There have been many great men that have flattered the people, who never loved them; and there be many that they have loved, they know not wherefore: so that, if they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground. There is no sure foundation set in blood; 297 Truth, beauty's ornament. 28-ii. 2. 16-iv. 2. O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. 298 Poems. Time. The end crowns all; 26-iv. 5. And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. 299 Justice due to Heaven. If the great gods be just, they shall assist 30-ii. I. To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in it, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks." 30-ii. 7. "The being called into a huge sphere, and not being seen to move in it,' resembles sockets in a face where eyes should be [but are not]; which empty sockets, or holes without eyes, pitifully disfigure the countenance. Heaven is above all; there sits a Judge, 25-iii. 1. O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, 303 The danger of relying on our own strength. [Lie in the lap of sin,] and not mean harm? It is hypocrisy against the devil: They that mean virtuously, and yet do so, 5-ii. 2. The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven.° 304 Pomp and power, their end. 37-iv. 1. Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must. 305 Equality of human life. 23-v. 2. Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else, to fat us; and we fat ourselves for maggots: Your fat king, and your lean beggar, is but variable service; two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. 36-iv. 3. 'Tis better to be much abused, Than but to know 't a little. 307 37-iii. 3. The clearest sight without wisdom, blindness. What an infinite mock is this, that a man should have the best use of eyes, to see the way of blindness! 308 31-v. 4. A guilty conscience. Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: Infected minds • Matt. iv. 7. 15-v. 1. The sleeping, and the dead, Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood, 310 The variableness of mankind. 15-ii. 2. The veins unfill'd, our blood is cold, and then 311 Confident security dangerous. The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches 26-ii. 2. Sweet love, changing his property, Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate. 17-iii. 2. 5-ii. 2. With less respect than we do minister To our gross selves? What viler thing upon the earth, than friends, 316 Ambition. Thriftless ambition, that will raven up Thine own life's means! 27-iv. 3. 15-ii. 4. P This was the case of Queen Elizabeth after the execution of Essex. 317 Retribution. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Our size of sorrow, 34-v. 3. Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great 30-iv. 13. 319 Time, its fleetness. It is ten o'clock: Thus may we see, how the world wags: 320 Wickedness, its own reward. 10-ii. 7. What mischiefs work the wicked ones; Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby! 321 Earthly glory. O mighty Cæsar! dost thou lie so low? 22-ii. 1. Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, 322 Contention. When two authorities are up, Neither supreme, how soon confusion May enter 'twixt the gap of both, and take The one by the other. 323 God's procedure. 29-iii. 1. 28-iii. 1. You snatch some hence for little faults; that's love, 325 Crime revealed. Blood will have blood: Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood. Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds 327 Circumspection in bounty. 'Tis pity, bounty had not eyes behind; 15-iii. 4. 22-v. 2. That man might ne'er be wretched for his mind. 328 Discretion of age. 27-i. 2. 'Tis not good that children should know any wickedness: old folks have discretion, as they say, and know the world. 329 3-ii. 2. Fortitude. Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind 23-iii. 3. There's none 27-i. 2. Can truly say, he gives, if he receives. Human life. 33-iv. 1. Reason thus with life: A breath thou art, (Servile to all the skiey influences,) That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, |