'Tis good for men to love their present pains, 244 Energy. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 20-iv. 1. Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky 215 Fortitude in trials. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, 11-i. 1. But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. And give more strength to that which hath too much; 246 Grief unavailing. 23-v. 4. When remedies are past, the griefs are ended, [thief; The robb'd, that smiles, steals something from the He robs himself, that spends a bootless grief. Men at some time are masters of their fates; 37-i. 3. The fault is not in our stars, But in ourselves. w Lightness, nimbleness. 29-i. 2. 248 Delays dangerous. That we would do, We should do when we would; for this would changes, As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; 249 Patience. How poor are they, that have not patience!- 250 Evils, wrongly ascribed to Heaven. 36-iv. 7. 37-ii. 3. This is the excellent foppery of the world! that, when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeit of our own behaviour), we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools, by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. 251 X Death. 34-i. 2. How oft, when men are at the point of death, 252 The influence of infection. 35-v. 3. They that have power to hurt and will do none, But if that flower with base infection meet, x Traitors. y James i. 13, 14. z Attendants. For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Against ill chances, men are ever merry; Our own precedent passions do instruct us 255 Poems. 19-iv. 2. 27-i. l. Distrust. Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, 256 Decaying nature of Love. There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick, or snuff, that will abate it; 257 Time produces ingratitude. Time hath a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes; 5-i. 5. 36-iv. 7. Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done: Perseverance Keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. 258 The present opportunity to be taken. 26-iii. 3. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; That one by one pursue: If you give way, a Careless gaiety is the forerunner of calamity; vigilance, of success and permanent welfare. Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Time is like a fashionable host, 26-iii. 3. That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand; And with his arms out-stretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps-in the comer: Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. 260 The praise of Virtue consists in action. O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was! For beauty, wit, 26-iii. 3. High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, 261 Prevalence of appearances. 26-iii. 3. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,That all, with one consent, praise new-born gawds," Though they are made and moulded of things past; And give to dust, that is a little gilt, More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. All solemn things Should answer solemn accidents. 26-iii. 3. Triumphs for nothing, and lamenting toys,a· 31-iv. 2. Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters. One of these is true: I think affliction may subdue the cheek, 13-iv. 3. b New-fashioned toys. c Gold. d Trifles. Nature is fine in love: and, where 'tis fine, 265 The effects of Poverty and Riches. 36-iv. 5. Twinn'd brothers of one womb, Whose procreation, residence, and birth, Scarce is dividant,-touch them with several fortunes; The greater scorns the lesser: Not nature, To whom all sores lay siege, can bear great fortune, Raise me this beggar, and denude that lord; It is the pasture lards the browser's sides, He, that a fool doth very wisely hit, 27—iv. 3. Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.g 267 Wisdom and Folly. 10-ii. 7. To be generous, guiltless, and of free disposition, is to take those things for bird-bolts,h that you deem cannon-bullets. There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet man, though he do nothing but reprove. 4-i. 5. e Love is the passion by which nature is most exalted and refined; and as substances refined and subtilized easily obey any impulse, or follow any attraction, some part of nature, so purified and refined, flies off after the attracting object, after the thing it loves. fi.e. Human nature, besieged as it is by misery, admonished as it is of want and imperfection, when elevated by fortune, will despise beings of nature like its own. g Unless men have the prudence not to appear touched with the sarcasms of a jester, they subject themselves to his power; and the wise man will have his folly anatomized, i.e. dissected and laid open, by the squandering glances or random shots of a fool. h Short arrows. |