993. DEATH.

It seems most strange that men should fear to die:
Seeing that Death, a necessary end,

Will come, when it will come.
994. CONFIDENCE-false.
Wisdom consumes itself in confidence.
995. SECRECY-difficult.

Hard it is to keep counsel.

996. DEATH-Life is but a protracted. That we shall die we know:-'tis but the time And drawing days out that men stand upon. 997. VIRTUE cannot escape ENVY. The heart laments that Virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of Emulation*,

998. CEREMONY.

When Love begins to sicken and decay,
It useth an enforced ceremony.

999. SINCERITY.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. 1000. PASSION contagious,

Passion is catching.

1001. BRIBES despicable and odious. 2. § Should high Minds Contaminate their fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of their large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus? 1002. THE GOOD fearless of OBLOQUY. 3. § There is no terror to the good in threats, For they are arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by them as the idle wind. 1003. FRIEND-duty of.

A Friend should bear a Friend's infirmities.

* Comperit invidiam supremo fine domari.

HOR.

1004. FLATTERER.

A flatterer's eye will never see our faults,
Though huge as high Olympus,

1005. PLACABILITY.

The mild bear Anger as the flint bears fire. 1006. PHILOSOPHY.

Of your Philosophy you make no use,

If you give place to accidental evils *.

1007. FORTITUDE.

Firmly great men great losses should endure. 1008. REASONS-their balance.

Good Reasons must of force give place to better, 1009. LIFE human-it's Tide.

There is a Tide in the affairs of men,

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
1010.

We must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures,

1011. NECESSITY.

Nature must obey Necessity,

1012. REST.

Young bloods look for a time of rest,

1013. PERSUASION better than FORCE, 2. Good Words are better than bad Strokes.

1014. PRUDENCE is prepared against the worst. 3. Since the affairs of men rest still uncertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

1015. FUTURITY better not foreseen.

4. We are prone to wish-' O that a man might "The end of the day's business ere it come!' [know

Brutus was a Stoic: and Cassius here applies to him (though his self an Epicurean) the true language of Stoicism.

Cleopatra.]

But it sufficeth that the day will end;
And then the end is known.

1016. ERROR-baneful.

O hateful Error! Melancholy's Child!

Why dost thou shew to the apt thoughts of men, The things that are not?

1017.

Error, soon conceiv'd,

Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,

But kill'st the Mother that engender'd thee. 1018. VICTORY-how to be us'd.

[kindness; Good men subdued wise foes will treat with Wishing them rather Friends than Enemies. 1019. MERIT-to be treated as it is.

* According to men's Virtues let us use them.

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

1020. LOVE.

There's beggary in the Love that can be reckon'd, 1021. NATURE-the Book of.

* In Nature's infinite book of secresy

A little can be read.

1022. ILL NEWS.

The nature of bad News infects the teller.

1023. TRUTH.

2. § Who tells us true, though in his tale lye Hear him as if he flatter'd : for bad News [death, Then, only then, affects the messenger,

When it concerns the Fool or Coward.

1024. IRRITATION.

Let's not confound the time with conference harsh.

1025. THE AGREEABLE.

Those

Cleopatra.]

Whom every thing becomes,-to chide, to laugh,
To weep; whose every passion fully strives
To make itself, in them, fair and admir'd,
Should most of all be heedful of their conduct,
1026. PAST.

Things that are past are done.

1027. CENSURE-it's use.

Then we bring forth weeds

When our quick winds lie still: and our Ills told us Is as our earing *.

1028. IDLENESS.

Ten thousand harms more than the ills we know Our Idleness doth hatch.

1029. IDLENESS-affected-or seeming LEVITY. Oft seeming Idleness is heaviest labour

Borne at the Heart.

1030. LEVITY.

Avoid light answers,

1031. NECESSITY-EXIGENCE.

The strong Necessity of Time commends

Our services.

1032, COLLISION of POWER.

Equality of two domestic powers

Breeds jealous factions.

1033. LICENTIOUSNESS-CHANGE, Licentious Ease, grown sick of rest, would purge By any desperate Change.

1034. CONTRAST,

Faults in the Good seem as the spots in Heaven, More fiery by Night's blackness +.

Earing, perhaps from 'arare,' harrowing or any mode of clearing the Ground,

Oppositą juxta posita magis elucescunt.

Cleopatra.]

1035. UNKINDNESS.

¶ To affectionate and tender natures Unkind. ness is mortal.

1036. DUTY-PUBLIC,

To a great Public Cause all Private Consi, derations must yield and be as nothing.

1037. SUSPICION.

2. Do not too hastily believe in Man
Evils enough to darken all his Goodness.
1038. NOVELTY-Desire of it.

It has been taught us from the primal state
That he which is was wish'd until he were;

And the ebb'd man, ne'er lov'd till ne'er worth
Comes dear'd by being lackt,

1039. REGRET too late.

What our Contempts do often hurl from us

We wish it our's again.

[love,

1040. PLEASURE liable to change to DISGUST, The present Pleasure,

By Revolution lowering, does become

The opposite of itself.

1041. OATHS fallacious.

Mouth-made vows

Do break themselves in swearing.

1042. BOYS-their rash and mutable judgments, Boys, immature in knowledge,

Pawn their experience to their present pleasures, And so rebel to judgment *.

1043. INCONSTANCY--the popular.

The popular Body,

Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,

Imberbis Juvenis

Sublimis, cupidusque & amata relinquere pernix. HOR