of Verona.] 2135. VIRTUE and WISDOM. § Virtue and Wisdom are too firmly holy By Gifts to be corrupted, 2136. OBSEQUIOUSNESS-too fond and excessive. Spaniel like is the Love, the more 'tis spurn'd, the more, and fawns submissive still, Which grows 2137. LOVE. Love will creep where it can not go, 2138. Slight is that Love which can forget Love's tokens. 2139. Love dreams on that by which it is forgotten, And doats on that which cares no longer for it; 'Tis pity it should be so contrary, 2140. LOVE-it's weakness, Alas! how Love can trifle with itself. - 2141. it's partiality. Fond Love is oft indeed a blinded God. 2142. delights in SOLITUDE. X Love joys to sit alone, unseen of any, 2143. [Towns 2. Love better brooks, than flourishing peopled The shadowy Desert, unfrequented Woods t. 2144. LOVE abhors VIOLENCE, 3. Force is against the nature of true Love. 2145. 4. What Music is the Voice of those we love! A Dog, however, the most patient, forgiving, and affectionate of Animals, is better quoted as an example of disinterested, constant, and courageous Affection, than by way of Reproach. This and the preceding are altogether in the style and manner of Petrarch. of Verona.] 2146. CREDULITY. Credulity too often entertains A Fox to be the Shepherd of the Lambs 2147. EAR. A light Ear sometimes makes a heavy Heart. 2148. BEAUTY-NEGLECT. 2+ Beauty neglected slights the Looking-glass, And throws her Sun-expelling Masque-away; When in it's Truth it sought to please but one. 2149. INJUSTICE. To a bad purpose we can not be true, Unless we would be Traitors to ourselves. 2150, SENTIMENT ASSOCIATION. 2† A tender and a generous Sympathy. Loves e'en things lifeless for their Owner's sake. 2151. PEEVISHNESS. + Peevish Discontent From Fortune flies when most 'tis follow'd by it. 2152. LOVE apparent-real HATRED. + Provok'd that others are preferr'd to them, Some persevere more from Revenge than Love. 2153. WOMAN-Honour toward. 2. The Man who bears an honorable Mind Will scorn to treat a Woman lawlessly. 2154. DESPOTISM. Lawless are they that make their Wills their 2155. FRIENDSHIP TREACHERY, [Law. 2 Treachery in Friendship is as the right-handWere perjur'd to the bosom. 2156. FRIENDSHIP always reconcileable. 3 Friends truly Friends can never long be Foes. * O præclarum Custodem Ovium, ut aiunt, Lupum. #Sic volo, sic jubeo; stet pro ratione Voluntas. of Windsor.] 2157. CENSORIOUSNESS. 2+ Those who have an eye upon their Neighbor's Follies should turn another upon the Register of their own. t MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. 2158. INJUSTICE is FOLLY. 3 Build not your hopes on another's ground*: lest you lose your edifice disgracefully by mischoice of the place on which you erect it. 2159. EXPERIENCE dear WISDOM. 4+ Experience is a Jewel. And it had need be so for it is often purchased at an infinite rate‡. 2160. WOMAN. 5. What a Woman thinks in her heart she may effect, she will break her heart but she will effect. 2161. VIGILANCE. Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. 2162. RICHES-their Influence on the vulgar. +O what a world of vile ill-favor'd faults Look handsome in the rich, to sordid Minds {]. 2163. PASSION indecorous in opposite Extremes. Be not as extreme in submission As in offence. 2164. SELFISHNESS. Many who have been cozen'd theirselves would have all the world be cozen'd too. Omne quod solo inædificatur solo cedit. Inst. II. 1. 20: Scilicet Uxorem cum Dote, fidemque, & amicos, JUV. Measure.] 2165. PRAYER. Many never think of a Prayer till they doubt whether they have breath enough to say one. 2166. REPENTANCE. 2. A small Excuse serves to delay Repentance. 2167. LUCK-The Nonsense about it. 3. Good Luck in odd numbers is the resource of those who can find none in Reason or in good Conduct. 2168. TALENT-misapplied. Wit is made a Jack-o'-Lant* to it's Possessor! as well as others, when 'tis upon ill employment. 2169. MARRIAGE forc'd. A forced Marriage brings along with it A thousand irreligious, cursed hours. 2170. NECESSITY. What can not be eschew'd must be embrac'd. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. 2171. COUNSEL and CLIENTS., Good Counsellors lack no Clients. 2172. What Virtue ought not, that she can not do. 2173. LAW and JUDGE. 2. The Law, and not the Judge, condemns the 2174, MODESTY. [Criminal. Virtue herself may be a cause of Error, Jack of Lanthorn, or Ignis Fatuus, We do not contend for the strict Universality of this Maxim, § Ουκ εγω σε κλεινω αλλ' ο της Measure,] And Modesty may more betray the sense 2175. PRISONS-Right and Duty of Inspection, 3. When Charity and virtuous Feeling come To visit in their Prison afflicted Spirits, It is of common Right to let them enter. 2176. REPENTANCE. 4. A true Repentance shuns the Evil itself More than the' external Suffering or the Shame, 2177. PRISONS-GAOLERS. ¶t Wise and benignant Policy looks to Prisons. In States which do not thus 'tis seldom when The steeled Gaoler is the Friend of Man*. 2178. CRIMES-vicious Indulgence in them. When Vice makes Mercy, Mercy's so extended That for the Fault's Love is the Offender founded, 2179. AMBASSADORS. ¶ Wise and well authoriz'd Ambassadors 2180. TESTIMONY-it's Credit. Merely an Oath, However strong and positively urg'd,. Cannot weigh down against a Worth and Credit That's seal'd in Approbation. Mr. Howard observes, in his View of Prisons' (and this seems most to have taken place in the latter Surveys) that he found very many benevolent Gaolers. It was natural that he should: for his Visits and Observations could not but lead more and more to the appointment of proper Persons. true. That Testimony is to be weigh'd rather than counted is most strictly At the same time, presum'd Credit from Rank and Situation is frequently pusht too far." |