Cressida.] Love, Friendship, Charity, are subjects all 1251. MANKIND ALL BRETHREN. One touch of Nature makes the whole World kin. 1252. APPEARANCES-the World the Fool of § Men give to Dust that is a little gilt [these. More laud than they will give to Gold o'erdusted. 1253. HONOR and VIRTUE-their Path straight, but difficult. Honor travels in a streight so narrow Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path. 1254. PRESENCE-it's undue Influence. The present eye praises the present object. 1255. EMULATION. Emulation hath a thousand Sons That one by one pursue. 1256. FORESIGHT-Political. "The Providence that's in a watchful state Does e'en those thoughts unveil in their dumb Than breath or pen can give expression. 1257. MAN and WOMAN-their characteristic Manners not to be confounded. A Woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate Man, 1258. PRIDE with IGNORANCE. Stalks about like a Peacock. 1259. Raves and says nothing. 1260. PRIDE with IGNORANCE. Ruminates confusedly. 1261. Cressida.] Bites his lip with an affectation of politic regard, 1262. * Professes not answering; and thinks speaking is for Beggars. 1263. MOTION. Things in motion sooner catch the Than what stirs not*. eye 1264. SELF-INJURY-hardest, to be remedied, Those Wounds heal ill that men do give them1265.COMISSION-how dangerous. [selves, Omission to do what is necessary Seals a Commission to a blank of danger; Is ambiguously boastful, X Chapmen too oft Dispraise the thing that they desire to buy, And overpraise the thing they mean to sell t. 1268. LOVE and CONSTANCY. * Time and Force May do the body what extremes they can: Drawing all things to it. * Changing the direction of the visual ray has the same effect as moving the object. A great practical Astronomer has recommended this method by moving the Telescope a little to assist in distinguishing faint telescopic objects. This has been experienced in viewing the COMET (1807) by twilight. Laudat venales quas vult extrudere merces. HOR. Cressida.] 1269. LOVE-it's PURITY. Love admits no qualifying dross. 1270. WASTE never to be made. Let us cast away nothing, For we may live to have need of it. 1271. EXPOSTULATION-should be mild. We must use Expostulation kindly. 1272. LOVE and GRIEF proportional. * Those who can temporize and play with Love And bring it to a weak and lukewarm temper, Easily give their Grief a like allay. 1273. CAREFULNESS. Cast away nothing*. 1274. FIDELITY. Be true of Heart. 1275. AFFECTION excessive. What we love too much, The Heavens correcting this our zeal, more strong Than our devotion toward them, take from ust. 1276. FAREWELL. Puts by leave-taking. § Severe calamity 1277. JEALOUSY in the better Sense. There is a kind of godly Jealousy II. 1278. FAULTS-bordering on Virtue. There are Faults, nigh to be accounted virtuous Sins. 1279. ACCOMPLISHMENTS. To sing, to dance, To sweeten conversation-all these gifts Gather together the Fragments, that nothing be lost. † PARNELL's Hermit. "I am jealous over you with a godly Jealousy. LUC. CORINTH. Cressida.] And yet they have a sly discursive Devil That tempts most cunningly. 1280. TEMPTATION. * Be not tempted. 1281. FALSEHOOD artful; TRUTH simple. Falsehood with Craft fishes for great opinions; Truth catches Honor with Simplicity, 1282. CHANGE, moral-it's Signs. A changing Heart changes in Manners too. 1283. PHYSIOGNOMY from Air and Appearance. 'Tis often seen A virtuous or a vicious Spirit looks out 1284. RESERVE—often misconstrued. 3. Too much blood and too little brain may be the cause of Distraction in some; too much brain and too little blood in others. 1286. PRESUMPTION. Sometimes we are Devils to ourselves: When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. 1287. KNIGHTHOOD-true. A true Knight is firm of word: Speaking in deeds; and deedless in his tongue : Not soon provok'd; nor being provok'd, soon calm'd: His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shews: Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty; Nor dignifies an impure thought with breath. Cressida.] 1288. TIME past and future alike obscure.) 21 What's past and what's to come is strew'd with And formless ruin of Oblivion, avan (bulks 1289 LEERINGUO sob a lo spessi 10 § A man when he leers has generally, more venom than a Serpent when he hisses 1290. BOASTINGAM Suoqzuq Aling a odsto i To such as boasting shew their soars ou 10! A mock is due. 1 todfrom 1291. LOVE. Love is food for Fortune's tooth. T 1292. EYEit's Influence. Our Eye directs our Mind. 3 neem dieb t...... 1293. often-pernicious Minds sway'd by Lyes are full of turpitude. 1294. EQUIVOCATION, DA By giving a perverted sense to Facts, A Man may lie in publishing the Truth. The Gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows: 1296. INJUSTICE is not GENEROSITY.vol To burt by being just it is as lawful. For us to count we give what's gam'd by thefts, And rob in the behalf of charity t.v 1297. HONOR dearer than LIFE. Life every man holds dear; but the brave man }' Holds Honor far more precious dear than life. * Lord MANSFIELD used to quote a remarkable instance of this. † Nihil liberale quod non sit idem justum CIC, dẹ OFF.1. |