673. SORROW AND ANXIETY not to be
uselessly perpetuated.

What's gone, and what's past help,
Should be past Grief,

674. PITY SHARPENS REMORSE.

A true Repentance bears the Truth much better Of Censure, than it can officious Pity.

675. AFFLICTION how aggravated by GUILT. Sense of deserv'd Affliction ill endures

Pity or Consolation: both appear

But as disguis'd Reproof.

676.

SEVERE―weeps not,

False glitter of the present.

682. COURTS.

If you would know whether Virtues or Vices keep a Man farthest from a Court, go to Court and learn.

683. VIRTUE rarely very familiar with COURTS, Virtue seldom stays long enough in a Court to be whipt out of it.

684. CHILDREN.

§ Parents are no less unhappy, their Issue not being gracious, than they are in losing them, when they have approved their virtues.

685. NATURE THE BASIS OF TRUE ART. Nature is made better by no mean

But Nature makes that mean.

686.

What adds to Nature, is an Art
That Nature makes.

687. PRAISE-suspicious.

Where Praises are too large, Wisdom may fear.

688.

suspicious even in LOVE.

Where Love is bold and lavish in it's praise, Virtue and female Modesty may fear It woos but the false way..

689. CONSTANCY.

Turtles pair

That never mean to part.

690. TASTE, ELEGANCE, and GENIUS dignify whatever Situation.

What Taste, and Elegance, and Genius does, Still savours something greater than it's place, However low or high.

691. WITNESSES.

There may be witnesses more than a Pedlar's Pack will hold, and yet no Truth.

692. TALES-none too extravagant to want Attestation.

There are few tales so idle that can not be voucht by abundance of witnesses: and some seemingly grave ones.

693. GOODNESS ready to think well of others. The Good by pattern of their own thoughts The purity of others.

694. FATHER.

A Father

Is at the Nuptial of his Son a Guest
That best becomes the table.

[judge

[compel,

695. MARRIAGE--Parents to advise, not to
Reason, the Child

Should chuse in Marriage: but good reason still
The Father, though no force, should hold some
In such a business.
[counsel
696. RESOLUTION-strengthened by VIOLENCE,
The resolute, where Force would intervene,
Disdain compulsion: what they were, they are;
More straining on for plucking back.

697. EQUALITY.

The self-same Sun, that shines upon a Court,
Hides not his visage from a Cottage; but
Looks upon all alike.

698. JUSTICE will not compromise with INIQUITY, Rather than aught should fail

By violation of his faith, the Just*

Would see the sides of the Earth crushing toge699. OATII-a just inviolable.

Not

[ther.

For all the Sun sees, or the close Earth wombs, Or the profound Sea hides ia unknown fathoms, Break thou thy Oath.

*Si fractus ellabatur Orbis
Impavidum ferient Ruinæ.

Phalaris licet imperet ut sis

HOR.

Falsus, et admoto dictet perjuria tauro

Surumu'n crede nefas animam præferie Padori ·
Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.

JUVEN.

700. VIRTUE yields not to CONVENIENCE.
The Good will say

When tempted by advantage, no: but rather Than swerve from Duty, let myself and Fortune Tug, for the time to come.

701. ADVICE.

Spirits should be or patient of Advice

Or stronger than to need it: And the strongest Sometime will want Advice.

702. BENEVOLENCE is spontaneous in Good Hearts, From the Good good Deeds As gladly are return'd as thought upon.

703. PRINCIPLE-no confidence where it is wanted.

In what we wildly do we are at mercy Of unthought accident:-thus we profess To make ourselves the slaves of chance, and flies To every wind that blows.

704. RASHNESS-Forerunner of EVIL.

The frowardness of Rashness is no better Than a wild dedication of ourselves

To unpath'd waters, undreamt shores ;-most To miseries enough: no hope to help us, [certain But as we shake off one to take another.

705. GENIUS.

*Of Genius be not rash to say, 'tis pity It wants Instruction:-'tis a natural Master To those that teach.

706. PRUDENCE.

Prudence will omit

Nothing which honestly may give her aid.
707. TALENTS-their WORTH as their EMPLOY.
An open ear, a quick eye, a nimble hand, a
As to a jack, or mill.

bold spirit, and a commanding foresight, make the Villain or the Hero as is the Heart and Cause which direct them.

708, CONNIVANCE AT CRIME.

To conceal the Knavery of others is want of Courage or of Honesty in ourselves.

709. CORRUPTION.

Though Authority be a stubborn bear, he is often led by the nose with gold.

710. REMORSE.

Those who remember

The Virtue they have injur'd, must remember
The blemish of that Injury: and with it
The wrong they did themselves.

711. AMENDMENT TRUE, should reconcile us
to ourselves,

When we have cause to think

By true amendment Heaven forgets our evil,
Let us forgive ourselves.

712. TIME-the present prefers itself.

The present Time is prone to boast itself
Above a better gone.

713. GRIEF.

The Dead whom we regret with true affection, When talk'd of die to us again: 'till Time Soften regret to kindly veneration.

714. AFFECTION-TRUE--independent of

Circumstances.

Though Fortune, visible an enemy,

Should chase a virtuous Pair, no jot of power
Hath she to change their loves.

715. AGE should remember YOUTH.

Ye who are old

Remember Youth with thought of like Affection.