551. MERCY. No Ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the King's crown, nor the deputed sword, 552. MERCY DIVINE. All the Souls that are were forfeit once, 553. How should we be, If he which is the top of judgment should But judge us as we are. O think on that, And mercy then will breathe within our lips, 554. HEAVEN THE VENERATION WE OWE TO IT. Shall we serve Heaven With less respect than we do minister To our gross selves? 555. MERCY AND JUSTICE. +Judges shew pity most when they shew justice: For then they pity those they do not know, Whom a dismiss'd offence would after gall*. 556. SMALL OFFENCES SHOULD BE CHECKT. to When crimes are small and punishments are Mercy is not itself that oft looks so; And Pardon oft the nurse of second woe. 557. MERCY. It is excellent [light, To have a Giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. *This is most true were Punishments less extreme. 558. Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet: For every pelting petty officer Would use his Heaven for thunder. 559. Merciful Heaven! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Most ignorant of what he's most assur❜d, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, 560. PERSONS OF RANK APT TO FANCY EVERY THING ALLOWABLE TO THEM. 'Great men may jest with Saints. 'Tis wit in them, But in the rest foul profanation. 561. POWER-PRONE TO PUNISH & OFFEND. Authority, although it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, That skins the vice o' the top. 562. SELF-EXAMINATION SHOULD PRE CEDE CENSURE. Go to your bosom, Knock there; and ask your Heart, what it hath That's like a Brother's fault. 563. VIRTUE THE SOLE GOOD. All goods external may be rich or poor, As Fancy values-'tis not so with Virtue. 564. TEMPTATION. [done The Tempter or the tempted, who sins most? 565. MODESTY. & Modesty does more betray the sense Than woman's lightness. 566. MIND, AND IT'S ASSOCIATIONS. Are as the Mind and will-thus may our hearts Do as the carrion doth, not as the flower, 567. INCONTINENCE. Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the Sanctuary 568. TEMPTATION-SPECIOUS. Most dangerous Is that Temptation which does goad us on 569. HYPOCRISY. § Heaven oft is in the mouth, And in the heart a strong and growing evil. 570. EXAMPLE ILL. Thieves for their robbery have authority, 571. HYPOCRISY. O, cunning enemy, that, to catch a Saint, 572. NO REPENTANCE without AMENDMENT. In sorrow for those crimes which we continue, Sorrow is always toward ourselves, not Heaven. 573. THE WORLD YIELDS TO PRETENCES. Let's write good Angel on the Devil's horn, Tis not the Devil's crest. 574. AUTHORITY. O place! O form! How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, Wrench awe from fools, and tye the wiser souls To thy false seeming! 575. HUMILITY. + True Goodness in a mortal breast will say-— Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, But graciously to know I am no better*. 576. HUMILITY AFFECTED. ¶ Craftiness wishes to appear more bright, When it doth tax itself. 577. PARDON. An ignominious ransom, and free pardon Though it should never, yet it oft falls out That bear in them one and the self-same tongue, Either of Condemnation or Approof! Bidding the Law make court'sy to their will; Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite, To follow as it draws! 580. VIRTUE ABOVE ALL. Virtue and female Honor will say thusMore than our Brother is our Chastity. 581. HOPE. The miserable have no other Medicine, There is none Good but one: that is, GOD. The last Good left in Pandora's Box. 582. WOMEN. Women are frail As are the glasses where they view themselves. 583. EDUCATION. +In Childhood, a good thing too often read Grows fear'd and tedious. 584. DEATH-the true is loss of GOODNESS. Better to die at once than die for ever. 585. IMPERFECTION, HUMAN. Men, at the best, are made to be no stronger Than faults may shake their frame. 586. HOPE WITH FORTITUDE. Have hope to live; but be prepar'd to die. 587. DEATH. Be still prepar'd for Death: and Death or Life Shall thereby be the sweeter 588. LIFE HUMAN. * Reason thus with Life A breath thou art, Servile to all the skiey influences That do this habitation, where thou keep'st, For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains For thine own bowels which do call thee Sire * Omnem crede Diem tibi diluxisse supremum: HOR. |