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401 When devils will their blackest sins put on, They do suggests at first with heavenly shows.

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404 That life is better life, past fearing death, Than that which lives to fear.

5-v. 1.

405

Bootless speed!

When cowardice pursues, and valour flies.

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406 Thus can the demi-god, Authority, Make us pay down for our offence by weight.

5-i. 3.

407

Sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

17-i. 2.

408

Sin, gathering head,

Shall break into corruption.

19-iii. 1.

409 Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the fear'd,

19-iii, 1.

410

Tyrant's fears

Decrease not, but grow faster than their years.h

33-i, 2.

411 Happier is he that has no friend to feed, Than such as do even enemies exceed. 27-i. 2.

412 The swallow follows not summer more willingly... nor more willingly leaves winter; such summer birds are men. 27-iii. 6.

413

Opinion crowns

With an imperial voice.

26-i. 3.

414 To be a queen in bondage, is more vile, Than is a slave in base servility.

Tempt.---2 Cor. xi. 14.'

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h Their suspicions outgrow their years; a circumstance sufficiently

natural to veteran tyrants.

415 Rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose.

8-iv. 3.

416 Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student from his book, and it is wonderful.

417

3-iii, 1. Too much to know, is, to know nought but fame.

8-i. 1.

418 That's a valiant flea, that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

419 Be in eye of every exercise.

20-iii. 7.

2-i.3.

420 Obedience bids, I should not bid again.

17-i. 1.

421 The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins Remorse from power.

29-ii. 1.

422 Who should succeed the father, but the son?

23-ii. 2.

423 A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair

praise.

8-iv. 1.

424 It is the show and seal of nature's truth, Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth.

425

11-i. 3.

Do not cry, havoc, when you should but hunt
With modest warrant.

28-iii. 1.

426 Rich honesty dwells like a miser, in a poor house; as your pearl, in your foul oyster.

427

10-v. 4.

I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service, as a partizani I could not heave.

30-ii. 7,

428 Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be

well used.

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5-ii. 4.

429 Let's write good angel on the devil's horn,

'Tis not the devil's crest.*

i Pike.

Though we should write good angel on the devil's horn, it will not change his nature, so as to give him a right to wear that crest.

430 Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.

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431 Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

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432

Woe doth the heavier sit,

Where it perceives it is but faintly borne.

17-i. 3.

25-iv. 2.

433 Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.

434 When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will. 6-iii. 3.

435

At seventeen years many their fortunes seek;
But at fourscore, it is too late a week.

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437 One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow.

438 Time, that takes survey of all the world,

Must have a stop.

18-v. 4.

439 It is as easy to count atomies," as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

440

Affection,

10-iii. 2.

Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood
Of what it likes, or loathes.

9—iv. 1.

441 Then all too late comes counsel to be heard, Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard.

17-ii. 1.

442 Virtue cannot so innoculate our old stock, but we shall relish of it.

36-iii. 1.

As 'tis to laugh at them.

443 'Tis fond" to wail inevitable strokes,

444 Thieves for their robbery have authority, When judges steal themselves.

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5-ii. 2.

1 Numb. xxxii. 23.

m

Motes.

n Foolish.

445 It is great sin, to swear unto a sin;

But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.

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446 Borrow'd passion stands for true old woe.

33-iv. 4.

447 Worse than the sun in March, This praise doth nourish agues.

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450 Scorn at first, makes after-love the more.

451 O miserable age! Virtue is not regarded in

handicrafts-men.

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452 Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

33-ii. 1.

453 O, how full of briars is this working-day world!

10-i, 3.

454 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy,
Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy.

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455 Here's such ado to make no stain a stain, As passes colouring.

13-ii. 2.

456 Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

4-ii. 5.

457 Merry larks are ploughman's clocks.

8-v. 2.

458 I run before my horse to market.

24-i. 1.

459 To business that we love, we rise betime, And go to it with delight.

30-iv. 4.

460

Brevity is the soul of wit,

And tediousness the limbs and outward flou

rishes.

36-ii. 2.

461 A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of

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a king; and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.

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462 What need the bridge much broader than the

flood?

6-i, 1.

463 The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good

and ill together.

11-iv. 3.

464 Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of nature.

465

Slander lives upon succession;

10-i. 2.

For ever housed, where it once gets possession.

14-iii. 1.

466 Every fault's condemn'd, ere it be done.

5-ii. 2.

467 'Gainst knave and thief men shut their gate.

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The justice and the truth o' the question carries
The due o' the verdict with it.

25-v. 1.

We are not the first,

Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the

worst.

To offend and judge, are distinct offices,
And of opposed natures.

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9-ii. 9.

34-ii. 4.

472 All's not offence that indiscretion finds, And dotage terms so.

473

Feasts

In every mess have folly, and the feeders
Digest it with a custom.

13-iv. 3.

474 Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.

P Trifling.

13-iv. 3.

q Always.

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