

§ The man who does affect

Popular applause, and aves vehement,
Is not of safe discretion.

524. PROGNOSTIC MORAL.

St There is a kind of character in the life
That to the observer doth the history
Unfold.

525. TALENTS NOT OUR OWN.

Thyself and thy belongings

Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy Virtues, them on thee. 526.

Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for ourselves: for if our Virtues Did not go forth of us*, 'twere all alike

As if we had them not.

527

Spirits are not finely touch'd

But to fine issues.

* A Scriptural Phrase.

528.

Nature never lends

The smallest scruple of her excellence,
But, like a thrifty Goddess, she determines
Herself the glory of a creditor,
Both thanks and use *.

529. KINGS-THE

AWFUL EXTENT OF

THEIR POWERS.

+ Mortality and Mercy

Live in the tongues of Princes: Mercy should Live ever in their hearts.

530. PROPOSITION IDENTICAL.

Grace is Grace,

Despight of all controversy.

531. AUTHORITY.

The Demi-god, Authority,

Makes us pay down for our offence by weight.

532. EXCESS.

As Surfeit is the Father of much fast,
So every scope by the immoderate use
Turns to restraint.

533.

Our natures do pursue,
Like rats that raven down their proper bane,
A thirsty evil: and when we drink we die.

534. POWER-NEW IS GENERALLY SHARP.
In change of power || the Body-politic is
An horse whereon the Governor doth ride,
Who newly in the seat, that it may know
He can command, oft lets it feel the spur.

* The Interest on the Principal. The allusion is Scriptural.
Res dura et Regni Novitas me talia cogunt
Moliri.

VIRG.

535, YOUTH PERSUASIVE.

§† Youth hath a prone and speechless dialect, Such as moves men.

536. LAWS, IF UNFIT TO BE EXECUTED,

SHOULD NOT EXIST.

Decrees

Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead. 537. PERMISSION OF THE EVIL WE COULD PREVENT IS A VIRTUAL COMMAND.

We bid ill be done,

When evil deeds have their permissive pass,
Unpunisht and uncensur'd.

538. POWER CHANGES PURPOSE.

Oft we see

Powers changing purpose what our seemers be.

539. BLUSHES-INDICATIONS OF PURITY. Blushes, brief roses of the cheeks, proclaim A virgin purity.

540. AUTHORITY weakened by Ostentation. In time the rod

Becomes more mock'd than fear'd.

541. FEAR.

Our doubts are traitors;

And make us lose the good we oft might win,

By fearing to attempt.

542. WOMEN-THEIR POWER.

When Maidens sue,

Men give like Gods; but when they weep and

All their petitions are as truly their's,

As they themselves should owe them.

[kneel,

543. LAWS SHOULD EITHER BE EXECUTED

OR REPEALED.

We must not make a scare-crow of the Law,

Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till Custom make it
Their perch, and not their terror.

544. MODERATION IN PUNISHMENT.

Let us be keen and rather cut a little,
Than fall and bruise to death.

545. TEMPTATION-NONE IN ITSELF IR-
RESISTIBLE.

"Tis one thing to be tempted,

Another thing to fall.

546. GUILT MUST NOT EXEMPT ITSELF BECAUSE OTHERS ARE GUILTY.

The Jury, passing on the prisoner's life,

May, in the sworn twelve, have a thief or two
Guiltier than him they try.

547.

What's open made to Justice,

That Justice seizes.

548. OBSERVATION HUMAN ALWAYS
IMPERFECT.

The jewel that we find, we stoop, and take it,
Because we see it; but what we do not see
We tread upon, and never think of it.

549. LIFE HUMAN-INEQUALITIES OF IT. Some rise by Sin, and some by Virtue fall: Some run through brakes of justice, answer none, And some condemned for a fault alone.

550. JUSTICE RIGOROUS.

After Execution, Judgement hath Repented o'er his doom *.

* Did not Shakespeare allude to the Cases of Mary of Scotland, where Elizabeth wisht it to be thought that she felt thus; and of Essex, where she certainly did feel thus?