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1391. EQUALITY: it's just measure. Just Distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough*.

1392. VICE may obscure almost to extinction, or nearly reverse the Moral Sense.

Wisdom and Goodness to the vile seem vileti 1393 RESTOM

Our foster nurse of Nature is Repose.

1394, ¡APPEARANCES —external —our vicious modo deference to them.

Through tatter'd clothes small Vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all, As.

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Plate Sins with gold,

And the strong lance of Justice hurtless breaks‡ : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. 1396. RUMOR variable.

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1397. EXPERIENCE awakes SUSPICION.

The stung are jealous of the Adder...

1398. TRUTH undesignedly spoken. Jesters do oft prove Prophets. TOI

1399. PLEASURES vicious-their Retribution. The Gods are just, and of our pleasant Vices Make instruments to scourge us.

In a just state of Society no one without his own fault should have less than the common necessaries of Life, while others can supply them out of their superfluity. ROUSSEAU and ALEMBERT,

To the pure all things are pure but to the profane and impious nothing is pure, but their understanding and conscience are defiled.

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1400. VOICE soft and sweet a characteristic of female PERFECTION.›

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Gentle and low, is excellent in. Woman.

THE TEMPEST.

1401. DEGENERACY.

Good wombs have borne bad Sons.

1402. BOOKS-their incalculable Value. A wise man prizės

His Books above a Dukedom.

1403. ACQUISITION too easily made is disre~ Too light winning

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1405. SLEEP.: - 96T Sleep seldom visits Sorrow when it doth 7 ol It is a comforter.

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1406. MISERY produces strange ASSOCIATIONS. Misery acquaints a man with strange companions. 1407. PLEASURE just and honorable reconciles d to PAINSMI

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To every female Excellence, as to Music, the Heart of SHAKE, SPEARE was exquisitely attuned.

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1409. TRAVELLERS more veracious than they are imagined.4u kojo Travellers lie less

Than fools at home condemn 'em

1410. VOLUPTUOUSNESS to be moderated. Do not give dalliance

Too much the rein.

1411. MIND alone immortal. & 2510 10H The cloud-capt towers; the gorgeous palacesge The solemn temples; the great globe itself; t Yea all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like an insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. QIRQETOA

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1412. MORTALITY it's Enjoyments how fleeting. We are such stuffing

As dreams are made on; and our little life02.
Is rounded with a sleep.

1413. FORGIVENESS. nobler than REVENGEŰ The rarer action iso

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1416. TIME tedious in sorrow.

Sad hours seem long...

1417. LOVE at first sight.

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Chance gave the wound which Time can never

1418. LOVE it's smiles not always to be trusted. Alas, that Love, so gentle in his view,

Should be so tyrannous and rough, in proof!.! 1419. LOVE overcomes all impediments. Stony limits cannot hold Love out.

1420. LEVITY of INEXPERIENCE. He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

1421. CARICATURE.

A curious eye doth quote deformities.. 1422. FROWNS unsuitable to a FEAST.

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Are an ill-beseeming semblance for a Feast. 1423. DREAMS.

Dreams are the children of an idle brain. 1424. SLAVERY.

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud. [ 1425. NATURE full of beneficial POWERS. O mickle is the powerful grace that lies

In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities. 1426. GOOD in this state mixt with EVIL, and EVIL with GOOD.

Nought is so vile that on the earth doth live. But to the earth some special good doth give; Nor aught so good, but strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. 1427.

Virtue itself turns Vice, being misapplied*;

Insani sapiens nomen ferat, æquus iniqui
Ultra quam satis est Virtutem si petat ipsam.

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And Vice sometime's by action dignified.

1428. QUALITIES opposite-their PROXIMITY. Within the infant rind of a small flower

Poison hath residence, and med'cine power

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1429. SLEEP flies from CARE.

Where Care lodges Sleep will never lie.

1430. INSINCERITY.

Riddling Confession finds but riddling shrift.

1431. CEREMONY.

Some cases may strain courtesy.

1432. SENTIMENT true-not loquacious. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament.

1433, RICH Es-those are not true which are to be counted.

They are but beggars that can count their worth. 1434. EXILE.

Exile hath much more terror in his look
Than Death.

1435. PHILOSOPHY the Solace of ADVERSITY. Philosophy is Adversity's sweet milk.

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1436. MERCY if any be unworthy of it,

MURTHERERS.

Mercy but murthers, pard'ning those that kill.{

1437. SORROW.

Dry Sorrow drinks our blood.

1438. JOY multiplied by DISTRESS. Joy is more welcome in a needful time.

1439. MISCHIEF.

O Mischief! thou art swift

To enter in the thoughts of desperate men.

Digitalis, Aconitum, Hyoscyamus, Cicuta Virosa, &c. the most violent vegetable Poisons and powerful Remedies."

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