Miscellanies.]

1980. RARENESS-heightens Pleasure. Therefore are Feasts so seldom and so rare, Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or Captain-Jewels in the Carconet. 1981. EARTH-the Body it's due.

The Earth can have but Earth, which is her due; The Spirit, Heaven*.

1982. LOVE-true; it's Constancy. Love is a constant ever fixed Mark,

That looks on Tempests, and is never shaken; It is the Star to every wandering Bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's Fool; though rosy Lips and Cheeks

Within his bending Sickle's Compass come; Love alters not with his brief Hours and Weeks, But bears it out e'en to the edge of Doom. 1983. WORTH―not boastful.

Others for Breath of Words hold in respect; Worth for his dumb thoughts, speaking in effect. 1984. FLATTERY and FRIENDSHIP

Every one that flatters thee

Is no Friend in Misery.

-how

[distinguisht.

Words are easy, like the Wind;
Faithful Friends 'tis hard to find.

* Όθεν δ' εκαστον εις το Σωμ' αφικετο

Εκεισ' απήλθε.
Αιθερα κλο

Πνευμα μεν προς

SOPH.

Miscellanies.]

1

Every man will be thy Friend

While thou hast wherewith to spend.
But if store of Crowns be scant,

No man will supply thy want.
If that one be prodigal,
Bountiful they will him call.
If he be addict to Vice,
Quickly him they will entice.
But if Fortune once do frown,
Then farewel his great Renown:
They that fawn'd on him before
Use his company no more.
He that is thy Friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need.
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep.
Thus of every Grief in Heart
He with thee doth bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful Friend from flattering Foe*.
1985. WISDOM and VIRTUE rather self-correc
tive than censorious.

The Wise and Good

Are still with their own weakness best acquainted. 1986. CONDOLENCE-ill timed.

+ Ill do they when the Heart hath scap'd a sorrow, Who come in rereward of a conquer'd Foe.

1987. CALAMITY-great, renders insensible to smaller Evils.

+ Inferior strokes of Ill, which once seem'd Woe, Compar'd with one great Loss will not seem so.

Plutarch has a Treatise upon these Signs:

1988. WISDOM-her Independence.

Miscellanies.]

Sto A better State fixt to the Wise belongs,
Than that on any Humour which depends.

1989. BEAUTY—merely external—pernicious, How like Eve's Apple does that Beauty grow, Where the sweet Virtue answers not the Shew! 1990. GOODNESS-it's Characteristics.

+ They that have Power to hurt and will do none;
And Good, when most they do, forbear to shew:
To Goodness warm; to all Temptation cold;
They rightly do inherit Heaven's Graces,
And husband Nature's Riches.

1991. PURITY.

The Summer's Flower is to the Summer sweet, Tho' in few hours it grow, blossom, and die: But if that Flower with base Infection meet, The basest Weed outbraves his Dignity. 1992. GLORY-corrupted by VICE.

ว

The sweetest Praise turns sour by evil Deeds. 1993. ENVY the unwilling Panegyrist of EXCELLENCE by it's very Censure.

+ There are, whom Envy's tongue Cannot dispraise but in a kind of Praise*. 1994. ABUSE.

The hardest Knife ill us'd doth lose his Edge. 1995. PROGNOSTICS-of WINTER.

Leaves turn to pale, dreading the Winter near. 1996. SPRING-universally enlivening.

The Spring

Hath put a Spirit of Youth in every thing ||.

* Quem nemo culpaverit ut non simul laudet. Catonem Cæsar ita reprehendit ut laudet.

PLIN.SEC. EP. III. IL

P. L..

"And into all things from her Presence breath'd "The Spirit of Love and amorous Desire."

Miscellanies.]

1997. POETRY too sacred a Gift to be misapplied. Own'st thou the heavenly influence of the Muse, Spend not thy Fury on some worthless Song; Darkening thy power to lend base subjects Light, 1998. TIME-redeem.

Redeem Time idly spent*.

1999. VIRTUE-immortal.

Virtue survives and can not know Decay, But makes Time's Spoils despised every where. 2000. TRUTH and BEAUTY. Truth needs no Colour; Beauty no Pencil, 2001. LOVE--it's Tautology. Love fondly dwells on Repetitions.

His Songs and Praises all alike we find, Kind is my Love to-day; to-morrow kind: Still constant in a wond'rous Excellence. Therefore Love's Verse to Constancy confin'd, One thing expressing, leaves out Difference. Fair, kind, and true is all his Argument,

Kind, fair, and true, varying to other Words;. And in this Change is Love's Invention spent, Three Themes in one, which wond'rous scope 2002. LOVE-not ostentatious. [affords. §'Tis not less Love if less the Shew appear: That Love is merchandis'd whose rich esteeming The Owner's Tongue doth publish every where. 2003. FREQUENCY-it's Effect on Pleasure. The Nightingale in Summer's front doth sing; And stops his pipe in growth of riper days: Not that the Summer is more pleasant now Than when his mournful Hymns did hush the Night;

* Redeeming the Time knowing that the Days ate evil. PAUL.

Miscellanies.]

But that wild Music burdens every Bough, And Sweets grown common lose their dear 2004. TIME-ETERNITY.

[Delight. ¶ All soon is past but what shall have no End*. 2005. FORTUN E-accused of our own Misconduct. to Fortune we make

The guilty Goddess of our harmful Deeds. 2006. MIND-alone sees.

The Eye is in the Mind:

And that which seems to serve to go about,
Mind being absent, is in function blind,
Seems seeing; but effectually is out.
For it no Form delivers (Mind apart)

Of Birds or Flowers, or Shape which it doth lack, If Mind of it's quick Objects have no part,

Nor it's own Vision holds what it doth takel, 2007. EVIL-it's Use.

Good by Conflict of Evil is made better§.

2008. SORROW.

How hard true Sorrow hits.

2009. CRIME-worse than DISGRACE,
'Tis better to be vile esteem'd than vile.
2010. CALUMNY recoils on itself.

Goodness is still itself-and they who level
Abuses at it, reckon up their own.

That still is straight, however they be bevel:
It's Deeds by their bad thoughts must not be
shewn.

Well might the great Paet doubt" Res si qua diu mortalibus ulla." VIRG.

The Eye sees no more when mental attention is withdrawn, than a Camera Obscura sees without the Eye. A great and leading metaphy. sical truth, established by physical experience.

This too is another of the greatest and most leading Truths of Metaphysics andstithics.