3172. DISSIPATION.

• Where Dissipation lights the Candle, the better part soon burns out.

3173. SOCIETY —corruptive.

A bad Man who has Wit and Humour is an evil Angel for a Companion,

3174. MALICE ENVY.

All the good Gifts of Man, as Malice and

Envy shapes them, are of no worth.

3175. AGE YOUTH.

Those that are old are ill Measurers, frequently, of the capacities of the young, 3176. AGE-SIGNS.

A moist eye; a dry hand; a yellow cheek; a white beard.

3177. AGE when honourable and happy.

Happy is that Age which shews itself only in matured Judgment and Understanding. 3178. AGE-YOUTH-VICES.

Age and Covetousness; Youth and Excess:~, both have their appropriate Punishments.

3179. EXTRAVAGANCE-BORROWING-WANT, * To the idle and extravagant there is no Remedy against the Consumption of the Purse. Borrowing only lingers and lingers it out: but the Disease is incurable.

3180. WAR.

[Means, 2. 'Tis fit to hear War's Cause and know it's And plainly speak what may be hop'd or fear'd. Conjecture, Expectation, and Surmise

Of Aids uncertain, should not be admitted.

3181.

how cautiously to be hazarded. + When we have seen the figure of our House, Then we must rate the Cost of the Erection,

Which if we find outweighing our ability,

What do we then, but draw anew the Model
With fewer Offices; or, at last, desist

To build at all?-Much more in the great Work
Of War, of Conquest, of Defence, of Change,
And Revolution, we should well survey
The plot of situation and the model,
Consent upon a sure Foundation,

Question Surveyors, know our own Estate;
How able such a Work to undergo;

How weighing against our opposite:-or else
We fortify in paper and in figures,

Using the Names of Men instead of Men;
Like one that draws the Model of a House
Beyond his power to build it ;-who, half through,
Gives o'er, and leaves his part-created Cost,
A naked Subject to the weeping Clouds,
And waste for churlish Winter's Tyranny *.
3182.

'Tis best to rate our Hopes as if possessing
The very utmost Man of Expectation,
Not trusting to fair Prospects, which may
3183. TRUTH-Perversion of it.

To wrench Truth is disgraceful.

fail.

3184. JUSTICE-WISDOM-FORTITUDE. It is not a confident brow, nor a throng of words with impudent sauciness, that can thrust Justice and Wisdom from their level consideration. 3185. DEBTS-REPENTANCE.

As Debts may be discharged by Money, Crimes by Repentance: but there is a false Coin in both which discharges neither.

Lu. xiv. 28.

3186. SELF-LOVE deceitful.

2. If Assurance be her own Judge, impudent Sauciness may be called honourable Boldness.

3187. END.

The End tries the Man.

3188. COMPANY-bad.

3. He who keeps vile company must be content if his best Virtues and Affections are thought Hypocrisy.

3189. OPINIONS; common-often false.

4. He who thinks with the many must often think wrong.

3190. YOUTH-CORRUPTION.

O that a good Blossom could be always kept from cankers.

3191. MORTALITY—IMMORTALITY.

Those who are most anxious for the mortal

care little for the immortal.

3192. ERRORS-past.

Spare new lamenting antient Oversights.
3194. DANGER.

2. In times of Trial Danger must be sought:
Or it will seek us in another place,

And find us worse provided..

3195. DOUBT.

34. A Mind in doubt by opposite Motions sway'd, Is as the Tide swell'd to it's utmost height, That makes a still-stand, running neither way. 3196. HEART..

4¶. A good Heart is worth Gold, and more than 3197. HOSPITALITY-to whom.

Bar no honest Man your House.

[Gold.

3198. CAPTAIN.

5. Captain is a Name that should not be taken before it is earnt.

3199. INSIGNIFICANCE.

6. Those who can do nothing but speak nothings must pass for nothing.

3200. APPETITE-unseasonable.

§ It is humiliating where Desire outlives Perfor

3201. SLANDER-COWARDICE.

[mance.

Cowardice will slander the most virtuous.

3202. SIN-CORRUPTION.

Sin gathering head,

Breaks into dire Corruption.

3203. FORTITUDE.

* If Ills be necessary,

Then let us meet them like Necessities.

3204. DEATH.

Death is certain to all.

3205. LANGUAGE.

Good Phrases are very commendable. 3206. NON-EMPLOYMENT.

§ Things that lack use grow mouldy*,

3207. DANGER in WAR.

Ne'er bear a base Mind; a Man can die but once +. 3208.

+ No lan can be too good to serve his Prince and his Country.

* Si non utare, Rubigo consumit.

The very Argument of Sarpedon.

CIC.
HOM.

By some late Laws for recruiting the Navy and Army, one should suppose the Reverse had been believed.

Hh

3209. MIND; not MASS.

2. Regard not

The bulk and big assemblage of a Man:

Look to his Spirit.

3210. TIME.

Time shapes all things to their End.

3211. BISHOPS-should be Friends to PEACE. 3§. Il fits it Bishops, Ministers of Peace, Whose See is by a civil Peace maintain'd; Whose Beard the silver hand of Peace hath toucht; Whose Learning and good Letters Peace hath tutor❜d;

Whose white Investments figure Innocence,
The Dove and very blessed Spirit of Peace:
Ill fits it such that they translate theirselves
Out of the Speech of Peace, that bears such Grace,
Into the harsh and boisterous Tongue of War;
Turning their Books to Glaives; their Ink to Blood;
Their Pens to Lances; and their Tongue divine
To a loud Trumpet and a Point of War.
3212. WAR-Reasons for it; and Consequences
to be strictly weigh'd.

45. Who goes to War Should in most equal Balance justly weigh What Wrongs their Arms may do, what Wrongs they suffer,

And find their Griefs heavier than the Redress.

3213. OCCASION.

[run: 5§. Men see which way the stream of Time doth But are enforct from their most quiet sphere By the rough torrent of Occasion.

3214. NECESSITY.

6. Construe the Times to their Necessities.