1343. RASHNESS to be avoided.

Seek not for danger where there is no profit.

1344. JOY and SORROW for trifles—unworthy of Triumphs for nothing, and lamenting toys, [MAN. Is jollity for apes, and grief for boys.

1345. MELANCHOLY.

O Melancholy!

Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? Find The ooze? Or shew what coast thy sluggish carMight'st easil'est harbour in?

[rack

1346. SORROW feigned-how contemptible.

Notes of sorrow out of tune are worse
Than Priests and Fanes that lie.

1547. GRIEFS-the greater cure the less. Great griefs medicine the less.

1348. DEATH.

Thersites body is as good as Ajax,
When neither is alive.

1349. EYE-the Judgement may deceive it.
Our very eyes

Are sometimes, like our judgements, blind. 1350. ADVERSITY sometimes a step to PROSPESome falls are means the happier to rise. [RITY.

1351. FORTUNE.

Fortunet brings in some boats that are not steer'd.

1352. COMMANDS-lawful only to be obeyed.

Every good Servant does not all commands. [it. 1353. GUILT-better to die than to live increasing Some are snatch'd hence for little faults: that's Love

To have them fall no more: some are permitted

* "A heavy vessel of burthen." WARBURTON. This emendation from "care" is very happy; or it might be "bark.”

To second ills with ills, each elder worse, And make them dreaded to the doer's thrift. 1354. PUNISHMENT misplaced.

To be beaten for Loyalty excites to Treason.

KING LEAR.

1355. VIRTUE undaunted.

Think'st thou Duty shall have dread to speak, When power to Flattery bows?

1356. SINCERITY.

To plainness Honor's bound,

When Majesty stoops to Folly.

1357. WORDS should have corresponding ACTIONS. Good Effects should spring from Words of Love. 1358. DIFFIDENCE means better than it says. § There is a tardiness in honest Nature Which often leaves the history unspoke That it intends to do.

1359. TIME the Detector of FALSEHOOD. Time shall unfold what plaited Cunning hides, Who cover'd faults at last with shame derides. 1360. RULES of LIFE.

Serve him truly that will put you in trust. 1361.

Love him that is honest.

1362.

Converse with him that is wise and says little.

1363.

Fear judgement.

1364. REPENTANCE too late.

Woe, that too late repents!

...1365. INGRATITUDE-filial.

Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted Fiend,

Is it not as the mouth should tear the hand
For lifting food to't?

1368.

That Nature which contemns it's Origin
Cannot be border'd certain in itself.

1369.

She that herself will sliver and disbranch
From her material sap, perforce must wither
And come to deadly use.

1370.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless Child! ·

1371. CONFIDENCE and DISTRUST Safer to fear too far than trust too far.

1372. ANTIPATHY. Contraries hold Antipathy.

1373. FLATTERY disguised.

A kind of knaves there is which in their plainness
Harbour more craft and more corrupted ends
Than twenty silly ducking òbservants
That stretch their duties nicely.

1374. GOODNESS no assurance of PROSPERITY. A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

Ναφε και με μνασ' απιστείν. Αρθρα

Παύλα τῶν Φρεναν

EPICHARM.

1375. MISERY prone to CREDULITY.

Nothing almost

Sees miracles but Misery.

1376. REMEDY rather than COMPLAINT.
Seek to give losses

Their remedies.

1377. OFFENCE not to be taken lightly. All's not Offence that Indiscretion finds And Dotage terms so.

1378. COMMAND will not bear DIVISION.
How in one house

Should many people under two commands,
Hold amity * ?

1379. NECESSARY

what is so not to be too

strictly examined. for

O reason not the need: our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:

Allow not Nature more than Nature needs;
Man's life is cheap as Beast's.

1380, OBSTINACY must correct itself.

To wilful-men

The injuries that they themselves procure
Must be their schoolmasters...

1381. NECESSITY not nice.

The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious.

1382. EVIL; the greatest absorbs the sense of Where'er the greater malady is fixt

The lesser is scarce felt.

[others.

Doth from the senses take all feeling else, 19) I Save what beats there.

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1384. NICETY the offspring of EASE....... .... When the Mind's free 20

The Body's delicate."

1385. PRIDE should learn from AFFLICTION to benefit others by it's SUPERFLUITIES.

Take physic, Pomp

Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel:+201 That thou may'st shake the superflux to them, And shew the Heavens most just. domes

1386. SYMPATHY virtuous,‹.

When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our sufferings our foes". 1387. SUFFERING solitary. Who alone suffers, suffers most i the Mind, fe Leaving free things and happy shows behind. 1388. SUFFERING lightened by soCIAL

Then doth the Mind much sufferance o'erskip, When Grief hath mates and bearing fellowship. 1389. AFFLICTION most felt by CONTRAST. To be worst,

The lowest most dejected thing of fortune,
Stands still in esperance; lives not in fear :
The lamentable change is from the best;
The worst returns to laughter..

1390. SAFETY comparative of an humble SituaFull oft 'tis seen

[tion. Our mean secures us; and our mere defects Prove our commodities.

* Much of this generous spirit is manifest in CLERY's Journal of Louis XVI.