Like It.] 'Twould be recorded for a Precedent, And many an Error by the same Example -Would rush into the State. It can not be. 2472. CRUELTY—in robbing the Poor. They take the House that take away the prop That doth sustain the House:-they take the Life That take away the means by which we live. 2473. MUSIC. Therefore the Poet [Floods, Did feign that Orpheus drew Trees, Stones, and. Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of Rage, But Music for the Time doth change his Nature * 2474. VIRTUE more conspicuous by CONTRAST. Far shines a good Deed in a wicked World. 2475. SPLENDOR-comparative. The greater Glory ever dims the less. 2476. ¶ Glory and Power compar'd with the SUPREME Empties itself, as doth an inland brook Into the Main of Waters. 2477. SEASON. How many things by Season season'd are To their right Praise and true Perfection. 2478. LIE. Add not a Lie to a Fault. AS YOU LIKE IT. 2479. EDUCATION. A bad Education undermines Gentility. *Such, certainly, is the General Character of Music. The Character of those who have no taste for it, or dislike it, must be taken, as Dr. BURNEY very candidly observes, with Allowances and Exceptions. So as not to insist on Aph. 1723 as an universal Truth, 2480. SLAVERY. Like It.] The Spirit of a Man mutinies against Servitude. 2481. DEFAMATION. Fools may not speak wisely what wise Men do foolishly. 2482. DIVERSION-pugilistic. It is News to hear that breaking of Ribs is Sport. 2483. EXILE. 2. Where'er the Heart is Mistress of Content, It goes to Liberty, not Banishment. 2484. SUFFERINGS-Physical; their Moral Use. 3. The Winds and Storms and Snows are CounThat feelingly persuade Man what he is. [cellors 2485. WEALTH. Worldlings give more to those who have too much. 2486. MISERY-Deserted. § Misery doth part The flow of Company. 2487. ENVY. To some kind of Men Their Graces serve them but as Enemies. O what a World is this, when what is comely 2489. TEMPERANCE-healthy OLD AGE. 4 Those in their Youth who have forborne to Hot and rebellious liquors to their blood, [apply Or with an unabashed front to woo, The means of languor and debility, 2490. INTERESTEDNESS. Like It.] And having that they choak their service up 2491. EXPECTATIONS./ At seventeen years many their fortunes seek; Many travel who were in a better place at 2494. DEATH. All is mortal in Nature. 2495. CHARITY. [home. 2. Rich Men there are of churlish Disposition Who little reck to find the way to Heaven By deeds of hospitable Charity. 2496. SILENCE-LOQUACITY. There are silent persons who think of as many matters, and to as much purpose, as the very talkative but they give. Heaven thanks, and make no boast of them. 2497. DEATH. § The Imagination is often nearer Death than the Powers. 2498. LIFE. From hour to hour we mortals ripe and ripe; And then from hour to hour we rot and rot. 2499. SLANDER- is disarmed by slighting it. He whom a Fool doth very wisely hit Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the stroke:-if not, The wise Man's Folly is anatomiz'd E'en by the squandering glances of the Fool. It were to be wished that the Author of the NightThoughts had been practically of that opinion. 2500. PRIDE. Who cries out on Pride Like It.] That doth therein tax any private Party. 2501. GENTLENESS-persuasive. § Gentleness will force More than Force moves the Mind to Gentleness. 2502. AGE advancing. 21 Manhood, when verging into Age, grows thoughtful, Full of wise saws, and moral instances. 2503. MANNERS-natural; artificial. Those that are good Manners at Court are as ridiculous in the Country as the Behaviour of the Country seems mockable at Court. 2504. LABOURER, 31. A true Labourer earns that he eats, gets that he wears: owes no man hate; envies no man's happiness; glad of other men's Good; content under his own privations*. And his chief Pride is in the modest Comforts of his Condition. 2505. FACILITY—deceitful. 31 Do not let an insignificant Facility infect you with the false Gallop of Verses. 2506, DECAY-premature. 45 Beware of being rotten ere half ripe, 2507. FRIENDSHIP and LOVE; stopt by nothing but IMPOSSIBILITY. If it be possible, Friends and Lovers will meet at last how many Mountains so ever in the way. Ει εξενοδόχησε. κ. τ. λ. PAUL Such is the Hospitality which the Poet means here. Aut doluit miserans s'inopem aut invidit habenti. VIRG Like It.] 2508. LOVER endless in QUESTIONS. It is as easy to count Atoms as to resolve thel Propositions of a Lover. 2509. COMPLIMENT VISITORS. Persons for Ceremony and Fashion's sake often thank others for their Company when they had E rather be alone. 2510. LOVE. →→→ -Those who rail at a man for being in love find fault with that which very often would be ill changed with their best Virtues. 2511. TIME→measured by IDEAS. Time travels in different paces with different persons. And with the same persons our different occasions. He ambles with some; trots with others; gallops with others. And with others he stands still. 2512. PHYSIC. Those who are in health need not Physic". 2513. LOVE SELF. 2. Those who have a great stock of Self-Love, have rarely much Love for any other. 2514. WOMAN. 3. Women are apter to believe that they are loved than to confess they believe it. 2515. COQUETRY. § For every Passion something; and for no Passion truly any thing: now liking; then loathing: then entertaining; then forswearing. 2516. INVENTION. The truest Poetry†, has the most feigning‡. - Η Ισμεν Ψευδέα πολλα λέξειν, ετυμοισιν ομοια. HES. This was Waller's courtly Apology to Charles II. for having praised Cromwell. |