596 If Honesty misinterpreted. my offence be of such mortal kind, That neither service past, nor present sorrows, Can ransom me into his love again, Let us teach our trial patience, Because it is a customary cross. Oh, you blessed ministers above, 37-iii. 4. Keep me in patience; and with ripen'd time, In countenance !" 7-i. 1. 5-v. 1. Give sorrow words; the grief, that does not speak, Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. Your gentleness shall force, More than your force move us to gentleness. 601 An over-regard for the world. You have too much respect upon the world: 602 The necessity of mental cultivation. 15-iv. 3. 10-ii. 7. 9-i. 1. Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; 22-iii. 1. Now we have shewn our power, Let us seem humbler after it is done, Than when it was a doing. z False appearance, hypocrisy. 28-iv. 2. You talk of pride; O, that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves! 28-ii. 1. 605 Studies to be pursued according to taste and pleasure. Continue your resolve, To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy. Only, while we do admire This virtue, and this moral discipline, Fall to them, as you find your stomach serves you: 12-i. 1. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand; but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature. 36-iii. 2. Hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and a With allusion to the fable, which says that every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him, in which he stows his own. b Harsh rules. Perhaps it should be ethics instead of checks. c Animate. the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.d Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, 609 36-iii. 2. 37-v. 2. Submission to the will of God. Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it O, see the monstrousness of man, When he looks out in an ungrateful shape! 611 Sincerity. 17-i. 3. 27-iii. 2. May your deeds approve, That good effects may spring from words of love. 612 Wisdom without action. Of your philosophy you make no use, 34-i. 1. 29-iv. 3. The grace of heaven, Before, behind thee, and on every hand, Enwheel thee round! 37-ii. 1. 614 Nature content with little. O, reason not the need: our basest beggars If ever you have look'd on better days; 34-ii. 4. If ever been, where bells have knoll'd to church; d Impression, resemblance. 10-ii. 7. Thou can'st tell, why one's nose stands i' the middle of his face? Why, to keep his eyes on either side his nose; what a man cannot smell out, he may spy into. 617 Reverence due to wisdom. that 34-i. 5. Those that I reverence, those I fear; the wise: 618 Our The benefit of reparation. If we do now make our atonement well, peace will, like a broken limb united, Grow stronger for the breaking. 619 The mind to be regulated. 31-iv. 2. 19-iv. 1. Weed your better judgments Of all opinion that grows rank in them. 620 10-ii. 7. You are old; Discretion necessary to old age. Nature in you stands on the very verge 621 A heart fortified by patience. 34-ii. 4. Since he stands obdurate, 622 9-iv. I. Self-examination. Go to your bosom; Knock there; and ask your heart, what it doth know That's like my brother's fault: if it confess A natural guiltiness, such as his is, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue 5-ii. 2. • Hatred, malice. 623 Precipitancy to be avoided. Reason with the fellow, Before you punish him, Lest, you should chance to whip your information, 624 Accusation to be supported by knowledge. Upon surmises; all proofs sleeping else, 28-iv. 6. 13-iii. 2. My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear; 19-v. 2. Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' 34-iii. 4. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. 36-i. 3. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 36-i. 3. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, f Palm of the hand. 36-i. 3. |