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811. EXPERIENCE of AFFLICTION and HAP-
PINESS teaches MODERATION in both.

Who have felt many quirks of Grief and Joy,
Them the first face of either at the start
Cannot subdue.

812. MURTHER.

Whose'er the hand, he murthers who is cause
Of Death unjustly' effected.

813. GUILT the worst of EVILS.
Better 'twere

That all the miseries which Nature owns

Were our's at once than Guilt.

[POWERS. 814. CHARGE-avoid a PUBLIC beyond thy

As far as Honor will permit, decline

A Charge too heavy for thy strength.

815. HUSBAND.

What Angel can

Of a good Wife bless the unworthy Husband. 816. GRIEF.

Grief would have tears*.

817. WORTH-it's Attendance.

X Danger, Death, Envy, dog the heels of Worth. 818. VIRTUE above WEALTH.

No Legacy is so rich as Honesty.

$19. PROMISES.

§ Promises, Oaths, and Tokens, are not the things they seem.

$20. CREDULITY.

Against Vanity, Inexperience, and Passion, the frequency of miserable examples is of little avail to dissuade succession.

*

ΛΥΠΗ ὡς Καρπον Δενδρέον έχει τα

ΔΑΚΡΥΑ,

MENAND.

821.

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+Birds are still limed with twigs: how many wiser soever have been caught and perisht.

822.

It is fit to know Men: lest reposing in some Virtue which they have not, they may in some trusty and great business to our great danger fail us. 823. MERIT where not sterling.

* A counterfeit lump of ore betrays itself in the melting.

824. DETECTION.

There are those who will steal into our favor, and for a 'week will escape discovery; but once found out they are known for Life.

825. OATHS.

'Tis not the many Oaths that make the truth;
But the plain single Vow that is vow'd true.
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Oaths are but words, and poor conditions.
827. LOVE IT'S PURITY.

Love is holy.

828. TREACHERY.

Treasons commonly betray themselves ere they attain their ends.

829. IMPUDENCE.

* Most impudent is that Vice which trumpets it's own unlawful intents.

830. HUMAN NATURE often misjudges it's GAINS and LOSSES.

How mightily sometimes we make us Comforts of our losses: And how mightily some other times we drown our gain in tears*.

*Pauci dignoscere possunt

Vera Bona, atque illis multum diversa, remota

Erroris nebula.

JUV.

Well

Well.

831. HUMAN NATURE-how mixt.

The web of our Life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

832.

Our Virtues would be proud, if our faults whipt them not; and our Crimes would despair, if they were not cherisht by our virtues.

833. SELF-DECEPTION.

Vice is disposed, if possible, to imagine in it's worst actions some justifiable meaning. 834.

He who contrives against the nobility of his own Mind, overflows himself in his proper streams. 835. BOASTERS.

Sooner or later it will come to pass

That every braggart will be found an Ass.

836. CONFIDENCE not to be rested on slight and fanciful Grounds.

Never trust a man for keeping his sword clean; nor believe he can have every thing in him, by wearing his apparel neatly.

837. CONSPIRACY may overwhelm the most

INNOCENT.

Who cannot be crush'd with a plot?

[support. 838. MEN-all have some proper distinction and There's place and means for every man alive. 839. VIRTUE courageous.

Where Death goes with Honesty,
The Virtuous will not shrink.

840. END to be regarded.

All is Well that ends Well *.

This is the Mot of the Play: the Conclusion resulting from it. The French have many Plays called Proverbs, for the same reason.

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841. PATIENCE assures a Good End. Be Suffering what it may, Time will bring Summer, When briars shall have leaves as well as thorns, And be as sweet as sharp.

842. INFIDELITY-not to be trusted by the

CORRUPTER.

The Man who will trust a Woman who is unfaithful to her Husband may generally lay good claim to being both knave and fool.

843. VIRTUE arduous—especially to the Rich. The narrow Gate of Virtue is too little for Pomp to enter *.

844. NECESSITY unceremonious.

Sharp Occasions

Will lay nice Manners by.

845. VIRTUES sometimes require to be stimu▾ lated into Action.

"Tis good and needful oft to put Men to
The use of their own Virtues.

846. GRATITUDE.
Gratitude

Thro' flinty Tartars' bosoms can speak forth
And answer, thanks.

847. WOUNDS honorable in a good Cause. A Scar nobly got is a good livery of Honor. 848. REGRET.

Praising what is lost

Makes the Remembrance dear.

849. FORGIVENESS.

To true Forgiveness

Again a Scriptural Allusion. "Strive to enter by the straight Gate." And "It is as easy for a Camel to pass through the eye of a Needle, as for a rich Man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven."

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Offence is dead, and deeper than oblivion
The incensing reliques buried.

850. VIRTUE like the SUN.

To brightest beams

Distracted clouds give way.

851. PROCRASTINATION to be avoided. Waste no vain words on the consumed time, But take the instant by the forward top: For on Man's best resolv'd, best urg'd decrees, The inaudible and viewless foot of Time

Steals, ere he can effect.

852. REPENTANCE when too late.

Love that comes too late, Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, Does to the sender turn a sour offence, Crying "That's good that's gone."

853.

Our own rash faults

Make trivial things of serious things we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave. 854.

Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust, Destroy our friends, and after weep their dust. 855.

Our own Love waking cries to see what's done, While shameful Hate sleeps on.

$56. DESIRE heightened by OPPOSITION.

All impediments in Fancy's course

Are motives of more Fancy.

857. LOVE dishonorable.

To love dishonorably is to love and love not.

858. CONTRAST.

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

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