3371. KINGS.

The presence of good Kings engenders love Among their Subjects and their loyal Friends, As it disanimates their Enemies.

3372. COUNSEL or ADVICE-Good.

¶Of Wise friendly Counsel cuts off many Foes In the best way;-by healing, not destroying, And changing them to Friends.

3373. HATRED-dissembled is the worst. Dissension under Ashes of feign'd Love Breaks out at last in most pernicious Flame: 3374. DISCORD.

Dire fruits doth base and envious Discord $375. INSULT-to OLD AGE.

It ill becomes to taunt valiant old Age,

[breed.

And twit with Cowardice a Man half dead. 3376. FORTITUDE.

* When of true Fortitude possesst, there lives Undaunted Spirit in a dying Breath.

3377. KINGS-DEATH.

Kings and the mightiest Potentates must die: Thus ends all human Pomp, all human Misery. 3378. CONFIDENCE-not lightly to be withdrawn. 24. Where Confidence has once been justly plac'd, One sudden fail should never breed Distrust. 3379. MUTINY.

To him who draws against his Officer,
The Law of Arms appointeth present Death.
3380. GARTER -KNIGHTS of the.
When first the splendid Order was ordain'd,
Knights of the Garter were of noble Birth,

Valiant and virtuous, full of haughty Courage,
Such as were grown to credit by the Wars;
Not fearing Death, nor shrinking for Distress,
But always resolute in most extremes :
He, then, that is not furnisht in this sort
Doth but usurp the sacred Name of Knight,
Profaning this most honorable Order.

3381. TREACHERY.

Shame, in Alliance, Amity, and Oaths, There should be found such false dissembling 3382. FACTIONS--irritable.

[Guile. What madness rules in brain-sick Men, When, for a Cause most slight and frivolous, Such factious Emulations shall arise!

[priz'd. 3383. RIGHTS-dearly bought should be dearly Respect your Rights:-see that you not forego That for a trifle which was bought with blood. 3384. PEACE and POWER-Squabbles for them. No simple Man that sees This jarring Discord of Nobility,

This shouldering of each-other in the Court,
This factious bandying of their favorites,
But that he does presage some ill Event.

3385. POWER-ill lodg'd, or enviously divided. 'Tis much when Sceptres are in Children's hands: But more when Envy breeds unkind Division; Then comes the Ruin; there begins Confusion. 3386. PARTIES.

* While Parties factiously each-other cross, Lives, Honours, Lands, and all, hurry to Los5. 3387. PARTIES.

§ Let not your private Discord keep asunder The levied Succours of a Public Aid.

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3388. TYRANNY.

Tyrants, reflect, when Patriots you destroy, Their Fame lives in the World, their Shame in you. 3389. HONOR of FAMILIES-to be cherisht. Dishonor not an honorable Name.

3390. HONOR; to be preferr'd to LIFE. Out with that vantage bought with such a Shame, To save a paltry Life and slay bright Fame.

3391. INSULTS on the DEAD; cowardly.

That which they have fled

During it's Life, base Men will wrong when dead". 3392. WAR between CHRISTIANS.

It is both impious and unnatural

That fierce immanity and bloody strife Should reign between Professors of one Faith. 3393. SPIRIT-PUBLIC.

Men should be well content with whatsoe❜er Tends to God's Glory and the Public Weal. 3394. FEAR.

Among base Passions Fear is widely baneful. 3395. BEAUTY-her Power!

+ Beauty's princely Majesty is such

As dumbs the Tongue and makes the Senses

3396. QUEEN.

To be a Queen in bondage is more vile
Than other Slaves in base servility.

3397. SOLDIER.

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* A Soldier ought not for himself to weep, Or to exclaim on Fortune's fickleness.

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3398, NATURE-ART.

Bethink thee, there are Virtues that surmount, And natural Graces that extinguish Art*.

3399. LIFE-DEATH.

Where Life is vile and wicked, Death is like it. 3400. RAPACITY-perilous.

Rather keep

That which you have, than, coveting for, more, Be cast from possibility of all.

3401. LOVE it's true Foundation.

2. The Virtues graced with external Gifts, Beget Love's settled Passion in the Heart.

3402. MARRIAGE should not be for Money. 3. In Marriage it is abject, base, and poor, To choose for Wealth, and not for perfect Love. 3403. nor on Compulsion!!!!

What is Wedlock forced, but an Hell, An Age of Discord and continual Strife: Whereas the contrary bringeth forth Bliss, And is the pattern of celestial Peace.

3404. DELAY.

4. A weighty Business will not brook Delay.

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3405. SELFISHNESS-PATRIOTISM. 5. While others labor for their own Preferment, Behoves it us to labor for the Realm. Join we together for the Public Good In what we can.

* SHAKESPEARE is a most signal Proof of this: for though his Art is great, his natural Powers are such as to eclipse it by their transcendant Lustre. In Rhythm, only MILTON has equalled SHAKESPEARE.

3406. HEAVEN.

Heaven is the Treasury of endless Joy.

3407. GRIEF.

[Powers. O'erwhelming Grief conquers the Soul's best 3408. WICKEDNESS-Self-punishable."

* Numberless Mischiefs do the wicked work, Heaping Confusion on themselves thereby.

3409. JUSTICE.

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2. Poise every Cause in the' equal Scale of Justice. 3410. SORROW AGE.

3§. Sorrow would Solace, and Age looks for Ease. 3411. GOD.

4. GOD is our hope,

Our Stay, our Guide, the Light which leads our

3412. PATIENCE.

The surest help of Ills is Patience.

3413. PUNISHMENT-LAW.

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2. No Punishment should exceed the Law's Com3414.

[mission. 3. Those at the name of Death are most afraid, Who fondliest wish the World's Eternity.

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the richest Robes,

Just Shame will hang upon
And shew itself, attired how it may.

3416. SIMULATION-a vulgar Talent.

Who can not steal a Shape that means Deceit ?

3417. PHYSIOGNOMY,

28. A cloudy Brow betrays a stormy Hate.

3418.

A Map of Honor, Truth, and Loyalty.

3. In the Face we see

SHAKESPEARE,

Ps. xxxvii. 39. xlvi. 1. cxix. 105.

like PETRARCH and MILTON, was exceedingly convers sant in SCRIPTURE.