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For one to thrust his hand between his teeth, When he might spurn him with his foot away. 1657. BEAUTY-GOODNESS-SELF-COMMAND --the three Female Graces.

'Tis Beauty that doth oft make Women proud; "Tis Virtue that doth make them most admir'd: "Tis Government that makes them seem divinė. 1658. WOMEN-their true Character.

Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible. 1659, STRENGTH the greatest yields to multiplied Attacks.

Hercules his-self must yield to odds:
And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest timber'd oak.
1660. TEARS alleviate SORROW.

To weep is to make less the depth of Sorrow.
1661. ANIMALS-the fiercest love their Offspring.
To whom do Lions cast their gentle looks?
Not to the beast that would usurp their den.
Whose hand is that the forest Bear doth lick?
Not his that spoils her young before her face.
Who 'scapes the lurking Serpent's mortal sting?
Not he that sets his foot upon her back.

1662. COURAGE from DESPAIR.

The smallest Worm will turn, being trodden on; And Doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. 1663. VILLAINY-unprosperous.

Things ill-got had ever bad success.

1664. CONTENT; rural; happier than Royalty. Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To Shepherds looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To Kings that fear their subjects' treachery? yes, it doth ;--a thousand-fold it doth.

1665.

The Shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle;' His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade; (All which secure and sweetly he enjoys), Is far beyond a Prince's delicates; His viands sparkling in a golden cup; His body couched in a curious bed; When Care, Mistrust, and Treason wait on him. 1666. WIND ill that blows no one good. Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. 1667. POPULARITY follows FORTUNE. The common people swarm like summer flies: And whither fly the gnats but to the Sun?

1668. INDULGENCE excessive nurses Crimes. What doth cherish weeds but gentle* air?

And what makes robbers bold but too much 1669. RETALIATION.

[lenity +?

Measure for Measure must be answered.

1670. GRIEF-impatient.

Impatience waiteth on true sorrow.

1671. VILLAINY in time meets it's Correction. The Heavens are just; and Time suppresseth 1672. MARRIAGE.

Hasty Marriage seldom proveth well.

1673. HASTE-where requisite. Haste is needful in a desperate case. 1674. DISTRUST to be moderated.

'Tis cowardice

To rest mistrustful where a noble heart

[wrongs.

Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of Love.

It cherishes the good Plants also.
Too much severity will equally.

1675. NECESSITY should be patiently endured. What fates impose, that men must needs abide. 1676.

Few men rightly temper with their stars. 1677. BEGINNINGS--bad.

Many a man that stumbles at the threshold Is well foretold that danger lurks within. 1678. CRAFT follows up it's advantages. When but the Fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow. 1679. KINDNESS is entitled to RECIPROCITY. Graces challenge Grace.

1680. POMP and POWER are DUST.

[dust *? Why what is Pomp, Rule, Reign, but earth and 1681. APPEARANCES threatening.

Every cloud engenders not a storm.

1682. REMEDY rather than LAMENTATION. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss; But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. 1683. ANGER not to be indulged against the unoffending.

Men never spend their fury on a Child.
1684. SUSPICION inseparable from GUILT.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
1685.

The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

1686. SUSPICION from EXPERIENCE. The Bird that hath been limed in a bush, With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

Night's Dream.]

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. 1687. LOVE-Influence of little tokens of Remembrance.

Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats; messengers Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth. 1688. LOVE seldom prosperous.

The course of true Love seldom doth run smooth,
But either it was different in blood,

Or else misgrafted in respect of years,
Or else it stood upon the choice of friends;
Or if there were a sympathy of choice,
War, Death, or Sickness, did lay siege to it*.
1689. MARRIAGE happier than CELIBACY.
Earthly happier is the Rose distill'd
Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn,
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
1690. SPRING sickly.

When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds ap-
Sickness is catching.

1691. LOVE sees by the AFFECTION.

[pear,

Love looks not with the eyes but with the Mind. 1692. COWARDICE pursuing VALOUR. 'Tis bootless speed

When Cowardice† pursues and Valour flies. 1693. WOMEN to be woo'd.

Women are woo'd, and were not made to woo. 1694. CHANGE.

Who will not change a Raven for a Dove.

1695. WILL; should be governed by REASON. The Will of Man is by his Reason sway'd..

"He never shall find out fit Mate," &c.

Cervi, Luporum Præda rapacium
Sectamur ultro.

"For either

P. L. X.

HOR.

1696. GRIEF-sleepless.

Venice.]

Sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe. 1697. PERCEPTION-the suspension of one Sense quickens another.

Dark Night, that from the eye his function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes.

[verns.

1698. IMAGINATION; whom it principally goThe Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet, Are of Imagination all compact.

1699. POETRY; it's force of IMAGINATION. The Poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from Heaven to Earth, from Earth
And as Imagination bodies forth [to Heaven;
The forms of things unknown, the Poet's pen
Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

1700. WILL accepted as the DEED. What poor willing Duty cannot do, Noble respect accepts as done*.

MERCHANT OF VENICE.

1701. DISPOSITIONS-their strange Diversity. Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time; Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper; And others of such vinegar aspèct

That they'll not shew their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.

1702. RESPECT-lost by too eager seeking of it. They lose respect that buy it with much care.