Leave her to heaven,

And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.

Thou hast cleft my heart in twain. O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.

658

Grief not to be cherished.

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

36-i. 5.

36-iii. 4.

17-ii. 2.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart?

660

Resignation to the will of God enjoined.

Do not, for ever, with thy vailed lids

15-v. 3.

Seek for thy noble father in the dust:
Thou know'st, 'tis common; all, that live,
Passing through nature to eternity.

must die,

36-i. 2.

The value of faithful servants.

If I

661

Had servants true about me;" that bare eyes
To see alike mine honour, as their profits,

Their own particular thrifts,-they would do that,
Which should undo more doing.

662

The severity of age to youth.

13-i. 2.

You, that are old, consider not the capacities of us that are young: you measure the heat of our livers with the bitterness of your galls.

663

Youth.

19-i. 2.

Deal mildly with his youth; For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more. 17-ii. 1.

▾ All the editions read stuff'd, which is evidently wrong. It should be foul bosom, as in As You Like It: "Cleanse the foul body of the infected world."--- Act ii. scene 7. " Eph. vi. 5---7.

664

Oppression to be avoided.

Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
Not you, correct them.

665

The same.

Let us be keen, and rather cut a little,
Than fall, and bruise to death.

666

Courage and cowardice.

25-iii. 2.

5-ii. 1.

Turn head, and stop pursuit: for coward dogs
Most spend their mouths, when what they seem to

threaten,

Runs far before them.

667

Ingratitude.

I hate ingratitude more in a man,

20-ii. 4.

Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.

4-iii. 4.

Pray be counsel'd:

I have a heart as little apt as yours,

But yet a brain, that leads my use of anger,

To better vantage.

669

Fidelity.

28-iii. 2.

Though all the world should crack their duty to you,
And throw it from their soul; though perils did
Abound, as thick as thought could make them, and
Appear in forms more horrid; yet my duty,
As doth a rock against the chiding flood,
Should the approach of this wild river break,
And stand unshaken yours.

670

Kindness to be exercised.

25-iii. 2.

The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness,
And time to speak it in; you rub the sore,

When

you should bring the plaster.

* Waste, exhaust.

l—ii. 1.

God's benison go with you; and with those
That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!"

672

The act of opposing one thing to another.

15-ii. 4.

Let us, like merchants, shew our foulest wares,
And think, perchance, they'll sell; if not,
The lustre of the better shall exceed,

By shewing the worse first.

26-i. 3.

The power, that I have on you, is to spare you;
The malice towards you, to forgive you.

Fish not with this melancholy bait, For this fool's gudgeon, this opinion.

31-v. 5.

9-i. 1.

Service shall with steeled sinews toil;

And labour shall refresh itself with hope.

676

20-ii. 2.

In whose breast

The necessity of forethought.

Doubt and suspect, alas, are placed too late :

You should have fear'd false times, when you did

feast:

Suspect still comes, where an estate is least.

27-iv. 3.

It hath pleased the devil, drunkenness, to give place to the devil, wrath: one imperfectness shews me another, to make me frankly despise myself.

37-ii. 3.

Not to relent, is beastly, savage, devilish.

24-i. 4.

Like a shepherd,

Approach the fold, and cull the infected forth,
But kill not all together.

681

The wisdom of concealment.

I will keep her ignorant of her good,

To make her heavenly comforts of despair
When it is least expected.

682

Anger.

27-v. 5.

5-iv. 3.

Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou hasten thy trial.

683

Past sorrows not to be cherished.

Let us not burden our remembrances
With a heaviness that's gone.

684

Magnanimity.

Dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none.

685

Reflection.

11-ii. 3.

l—y. 1.

15-i. 7.

I would, you would make use of that good wisdom whereof I know you are fraught;" and put away these dispositions, which of late transform you from what you rightly are.

34-i. 4.

686

Extremity.

Who is 't can say, I am at the worst?

34-iv. 1.

687

Reason.

Mingle reason with your passion.

688

Tenderness in judging.

Breathe his faults so quaintly,

That they may seem the taints of liberty:
The flash and out-break of a fiery mind;
A savageness in unreclaimed blood,
Of general assault.

34-ii. 4.

36-ii. 1.

z Stored.

a Wildness.

bi.e. Such as youth in general is liable to.

Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed. 17-i. 1.

Let me take away the harms I fear,
Nor fear still to be taken.

34-i. 4.

This fester'd joint cut off, the rest rest sound;
This, let alone, will all the rest confound.

Conquer fortune's spite,

By living low, where fortune cannot hurt you.

23-iv. 6.

5-iii. 1.

14-iii. 2.

It is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.

6-i. 3.

An you had an eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels, than fortunes before you.

699

The danger of extremes.

4-ii. 5.

I shunn'd the fire for fear of burning;
And drench'd me in the sea, where I am drown'd.

2-i. 3.