Nor are those empty-hearted, whose low sound 34-i. 1. He, that is proud, eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise. 26-ii. 3. Labouring art can never ransom nature -Nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which does mend nature,―change it rather: but 34 11-ii. 1. & 13-iv. 3. Detraction. The greatest are misthought For things that others do; and,' when we fall, 30-v. 2. That we were all, as some would seem to be, 36 Custom, supreme in its power. 5-iii. 2. What custom wills, in all things should we do,'t, 28-ii. 3. When we in our viciousness grow hard, (O misery on't!) the wise gods seel2 our eyes; w Reverberates. x Merits, or demerits. y Overlook. z Close up. In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us Adore our errors; laugh at us, while we strut To our confusion.a 38 30-iii. 11. Procrastination. Fearful commenting Is leaden servitorb to dull delay; Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. 39 Virtue contrasted with Vice. 24-iv. 3. What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ?c 40 The wretchedness of human dependence. 22-iii. 2. Is that poor man, that hangs on princes' favours! 41 Prayers denied, often profitable. We, ignorant of ourselves, 25-iii. 2. Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers 30-ii. 1. Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. 43 f Recreation, a preventive of Melancholy. Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue, (Kinsman to grim and comfortless Despair ;) a Rom. i. 28. 2 Thess. ii. 11. Isa. xliv. 20. 11-i. 1. 14-v. 1. b Timorous thought and cautious disquisition are the dull attendants on delay. d Ps. cxviii. 9. Isa. xiv. 12. c Eph. vi. 14. e Jas. iv. 3. f Prov. xv. 13. The instant action (a cause on foot) We see th' appearing buds; which, to prove fruit, By how much unexpected, by so much 19-i. 3. 16-ii. 1. Why, who cries out on pride, That says, his bravery is not on my cost There then; How, what then? Let me see wherein Why then, my taxing like a wild-goose flies, 10-ii. 7. I ne'er heard yet, That any of these bolder vices wanted Less impudence to gainsay what they did, Than to perform it first. h Matt. vi. 24. 13-iii. 2. Merely our own traitors. And as in the common course of all treasons, we still see them reveal themselves, till they attain to their abhorred ends; so he, that contrives against his own nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself. 11-iv. 3. The jewel, best enamelled, Will lose his beauty; and though gold 'bides still, 14-ii. 1. The shrug, the hum, or ha; these petty brands, For calumny will searm Virtue itself:-these shrugs, these hums, and ha's, When you have said, she's goodly, come between, Ere you can say, she's honest. 52 Impediments increase desire. 13-ii. 1. All impediments in fancy's" course 53 Reputation invaluable. 11—v. 3. The purest treasure mortal times afford, Foundations fly the wretched; such, I mean, k i.e. Betrays his own secrets in his own talk. 17-i. 1. 31-iii. 6. 1 Gold will long bear the handling; however, often touching will wear even gold; just so the greater character, though as pure as gold itself, may in time be injured by the repeated attacks of falsehood and corruption. m Brand as infamous. n Love. 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. 57 Companionship. 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.P 59 Happiness, where delusive. 6-ii. 1. O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! 60 The effect of show on weak minds. 10-v. ii. 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, o "Therefore.' Let, which is found in the next line, is understood p Passion. here. |