1138. FORTITUDE. Cleopatra.] Affliction often hath no earthly Friend But Resolution. ' 1139. RESIGNATION subdues CALAMITY. Which seems to punish us, and we punish it, 1140. GRIEF-should be proportioned to the cause. Our size of sorrow, Proportion'd to it's cause, must be as great. 1141. WISHES-folly of perpetually forming Wishers were ever Fools. 1142. SUICIDE. [them. It is Sin To rush into the secret house of Death, Ere Death dare come to us. [dulged Errors. 1143. CONSCIENCE sometimes corrects long in Nature will oft compel us to lament Our most persisted deeds. 1144. ERROR-the best have some. Their Nature mixes with the best Some faults, to mark them Men *. 1145. CALAMITY extreme, rarely flatters itself. He does not greatly care to be deceiv'd Who has no use for trusting. 1146. POMP imposes on the Weak. How Pomp is follow'd! 1147, THOUGHT-should be free. Make not your thoughts your prisons. 1148. INSTRUMENT-efficacy of a weak, How poor an instrument May do a noble deed. * Vitiis nemo sine nascitur: optimus ille Qui minimis argetur. HOR, Cressida.] 1149. WOMAN. A Woman is a dish for the Gods, if the Devil Dress her not. 1150. EVENTS-Great. High Events Strike those that make them. TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. 1151. TIME. Time must friend or end. 1152. HOPE deceitful. The ample proposition that Hope makes 1153. PRUDENCE false. There is a Folly which is sauc'd with Discretion. 1154. SUCCESS-true is final. Things won are done. 1155. DISAPPOINTMENT. Checks and Disasters Grow in the veins of Actions highest rear'd; Checks are protractive trials of high Heaven The fineness of which metal is not found Cressida.] And what hath mass or matter by itself, 1157. In the reproof of Chance Lies the true Proof of Men: 1158. The Sea being smooth, How many shallow bauble boats dare sail But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage The strong ribb'd bark thro' liquid mountains cut, Like Perseus' horse! Where's then the saucy boat Even so Doth Valour's shew and valour's Worth divide In storms of Fortune: For in her ness + ray and bright The Herd hath more annoyance by the Breeze Than by the Tyger: but when the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks, And flies flee under shade,-why then the thing of courage, As rouz'd with rage, with rage doth sympathize, And with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Returns to chiding Fortune. 1159. ORDER celestial. The Heavens themselves, the Planets, and this Observe degree, priority, and place; Quadrisyllable. [Earth The Brize or Breeze Fly; the Gad-fly. Cressida.] Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, 1160. ORDER-political. Degree being vizarded, The unworthiest shews as fairly in the mask. 1161. O when Degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder of all high designs, The Enterprize is sick! 1162. How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Take but degree away; untune that string; And the rude Son should strike his Father dead. Here is more than a hint of the Copernican System. COPER. NICUS died 1548: 21 years before the Birth of SHAKESPEARE. Power into will, will into appetite; Cressida.] So doubly seconded with will and power, 1164. § In factious struggle for pre-eminence, 1165. WISDOM above FORCE, There are who call Policy cowardice; 1166. COMMANDER unpopular. When that the General is not lik'd of the Hive, This looks like a Grand Allegory in the RUNIC Mythology; concerning the Wolf LOK, the destroying, subdued at last by the renovating Principle. |