This on another tablet did reflect,

Where twice was drawn the am'rous Magdaline; Whilft beauty was her care, then her neglect,

And brightest through her tears fhe feem'd to fhine. Near her, feem'd crucify'd, that lucky thief

(In heav'n's dark lott'ry profp'rous more than wife); Who grop'd at laft, by chance, for heav'n's relief, And throngs undoes with hope, by one drawn prize. In many figures by reflex were fent,

Through this black vault instructive to the mind, That early, and this tardy penitent;

For with Obfidian ftone 'twas chiefly lin'd.

The feats were made of Ethiopian wood;
The polish'd ebony, but thinly fill'd:
For none this place by nature understood;

And practice, when unpleasant, makes few skill'd.
Yet thefe, whom heav'n's mysterious choice fetch'd in,
Quickly attain devotion's utmoit fcope;
For having foftly mourn'd away their fin,
They grow fo certain, as to need no hope.

At a low door they enter, but depart

Through a large gate, and to fair fields proceed : Where Aftragon makes nature laft by art,

And fuch long fummers fhew, as ask no feed.

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert.

'Tis not too late yet, to recant all this;

And there is oft more glory in repenting

Us of fome errors, than never to have err'd:

Because we find there are more folks have judgment

Than ingenuity,

A limb by being broke gets ftrength, they fay,
If fet with art; fo broken vertue may.

Fountain's Rewards of Virtue.

Crown's Married Beau.

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REP REPORT For feldom fhall a ruler lofe his life, Before false rumours openly be fpread: Whereby this proverb is as true as rife,

That rulers, rumours hunt about a head: Frown fortune once, all good report is fled: For prefent fhew doth make the many blind, And fuch as fee dare not difclofe their mind.

Mirror for Magiftrates.

Reafon with the fellow,
Before you punish him, where he heard this;
fhould chance to whip your Information,

Left

you

And beat the messenger, who bids beware
Of what is to be dreaded..

Shakespear's Coriolanus.
Open your ears: For which of you will stop
The vent of hearing, when loud rumour speaks?
I from the orient to the drooping weft,
Making the wind my post-horfe, ftill unfold
The acts commenced on this Ball of earth.
Upon my tongues.continual flanders ride,
The which in ev'ry language I pronounce;
Stuffing the ears of men with falfe reports.
I peak of peace, while covert enmity,
Under the fimile of fafety, wounds the world:
And who but rumour, who but only I,
Make fearful mufters, and prepar'd defence;
Whilft the big year, fwoln with fome other griefs,
Is thought with child by the ftern tyrant war,
And no fuch matter? Rumour is a pipe,
Blown by farmifes, jealoufies, conjectures,
And, of fo easy and so plain a stop,

That the blunt monster, with uncounted heads,
The still-difcordant wav'ring multitude,
Can play upon it. But what need I thus

My well known body to anatomife

Among my houfhold? From rumour's tongues,

They bring fmooth comforts falfe, worfe than true wrongs.

Shakespear's Second Part of K. Henry IV.

Is't not fome vain report, born without caufe,
That envy or imagination draws

From private ends, to breed a publick fear,
T'amufe the world with things that never were ?

They that intend

Daniel's Philotas.

To do, are like deep waters that run quietly;
Leaving no face, of what they were, behind them.
This rumour is too common, and too loud

Fame from the tongues of men, doth injury
Oftner than justice; and as confcience
Only makes guilty perfons, not report,
(For fhew we as clear as fprings unto the world,
If our own knowledge doth not make us fo,
That is fmall fatisfaction to our felves):
So ftand we ne'er fo lep'rous to man's eye,
It cannot hurt heart-known integrity.

Nathaniel Field's Amends for Ladies.
Wrong'd by flying rumours, which like birds
Soaring at random, mute on any head.

Crown's Ambitious Statesman.

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Forbear fharp fpeeches to her. She's a Lady
So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes,
And strokes death to her.

Thou turn'it mine eyes into my very foul,
And there I fee fuch black and grained spots,

As will not leave their tinct.

Shakespear's Cymbeline.

Shakespear's Hamlet.

If any here chance to behold himself,

Let him not dare to challenge me of wrong;
For, if he fhame to have his follies known,
First he should shame to act them. My ftrict hand
Was made to feize on vice; and, with a gripe,

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Squeeze

Squeeze out the humour of such spongy natures,
As lick up ev'ry idle vanity.

You have heard

Johnfon's Every Man out of his Humour.

The fiction of the north-wind and the fun,

Both working on a traveller, and contending
Which had moft pow'r to take his cloak from him:
Which, when the wind attempted, he roar'd out
Outragious blafts at him, to force it off,

Then wrapt

it clofer on: When the calm fun (The wind once leaving) charg'd him with ftill beams, Quiet, and fervent, and therein was conftant, Which made him caft off both his cloak and coat: Like whom fhould men do; if ye with your wives Should leave diflik'd things, feek it not with rage; For that enrages: What ye give, ye have: But ufe calm warnings, and kind manly means; And that in wives moft proftitute, will win Not only fure amends, but make us wives, Better than thofe that ne'er led faulty lives.

Chapman's Revenge of Buffey D'ambois.

Prithee forgive me;

I did but chide in jeft; the bef. loves use it
Sometimes, it fets an edge upon affection.
When we invite our best friends to a feast,

'Tis not all fweet meats that we fet before them;
There's fomewhat sharp and falt, both to whet appetite,
And make them taste their wine well: So methinks
After a friendly, fharp, and favoury chiding,

A kifs taftes wond'rous well, and full o' th' grape.

As from water

Middleton's Women beware Women,

Runs with a fmooth brow gently in it's course,
Being ftop'd o'th' fudden, his calm nature riot
Into a wilful fury, and persist

In his intended fancy?

Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenftein. Reprove not in their wrath incensed men ; Good council comes clean out of season then: But when his fury is appeas'd, and pass'd, He will conceive his fault, and mend at last. When he is cool, and calm, then utter it; No man gives phyfick in the midst o'th' fit.

Randolph.

I will not let thee fleep, nor eat, nor drink;
But I will ring thee fuch a piece of chiding,
Thou fhalt confefs the troubled fea more calm;
'That thunder with lefs violence cleaves the air:
The ravens, fcreech-owls, and the mandrakes voice
Shall be thy constant mufick.

Randolph's Jealous Lovers.
'Tis not enough to ftrive against the act,
Or not to do't; we must reprove the fact
In others too: The fin being once made known:
To us, if not reprov'd, becomes our own :
We must diffuade the vice, we fcorn to follow.

It is not juft I should rebuke them for
Their harmony of mind; that were to fhew
The rage, and envious malice of the devil;
Who quarrels with the good, because they have
That happiness, which he can ne'er enjoy.

Quarles.

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Sir W. Davenant's Law against Lovers.

The pureft treasure mortal times afford,
Is fpotless reputation; that away,

Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay.

Shakespear's King Richard II.

Good name in man and woman,

Is the immediate jewel of their fouls;

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