Leasht in like Hounds, dire Famine, Sword, and Crouch for Employment.

3260. IMAGINATION.

[Fire

28. Imagination leaps o'er Time and Space, Turning the Accomplishments of many Years Into an Hour-glass.

3261. THEATRE-MOTTO for one.

Hear gently; mildly judge.

3262. REFORMATION-delay'd.

¶ When Reformation comes, it comes a Flood, With a strong heady current, scouring Faults. 3263. PRACTICE THEORY.

In some the habit and practic part of Life
Becomes the Mistress of their Theory.

3264. GOOD-latently intermixt with EVIL. The Strawberry grows underneath the Nettle; And sometimes wholesome Berries ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. 3265. CAUSES-EFFECTS.

Seeing the Effect, we must admit the Means
How things are perfected*.

3266. JUSTICE-the Crime of perverting it. 'Tis ill to fashion wrest and bow our Reading, And basely charge our understanding Soul

There is at the Bar a well-known Pun on this great philosophical Axiom: which has been Judicrously employed as the Motto of a Carriage by an eminent BarristerCAUSES PRODUCE EFFECTS." Nil fieri sine Causâ posse videmus," is said even by LUCRETIUS,

With opening Titles miscreate, whose Right
Suits not, in native colours, with the Truth.
3267. WAR-the Guilt of unnecessary.

28. Statesmen, take heed how you impawn a State,
How you awake the sleeping Sword of War;
In the most awful Name of God, take heed.
For never did two Nations thus contend

Without much fall of blood; whose guiltless drops
Are every one a woe, a sore complaint, [Sword
'Gainst him whose wrong gives edge unto the
That makes such Waste in brief Mortality.

3268. STATESMEN-worldly. justly, 3+. Statesmen are wont, who bear the Name unTo fine their Title with some shew of truth, When in pure truth it is corrupt and naught. 3269. GOVERNMENT-it's perfect Idea. While that the armed Hand doth fight abroad, The advised Head should guard the State at home: For Government, tho' high, and low, and lower, Put into Parts, doth keep in one Consent*, Congruing in a full and natural Close, Like Music.

*My Uncle CAPELL used to quote this noble Fragment of CICERO, preserved by AUGUSTINE:-" Ut in fidibus ac tibiis, atque cantu ipso ac vocibus CONCENTUs est quidam tenendus ex distinctis sonis, quem immutatum aures erudite ferre non possunt, utque Concentus ex dissimillimarum vocum Moderatione concors tamen efficitur & congruens; sic ex summis & infimis & mediis interjectis ordinibus, ut sonis, moderatâ ratione. Civitas, consensu dissimillimorum, concinit: Et quæ HARMONIA à Musicis dicitur in Cantu, ea est in Civitate Concordia; arctissimum atque optimum omni in Republica Vinculum Incolumitatis quæ sine Justitia nullo pacto esse potest." This Passage is here translated: if any ever was. And I know not, it being a Fragment, that there was any Translation of it in the time of SHAKESPEARE.

3270. GOVERNMENT-illustrated by the Polity Heaven divides

[of Bees.

The State of Man in divers Functions,
Setting endeavour in continual Motion*,
To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,
Obedience+:so work the bonied Bees;
Creatures, that by a Rule of Nature teach
The Art of Order to a peopled Kingdom:-
They have a King, aud Officers of sort:
Where some, like Magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like Merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like Soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the Summer's velvet bud,
Which pillage they with merry march bring home
To the tent-royal of their Emperor,
Who, busied in his Majesty, surveys

The singing Mason building roofs of gold,
The civil Citizens kneading up the honey,
The poor mechanic Porters crouding in
Their heavy burthens at his narrow gate;
The sad-ey'd Justice, with his surly hum,
Delivering o'er to 'Executors pale
The lazy Dronet.

3271. POLITICS the Art of harmonizing.
Under wise Conduct and mature Design
It is well possible that many things
Having full reference to one Consent,

May act accordantly; though else contrarious;

Pater ipse colendi

Haud facilem esse viam voluit;-primusque per Artem
Movit agros, curis acuens mortalia Corda

Nec torpere gravi passus sua Regna veterno.

Quadrasyllable.

Ignavum fuços pecus.

VIRG.

VIRG.

As many Arrows loosed several ways,
Fly to one Mark;

As many

As many several Ways meet in one Town; fresh Streams run in one-self Sea; As many Lines close in the Dial's Centre; So may a thousand Actions once a foot End in one purpose, and be all well born - Without defeat.

3272. ENGLAND-invincible at home if she use
her proper Means.

If ENGLAND with her proper Power at home
Cannot defend her own Door from the Dog,
Let us be worried; and our Nation lose
The Name of hardihood and policy*.
3273. HISTORY.

History should speak freely of Men's Acts,
And with full Mouth.

3274. KINGS.

Passion in Kings to Reason should be subject, Or they are Tyrants.

$275.

"Tis but too common

That Men are merriest when they are from home. 3276. OMNIPOTENCE.

Within the Will of GOD.

3277. CELERITY.

All things lie

Omit no happy hour

That may give furtherance to an Expedition.

3278. PIETY.

[business. Thoughts heavenward should run before our

* See CARTWRIGHT's ENGLAND's ÆCIS.

3279. ENGLAND.

England

In little Body has a mighty Heart*. 3280. WORDS-DEEDS.

Those who say little, when Time serves do most. $281. LIFE-DEATH.

Live as long as you may well and honorably; and when you can live no longer die contentedly.

3282. PATIENCE.

Though Patience be a tir'd Mare she will plod-there must be Conclusions.

3283. HEART.

Heart.

"There is no killing like that which kills the

3284. FRIENDS and COUNTRYMEN

QUARRELS.

Why should Friends and Countrymen keep Knives to cut one another's Throats?

3285. SERVICE ENCOURAGEMENT. Then Service doth with steeled Sinews toil, When Labour can refresh itself with Hope. 3286. CRUELTY-MERCY,

Ill should the Cruel dare to talk of Mercy.

3287. TREASON-MURTHER.

Treason and Murther ever keep together,

As two Yoke-devils sworn to each-other's purpose. 3288. EYE-EAR-JUDGEMENT.

Work thou not by the Eye without the Ear; And but with purged Judgement trust to neither. 3289. GUILT-DEATH.

2. Guilt is to be regretted more than Deathf.

*Totosque infusa per artus

Major in exiguo regnabat corpore Virtus.

STAT.

+ Summum crede nefas animam præ ferre pudori. JUV.