55 Rumour, its diffusiveness. Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures; That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, 19-Induction. Loud Rumour speaks: I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth : Upon my tongues continual slanders ride; The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. 19-Induction. In companions That do converse and waste the time together, Friendship is constant in all other things, 9-iii. 4. Therefore,* all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent: for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.† 59 Happiness, where delusive. 6-ii. 1. O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! 10-v. ii. 60 The effect of show on weak minds. The fool multitude, that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach; Which pries not to th' interior, but, like the martlet, *Therefore.' Let, which is found in the next line, is understood † Passion. here. Builds in the weather on the outward wall, It is the witness still of excellency, 9-ii. 9. To put a strange face on his own perfection. 6-ii. 3. 62 Intellectual advancement. For nature, crescent,† does not grow alone In thews and bulk; but as this temple waxes, O, what authority and show of truth The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. A goodly apple rotten at the heart; 36-i. 3. 6-iv. 1. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! 9-i. 3. The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed, Glory grows guilty of detested crimes; Poems. When, for fame's sake, for praise, an outward part, 67 Fickle-mindedness. O perilous mouths, 8-iv. 1. That bear in them one and the self-same tongue, Bidding the law make court'sy to their will; 5-ii. 4. + Matt. iv. 6. O, what may man within him hide, Most pond'rous and substantial things! 5-iii. 2. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. 36-iii. 1. When we for recompense have praised the vile, Which aptly sings the good. 27-i. 1. Will poor folks lie, That have afflictions on them; knowing 'tis A punishment, or trial? Yes; no wonder, When rich ones scarce tell true: To lapse in fulness Is sorer, than to lie for need; and falsehood Is worse in kings, than beggars.§ 31-iii. 6. O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous Could great men thunder 5-ii. 2. As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, [der. Would use his heaven for thunder: nothing but thun Merciful Heaven! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled¶ oak, * Appearance. † False and feeble pretences. Sorer, a greater or heavier crime. The noble saying of John of France, That if truth were banished all other places of the earth, she ought still to find a dwelling in the hearts of kings.' Paltry. T Knotted. Than the soft myrtle !-O, but man, proud man! Most ignorant of what he's most assured, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, 74 5-ii. 2. Divine Justice. You are above, 34-iv. 2. You justicers, that these our nether crimes That comfort comes too late; 'Tis like a pardon after execution: That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me; 76 Things to be valued by their worth. 25-iv. 2. From the lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed: Where great additions* swell, and virtue none, It is a dropsied honour: good alone Is good, without a name; vileness is so:† The property by what it is should go, We must not stint‡ Our necessary actions, in the fear To cope malicious censurers; which ever, That is new trimm'd; but benefit no farther 78 11-ii. 3. 25-i. 2. Judgment of weak minds not to be regarded. By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is * Titles. Good is good independent of any worldly distinction, and so is vileness vile. + Retard. § Encounter. | Sometime. T Approved. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile :* In the fatness of these pursy times, Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg; Yea, curbf and woo, for leave to do him good. 25-i. 2. 34-iv. 2. 36-iii. 4. O wicked wit, and gifts, that have the power 36-i. 5. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: 27-i. 2. Some run from brakest of vice, and answer none; 84 Satan outwitting himself. 5-ii. 1. The devil knew not what he did, when he made man politic; he crossed himself by't: and I cannot think, but, in the end, the villanies of man will set him clear. Ingrateful man, with liquorish draughts, 27-iii. 3. And morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind, 86 Mental deformity and virtue. 27-iv. 3. In nature there's no blemish, but the mind; * Titus i. 15. † Bend. Brakes of vice,' means the engine of torture. In Holinshed, p. 670, it is mentioned, the said Hawkins was cast into the Tower, and at length brought to the brake,' &c. This engine is still to be seen in the Tower. |