Lost.]

2336. ERROR-hides itself in a MULTITUDE. § None seem to offend where all alike do doat *. 2337. HYPOCRISY-suffers in time.

Comes one at last who whips Hypocrisy. 2338. PRAISE--suspicious.

T

To things of sale a Seller's Praise belongs.

2339. DEFECTIVE.

Praise, too short, doth blot.

2340. BEAUTY.

§ Like the Sun, Beauty maketh all things shine.

2341. HYPOCRISY.

Evils soonest tempt

Resembling Spirits of Light.

2342. VICE-self-deceiving.

Vice still seeks quillets how to cheat the Devil! 2343.

The Ill hunt out some Flattery for Evil. 2344. LOVE-animates and refines all the Facul ties of the Heart. 1919901

Never found leaden Contemplation out
Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes
Of beauteous Tutors have enricht men with t..
2345.

Other slow Arts entirely keep the brain :00
And therefore, finding barren Practisers,
Scarce shew a Harvest of their heavy Toil.
But Love, first learned in a Lady's eyes,
Lives not alone immured in the brain;
But, with the motion of all Elements, 55
Courses as swift as thought in every power,
And gives to every power a double power
Above their functions and their offices.

Ut Præco ad merces populum qui cogit emendas
Assentatores jubet ad lucrum ire.

HOR.

Last. 12346.

LOVE adds a precious seeing to the eye;
A Lover's eye will gaze an eagle blind.
A Lover's ear will hear the lowest sound:
Love's feeling is most soft and sensible,
And proves the dainty Bacchus gross in taste.
2347

For Valour is not Love an Hercules,

Still climbing trees in the Hesperides :
Subtile as Sphynx: as sweet and musical
As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair?
And when Love speaks, the voice of all the Gods
Makes Heaven drowsy* with the Harmony.
2348.

Never durst Poet touch a pen to write,

Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs: And then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in Tyrants mild Humanity.

2349. WOMAN.

The eyes of Women are Promethean fires: They are the Books, the Arts, the Acadèmes, That shew, contain, and nourish all the World. 2350. LOVE.

Revels and Dances, Masks and merry Hours, Forerun fair Love, strewing his way with flowers. 2351. CAUSES and EFFECTS.

§ Sown Cockles reap no Corn t..

2352. ILL STILE.

Justice always revolves in equal measures. 2353. CONVERSATION-its Excellency. Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without in

PIND. I. PYTH. 1, 2.

What a man soweth, that also shall he reap. PAUL.

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decency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood*.

2354. PROLIXITY-affected.

§ Do not draw out the thread of your verbosity finer than the staple of your argument.

2355. PEDANTRY.

§ Pedantry seems as if it had been at a great feast of Languages, and had stolen the scraps. 2356. OBSEQUIOUSNESS and COQUETRY.

They are Fools who purchase mocking by unwisht Obsequiousness: and they are not much wiser who mock what they invite.

2357. FOLLY-adventitious the most extravagant. None are so surely caught when they are caught As Wit turn'd Fool.-Folly in Wisdom hatcht Hath Wisdom's Warrant, and the help of School, And Wit's own Grace, to grace a learned Fool. 2358.

The blood of Youth burns not with such excess As Gravity's revolt to Wantonness.

2359.

Folly in Fools bears not so strong a Note

As Foolery in the Wise when Wit doth dote;
Since all the power of it doth apply,

To prove by Wit Worth in Absurdity.
2360. WIT -Female.

The Tongues of mocking Wenches are as keen
As is the Razor's edge invisible.

* Dr. JOHNSON, with unusual and appropriate happiness of expression, has said, that this is "a finisht Description of "colloquial Excellence. It is very difficult to add any thing "to this character of Table-talk: and perhaps all the Pre-, "cepts of Castiglione will scarce be found to comprehend a "Rule for Conversation so justly delineated, so widely dilated, and so nicely limited."

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Dream.

2361. PERJURY.

§ Nor Heaven nor Earth delights in perjur'd 2362. POLITENESS-False.

2. False Courtesy gives undeserved Praise. 2363. ADROITNESS.

[Men.

Sometimes a moment happily decides That which long Process could not arbitrate. 2364. LOVE made permanent only by ESTEEM. Love by the Eye form'd wanders like the Eye; Full of strange shapes, of habits, and of forms; Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll

To every varied object in his glance. 2365. MARRIAGE-Hasty.

Take not too short a time
To make a World-without-end Bargain in.
2366. BUFFOONERY.

A gibing Spirit is nurs'd by that loose grace
Which shallow laughing hearers give to Fools.
Such jest's prosperity lives in the ear
Of him that hears it; never in the tongue
Of him that makes it.

2367. TIME-Dramatic. A Twelvemonth and a Day Is too long for a Play.

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. 2368. PARENTS and CHILDREN. [Eyes; 2+ Children wish Fathers lookt but with their Fathers that Children with their Judgment lookt: And either may be wrong.

2369. CHOICE-compelled.

Wretched, to chuse Love by another's eyes!

2370. SPLENDOR-precarious.

Bright Things oft come to quick confusion.

2371. LOVE.

Sight is the Food of Love.

Dream.]

2372. BLINDNESS- wilful.

* Some will not know what but theirselves

all know.

2373. LOVE gives ideal value.

Things base and vile, holding no quality,
Love can transpose to form and dignity.
2374. LOVE partial, precipitate.

Love's Mind of Judgement rarely hath a taste:
Wings, and no Eyes, figure unheedy haste.
And therefore is Love feign'd to be a Child,
Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.

2375. PUNISHMENT -extreme; its origin. ¶§ Those who are frighten'd out of their Wits have no Discretion but hanging.

2376. WEATHER-damp; rheumatic.

What Time the Moon, the Governess of Floods, Pale, in her anger washes all the Air,

Then rheumatic Diseases do abound *.

2377. LOVE. Love in idleness.

2378. VIRGINITY.

Rich is the Treasure of Virginity.

2379. CONFIDENCE.

Known Virtue bears the Privilege of Trust.

2380. MARRIAGE--happy.

One Heart, one Bed, two Bosoms, and one Troth.

*That the Moon does create Tides in the Atmosphere, as well as in the Sea, is the opinion of several eminent modern Philosophers.

Otia si tollas, periere Cupidinis Arcus;
Contemptæque jacent et sine luce Faces.

OV.