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2011. EQUANIMITY.

+ The steady Mind maintains it's Constancy: Not wondering at the present. or the past. 2012. REPENTANCE-Death-bed.

+ Hope not, procrastinating Fools of Time,
To die to Goodness, having liv'd to Crime *.
2013. VIRTUE-invulnerable.

Hence thou suborn'd Informer! a true Soul,
When most impeacht, stands least in thy Controul.
2014. DESIRE-criminal and inordinate.
§ The Expence of Spirit in a Waste of Shame,
Is Lust in Action: and till Action, Lust
Is perjur'd, murderous, bloody, full of Blame;
Savage, extreme; rude; cruel; not to trust.
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight:
Past Reason hunted; and no sooner had,
Past Reason hated as a swallow'd Bait

On purpose laid to make the Taker mad.
Mad in pursuit; and in possession so:

Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme A Bliss in proof; and prov'd, a very Woe:

Before, a Joy propos'd; behind, a Dream |]. All this the World well knows.-Yet few can well Shun the false Heaven that leads men to this Hell. 2015. PREJUDICE and PARTIALITY.

§ Men oft what best is take the worst to be. 2016.

Eyes are corrupt by over-partial looks.

2017. INCONSTANCY-it's Punishment.

When from things true the Heart and Eyes have To a false plague they often are transferr'd. [err'd,

And this one of the most important of Theological.

Before him is as the Garden of Eden; and behind a desolate Wilderness.

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2018. TRUTHS-unwelcome-rarely are told. Life-loving sick Men, when their Deaths are near, No News but Health from their Physicians know*. 2019. SLANDER.

Mad Slanderers by mad Ears believed be.

2020. LOVE.

It is the Heart that loves.

2021. LUXURY.

Why dost thou pine within and suffer Dearth, Painting thy outward Walls in costly Gay; Why so large Cost, having so short a Lease, Dost thou upon thy fading Mansion spend? 2022. LOVE.

Love is as a Fever, longing still

For that which longer nurseth the Disease,
Feeding on that which doth preserve the Ill,
The uncertain, sickly Appetite to please.
2023. LOVE and REASON.

When Reason is Physician call'd to Love,
Angry that his Prescriptions are not kept,
He leaves the Patient.

2024. LOVE partial.

The worst in what we love all other's best exceeds. encreased by fear of Loss.

2025.

It makes Love more strong

To love that well which we must leave ere long.

2026.

it's Constancy.
Unchanging Love

Weighs not the Dust and Injuries of Age;
Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place;
But makes Antiquity for aye his Page.

No one dar'd speak of Death to Henry VIII. or Elizabeth.

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2027. DIAL.

The Dial shews how precious Minutes waste, 2028. KINDNESS.

Soft Kindness is a Jewel

In any Woman, and becomes her well.

2029. PHYSIOGNOMY.

The Eyes are in strong Passion no where fixt;
The Mind and Sight distractedly commixt.

2050. LUXURY.

Proud Luxury lets not it's Bounty fall

Where Want needs some, but where Excess begs 2031. VIRTUE and BEAUTY.

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Virtue and Beauty give a Life and Grace
To Appertainings and to Ornaments:
Accomplisht in themselves; not in their Case.

2032. ELOQUENCE.

2. Some there are

Who on the tip of their persuasive Tongue
Carry all Arguments and Questions deep;
And Replication prompt, and Reason strong,
To make the Weeper smile, the Laugher weep,
They have the Dialect and different Skill,
Catching all Passions in their Craft of Will.
That in the general Bosom they do reign
Of Young and Old, and either Sex enchant *.

2033. DISGRACE. [find+. Who seek their Shame, that Shame are sure to

The Poet, unintentionally, has drawn here his own Picture. Mr. Coleridge has applied it with appropriate felicity to one of the few Men to whom it ever could be applicable, Mr. Sheridan.

The Translations from Ovid's Epistles were claimed by Heywood, also an Actor, as his own, in 1612: and therefore about 3 years before the Death of Shakespeare: And he charges Jaggard with having publight them as Shakespeare's without authority. This might well be: for Shakespeare seems to have left his great Productions, agreeably to

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2034. ARTIFICE.

Art hides the Smoke 'till Time display the Fire.

2035. REPENTANCE.

/ 3 Repentant Thoughts in time

Bear witness where unguarded Looks transgress. 2036. LOVE influenced by Opinion.

* Love oft beholds first with the Eyes of Fame. 2037. PERFECTION,

2. More than Report can promise, Fancy blazon, Is true Perfection.

2038. WINE.

§ Add Wine to Love, and you add Fire to Fire. 2039. BEAUTY.

+ Let it not be said,

Beauty and Chastity at variance are,

And hard to find one Woman chaste and fair.

2040. DANGER.

-Less is the Danger mostly than the Fear.
2041. HOSPITALITY-Abuse of it.
Cruel and shameless who licentiously
The Laws of Hospitality despise.

İs perjur'd Wrong the Recompence of Right

2042. CAUTION.

Too much Trust hath damag'd such As have believ'd Men in their Loves too much. 2043. MAN-his Deceitfulness.

The general Tongue of Woman saith Men's Words are full of Treason, void of Faith.

Mr. Capell's Comparison, as the Ostrich leaves her Eggs in the sand with very little care: and this might encourage interpolation.

This Note refers to Aphorisms from 2033 to 2035 inclusive. And if things of such inferior value were claimed, we have the more confidence as to what is not claimed, and which bears too the peculiar Shakespe rian Stamp,

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2044. MATRON-her Conduct.

§ If others sin, and hours in pleasure waste, At least be found the sober Matron chaste*. 2045. GIFTS-what their greatest Recommendation, Gifts then seem

Most precious when the Giver we esteem. 2046. SEDUCTION.

False Blandishments have power chasteThoughts to change.

2047. FORBEARANCE or SELF-DENIAL. The greatest Virtue of which wise men boast Is to abstain from Ill when pleasing most.

2048. CREDULITY natural as to what we wish. In pleasing Things we call not Fame a Liar, But give that Credit which we most desire, 2049. LABOUR-misapplied.

What profits it the barren Sands to plough? 2050. GUILT-it's Apprehensiveness. Those who are unaccustom'd to offend Think every Eye fixt on their guilty Cheek. 2051. BEGINNINGS WRONG-to be opposed. A Flame new kindled is as easily quencht. 2052. TRAVELLER.

A Traveller's Love is like himself, unstay'd.

2053. CORRUPTER should not be the ACCUSER. Consider what it is, forgetful Lover,

To be Sin's Author, and Sin's sharp Reprover. 2054. HOPE deceitful.

Good Hopes engage

Themselves so far they fail in the presàge.

* To bear and forbear--ανέχεσθαι και απέχεσθαι

is a great part of moral Philosophy: the active Virtues make another: and the contemplative a third.

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