Cleopatra.] Goes to and back, lackying the varying tide Of Grief or Mirth, A violence in either ill becomes. 1045. JUSTICE dear to HEAVEN. If the great Gods be just they shall assist 1046. PROVIDENCE. What Providence delays it not denies. 1047. POLICY-sordid. A sordid policy gets money where It loses Hearts. 1048. LUXURY deluges. Sleep and high feeding sink the sense of Honor E'en to a lethed dullness. 1049. WISHES-human, their VANITY. We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good: so find we profit By losing of our prayers*. 1050. PRIORITY, Though small to greater matters must give way, 'Tis not so always, if the small come first. 1051. IRRITATION. By passionate speech. Stir not bad embers up. 1052. PATIENCE-conciliatory. What's amiss, May it be gently heard. Permittes ipsis expendere Numinibus quid Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaque dabunt DIL: JUV. Cleopatra.] 1053. SUAVITY. Touch you the sourest points with sweetest words: That man is to be pitied or be laugh'd at Whoe'er for nothing, or a little, must Confess himself offended. 1054. UNION. Where what combin'd hath been most great, Inferior causes sever. 1055. [there let not FEAR may cause it. Oft lesser Enmities give way to greater, And Fear cements divisions. 1056. TIME-all is suitable to the wise and resolute. Every time Serves for the matter that is then born in it. 1057. INVIDIOUSNESS. Invidious men obliquely praise themselves, Laying to wiser heads defects of judgment. 1058. NEGLECT-ever perilous. OA Foe Thrives by his adversary's negligence, 1059. ANGER-makes petty differences great. When we debate Our trivial difference loud, we do commit [seek them. 1060. PRETENCES never wanted to those who 2. Too promptly Men and States patch up a quarrel, Where matter whole there wants with which to 1061. EXCESS. [make it. 3. Men newly feasted mostly want in judgment, If not in temper, what they were i' the morning, 1062. EXCELLENCE. 4. Virtue and genuine Graces in themselves Speak what no words can utter. 1063. INTEGRITY. Honesty Cleopatra.] Never makes Greatness poor; nor ever Power Should work without Integrity. 1064. TRUTH. That Truth should be silent a brave and honest Man will rarely remember. 1065. MATTER-MANNER. Men do not readily attend to the matter of a Speech if they dislike the manner. 1066. AFFECTION-unsuspicious. All little Jealousies, which else seem great, 1067. AFFECTION AND ENMITY credulous in In Dissention false tales are received as truths: in perfect confidence truths that might weaken it are received as tales. 1068. FEAR augments DANGER. Evils from which we shrink oft seek us out. 1069. GRACEFULNESS. ¶ True Gracefulness makes e'en defects perfecAge can not wither nor possession pall It's infinite variety *. 1070. INCONSTANCY. 2. Not Beauty, Wisdom, Modesty united, Can fix a vagrant heart. 1071. EXCEPTIONS disqualifying. But yet is as a Jailor to bring forth Some monstrous Malefactor. * Les Graces ne vieillissent pas. ROUSSEAU. [tions: Cleopatra.] 1072. GOOD-WILL. When Good-Will is shewn, though it come too The actor may plead pardon. [short, 1073. INNOCENCE not always safe upon Earth. Some innocent 'scape not the thunder-bolt. 1074. NEWs bad. Though it be honest, 'tis a dangerous office 1075. Remember a mere Messenger of ill That must be told, does nothing but his duty. 1076. be not hasty to impart it. An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell • Themselves when they be felt*. 1077. BLOW-INSULT. Those hands do lack Nobility that strike One of inferior station †. 1078. COURTS corrupt and punish. To punish Men for what we make them do, The common Trick of Courts, is most unequal. 1079. PRAISE interested. 2. There are who will praise any that will praise them. 1080. SIMPLICITY. § Plainness is well meant. 1081. PHYSIOGNOMY. All men's faces are true; whatsoe'er their hands are. * True Courtier-like policy. The Poet had probably in his mind an anecdote of Elizabeth; which makes a part of our History. Asinus Asinum. Obscure. Either all Men's faces can assume the appearance of Truth; or all admit of a true intérpretation. Cleopatra.] 1082. REPRESENTATION modified by the He who is one way painted like a Gorgon 1083. VILLAINY profits by the INJURY of The Cuckoo builds not for himself*. 1084. LEVITY. [others. He who laughs away a fortune cannot weep it back again. 1085. ALLIANCE by MARRIAGE. 2. In the Alliance of those whom we call the Great, the policy of the purpose generally makes more to the Marriage than the Love of the parties. 1086. by TREATY. Among Princes and States, the band that seems to tie their amity together is not unfrequently the very strangler of it. 1087. VIRTUE-lov'd only by those who have it. 3. We rarely like the virtues we have not. 1088. 4, A Man would not have his Wife be what he is In no degree himself. 1089. SOCIETY rarely desirable with those who are call'd the Great. It is no desirable thing for the most part to have a naine in the fellowship of great men. 1090. HONOR. "Tis not our profit that should lead our Honor; But Honor it. 1091. OPPORTUNITY neglected. Who seeks and will not take when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more. *Sic vds non vobis. |