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1208. PRIDE not to be fed by submission.
Shall the proud Lord

That bastes his arrogance with his own seam,
And never suffers matter of the World
Enter his thought, save such as doth revolve
And ruminate himself, shall he be worshipt
Of that we hold an Idol more than he?

1209. FAULTS-we blame our own in another, The Raven chides blackness.

Oft where the Mind is of a sweet composure, Much of the praise is to our Father due, To her who gave us suck, and our Instructors. These Benefactors praise. But chief the Heavens.

1211. WOMAN-UNKINDNESS to an amiable. § To make a sweet Lady sad is an Offence in

1212. ACTIVITY.

[deed. Light boats sail swift; though greater hulks draw

1213. EXPECTATION.

§ Expectation whirls us round.

1214. WORDS.

Words pay no debts.

1215. FEAR reverses appearances. Fears make Devils of Cherubim.

[deep.

1216. FEAR prudent, better than rash Confidence. Blind Fear that seeing Reason leads, finds safer footing than blind Reason stumbling without Fear. 1217.

To fear the worst oft cures the worst.

1218. COWARDICE affecting COURAGE.

They that have the voice of Lions and the act of Hares are Monsters.

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1219. EXPERIENCE.

Allow us as we prove.

1220. REWARD-due only to Merit. Let the head go bare 'till Merit crown it.

1221. FACT to be trusted; not POSSIBILITY, No Perfection in reversion shall have a praise in present.

1222.

We will not name Desert before his birth.

1223. MERIT-neither to be anticipated nor exaggerated.

§ Name not desert before it's birth: and being born, let it's addition be humble.

1224. CONSTANCY of deliberate CHOICE. Those who are long in wooing are constant being won.

1225. SINCERITY- -not loquacious, Few words to fair Worth.

1226. THOUGHTS ungovern'd.

Thoughts are oft like unbridled children, Grown too headstrong for their Mother.

1227. SELF-DESERTION,

§ Who shall be true to us, when we are untrue to ourselves.

1228. WISDOM considerate.

§ Well know they what they speak that do speak wisely.

1229. LOVE and CONSTANCY-the greatest
earthly Happiness.

§ Virtue and bliss it is in Man or Woman,
To feed for age the lamp and flames of Love;
To keep their Constancy in plight and youth
Qualiving Beauty's outward."

1230. EMULATION virtuous.

§ Virtuous fight,

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When Right with Right wars to excel in Right!

1231. LOVE and VIRTUE.

¶ Virtue and Love are Truth's simplicity: Simple as Infancy.

1232. HABIT.

¶ Hard is it to sequester us from that

Which Time, Acquaintance, Custom and Condi Endears, as most familiar to our Nature. [tion 1233. PROMISES deceitful.

When we promise Good We hardly are sincere: or we are prompt To give a little present benefit

Out of the many register'd in promise.

1234. MEDICINE, moral as well as physical, should be palateable.

"Tis doubly good to find that medicine

Which he who needs shall have desire to drink. 1235. PRIDE it's own MIRROR.

Pride hath no other glass

To shew itself but Pride.

1236.

nourisht by Submission.
Supple knees

Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees.

1237. POWER-Loss of it is Loss of HOMAGE. "Tis certain Greatness once fall'n out with Fortune Must fall out with Men too: What the declin'd is He shall as soon read in the eyes of others As feel in his own fall,

1238. THE MULTITUDE of all Ranks worships Circumstances.

Men, like Butterflies,

Shew not their mealy wings but to the Summer.

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1239. HONOR vulgar—rests in Externals.
In the World's base judgement,

There's not a man for being simply man

Hath any Honor: but's honor'd for those hono.s
That are without him; as place, riches, favor,
Prizes of accident as oft as merit;

Which when they fall, as being slippery standers,
The love that lean'd on them as slippery too,
Do one pluck down another, and together
Die in the fall.

1240. PUBLIC OPINION influences our SELF

OPINION.

The man-how dearly ever hail'd,

How much in having or without or in,
Cannot make boast to have that which he hath,
Nor feels not what he owes but by Reflection:
As when his Virtues shining upon others
Heat them, and they retort the heat again
To the first giver*.

1241. OPINION external, suggests to most Men always, and to Philosophers sometimes, how to think of themselves.

Speculation turns not to itself,

'Till it hath travell'd and is married there

Where it may see itself.

1242. FAME-the MIRROR of EXCELLENCE. The Beauty that is borne within the face The bearer knows not; it commends itself To others' eyes: nor doth the eye itself (That most pure spirit of sense) behold itself, Not going from itself; but eye to eye oppos'd Salutes each-other with each-other's form.

This is true of all except very strong, pure, and philosophic Minds.

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1243. OPINION Popular-an unsafe Measure of What things there are [WORTH.

Most abject in regard and dear in use!
What things again most dear in the esteem
And poor in worth!

1244. AUDACITY and NEGLIGENCE.

O Heaven! what some men do,

While some men leave to do.

1245. SUCCESS-inequality of.

How some men creep in skittish Fortune's hall, While others play the idiots in her eyes!

1246. FLATTERY.

How one man eats into another's pride,
While pride is fasting in his wantonness.
1247. TIME brings OBLIVION of BENEFITS,
Time hath a wallet at his back,

Wherein he puts alms for Oblivion,

A great siz'd monster of Ingratitudes;

Those scraps are good deeds past; which are de As Sist as they are made; forgot as soon [vour'd As done.

1248. HONOR only maintain’d by Perseverance. Perseverance keeps Honor bright.

1249, DESERT living, cannot support itself on past Actions.

To have done is to hang quite out of fashion, Like rusty mail in monumental mockery. 1250, VIRTUE ever progressive*.

O let not Virtue seek

Remuneration for the thing it was:

For Beauty, Wit, high Birth, Desert in service,

Non progredi est regredi.