Cleopatra.] 1092. WEAPON-must be proportioned to the Strength. It is as well to have a reed that will do us no service, as a partizan that we cannot heave. 1093. STATION-degrades if superior to the Talents. To be call'd into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in it, are the holes where eyes should be: which pitifully disasters the cheek. 1094. IGNORANCE. Ignorance thinks common things strange. 2. Vanity does not perceive even when it is most openly laught at. 1096. INTOXICATION. Intoxication discerns nothing. 1097. 'Tis monstrous labor when we wash the brain Till it grows duller. 1098. ACCOMMODATION of CHARACTER. In some things only, be a child o' the Time. 1099. POWER-jealous. § Such Jealousy there is in power, that oft Better to leave undone than by our deed 1101. Who does i' the wars more than his Captain can Becomes his Captain's Captain. 1102. DISCRETION. Discretion's that Without the which a Soldier and his sword Grants scarce distinction. 1103. ENVY. Let not Envy make Cleopatra.] That Virtue, best supporter of such Love, 1104. EYE-it's sweet and tender EXPRESSION. The April in the eye is Love's sweet Spring Of showers and sunshine; each by union sweeter. 1105. AMBITION. Ambition, The Soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss Than gain which darkens him. 1106. LOVE-it's tender Hesitation. Moments there are, and those most precious, when The tongue will not obey the heart, nor can The heart inform the tongue. [cherisht. 1107. LOVE should be well fixt and delicately your best Love draw to that point which seeks Best to preserve it. Let 1108. GRIEF-the BODY sympathizes with it. The Mind oppresst with Woe, the Body creeps: It's station and it's motion are as one: It shews a semblance rather than a life; 1109. HONOR. We lose ourselves. If we lose our Honor, [as to both. 1110. BOTH to BLAME-never equally correct Between two parties opposite, the faults Can never be so equal that the judgment, Fully inform'd, can draw no line between them. 1111. ENVY. There are those who will invite others to the Peril who will not suffer them to share in the Glory of the action. Cleopatra.] 1112. FORTITUDE and RESIGNATION. Be you not troubled with the time which drives Hold, unbewail'd, their way. 1113. PATIENCE. Be ever known to Patience. 1114. CELERITY-the indolent ill-judges of it. Celerity is never more admir'd Than by the negligent. 1115. REPROOF. The Ill may sometimes give a good rebuke Which might have well become the best of Men. 1116. CONFIDENCE-rash to be avoided. VIGILANCE-NAVAL. Trust not to rotten planks. 1117. NEWS-CRISIS. In a great crisis of the Fate of Nations, With News the Time's in labor: and throws forth Each minute some. 1118. AGE and YOUTH. White hairs Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them For fear and doating. 1119. FORTITUDE triumphs over FORTUNE Fortune knows We scorn her most when most she threatens blows. 1120. FIDELITY triumphs over FORTUNE. He that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen Lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a Name in story. A la Fortitude succombe la Fortune. Cleopatra.] 1121. WISDOM triumphs over FORTUNE. 1122. COURTIERS-their Attachments. § Once comes the stormy Trial, Against the blown Rose they will stop their nose Who knelt unto the Buds. 1123. ADVERSITY. Adversity, where it o'erpowers the Mind That suffers it, turns courage into rashness; And those quick feelings, in a prosperous hour Tender and soft, into fell cruelty. 1124. JUDGEMENT-of the most part enslaved by external circumstances. Men's Judgments are To suffer all alike, 1125. SELF-DESERTION a Prelude to General. Which leaves itself. That will be left 1126, PASSION. Passion makes the Will Lord of the Reason, 1127. COURAGE-provoke it not in Extremities. "Tis better playing with a Lion's Whelp Than with an old one dying. 1128. VICE hardens itself more and more in progress. When we in our viciousness grow hard, The wise Gods seal our eyes, warp our clear Make us adore our errors. [judgments, Cleopatra.] 1129. COWARDICE borrows COURAGE of Is to be frighted out of fear: in that mood 1130. SUCCESS animates. Success breeds confidence of more Success 1131. COURAGE—true, is armed by REASON; false, destroys Reason. When Valour preys on Reason, It eats the sword it fights with. 1132. ANGER always exposes to danger those Made good guard for itself. 1133. PLEASURE in what we do the Spring of CELERITY. To business that we love we rise betime, And go to 't with delight. 1134. GENIUS-for the most part early discovered. The Spirit of a Youth That means to be of note begins betime. The Soul and Body grieve not more in parting |