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1872. PLEASURES and PAINS present.

Each present Joy or Sorrow seems the chief.
1873. HOPE gives ACTIVITY,

Hope chearful leaps that was but late forlorn.
1874. PLEASURE-light aud active.
Where Joy's light footsteps fly

The Grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.

TARQUIN AND LUCRECE.

1875. INNOCENCE-unsuspicious.
Unstained thoughts do seldom dream of Evil:
Birds never lim'd no secret bushes fear.
1876.

Pure Innocence has never practis'd how
To cloak offences with a cunning frown.

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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;
To privilege Dishonor in thy Name;

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To back Reproach against long-living Laud,
And make fair Reputation but a Bawd.

1881. KINGS their Power intrusted to restrain,
not countenance Evil."

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,
When they in thee the like Offences prove.
If but for Fear of this thy Will remove.

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,

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1885. GUILT.

In yielding to a vicious appetite,

A momentary Joy gives years of Pain,
And hot Desire converts to cold Disdain ;

♦ Oderint dum metuant." Detestanda Vox! Dedecorant bene nata Culpa.

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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,
That oft they have not that which they possess
They scatter and unloose it from their Bond;
And so by hoping more they have but less.
Or, gaining more, the Profit of Excess
Is but to surfeit, and such Griefs sustain,
That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich Gain.
1887. VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES.

The Aim of all is but to nurse the Life #
With Honor, Wealth, and Ease in waning Age:
And in this Aim there is such thwarting Strife
That one for all, or all for one, we gage:

As Life for Honor in fell Battle's rage)
Honor for Wealth; and oft that Wealth does
The Death of all, and all together lost.. [cost
So that in vent'ring all we leave to be
The things we are, for that which we expect:
And this ambitious foul Infirmity

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In having much torments us with defect
Of that we have so then we do neglect
The thing we have; and all for want of Wit
Make something nothing by augmenting it,

1888. PITY.

Soft Pity enters at an iron gate.

1889. GRIEF-Society in it,

Companionship in Woe doth Woe assuage.

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* From him which hath not shall be taken away even that which he bath.

Solamen miseris Socios habuisse Doloris,

1890. GUILT suspicious of all.

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Where then is Trust if there is no Self-Trust?
The Guilt being great the Fear doth still exceed.
1891. has no true Gains.
What win the Guilty gaining what they seek?
A Dream, a Breath, a Froth of fleeting Joy!
For one sweet Grape who will the Vine destroy?
Who buys a Minute's Mirth to wail a Week?
Or sells Eternity to get a Toy?

1892. PRAYERS for impious Purposes.
An impious Prayer is worst Impiety.
1893. WARS for Gain or Ambition.
Slaves for Pillage fighting,

Obdurate Vassals, fell Exploits effecting,!
In bloody Deaths and Ravishments delighting,
Nor Children's Tears, nor Mothers' Groans re-
Swell in their Pride.
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1894. NIGHT & DARKNESS-Fears accompanying,
+Things which o'erpower with terrible surprize,
Night's Shadows, are the weak Brain's forgeries."
1895. DESIRE inordinate, - 18

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,

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1899.

If a Wife's Name be Theme for Disputation,
The Branches of another Root are rotted,
And undeserved Blame to him allotted.

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

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Is plagued with Cramps and Gouts, and painful And scarce has eyes his Treasure to behold:

Quinquisyllable.

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