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TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.

859. TRAVELLING recommended.

Home-keeping Youths have ever homely wits". 860. IDLENESS.

Waste not thine Youth in shapeless Idleness. 861. LOVE dwells in finest Spirits.

As in the sweetest bud

The eating Canker dwells: so eating Love
Inhabits in the finest Wits of all.

862.

but preys on them.

As the most forward bud
Is eaten by the Canker ere it blow;
Even so by Love the young and tender wit
Is turn'd to folly: blasting in the bud,.
Losing his verdure even in the prime,
And all the fair effects of future hopes.
863. LOVE it's POWER.

§ There are who leave self, Friends, and all, for

864.

Love is a mighty Lord:

There is no woe to his correction;
Nor to his favor any earthly joy.

865. LOVE it's Perverseness.
'Tis pity Love should be so contrary:

[Love.

To doat on those who care not for our Love, To dream on those who have forgot our Love. 866. LOVERS their Punctuality.

Lovers break not hours,

Unless it be to come before their time;
So much they spur their expedition.

*This must not be taken as an absolute Aphorism, but dramati cally with allowance for the Speaker.

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867. LOVE.

Wayward is Love,

That like a testy Babe will scratch the Nurse,
And presently all humbled kiss the rod.
868. LOVE-A PROMISE IN.

In Love

A Promise is not slight: 'tis Honor's pawn. 869.

Love is blind.

BLIND.

870. LOVE-quick-sighted, active, and acute. Love lends wings and wit.

871. LOVE concealed.

Fire that is closest kept burns most of all.

872.

cannot be kept always secret. He never loved that can conceal his love. 873. LOVE does not proclaim itself.

He never loved who lets all know his love. silent.

874.

Love can not speak.

875. LOVERS think only of LOVE.

For an ardent Lover,

Is no discourse except it be of Love:

And such can break their fast, dine, sup, and sleep, Upon the very naked name of Love.

876. LOVE fond of PRAISE.

Love delights in Praise.

877. LOVE full of JEALOUSY.

Love is full of Jealousy.

878. LOVE overcomes FRIENDSHIP that has Weakness in it.

Be there in Friendship aught the least infirm, Love weakens and subdues such Friendship quite.

879. LOVE has no EQUIVALENT. Love is still most precious in itself. 880.

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not to be overpowered by WORDS.

"Tis easier to kindle fire with snow,

Than 'tis to quench the fire of Love with words. not to be annihilated but subjected to

881.

REASON.

Do not seek to quench Love's fire;

But qualify the Fire's extreme rage,

882.

Lest it should burn above the bounds of Reason.
HAPPINESS of VIRTUOUS.
Whose long toils end in true and virtuous Love,
They rest content: as after much turmoil,
A blessed soul doth in Elysium.

883. LOVE and FIDELITY PERFECT.
Happy and worthiest of esteem are those
Whose words are Bonds; whose oaths are Oracles;
Whose Love sincere; whose thoughts immaculate;
Whose tears pure messengers sent from the Heart;
Whose heart as far from fraud as Heaven from
884. LOVE sincere has no FLATTERY. [Earth.
Women should know,

Deceit more promptly than sincerest Love Can flatter, praise, commend, extol their graces. 885, LOVE inconstant.

Inconstant Love is like a Child

That longs for every thing he can come by.
886.

Even as one heat another heat expels,
So the remembrance of a former Love
Is by a newer object quite forgotten.
887. LOVE.

The Spring of Love resembleth

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The uncertain glory of an April day;
Which now shews all the beauty of the Sun,
And bye and bye a cloud takes all away.

888. DEATH less than perpetual Estrangement
from those we love.

Death is less terrible than living torment:
Estrangement from one's-self is Death indeed;
A banishment from those we truely love
Is self from self.

889. LOVE a slight Impression.

A weak impress of Love is as a figure
Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat
Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form.
890. LOVE not to be despised.

To plead for Love deserves more fee than hate. 891. LOVE-sharp-sighted and blind.

Some say that Love bath twenty pair of eyes;
And some that Love hath not an eye at all.
892.
restless.

Love chaseth sleep from the enthralled eyes.
893. LOVE trifles with itself.

Alas! how Love can trifle with itself.

894.

rests not in PROFESSION.

Love hath better deeds than words to grace it, 895. LOVE what is Music to it.

There is no Music like the voice

Of those we love.

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¶ Love will lend patience to forbear awhile, 897. FORCE augmented by OPPOSITION. The Current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopt, impatiently doth rage; But when his fair course is not hindered,

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He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones,

Giving a gentle kiss to every ridge

He overtaketh in his pilgrimage;

And so by many winding nooks he strays,
With willing sport, to the wild Ocëan.

898. SHEPHERD.

The Shepherd seeks the Sheep; and not the Sheep the Shepherd.

899.

The Sheep doth often stray,

If the Shepherd be awhile away.

900. COMPANY-Men are judged by their. Those persons who are yoked with a Fool, Are very rarely chronicled for wise*.

901. FIDELITY not boastful.
True Fidelity ||

Thinks it hath done it's Duty; and nought else.

902. DISQUALIFYING.

Vain is discourse of Disability.

903. PHYSIOGNOMY.

Oft may we read Men's fortunes in their eyes. 904. ABSENCE.

+ Some leave their friends to dignify them more By honor'd Absence and endear'd Return.

905. CONFIDENCE without REASON.

¶ I think it so because I think it so,

Is oft not less a Man's than Woman's reason.
906. WRITINGS corruptive.

Great is the Crime to harbour wanton lines
That whisper and conspire 'gainst virgin Youth.

*Noscitur a sociis.

Say "we are unprofitable Servants: for we have done that which was our Duty to do." LUC. xvii. 10.

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