3040. FROWNS.

3. Be Frowns against our Enemies ;-not Friends, 3041. PRODIGALITY—in whom most disgraceful. 4. Earn what you spend. And spend not basely Which worthy hands have honorably won. [that 3042. FREEDOM of SPEECH.

A just and generous Liberty of Speech Accepted or resented is content.

3043. INJUSTICE.

2§. Injustice brings with it a thousand Dangers. 3044. CONFIDENCE―betray'd.

31. That Tongue has ill deserv'd the use of Speech Which treacherous utters words to do Friends 3045. FRIENDSHIP.

[harm. 4. Quick are Friends' Ears to hear aught good toward Friends.

3046. COURAGE.

+ Doubts which the brave scorn urge to them that fear.

3047. AFFECTION.

Love to please others does what it could not
To please itself.

3048. MELANCHOLY-full of Presages.

A tender and a melancholy Mind

Still thinks some Sorrow hid in Fortune's womb
Is coming toward it; and the inward Soul
At nothing trembling as at all things grieves.
3049. COMMERCE-it's SPIRIT.

2. The Love of overgrown commercial States Lies in their purses. And who empties those By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate, 3050. ROADS rough.

Rough Roads will make e'en few Miles wearisome,

3051. AMBITION-flatters.

O Expected Dignity is full of Thanks

To whatsoe'er can aid it's àggrandizement. 3052.

2. Thanks are the free Exchequer of the Poor
When Vanity and keen Ambition prompt.
3053. IMPARTIALITY.

Look on the' injurious with impartial Eye.
3054. PERJURY.

¶ Ill may he hope for Joy that breaks an Oath,

1

3055. CRIME.

[loth, Who break their Country's Laws at first are And Guilt while young is frighten'd at itself*. 3056. BANISHMENT.

★ Most bitter is the bread of Banishment. 3057. EASE and alternate LABOUR,

A while to work; and after, Holiday,

3058. GOD.

The Power that makes is mighty to preserve, 3059. FORTITUDE and RESIGNATION.

A firm fixt Heart will think, whate'er befalls, The worst it can unfold is worldly Loss.

3060. DEATH-a Motive to FORTITUDE. § Sorrow, Destruction, Loss, Decay, and Ruin, All end in Death.

3061. HEAVEN-OBEDIENCE.

2. However high, the Heavens are o'er thine head: Know this; and he not rebel to their Will.

3062. GRIEF excessiver

3. Sorrow and Grief of Heart

Will speak as frantic.

* Nemo repente fuit turpissimus. JUV.

3063. HYPOCRISY.

4. Far better is it that the Heart feel Love, Than that the unpleas'd eye see Courtesy. 3064. INDUSTRY, ABILITY, INTEGRITY. ¶ They well deserve to have,

That know the surest, fairest way to get. 3065. NECESSITY—to be obeyed with a good Grace. What must perforce be done, as willing do*. 3066. CHANGE-RUMOUR.

Against a Change unnumber'd Tongues are open'd. 3067. PRESENTIMENT.

Woe is fore-run with Woe,

8068. CHILDREN-bad.

Unruly Children make their Sire

Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight. 3069. EQUALITY-political.

5§. All must be even in good Government.
3070. CORRUPTION.

6t. Corruption is a base and noisome weed
That only to it's own vile Profit sucks
The soil's fertility from wholesome Flowers.
3071. JUSTICE-judicial.

Thieves are not judg'd but they are by to hear, 3072. GREATNESS-GOODNESS.

He is not great who is not greatly good. 3073. FORTITUDE.

X Fawn not on Rage with base humility. 3074. PATIENCE.

¶§ Take just Correction mildly.

3075. GUILT-insatiate and ingrateful. [tion, When foul Sin, gathering head, breaks to Corrup

* Fata volentem ducunt, nolentem trahunt,

All it's vast Spoils appear as nothing-worth, And what hath serv'd it most is most abhorr'd. 3076.

The Love of wicked Friends soon turns to Hate*.

3077. ABSENCE better than forc'd SOCIETY. 2. Better far off than near, in Love not near. 3078. POPULARITY-variable.

3†. As in a Theatre the Eyes of Men,
After a well-grac'd Actor leaves the Stage,
Are idly bent on him that enters next,
Thinking his prattle to be tedious;

So popular Favor waits on chance and change. 3079. JUSTICE and FORBEARANCE toward

RELATIONS.

Ot As far as Justice and the Public Weal
Permits, divulge not trespass of thine own;
Yet Duty still to Kindred be preferr❜d.

3080. CONSPIRACY.

Conceal not dark murtherous Conspiracy. 3081. EDUCATION.

2. Through dissolute and seeming desperate Youth Cherish what sparks of Good there may appear, Which elder years may happily bring forth.

3082. FEAR-REPENTANCE.

3. Fear without Love begets false Penitence.
3083. INGRATITUDE.

4t. Ingratitude is Treason 'gainst the unhappy,
For thus it teaches-too persuasively-
Forbear to pity:-lest thy Pity prove
A Serpent that will sting thee to the Heart.

* Nulla Amicitia nisi inter Bonos. CIC.

3084. EXCESS.

5§. The overflow of Good converts to Bad*.

3085. ORATÓRY.

6+. Wouldst thou know

Who pleads in earnest, look upon his face,
His air and gesture‡.

3086. CASUISTRY-false.

Duplicity and captious Casuistry

Will set the Word itself against the Word. 3087. EXAMPLE.

¶ Take not for Crime a refuge in Example,
That thou art not the first of Vice's Slaves,
And shalt not be the last.-Like silly Beggars,
Who, sitting in the Stocks, refuge their Shame,
That many have, and others must sit there t.

3088. MUSIC-it's Power.

§ Music hath helpt e'en Madmen to their Wits. 3089. GREATNESS-under Calamity, grateful. Greatness, when fallen, hails with gratitude The smallest sign of Love.

HENRY IV.-1st Part.

3090. REPUTATION-how valuable, even in point of Interest.

The Reputation of Honesty is so valuable, even in point of Interest, that if a good name

* Est Modus in rebus; sunt certi denique Fines

Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere Rectum

Insani sapiens nomen ferat, æquus iniqui

Ultra quam satis est Virtutem si petat ipsam. HOR.
Tu, MARCE CALIDI, nisi fingeres sic ageres!

+ Thou shalt not follow a Multitude to do Evil. EXOD.