Salutes each other with each other's form, Till it hath travell'd, and is married there, No man is the lord of any thing 26-iii. 3. (Though in and of him there be much consisting), Till he communicate his parts to others: Nor doth he of himself know them for aught, Till he behold them form'd in the applause, Where they're extended; which, like an arch, reverberates The voice again; or, like a gate of steel, Fronting the sun, receives and renders back 107 Man not to be a slave to sense. What is a man, If his chief good, and market* of his time, Be but to sleep, and feed? a beast, no more. 26-iii. 3. Sure, He, that made us with such large discourse,t Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. 36-iv. 4. We play the fools with the time; and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock us. 19-ii. 2. If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings, and the widow weeps. 6-v. 2. Ah! when the means are gone, that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made: Fast won-fast lost; one cloud of winter showers, These flies are couched. 27-ii. 2. * Profit. † Power of comprehension. Grow mouldy. 111 Silent eloquence. Love, and tongue-tied simplicity, In least, speak most, to my capacity. 7-v. 1. 112 Extremity. Mind the test of man. 12-iv. 3. 114 Cultivation and Sterility. Our bodies are our gardens; to the which, our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce; set hyssop, and weed up thyme; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many ; either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions. 37-. 3. 115 Misconception of motives. 15-iy. 2. 116 Pretended courtesy. 5-v. 1. * Appeareth. When outward courtesies truly declare Who shall go about 9ii. 9. 118 Merit, too often unrewarded. O, that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not derived corruptly! and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! How many then should cover, that stand bare ! How many be commanded, that command ! How much low peasantry would then be glean'd From the true seed of honour! and how much honour Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times, To be new varnish'd ! 9_ii. 9. 119 Mercy, the fairest virtue. 5-ii. 2. 120 Capriciousness of fortune. Will fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest letters ? She either gives a stomach, and no food, Such are the poor, in health; or else a feast, And takes away the stomach,—such are the rich, That have abundance, and enjoy it not. 19-iv. 4. 121 The power of prejudice. There may be in the cup 13-ii. 1. * Heavings. 122 Court and country manners. Those, that are good manners at the court, are as ridiculous in the country, as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at the court. 10–iii. 2. 123 Precept and Example. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages, princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. * The brain may devise laws, for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree ; such a hare is madness the youth, to skip over the meshes of good counsel the cripple. 9-1. 2. 124 Labour sweetens leisure. Calumny, universal. 5-iii. 2. 126 Disease, its effects. 16-iii. 4. 127 Ceremony, its origin. Ceremony Was but devised at first, to set a gloss On faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none. 27-i. 2. * John xiii. 17. 128 Public justice. Thieves are not judged, but they are by to hear, Although apparent guilt be seen in them. 17-iv. 1. 129 Promises and Performances. Promising is the very air o' the time: it opens the eyes of expectation : performance is ever the duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable: performance is a kind of will, or testament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. 27-v. 1. 130 Pleasure oflen preceded by labour. 1-in. 1. 131 Lenity and Cruelty. When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner. 20-iii. 6. 132 Posthumous good and evil. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. 29–iii. 2. 133 Love and Fear. Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there. 36-iii, 2. 134 Adoption. 'Tis often seen, Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds 135 Patience and Cowardice compared. That which in mean men we entitle-patience, Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. 17-i. 2. Crisis. Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward To what they were before. 15-iv. 2. 136 |