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And whipp'd the offending Adama out of him;
Leaving his body as a paradise,

To envelop and contain celestial spirits.

97

20-i. 1.

Poor honest lord, brought low by his own heart; Undone by goodness! Strange, unusual blood,* When man's worst sin is, he does too much good! Who then dares to be half so kind again?

For bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men. 27-iv. 2.

98

If hearty sorrow

Be a sufficient ransom for offence,

I tender it here; I do as truly suffer,

As e'er I did commit.

99

2-v. 4.

I speak as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.

100

13-i. 1.

He is the rock, the oak not to be wind-shaken.

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I and my bosom must debate awhile,
And then I would no other company.

103

20-iv. 1.

The good I stand on is my truth, and honesty.

If they shall fail, I, with mine enemies,

Will triumph o'er my person; which I weigh' not,
Being of those virtues vacant.

25-v. 1.

d The old man of sin. Man in an unregenerate state. Luke xv.

17, 18, 19.

ePropensity, disposition.

! Value.

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He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour
To act in safety.

107

15-iii. 1.

I study,

12-i. 1.

Virtue, and that part of philosophy
Will I apply, that treats of happiness,

By virtue 'specially to be achieved.

108

h

You are a gentleman of excellent breeding, admirable discourse, of great admittance, authentic in your place and person, generally allowed for your many war-like, court-like, and learned preparations. 3-ii. 2.

109

A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd!
Well fitted in the arts, glorious in arms:
Nothing becomes him ill, that he would well.
The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss,
(If virtue's gloss will stain with any soil,)
Is a sharp wit match'd with' too blunt a will;
Whose edge hath power to cut, whose will still wills
It should none spare that come within his power.
8-ii. 1.

110

He

Is valiant, and dejected; and, by starts,

My endeavours, though less than my desires, have filed, that is, have one (an equal) pace with my abilities.

h In the greatest companies.

ii.e. Combined.

His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear,
Of what he has, and has not.

111

I

30-iv. 10.

Am right glad to catch this good occasion
Most thoroughly to be winnow'd, where my chaff
And corn shall fly asunder; for, I know,

There's none stands under more calumnious tongues,
Than I myself.

112

This the noble nature

25-v. 1.

Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue,
The shot of accident, nor dart of chance,
Could neither graze nor pierce?

113

He is a man, setting his fate aside,*

Of comely virtues:

Nor did he soil the fact with cowardice

37-iv. 1.

(An honour in him, which buys out his fault); But, with a noble fury, and fair spirit,

Seeing his reputation touch'd to death,

He did oppose his foe:

And with such sober and unnoted passion1

He did behave his anger, ere 'twas spent,
As if he had but proved an argument.

114

The dearest friend, the kindest man, The best condition'd and unwearied spirit

27-iii. 5.

In doing courtesies.

115

For his bounty,

That

grew the more by reaping.

There was no winter in 't; an autumn 'twas,

9-iii. 2.

30-v. 2.

ki. e. Putting this action of his, which was predetermined by fate, out of the question.

1 i. e. Passion so subdued, that no spectator could note its operam Manage, govern.

tion.

116

He covets less

Than misery" itself would give; rewards
His deeds with doing them; and is content
To spend the time, to end it.

117

28-ii. 2.

I would dissemble with my nature, where
My fortunes, and my friends, at stake, required
I should do so in honour.

118

His life was gentle; and the elements

28-iii. 2.

So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, This was a man!

119

Spare in diet;

29-v. 5.

Free from gross passion, or of mirth, or anger;
Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood;
Garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment;°
Not working with the eye, without the ear,P
And, but in purged judgment, trusting neither.

120

Where I could not be honest,

20-ii. 2.

I never yet was valiant.

121

34-v. I.

Thou art a summer bird,

Which ever in the haunch of winter sings

The lifting-up of day.

122

19-iv. 4.

I know you all, and will a while uphold

The unyoked humour of your idleness:
Yet herein will I imitate the sun;

Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
To smother up his beauty from the world,

n Avarice.

• Accomplishment.

Pie. Did not trust the air or look of any man, till he had tried him by inquiry and conversation.

That, when he please again to be himself,
Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at,
By breaking through the foul and ugly mists
Of vapours, that did seem to strangle him.

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So when this loose behaviour I throw off,
And pay the debt I never promised,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;"
And, like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,
Shall shew more goodly, and attract more eyes,
Than that, which hath no foil to set it off.

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Presume not that I am the thing I was:

For heaven doth know, so shall the world perceive,
That I have turn'd away my former self;
So will I those that kept me company.

123

19-v.5.

O, that this good blossom could be kept from cankers!

I have no tongue but one.

124

125

There is a fair behaviour in thee,

19-ii. 2.

5-ii. 4.

And though that nature with a beauteous wall
Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee

I will believe thou hast a mind that suits
With this thy fair and outward character.

126

4-i. 2.

He was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge could be set up against mortality.

127

Weigh him well,

And that, which looks like pride, is courtesy.

11—i. 1.

9 Expectations.

26-iv. 5.

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