Lucrece.] 1872. PLEASURES and PAINS present. Each present Joy or Sorrow seems the chief. Hope chearful leaps that was but late forlorn. The Grass stoops not, she treads on it so light. TARQUIN AND LUCRECE. 1875. INNOCENCE-unsuspicious. Pure Innocence has never practis'd how [wrong. unobserved. 1877. RANK and DIGNITY-no Licence to 'Tis a false privilege of high Estate To hide base Sin in pleats of Majesty. 1878. KINGS-their Faults cannot pass No outrageous thing From vassal-Actors can be wip'd away; Misdeeds of Kings can not be hid in Clay. 1879. - should seek Love rather than Fear. Monarchs, shun seeming Love which springs from And seek no Fear but of respectful Love. [Fear, 1880. should be an Example. + Princes should be the Glass, the School, the Book Where Subjects' Eyes may learn, and read, and look: And wilt thou be the School where Lust shall learn? Must be in thee read Lectures of such Shame? Wilt thou be Glass wherein he shall discern Authority for Sin, Warrant for Blame; Lucrece.] To back Reproach against long-living Laud, 1881. KINGS their Power intrusted to restrain, Hast thou Command ?-By HIM that gave it thee From a pure Heart command thy rebel Will. Draw not thy Sword to guard Iniquity, For it was lent thee all that brood to kill. Thy princely office how can'st thou fulfil. When pattern'd by thy Fault foul Sin may say He learnt to sin, and thou did'st teach the way. should remember how contagious ill Example in them. 1882, With foul Offenders thou perforce must bear, 1883. Should Kings be Breakers of their own Behests? 1884, PRINCES and PERSONS of BIRTH they degenerate." "The baser is he, coming from a King, Who shames his Hope with Deeds degenerate*; The mightier Man the mightier is the thing That makes him honor'd, or begets him Hate; greatest Scandal waits on greatest State, For 1885. GUILT. In yielding to a vicious appetite, A momentary Joy gives years of Pain, ♦ Oderint dum metuant." Detestanda Vox! Dedecorant bene nata Culpa. HOR Lucrece.] Poor Chastity is rifled of her store, And Lust, the thief, far poorer than before. 1886. COVETOUSNESS. Those that much covet, are of Gain so fond, The Aim of all is but to nurse the Life # As Life for Honor in fell Battle's rage) " In having much torments us with defect 1888. PITY. Soft Pity enters at an iron gate. 1889. GRIEF-Society in it, Companionship in Woe doth Woe assuage. * From him which hath not shall be taken away even that which he bath. Solamen miseris Socios habuisse Doloris, 1890. GUILT suspicious of all. Lucrece.] Where then is Trust if there is no Self-Trust? 1892. PRAYERS for impious Purposes. Obdurate Vassals, fell Exploits effecting,! Uncheckt Desire will hear no heedful Friends: Only he hath an eye to gaze on Beauty, v Jas And dotes on what he views, 'gainst Law and Duty. 1896. PARENTS Respect due from them to Character, for the sake of their Children. Parènts, bequeath not to your Children's Lot The Shame that from them no Device can take, The Blemish that will never be forgot. 1897, CONFIDENCE-Breach of it. Mud not the Fountain that gave Drink to thee. 1898. INJURIES what to be avoided most especially. Mar not what marr'd can never be amended, Lucrece.] 1899. If a Wife's Name be Theme for Disputation, 1900. SELF-we should judge as if the Act in Question were that of another. When springs the first Temptation to a Crime, Think but how vile a spectacle it were ther: To view thy purpos'd Trespass in another; Men's Faults do seldom to themselves appear, Their own Transgressions partially they smo[Brother. This Guilt would seem death-worthy in Think thus, and shun the approach of Guilt in O! how are they wrapt in with Infamies, [time. That from their own Misdeeds askant their eyes. 1901. VICE. X By VICE the Soul's pure Temple is defac'd: Her subjects with foul Insurrection * Have batter'd down her consecrated Wall, And by their mortal Fault brought to subjection Her Immortality, and made her thrall To living Death and Pain perpetual. 1902. LOVE. Love's true Respect will poison false Desire. 1903. ORNAMENTS. Of CHASTITY the Ornaments are chaste. 1904. AVARICE and AGE; YOUTH and PRODIGALITY. The aged Man that coffers up his Gold a [Fits, Is plagued with Cramps and Gouts, and painful And scarce has eyes his Treasure to behold: Quinquisyllable. |