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86 Nature teaches beasts to know their friends."

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30-iii. 9.

28-ii. 1.

21-iv. 3.

26-iii. 3.

The present eye praises the present object.

89 Keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the

faction of fools.

26-ii. 1.

90 High events strike those that make them.

30-v. 2.

91

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

33-i. 1.

24-iv. 1.

92 Take all the swift advantage of the hours.

93 Men ne'er spend their fury on a child. 23—v. 5. 94 When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness.

16-iv. 2.

95 A sentence is but a cheveril° glove to a good wit; how quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

4-iii. 1.

96 If one should be a prey, how much the better To fall before the lion, than the wolf? 4-iii. 1.

97 The man, that once did sell the lion's skin While the beast lived, was kill'd with hunting 20-iv. 3.

him.

98 Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow. 8-iv. 1.

99 He is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath not the life of a man.

100

When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful, that law bar no wrong.

18-v. 4.

n Isa. i. 3.

。 Kid.

16-iii. 1.

101 A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour.

102

11-iv. 5.

If he be sick

With joy, he will recover without physic.

103 There's small choice in rotten apples.

19-iv. 4.

12-i. 1.

104 Many can brook the weather, that love not the

wind.

8-iv. 2.

105 The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs

of Apollo.

106 The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

8-v. 2.

11-v. 3.

107 Short-lived wits do wither as they grow.

108 The better part of valour is-discretion.

8-ii. 1.

18-v. 4.

109 They sell the pasture now, to buy the horse.

20-ii. Chorus.

110 Time is the old justice, that examines all

offenders.

10-iv. 1.

111 He, that is giddy, thinks the world turns round.

112 Headstrong liberty is lash'd with woe.

12-v. 2.

14-ii. 1.

113 Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

12-Induction, 2.

114 'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss.

33-i. 2.

115 Self-love is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting."

20-ii. 4.

116 Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.

18-v. 2.

? This would be true if self-love did not lead into self-neglect. False estimation, as vanity, or over-estimation, as pride, leads to neglect of the virtues and most valuable attainments, which is self in the highest sense. Self-respect, l'amour de soi, is admirably distinguished by Rousseau from l'amour propre, the injurious and narrow love of self.

117

War is no strife,

To the dark house, and the detested wife.

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121 It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not he, which burns in 't.

13-ii. 3.

122 An honest man is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

19-v. 1.

123 Strong reasons make strong actions. 16-iii. 4. 124 A rotten case abides no handling.

19-iv. 1.

125 Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will

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128 He that steeps his safety in true blood,

Shall find but bloody safety, and untrue.

16-iii. 4.

129 If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it.

10-ü. 7.

130 Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.

8-v. 2.

131

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

4-v. 1.

132 Who will not change a raven for a dove?

7-ii. 3.

133 A good conscience will make any possible satisfaction.

19-v.5.

a The house made gloomy by discontent. (See Prov.) i. e. Judge of what is done in these times according to the exigencies that overrule us.

134 Gently to hear, kindly to judge.

135 Abstinence engenders maladies.

136 Journeys end in lovers' meeting.

20-i. Chorus.

8-iv. 3.

4-ii. 3.

140

137 What is yours to bestow, is not yours to reserve.

4-i. 5.

33-i. 1.

138 Death remember'd should be like a mirror, Who tells us, life's but breath.

139 Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club: his disgrace is to be called boy; but his glory is to subdue men.

Oaths

Are words, and poor conditions.

8-i. 2.

11-iv. 2.

141 We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

13-v. 2.

142 Whence honour but of danger wins a scar, As oft it loses all.t

11-iii. 2.

143 Death and danger dog the heels of worth.

11-iii. 4.

144 Justice always whirls in equal measure.

8-iv. 3.

145 Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn.

8-iv. 3.

146 He is well paid that is well satisfied.

9-iv. 1.

147

We prove

Much in our vows, but little in our love.

4-ii. 4.

148

Turtles pair,

That never mean to part.

13-iv. 3.

149 The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.

17-i. 3.

s Arrow to shoot at butts with.

The sense is, From that abode, where all the advantage that honour usually reaps from the danger it rushes upon, is only a scar in testimony of its bravery; as, on the other hand, it is often the cause of losing all, even life itself.

150 Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere

folly!

10-ii, 7.

151 Judgment, and reason, have been grand jurymen, since before Noah was a sailor. 4-iii. 2.

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156 The grappling vigour and rough frown of war Is cold in amity and painted peace.

157

158

The blood more stirs,

16-iii. 1.

To rouse a lion, than to start a hare. 18-i. 3.

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159 Grief makes one hour ten.

16-iv. 2.

17-i. 3.

160 Rage must be withstood:

Lions make leopards tame.

17-i. 1.

161 I like not fair terms," and a villain's mind.

9-i. 3.

162 He's no man on whom perfections wait, That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate.

163

Sudden sorrow

33-i. 1.

Serves to say thus,-Some good thing comes

to-morrow.

164 What's to come, is still unsure.

19-iv. 2.

4-ii. 3.

165 Some, Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

" Kind words, good language.

6-iii. 1.

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