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Builds in the weather on the outward wall,
Even in the force and road of casualty.

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It is the witness still of excellency,

9-ii. 9.

To put a strange face on his own perfection. 6-ii. 3.

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Intellectual advancement.

For nature, crescent," does not grow alone

In thews and bulk; but as this temple waxes,
The inward service of the mind and soul
Grows wide withal.

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O, what authority and show of truth
Can cunning sin cover itself withal!

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The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.s
An evil soul, producing holy witness,
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek;

A goodly apple rotten at the heart;

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath !

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36-i. 3.

6-iv. 1.

9-i. 3.

The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed,
And extreme fear can neither fight nor fly,
But coward-like with trembling terror die.

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Glory grows guilty of detested crimes;

Poems.

When, for fame's sake, for praise, an outward part, We bend to that the working of the heart. 8-iv. 1.

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Fickle-mindedness.

O perilous mouths,

That bear in them one and the self-same tongue,
Either of condemnation or approof!

Bidding the law make court'sy to their will;
Hooking both right and wrong to th' appetite,
To follow as it draws!

5-ii. 4.

q Power.

r Increasing.

s Matt. iv. 6.

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Calumny.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, shalt not escape calumny..

thou

36-iii. 1.

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False praise.

When we for recompense have praised the vile,
It stains the glory in that happy verse

Which aptly sings the good.

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27-i. 1.

Falsehood, its evil.

Will poor folks lie,

That have afflictions on them; knowing 'tis
A punishment, or trial? Yes; no wonder,

When rich ones scarce tell true: To lapse in fulness

Is

sorer,

," than to lie for need; and falsehood Is worse in kings, than beggars.x

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Mercy.

O, it is excellent

31-iii. 6.

To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.

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Authority.

Could great men thunder

5-ii. 2.

As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet,

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For every pelting, petty officer,

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Would use his heaven for thunder: nothing but thun-
Merciful Heaven!

Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt,
Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled2 oak, -

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The noble saying of John of France, "That if truth were banished w Sorer, a greater or heavier crime. all other places of the earth, she ought still to find a dwelling in the hearts of kings.'

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Than the soft myrtle !—O, but man, proud man !
Drest in a little brief authority-

Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
His glassy essence,-like an angry ape,

Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,
As make the angels weep..

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5-ii. 2.

Divine Justice.

You are above,

34-iv. 2.

You justicers, that these our nether crimes
So speedily can venge!

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That comfort comes too late;

'Tis like a pardon after execution :

That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me; But now I am past all comforts here, but prayers. 25-iv. 2.

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Things to be valued by their worth.
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the doer's deed:
Where great additionsa swell, and virtue none,
It is a dropsied honour: good alone

Is good, without a name vileness is so :b
The property by what it is should go,
Not by the title..

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We must not stint

Our necessary actions, in the fear

To coped malicious censurers; which ever,
As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow,

That is new trimm'd; but benefit no farther
Than vainly longing.

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11-ii. 3.

Judgment of weak minds not to be regarded.
What we oft do best,

By sick interpreters, oncee weak ones, is
Not ours, or not allow'd;f what worst, as oft,

a Titles.

25-i. 2.

b Good is good independent of any worldly distinction; and so is vileness, vile.

c Retard d Encounter.

e Sometime. f Approved.

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Depravity.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile :5
Filths savour but themselves.

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Oppression.

In the fatness of these pursy times, Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg;

25-i. 2.

34-iv. 2.

Yea, curbh and woo, for leave to do him good.

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Traducement.

36-iii. 4.

O wicked wit, and gifts, that have the power

To seduce!

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Virtue and Vice.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall :

36-i. 5.

27-i. 2.

Some run from brakes of vice, and answer none;
And some condemned for a fault alone.

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Satan out-witting himself.

5-ii. 1.

The devil knew not what he did, when he made man politic; he crossed himself by't: and I cannot think, but, in the end, the villanies of man will set him clear.

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Carnality.

27-iii. 3.

Ingrateful man, with liquorish draughts,
And morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind,
That from it all consideration slips.

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Mental deformity and virtue.

27-iv. 3.

In nature there's no blemish, but the mind;
None can be call'd deform'd, but the unkind:

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iBrakes of vice,' means the engine of torture. In Holinshed, p. 670, it is mentioned, the said Hawkins was cast into the Tower, and at length brought to the brake,' &c. This engine is still to be seen in

the Tower.

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Virtue is beauty; but the beauteous-evil
Are empty trunks,k o'erflourish'd' by the devil.

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Virtue and Vice, their influence.

Virtue, as it never will be moved,

4-iii. 4.

Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven;
So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,
Will satem itself in a celestial bed,

And prey on garbage.

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36-i. 5.

'Tis too much proved, "-that, with devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er

The devil himself.

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Age provident. Youth heedless.

It seems, it is as proper to our age

To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions,
As it is common for the younger sort
To lack discretion.

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Instability of worldly glory. Like madness is the glory of this life,

36-iii. 1.

36-ii. 1.

As this pomp shews to a little oil, and root.°
We make ourselves fools, to disport ourselves;
And spend our flatteries, to drink those men,
Upon whose age we void it up again
With poisonous spite and envy.

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Mankind, its general character.

Who lives, that's not

27-i. 2.

Depraved, or depraves? who dies, that bears
Not one spurn to their graves of their friend's gift? P

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Interposition.

'Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes

27-i. 2.

k In the time of Shakspeare, trunks, which are now deposited in lumber-rooms, were part of the furniture in apartments where company was received. They were richly ornamented on the top and sides with scroll work, and emblematical devices, and were elevated on feet. m Satiate.. n Too frequent.

1 Ornamented

o i.e. The glory of this life is just as much madness in the eye of reason, as pomp appears to be when compared to the frugal repast of a philosopher. P i.c. Given them by their friends.

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