Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty,
Το make thy riches pleasant. Thus in this
Life

Lye many thousand deaths: yet Death we fear,
That makes these odds all even.

589. LIBERTY-VIRTUE ALONE IS FREE. Vice is imprisonment

(Though all the world's vastidity thou had'st) To a determin'd scope.

590. PRISONS-OUGHT NOT TO BE SHUT FROM CHARITABLE VISITATION.

When Charity visits afflicted Spirits

That are in Prison, 'tis a Common Right
To let her see them.

591. PASSION,

When Passion is the Master of the Heart, If we would pray and think, we think and pray To several subjects.

592.

In Fear, or the excess of any Passion,

The blood impetuous musters to the heart;
Making both it unable for itself,

And dispossessing all the other parts
Of necessary fitness.

593. HEAVEN SEETH NOT AS MAN SEETH. Much is set down in Heaven but not on Earth; + And much on Earth set down, but not in Heaven, 594. WISHES-GOOD.

Good wishes deserve welcome.

595. LIFE-WHAT IS TRULY. Who basely sue to live seek but to die: Who virtuously seek Death find Life.

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596.

Mightest thou be safe unworthily,-beware,
Lest thou a feverish life should entertain,
And six or seven winters more respect
Than a perpetual Honor. Dare to die;
Be thou too noble to conserve a life
By base appliances.

597.

Fearful is Death; but shamed Life is hateful. 598. IMPUNITY OF REPEATED CRIME IS NOT MERCY.

Where Crime's not accidental but a trade,
Mercy to such would prove itself a bawd.

599. PARDON ON CORRUPT MOTIVES. When Vice makes Mercy, Mercy's so extended, That for the fault's love is the offender friended. 600. GOODNESS IS BEAUTY.

If Goodness be the soul of your complexion,
It shall preserve the body ever fair.

601. HYPOCRISY MORE SHEWY THAN VIRTUE. In this world, Craft, being richer than Innocence, often stands for the facing.

602. DEATH.

The sense of Death is most in apprehension;
And the poor Beetle, that we tread upon,
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great.
As when a Giant dies.

603. VIRTUE COURAGEOUS.

Virtue is bold; and Goodness never fearful.

604. GAIN DISHONORABLE THE WORST LOSS. Would those who profit by corruption think What 'tis to cram a maw or cloath a back, Or heap up sordid wealth from filthy vice;

Could they believe their living is a life!

605. VICE-SELF-DESTRUCTIVE. To whom the Devil has given proofs for Sin, They will prove his.

606. INSTRUCTION SHOULD GO HAND IN HAND WITH CORRECTION.

+ Correction and Instruction must both work Ere Ignorance and settled Vice will profit. 607. WISDOM AND CANDOUR.

Love of the good talks with better knowledge than to speak lightly, and knowledge with more affection than to speak harshly, of them.

608. RASH SPEAKING.

Those who know not what they speak seldom know what they do.

609. HYPOCRISY.

That we were all, as some would seem to be, Free from our faults, as from faults seeming free! 610. SLANDER.

No Might nor Greatness in mortality

Can Censure 'scape: back-wounding Calumny The whitest Virtue strikes.

611. TRUTH-WANT OF IT DESTRUCTIVE. There is scarce Truth enough alive in the world to make Societies secure.

612. NEWS.

day's

No News is older than that which is every

s news.

613. SELF-KNOWLEDGE MOST NECESSARY. Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves *.

* De Calo descendit, Γνωθι σεαυτον. Juv.

614. BENEVOLENCE.

+ The benevolent more rejoice to see another merry, than are merry at any thing which professes to make them rejoice.

615. RIGOUR.

Rigour to others is Censure on ourselves.

616. PURITY JUDICIAL.

He who the sword of Heaven will bear
Should be as holy as severe;

Pattern in himself to know
Grace to stand+, Virtue to go:
More nor less to others paying
Than by self-offences weighing.
Shame to him whose cruel striking
Kills for faults of his own liking.
617. HYPOCRISY.

O! what may Man within him hide,
Though Angel on the outward side:
How may likeness made in crimes,
Making practice on the times,
Draw with idle spider's strings

Most pond'rous and substantial things!

618. MUSIC.

Music often hath a charm

To make bad good.

619. VIRTUE IS CANDID AND MERCIFUL.

Whoso is just

He doth with holy abstinence subdue

That in himself which he doth

To qualify in others.

spur himself

620. STATION ADDS TO THE INFECTIOUS

NESS OF GUILT.

Offence hath pestilent celerity

When it is born in high authority.

621. DEATH.

Death's a great disguiser.

622. DEATH-STUPID INDIFFERENCE CONCERNING IT.

A man insensible of Mortality is desperately 623. ADVICE.

Who most wants Advice will hear none.

624. PHYSIOGNOMY.

[mortal.

Honesty and Constancy are written in the brow: the wise and the benevolent can read them there.

625. POWER OBNOXIOUS TO CENSURE. O Place and Greatness! Millions of false eyes Are stuck upon thee! Volumes of report Run with their false and most contrarious quests Upon thy doings! thousand 'scapes of wit Make thee the father of their idle dream, And rack thee in their fancies!

626. DIFFICULTIES.

All difficulties are easy when they are known. 627, ACCIDENTS-THERE ARE NONE. What we call Accident 'tis Heaven provides. 628. HEAVEN KINDLY CONCEALS THE

FUTURE.

We often are kept ignorant of our Good, To make us heavenly comforts of despair When it is least expected.

629, VICE EVER DISCONTENTED

HABITUAL.

When once our grace we have forgot,

WHEN

Nothing goes right; we would and we would not. 630. ADVERSITY-IS MEDICINAL.

In the events of Life there is a Physic That's bitter to sweet end,