Dream. Of Innocence, 2381. LOVE--innocent. Love takes the meaning in Love's Conference. 2382. REASON. Then of Perfection is the Point attain'd, When Reason is sole Master of our Will. 2383. LOVE-REASON. 2. Reason and Love oft keep not company: 3. Fear destroys the Sense. 2385. betrays to pillage. From Yielders all things catch. 2386. PERJURY. For one Man holding Truth, What numbers fail, confounding Oath with Oath! 2387. LOVE. * Love sincere Is pale with sighs that cost the fresh blood dear. 2388. AFFECTION-it's Activity. Affection's faithful Diligence will go Swift as an Arrow from the Tartar's Bow †. 2389. TEARS--not easily counterfeited. 2. Scorn and Derision ill can ape true Tears. 2390. EVIDENCE-internal. 3. How can those things to Reason seem Deceit, Which bear the badge of Faith* to prove them true. 2591. WOMAN-Injury and Insult to her; unmanly. 4. A trim Exploit, or mànly Enterprize, Faith is here used as Πιστις 15 & Fides for the Evidence which induces rational Conviction. + Aut ut nervo pulsante sagittæ Prima leves ineunt si quando prælia Parthi. VIRG. Magnum & memorabile nomen. VIRG. Dream.] To conjure tears up in a poor Maid's Eyes 2392. LOVE. 5. Ill can he stay whom Love doth press to go 2393. HATRED. Love thinks not any harm equal to hate. 2394. LOVE misplaced. Loathsome is Love misplac'd, it's Error found. 2395. JUDGEMENT. Judge when you hear. 2396. PERSPECTIVE-Aerial. ¶§ Mountains far off are turned into Clouds, And small become and undistinguishable. 2397. DANGER-Imaginary. When in the Night imagining some fear, How easily is a Bush suppos'd a Bear. 2398. TIME-To whom heavy. ¶ Grandeur still questions- How shall we beguile The lazy Time, if not with some Delight?' 2399. INTENTION-Good; how far it goes with BENEVOLENCE. Never any thing can be amiss When Simpleness and Duty tender it. 2400. BENEVOLENCE. The amiable and good Suffer, when they see Wretchedness o'ercharg'd, And Duty in his service perishing. 2401. SILENCE-Modest; how eloquent. OS In the pure Modesty of simple Duty, More may be read than from the rattling tongue Of saucy and audacious Eloquence. Thus far Love and the Devil have some resemblance. Venice. Love therefore and tongue-tied Simplicity In least speak most. 12402. SPEAKING. It is not enough to speak; but to speak true*. 2403. TRUTH Truth makes all things plain. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. 2404. TRADE and COMMERCE. * That Merchant is discreet Whose Ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place; nor pledg'd his whole Estate Upon the fortune of the current year. 2405. CARE-WORLD. They lose the World who buy it with much Care. 2406. WORLD A STAGE. "Tis fit we hold the World but as the World, A Stage where every one must play his part†. 2407. MELANCHOLY. Why should a Man whose blood is warm within Sit like his Grandsire cut in alabaster; [him, Sleep when he wakes, and creep into the jaundice. By being peevish. 2408. GRAVITY-affected. § There are those Who therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. 2409. Fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool-gudgeon; this opinion. * True' means well and justly. †Thus EPICTETUS. 2410. LOQUACITY-silly and affected. Venice.] * Many Men speak an infinite deal of nothing. The Reasons of such are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff. You shall seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them they are not worth the search. 2411, EXPENCE-Indiscreet. 2. Many have much disabled their Estate O The purse, the person, and the utmost means 2. Fairest of all things fair on Earth is Virtuef. 2415. MEDIOCRITY-it's HAPPINESS. It is no mean happiness to be stated in the mean f. 2416. MAXIMS-their Value in their Application. * Good Sentences well pronounc'd would be better if well follow'd. 2417. TEACHING-easier than PRACTICE. It is a good Divine that follows his own Instructions. * Deportment. Thus PLATO, CICERO, AKENSIDE. Sordibus Tecti, caret invidendâ HOR. Venice.] 2418. It is easier to teach twenty what is good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow one's own teaching*. 2419. YOUTH-rash. Youthful Rashness skips like a Hare over the meshes of good Council, 2420. INSPIRATION. Holy Men at their Death and in their Lives have good Inspirations +. 2421. MOROSENESS. He who in his Youth smiles not at innocent Mirth, gives but a bad Promise of his Age. 2422. MOCKERY; criminal and silly. It is a Sin to be a Mocker; and it is not less a Folly. 2423. DRUNKENNESS. Better any thing than be married to a Spunge. 2424. LENDING and BORROWING. x Beware, in lending or in borrowing, Of taking or of giving to excess. 2425. THRIFT-INDUSTRY and HONESTY. Thrift is a Blessing if Men steal it not. 2426. FRIENDSHIP. When did Friendship take A Breed for barren Metal of his Friend? If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. CHRIST. + Nemo vir magnus sine afflatu aliquo divino fuit. CIC. PLAT. Toxos is exactly this. It is true of exorbitant Advantage: not of common Interest. It may be very friendly to lend money at common Interest, when perhaps a Stranger would not take the security or be it ever so good, would prefer employing his money to more profit. The Aristotelian Conceit of the Barrenness of Money has been long out of Date. |