What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,
But poison'd Flattery. O be sick, great Greatness!
And bid thy Ceremony give thee cure:
Think'st thou the fiery Fever will go out
With titles blowu from adulation?

Will it give place to flexure and low bending? Can'st thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee,

Command the health of it* ?-No; thou proud dream,

That play'st so subtly with a King's repose:
'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball,
The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
The inter-tissued robe of gold and pearl,
The farsed title running 'fore the King,
The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp
That beats upon the high shore of this world,
No, not all these, thrice gorgeous Ceremony,
Not all these, lay'd in bed majestical,
Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,
Who with a Body fill'd and vacant Mind
Gets him to rest.

1610. HEART-no Offence but what comes from it. All Offences come from the Heart*.

1611. WHY and WHEREFORE applicable to all things.

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore, in all things..

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* Πονειν τι δει οἷς Γονυ χλωρον.

THEOCR.

+ Butler has burlesqued this: "For every why he had a wherefore."

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1612. RUMOR-fallacies.

Report is fabulous and false.

1613. DEATH.

Just Death is umpire of men's miseries.

1614. SILENCE.

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Be politic with Silence.

1615. CRUELTY.

The slaughterer doth wrong

Who giveth many wounds when one will kill. 1616. DISSENTION civil.

Civil Dissention is a viperous worm

That gnaws the bowels of a commonwealth.

1617. PEACE ought to be dearest to the Teachers of RELIGION

Who should study to prefer a Peace, If holy Churchmen take delight in broils? 1618. MALICE-how criminal. Malice is a great and grievous Sin. 1619. DELAY.

Delays have dangerous ends.

1620. ANXIETY useless and corroding. Care is no cure, but rather córrosive, For things that are not to be remedied. 13 1621. FRIENDS wound them not.

[help*. Strike those that hurt; and hurt not those that 1622. FRIENDSHIP; a source of COURAGE. Friendship begets new courage in our breast.

1623. MARRIAGE.

Marriage is a matter of more worth

Than to be dealt in by attorneyship+.

*This advice might be well applied in support of the Catholic Petition.

Yet it is a fact that Mr Ferguson, the Astronomer, said, that not

Having leisure, he asked a Friend to chuse a Wife for him.

HENRY VI.-2d Purt.

1624. LOVE; it's Happiness.

§ Sympathy in Love doth give.

A world of earthly blessings to the Soul. 1625. PIRATES lavish.

[pillage, Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their And purchase friends, and give to courtesans; Still revelling like Lords till all be gone.

1626. AMBITION corrosive.

Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts.

1627.

always soaring,

Man and Bird are fain of climbing high,

1628. 'Tis but a

a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. 1629. KNAVERY.

A crafty knave does need no broker.

1630. ACCUSATION-that of a Villain not to be lightly received.

Villain's

Do not cast away an honest Man for a Villai Accusation.

1631. PEACE-MAKERS.

Blessed are the Peace-makers* on Earth.

1632. GOD slights not those who rely on him, ♫ God be prais'd, that to believing Souls

Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
1633. Gratitude to him.

Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done.

1634.

God knows of pure Devotion.. 10.

discerns Hearts.

MATTH v. 9.

1635. LAW-it's Judgement conclusive here. One cannot justify whom the Law condemns. 1636. PROSPERITY liable to be obscured. Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud.

1637. CARE and Joy-their VICISSITUDE. Cares and Joys go round as Seasons fleet. 1638. BLIND-Persons born so must learn the Names of Colours from Information. +In those born blind, with sudden sight endued, Sight may distinguish colours; suddenly To nominate them all it is impossible. 1639. SOUND without STRENGTH. Small Curs are not regarded when they grin; But great men tremble when the Lion roars. 1640. WATERS-Deep are quiet *.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deepest. 1641. Fox plunders silently.

The Fox

barks not when he would steal the

1642. VIRTUE courageous.

A Heart unspotted is not easily daunted.

[Lamb.

1643. PHYSIOGNOMY and EYES eager and fiery. Red sparkling Eyes blab the Heart's malice. 1644. PRETENCE for MISCHIEF,

A staff is quickly found to beat a Dog. 1645. DISCONTENT most wretched. What is more miserable than Discontent?

1646. HORROR once infused not easily overcome. Can he who comes to sing a Raven's note, Whose dismal tune bereaves our vital powers, Think that the feeble chirping of a Wren By crying comfort from a hollow breast, Can chase away the first conceived sound?

And so commonly of Understandings.

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It is understood he does bark when he would steal the Pheasant,

1647, PRESUMPTION from circumstances. Who finds the Heifer dead and bleeding fresh, And sees fast by a Butcher with an axe,

But will suspect'twas he that made the slaughter. 1648. CONSCIENCE.

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just
And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
1649.

Ah! what a sign it is of evil life

Where Death's approach is witness'd terrible. 1650. PRIDE-light circumstances raise it in mean Dispositions.

Small things make base men proud, 1651. GRIEF softens.

Grief softens the Mind.

1652. OATHS criminal.

It is great sin to swear unto a Sin.

1653. WAR.

War is a son of Hell.

[DEVOTION.

1654. MILITARY GLORY requires a SELFHe that is truly dedicate to War

Hath no self-love: nor he that loves himself
Hath not essentially, but by circumstance,
The name of Valour.

HENRY VI.-3d Part.

1655. WRATH deaf.

Wrath makes men deaf.

1656. COURAGE false.

What valour were it when a cur doth grin,

* Hic murus aheneus esto

Nil conseire sibi-nullâ pallescere culpâ. Juv.