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2093.

Let those of fervid temper,

Who would command their Passions shan occa

Or else good-night to Vows.

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2094. INFIRMITY a ground of INDULGENCE. Bear with the weakness

Of old and troubled brains.

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2095. AGE miserable and depraved-how occaWhere Discipline in Youth has been neglected, And timely Self-command, too oft it happens That as with Age the Body uglier grows, So the Mind cankers*.

2096. PUNISHMENT and RESENTMENT their true Limits.

Repentance once produc'd,

Sole Drift of all just purpose, Wrath should Not a Frown farther.

[end:2097. AMBITION-it's too frequent Tendency. 2. Too often those who entertain Ambition Expel Remorse and Nature.

2098. PATIENCE-an universal Remedy if applied. 3+ Deem not of any Loss that Patience ţ Says it is past her Cure: but rather think You have not sought her help§.

2099. PROVIDENCE--GRATITUDE. 4+ On any Ill escap'd or Good attain'd, Let us remember still, Heaven chalkt the way That brought us thither.

Devereux, Earl of Essex, paid dear for a bitter and indeed cruel sarcasm of this kind.

+ Trisyll.

The common Proverb (and it comes from those who have too frequent calls for the Experiment) says, that "Patience is a Cure for all Sores." Unhappily, where a very little of it would suffice, it is most aeldom us'u.

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2100. WISDOM-superhuman.

of Verona.]

The wisest of Mankind have said of old, Perplext with human doubts, "Some Oracle "Must rectify our Knowledge*."

2101. OPTIMISM-it's true Base.

+ Time and our future Being shall resolve us
Of all which now, involv'd in clouds and gloom,
Seems Accident or Ill.-Till then, be chearful,
And think of each thing well.

2102. FORGIVENESS.

Who from Crimes would pardon'd be,
In Mercy should set others free.

2103. LOVE.

§ Affection chains Life's tender Days

To the sweet glances of an honor'd Love.

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.

2104.

If thou lov'st well, love still, and thrive therein. 2105.

misplaced.

2§ That Love avoid where Scorn is bought with groans;

Coy Looks with heart-sore Sighs; one fading

Moment's mirth

With twenty watchful, weary, tedious Nights:
If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain ;
If lost, why then a grievous labor won:
However, but a Folly bought with Wit;
Or else a Wit by Folly vanquish'd.
2106. PASSION-deaf.

It is but wasting time to counsel those
Whom we find Votaries of fond Desire.

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Thus Socrates, in that most remarkable Passage: PLAT. ALC. II.

of Verona.]

2107. LOVE a great Transformer,

+ Love has strange power of metamorphosing. Makes men neglect their studies; lose their time; War with good counsel; set the World at nought: Makes Wit with musing weak; Heart sick with thought.

2108. TIME and TROUBLE misapplied.

Those who take pains to put a silly conceit together, deserve no other reward than to have it for their pains.

2109. ILLIBERALITY.

A quick Wit has often a hard race to overtake 2110. LOVE.

[a slow Purse. § Wayward is foolish Love, That, like a testy Babe, will scratch the Nurse, And presently, all-humbled, kiss the Rod.

2111. BEES.

¶ Injurious Man! that feeds upon sweet Honey, And kills the Bees that yield it.

2112. SERVANTS.

Servants see much when fancied to see nothing. 2113. EDUCATION-TRAVEL.

+ Parents of circumspect and active Mind
Put forth their Sons to seek Preferment out:
Some to the Wars, to try their Fortune there
Some to discover Islands far away:
Some to the studious Universities,

2114.

§ 'Tis useful oft to perfecting a Man,
That he be tried and tutor'd in the World.
2115. COURTS-CHIVALRY.

In days of Chivalry the Courts were Schools. There they did practise Tilts and Tournaments;

of Verona.]

Hear sweet Discourse; converse with noble Minds; And were in eye of every Exercise

Worthy of Youth and Nobleness of Blood. 2116. OBSTINACY.

+ Passion the Obstinate, not Reason rules, For what they will they will; and there's an End.

2117. INSINCERITY-IN DISCRETION.

2. By the advantage of a weak Excuse, Or of a false, Exceptions oft are taken

'Gainst that which otherwise were well allow'd. 2118. HYPOCRISY.

Those who seem what they are not are no better than Counterfeits.

2119. LOQUACITY.

3. Those who have an Exchequer of Words, are often defective in every thing but Words. 2120. YOUTH-the Time for Improvement.

4. Unhappy is the idle Truant, Omitting the sweet Benefit of Time,

To cloathe himself with Angel-like Perfection *. 2121. MODESTY-affected.

5. Let those who would not be thought "false or Leave off Discourse of Disability.

2122. LOVE.

[weak,

6. Tales of Love weary all but those who love‡.

2124.

2123. 7. Not slight the Penance of contemning Love, of the vain to be suspected. 8. The vain should learn to doubt whether they By their own Heart or by another's Praise. [love

not slighted with impunity.

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So says Smith, in his "Theory of Moral Sentiments."

of Verona.]

2125, LOVE-it's animating Energies.

9. Love will lend Wings as prompt as he lends 2126. Youth easily susceptible.

[Wit. 10. Tender incautious Youth is soon suggested. 2127. -heightened by Contrast. Repented Scorn makes after-Love the more. 2128. AMBITION-fatal.

Why Phaeton, for thou art Merop's Son,
Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly Car,
And with thy daring Folly burn the World.

2129.

hopeless.

Wilt thou reach Stars because they shine on thee?
2130. ABSENCE from those whom we love.
Banisht from those we love
Is self from self! A deadly Banishment.
What light is light, those whom we love not seen?
What joy is joy, those whom we love not by ;
Unless it be to think that they are by,
And feast upon the shadow of Perfection!
2131. PRAISE-due to Merit.

Good Things should be prais'd.

2132. MUSIC.

§ The Night's dead Silence

Suits well with Music's sweet complaining Notes. SELF-ACCUSATION—Sometimes serves for a Disguise.

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