And therein so ensconced his secret evil,
That jealousy itself could not mistrust,
False-creeping craft and perjury should thrust
Into so bright a day such black-faced storms,
Or blot with hell-born sin such saint-like forms.

514

Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade."

515

Poems.

5-iii. 1.

The middle of humanity thou never knewest, but the extremity of both ends. When thou wast in thy gilt, and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity; in thy rags thou knowest none, but art despised for the contrary. 27-iv. 3.

516

He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause
Within the belt of rule.

517

15-v. 2.

Allowed by order of law a furred gown to keep him warm; and furred with fox and lamb-skins too, to signify, that craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing. 5-iii. 2.

518

Why should we be tender,

To let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us;

Play judge, and executioner, all himself? 31-iv. 2.

519

In seeking tales and informations,

Against this man, (whose honesty the devil

And his disciples only envy at,)

Ye blew the fire that burns ye.

520

25-v. 2.

Whose disposition, all the world well knows,

Will not be rubb'd, nor stopp'd.

u An established habit.

34-ii. 2.

▾ For too much finical delicacy. [Here is the depth, precision, and

acuteness, of Aristotle.]

P

521

His show

Beguiles him, as the mournful crocodile
With sorrow snares relenting passengers;
Or as the snake, roll'd in a flowering" bank,
With shining checker'd slough, doth sting a child,
That, for the beauty, thinks it excellent.

522

This cur is venom-mouth'd, and I

22-iii. 1.

Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore, best Not wake him in his slumber.

25-i. 1.

523

He hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition.

Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,

Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies,'
Cap and knee slaves, vapours, and minute-jacks.*
27-iii. 6.

526

If thou wert honourable,

Thou would'st have told this tale for virtue, not
For such an end thou seek'st; as base, as strange.
Thou wrong'st a gentleman, who is as far
From thy report, as thou from honour.

527

31-i. 7.

How fairly this lord strives to appear foul! takes virtuous copies to be wicked; like those, that, under hot ardent zeal, would set whole realms on fire. Of such a nature is his politic love. 27-iii. 3.

wie. In the flowers growing on the bank.
y Flies of a season.

* Skin.

Jacks of the clock.

528

I would not buy

Their mercy at the price of one fair word;
Nor check my courage for what they can give,
To have 't with saying, Good morrow.

529

28-iii. 3.

He hath no friends, but who are friends for fear.

530

Thou disease of a friend, and not himself!
Has friendship such a faint and milky heart,
It turns in less than two nights?

531

24-v. 2.

27—iii. 1.

How he coasts,

a

And hedges, his own way. But in this point
All his tricks founder, and he brings his physic
After his patient's death.

25-iii. 2.

If the devil have given thee proofs for sin,
Thou wilt prove his.

5-iii. 2.

534

Too bad for bad report.

31-i. 1.

535

Thou know'st no law of God nor man;

No beast so fierce, but knows some touch of pity.

536

O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!

Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?

Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical!

24-i. 2.

Not to take the direct and open path, but to steal covertly through circumvolutions.

Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,
A damned saint, an honourable villain!

537

Is not thy kindness subtle, covetous,

35-iii. 2,

If not a usuring kindness; and as rich men deal gifts, Expecting in return twenty for one?

538

27-iv. 3.

He that will give good words to thee, will flatter
Beneath abhorring.

539

This top-proud fellow,

28-i. 1.

(Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but
From sincere motions, b) by intelligence,
And proofs as clear as founts in July, when
We see each grain of gravel, I do know
To be corrupt and treasonous.

25-i. I.

25-iii. 2.

False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey.

542

34-iii. 4.

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,

And every tale condemns me for a villain. 24-v.3.

543

Such smiling rogues as these,

Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain

[sion

Which are too intrinse t' unloose: smooth every pasThat in the natures of their lords rebels;

Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods;

b Honest indignation.

c Perplexed.

d

Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks
With every gale and vary of their masters,
As knowing nought, like dogs, but following.

544

34-ii. 2.

His red sparkling eyes blab his heart's malice.

545

22-iii. 1.

Thou art a slave, whom Fortune's tender arm
With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

546

27-iv. 3.

I do the wrong and first begin to brawl.
The secret mischiefs that I set abroach,
I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,
Tell them-that God bids us do good for evil.
And thus I clothe my naked villany

With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

547

I can counterfeit the deep tragedian ;

Speak, and look back, and pry on every side,
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw,
Intending deep suspicion: ghastly looks,
Are at my service, like enforced smiles;
And both are ready in their offices,
At any time to grace my stratagems.

548

No man's pie is freed

24-i. 3.

24-iii. 5.

From his ambitious finger.

25-i. 1.

549

Profane fellow!

Wert thou the son of Jupiter, and no more,
But what thou art, besides, thou wert too base
To be a groom: thou wert dignified enough,

d Disown.

The bird called the king-fisher, which, when dried, and hung by a thread, is supposed to turn his bill to the point from whence the wind blows. ? Pretending.