To every purpose! O thou touch of hearts! 226. An over-regard for the world. 27-iv. 3. 9-i. 1. You have too much respect upon the world: To be the dowry of a second head, The scull that bred them, in the sepulchre. To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf The seeming truth which cunning times put on Let's take the instant by the forward top; Winning favour, pleasing. h Curled. i Treacherous. 9—iii. 2. The inaudible and noiseless foot of time 11-v. 3. That we would do, We should do when we would; for this would changes, As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; 230. Danger of precipitancy. 36-iv. 7. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot, 231. Danger of confident security. 25-i. 1. The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches 26-ii. 2. 232. The danger of dalliance. Do not give dalliance Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw 233. The danger of elevation. Stoop. This gate 1-iv. 1. Instructs you how to adore the heavens; and bows you 31-iii. 3. "Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego."-Dan. iii. 22. 1 Strut, walk proudly. 234. Danger of exaltation. Our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time; 28-iv. 7. They that stand high, have many blasts to shake them; And, if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. 24-i. 3. 236. The danger of relying on our own strength. [Lie in the lap of sin,] and not mean harm? It is hypocrisy against the devil: They that mean virtuously, and yet do so, The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven". 37-iv. 1. 237. Effects of the want of judgment and taste. When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, Understanding; it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room°. 238. The effect of over-indulgence. 10-iii. 3. What doth cherish weeds, but gentle air? Before the curing of a strong disease, 23-ii. 6. 16—iii. 4. That is, exaltation, by exciting envy, often is the grave of power, and sinks fame in oblivion. "Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."-Matt. iv. 7. Implies, that the entertainment was mean, and the bill was extravagant. It is said by Rabelais, there was only one quarter of an hour in human life passed ill, and that was between the calling for the reckoning and the paying for it. To say, extremity was the trier of spirits; 241. The evil of loose discipline. Now, as fond fathers, Having bound up the threat'ning twigs of birch, For terror, not to use; in time the rod Becomes more mock'd than fear'd: so our decrees, The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart 5—i. 4. To plainness honour 's bound, When majesty stoops to folly. 243. The duty owing to ourselves and others. Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy 34-i. 1. Rather in power, than use; and keep thy friend 244. The ill effects of neglected duty. 11-i. 1. Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves: Omission to do what is necessary P Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints What pleasure find we in life, to lock it 26-iii. 3. 31-iv. 4. By neglecting our duty, we commission or enable that danger of dishonour which could not reach us before, to lay hold upon us. Every lane's end, every shop, church, session, hanging, yields a careful man work. 247. Labour sweetens leisure. If all the year were playing holidays, 13-iv. 3. But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. 18-i. 2. Service shall with steeled sinews toil; And labour shall refresh itself with hope. 20-ii. 2. 249. Pleasure often preceded by labour. There be some sports are painful; but their labour Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone; and most poor matters Point to rich ends. 250. Pleasure, more pursued than enjoyed. Who riseth from a feast, 1-iii. 1. With that keen appetite that he sits down? The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, Lean, rent, and beggar'd, by the strumpet wind! 251. Pleasure, preferred to knowledge. 9-ii. 6. Who, being mature in knowledge, Pawn their experience to their present pleasure, 30-i. 4. And so rebel to judgment. Decorated with flags. E |