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of Verona.]

907. RESENTMENT, coquetish.

There is a wayward mimicry of Anger

Which prays for that for which it seems to chide, 908. MODESTY, virgin.

Maidens in Modesty say no to that

Which they would have the profferer construe aye.

909. HYPOCRISY.

Hypocrisy can teach the brow to smile

When inward pangs enforce the Heart to bleed. 910. MODESTY.

§ A virgin Shame may teach the Brow to frown When inward joy has taught the heart to smile. 911. EXPERIENCE the fruit of Industry and Experience is by Industry atchiev'd, [Time. And perfected by the swift course of Time. 912. THE HEART.

The Hand should be the agent of the Heart.

913. TRUTH expresseth herself in ACTIONS. ¶ Truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. 914. EXERTION if virtuous never thrown away. Duty never yet did want it's meed.

915. LEARNING AND REASON.
Learning with Reason makes

Youth, by anticipate Experience, old.
916. FRIENDSHIP-it's sincerity.
Friends to sick Friends minister bitter pills*.
917. DUTY-must not be a PRETENCE,

Duty may prompt a man to utter that

Which nought of worldly good could draw from But let him see that it is Duty truely.

* Absinthia tetra medentes

[him.

Ut dare conantur.

LUCRET,

of Verona.]

918. GIFTS.'

Presents in their silent kind

More move than Eloquence a sordid Mind.

919. KNAVERY not so secret as it supposes. A Fool may have wit enough to see that another is a Knave. [VIRTUE. 920. SPEECH-not to be hasty in it a great To be slow in words is a chief Virtue.

921. PRIDE.

Pride is Man's legacy from his first Parents. 922. CHANGE.

He wants wit that wants resolved will

To teach his wit to exchange the bad for better. 923. PILGRIM.

A true devoted Pilgrim is not weary

To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps. 924. OATHS deceitful.

Oaths and Tears

Are servants to deceitful Men.

925. PERJURY,

Base men use Oaths to an effect as base.

926. WOMAN.

[her. A Woman sometimes scorns what best contents 927. EXERTION our Duty, not LAMENTATION. Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; And study help for that which thou lamentest. 928. TIME.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

929. DEFECTS--what are most disgustful to Falsehood aud Cowardice [wOMEN. Are things that Women highly hold in hate.

930. FRIENDS IMPUTATIONS from them What would be slighted from an enemy [cut deep. And then would seem but as it is, a falsehood,

of Verona.

Oft wounds like truth, with circumstance, if spoken By one who is esteemed as a Friend; 'Tis an ill office for a Gentleman,

Or any Man, against a very Friend. 931. POETRY.

Much is the force of Heaven-bred Poesy.
932.

Orpheus' Lute was strung with Poet's sinews,
Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,
Make Tygers tame, and huge Leviathans
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.
933. BEAUTY AND KINDNESS.
Beauty lives with Kindness.

934. DEFENCELESS-those who are so Courage
esteems, inviolable,

O E'en Robbers will abhor an outrage offer'd
To Women, or unarmed Travellers,

935. EDUCATION apparent in AIR and MANNERS. The Face and the Behaviour

Do witness good bringing up.

936. FLATTERY.

Shallow it is

To be seduced by a Flattery

That has deceived many by it's vows.

937. MARRIAGE against the HEART —unholy. Unholy is a match against the Heart; Heaven still with plagues rewards it.

938. PEEVISHNESS.

Peevishness

Will fly good Fortune when it follows swiftest *. 939.

Use doth breed habit in a man.

The first change may make persons good-humoured: but the habi tude of Prosperity often makes or increases Peevishness: which is Discontent without or beyond Reason,

of Verona.]

940. DUPLICITY.

Better to have none

Than plural faith, which is too much by one. 941. GENTLENESS-those whom it cannot move are of the worst disposition.

Cold, stubborn, selfish, is that Heart indeed
Which not the gentle Spirit of moving words
Prevails to change into a milder form.
942. FRIEND-Treachery of one.
* By a Friend

To be betray'd, is as one's own right-hand
Were perjur'd to the bosom.

943. GUILT.

Guilt confounds.

944. REPENTANCE true redeems an

Let hearty Sorrow

Be a sufficient ransom for offence.

945.

Who by Repentance is not satisfied

Is not of Heaven or Earth.

946.

Offence,

By Penitence the' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd, 947. SORROW secret.

o The private wound is deepest.

948. FRIEND, false; the worst ENEMY. 'Mong all Foes that a Friend should be the worst. 949. INCONSTANCY-it's baneful effects.

Were Man

But constant he were perfect: that one Error Fills him with faults, makes him run through all 950.

Inconstancy falls off ere it begins *||.

[sins.

*Properly speaking, Love is the Mot of this most charming Drama. L'Amant qui change ne chauge pas: il commence on finit d'aimer.

ROUSSEAU.

JULIUS CESAR.

951. CRIMINALS-not irreclaimable. * Men banisht for offences still are Men, Perhaps endued with worthy qualities, And let them be recall'd from their exile, May be reformed, civil, full of good, And fit for great employment.

952. DESERT should be the measure af HONOR. * Ye who are in power

Dispose of Men as their deserts

953.

ye know.

Domestic Good is this,

One feast, one house, one mutual happiness.

954. FLATTERER.

Whom you know

To be a common laugher, or is used
To stale with ordinary oaths his love
To every new protester: Whom you know
That he does fawn on men and hug them hard,
And after scandal them: or whom you know
That he professes loud in banqueting

To all the rout,-him hold thou dangerous.
955. PATRIOTISM.

If there be aught toward the general Good,
Set Honor in one eye and Death i' the other,
And thou should'st look on Death indifferently.
956. HONOR.

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The name of Honor more than thou fear'st Death. 957. FEAR servile.

I had as lief not be as live to be

In awe of such a thing as I myself,

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