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And therein so ensconced his secret evil,
That jealousy itself could not mistrust,
False-creeping craft and perjury should thrust
Into so bright a day such black-faced storms,
Or blot with hell-born sin such saint-like forms.

514

Thy sin 's not accidental, but a trade."

515

Poems.

5-iii. 1.

The middle of humanity thou never knewest, but the extremity of both ends. When thou wast in thy gilt, and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much curiosity; in thy rags thou knowest none, but art despised for the contrary. 27-iv. 3.

516

He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause
Within the belt of rule.

517

15-v. 2.

Allowed by order of law a furred gown to keep him warm; and furred with fox and lamb-skins too, to signify, that craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing. 5-iii. 2.

518

Why should we be tender,

To let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us;

Play judge, and executioner, all himself? 31-iv. 2.

519

In seeking tales and informations,

Against this man, (whose honesty the devil

And his disciples only envy at,)

Ye blew the fire that burns ye.

520

Whose disposition, all the world well knows,
Will not be rubb'd, nor stopp'd.

u An established habit.

25-v. 2.

34-ii. 2.

▾ For too much finical delicacy. [Here is the depth, precision, and acuteness, of Aristotle.]

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521

His show

Beguiles him, as the mournful erocodile
With sorrow snares relenting passengers;
Or as the snake, roll'd in a flowering" bank,
With shining checker'd slough,* doth sting a child,
That, for the beauty, thinks it excellent.

522

This cur is venom-mouth'd, and I

22-iii. I.

Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore, best Not wake him in his slumber.

25-i. 1.

523

He hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition.

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Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies,
Cap and knee slaves, vapours, and minute-jacks."
27-iii. 6.

526

If thou wert honourable,
Thou would'st have told this tale for virtue, not
For such an end thou seek'st; as base, as strange.
Thou wrong'st a gentleman, who is as far
From thy report, as thou from honour.

527

31-i. 7.

How fairly this lord strives to appear foul! takes virtuous copies to be wicked; like those, that, under hot ardent zeal, would set whole realms on fire. Of such a nature is his politic love. 27-iii. 3.

i. e. In the flowers growing on the bank.

Flies of a season.

* Skin.

* Jacks of the clock.

528

I would not buy

Their mercy at the price of one fair word;
Nor check my courage for what they can give,
To have 't with saying, Good morrow.

529

28-iii. 3.

He hath no friends, but who are friends for fear.

530

Thou disease of a friend, and not himself!
Has friendship such a faint and milky heart,
It turns in less than two nights?

531

24-v. 2.

27-iii. 1.

How he coasts,

a

And hedges, his own way. But in this point
All his tricks founder, and he brings his physic
After his patient's death.

25-iii. 2.

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If the devil have given thee proofs for sin,

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534

Too bad for bad report.

535

Thou know'st no law of God nor man;

5-iii. 2.

31-i. 1.

No beast so fierce, but knows some touch of pity.

536

O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!

Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?

Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical!

24-i. 2.

a Not to take the direct and open path, but to steal covertly through circumvolutions.

Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,
A damned saint, an honourable villain!

537

Is not thy kindness subtle, covetous,

35-iii. 2.

If not a usuring kindness; and as rich men deal gifts, Expecting in return twenty for one?

538

27-iv. 3.

He that will give good words to thee, will flatter

Beneath abhorring.

539

28-i. 1.

This top-proud fellow,

(Whom from the flow of gall I name not, but
From sincere motions, b) by intelligence,
And proofs as clear as founts in July, when
We see each grain of gravel, I do know
To be corrupt and treasonous.

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25-i. 1.

25-iii. 2.

False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey.

542

34-iii. 4.

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,

And every tongue brings in a several tale,

And every tale condemns me for a villain.

543

Such smiling rogues as these,

Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain

24-v. 3.

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Which are too intrinse t' unloose: smooth every pasThat in the natures of their lords rebels;

Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods;

b Honest indignation.

• Perplexed.

Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks
With every gale and vary of their masters,
As knowing nought, like dogs, but following.

544

34-ii. 2.

His red sparkling eyes blab his heart's malice.

545

22-iii. 1.

Thou art a slave, whom Fortune's tender arm
With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

546

27-iv. 3.

I do the wrong and first begin to brawl.
The secret mischiefs that I set abroach,
I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,
Tell them-that God bids us do good for evil.
And thus I clothe my naked villany

With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
24-i. 3.

547

I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;

Speak, and look back, and pry on every side,
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw,
Intending deep suspicion: ghastly looks
Are at my service, like enforced smiles;
And both are ready in their offices,
At any time to grace my stratagems.

548

No man's pie is freed

24-iii. 5.

From his ambitious finger.

25-i. 1.

549

Profane fellow!

Wert thou the son of Jupiter, and no more,
But what thou art, besides, thou wert too base
To be a groom: thou wert dignified enough,.

d Disown.

The bird called the king-fisher, which, when dried, and hung by a thread, is supposed to turn his bill to the point from whence the wind blows. f Pretending.

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