Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood. Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds $327 Circumspection in bounty. "Tis pity, bounty had not eyes behind; 15-iii. 4. 22-v. 2. That man might ne'er be wretched for his mind. 27-i. 2. 'Tis not good that children should know any wickedness: old folks have discretion, as they say, and know the world. 3-ii. 2. 329 Fortitude. Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind 23-iii. 3. There's none 27-i. 2. Can truly say, he gives, if he receives. (Servile to all the skiey influences,) That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, And yet run'st toward him still: Thou art not noble; For all the accommodations that thou bear'st Are nursed by baseness: Thou art by no means valiant; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm: Thy best of rest is sleep, Thou art not thyself; Do curse the gout, serpigo,† and the rheum, For ending thee no sooner: Thou hast nor youth, nor age; But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both: for all thy blessed youth Of palsied eld; and when thou art old, and rich, 334 Intemperance, the evil of it. Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny; it hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne, How quickly nature falls into revolt, When gold becomes her object! For this, the foolish over-careful fathers 5-iii. 1. 15-iv. 3. Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with Their bones with industry: [care, * Affects, affections. † Leprous eruptions. † Old age. For this, they have engross'd and piled up The virtuous sweets; Our thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey, How sour sweet music is, When time is broke, and no proportion kept! Cowards die many times before their deaths; 338 Jests misplaced may be fatal. His jest will savour but of shallow wit, 19-iv. 4. 17-v. 5. 29-ii. 2. When thousands weep more than did laugh at it. 339 Simplicity in pleasing. 20-i. 2. That sport best pleases, that doth least know how: 340 8-v. 2. Satiety. The cloy'd will, (That satiate yet unsatisfied desire, That tub both fill'd and running,) ravening first 341 Human corruption. All is oblique; There's nothing level in our cursed natures, 31-i. 7. But direct villany. * Taking toll, gathering. 27-iv. 3. That slaves your ordinance, that will not see And each man have enough. 344 The same. Sometimes we are devils to ourselves, 34-iv. 1. When we shall tempt the frailty of our powers, 26-iv. 4. Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, 8-i. 1. Violent fires soon burn out themselves: Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes, that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding, food doth choke the feeder: Light Vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. 17-ii. 1. 348 Youth and age distinguished. Youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears. Importing health and graveness.* 36-iv. 7. * A young man regards show in dress; an old man health. Base men, being in love, have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. 350 The most promising hopes often blasted. The eating canker dwells, so eating love As the most forward bud 37—ii. 1. 'Tis not the many oaths, that make the truth; The silence often of pure innocence 353 Delusion of imagination. O, who can hold a fire in his hand, 2-i. 1. 11—iv. 2. 13-ii. 2. Or wallow naked in December snow, This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property foredoes† itself, 17-i. 3. *The sense is, we never swear by what is not holy, but take to witness the Highest-the Divinity. + Destroys. |