3989. ACQUAINTANCE.

Do not dull thy palm with entertainment

Of each new hatcht unfledged Comrade. 3990. SOUL.

No power of Violence can hurt the Soul, Being a thing immortal.

3991. LOVE.

There are no wings more swift

Than are the Thoughts of Love.

3992. MOTHER.

However hurt, let not thy Soul contrive
Against thy Mother aught:-leave her to Heaven.

3§. Has often an acuteness in it's replies, of which Reason and Sanity could not be so happily 3997. WORLD. [delivered. The World's a Prison; though a goodly one. 3998, AMBITION.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a Dream.'

3999. STILLNESS-PROGNOSTIC.

We often see, against some Storm, The bold Winds speechless, and the Orb below As hush as Death: anon, the dreadful Thunder Doth rend the Region.

4000. PLAYERS.

Players are the Abstract and brief Chronicle of the Times.

4001. FUTURITY.

The dread of something after Death, I The undiscover'd Country from whose bourne No Traveller returns, puzzles the Will, And makes us rather bear the Ills we know, Than fly to others which we know not of 4002. PRUDENCE excessive, for

The native hue of Resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale Cast of Thought; And Enterprizes of great pith and momenti With this regard their current turn away, And lose the name of Action,

4003. HONESTY-BEAUTY.

Honesty should admit no Discourse to Beauty. 4004.

Beauty cannot have better commerce than with Honesty*.

4005. PARADOX.

There are many Paradoxes to which Time gives Proof.

4006. VIRTUE.

Our old Stock can not be so perfectly changed by engrafting or inoculating Virtue upon it, but that we shall relish of it,

4007. CALUMNY.

Be thou as chaste as Ice, as pure as Snow,& Thou shalt not escape Calumny,

4008. TRAVELLING.

§ Seas and Countries different

With variable objects may expel

The settled matter brooding on the Heart,

* Honesty, Honetteté, Honestum, the Just and Becoming, is the internal Beauty of Plato.

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On which the brains still beat and set the Man

From fashion of himself.

4009. MADNESS.

Madness in Great-ones must not unwatcht go.

4010. MODERATION.

Use all gently.

4011. ACTION and ELOCUTION.

Do not saw the Air with your hand too much. 4012.

In the very torrent, tempest, and whirlwind of your Passion, you must acquire and beget a Temperance that may give it smoothness.

4013.

f It offends good Taste and good Sense to the Soul to hear a robust, perriwig-pated Fellow tear a Passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of those who for the most part are capable of nothing but noise and dumb shew.

4014. ACTING.

The Purpose of Playing, it's End both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as it were, the Mirror up to Nature: to shew Virtue her Feature, Scorn her own Image, and the very Age and Body of the Time his Form and Pressure.

4015.

Acting over-done, or come tardy off, though it makes the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of which must, in every true allowance, overweigh a whole Theatre of others.

4016.

Let those that play your Clowns speak no more than is set down for them: for there be that will

theirselves laugh to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too: though in the mean time some necessary question of the Play be then to be considered: That's villainous; and shews a vil lainous Ambition in the Fool that uses it.

4017. REFORM.

Reform altogether.

4018. REASON & PASSION;-their EQUILIBRIUM. Blest are those

Whose Blood and Judgment are so well commingled
That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please.

4019. DETERMINATION-changeable.

4020.

What we do determine oft we break.

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Of violent birth have poor validity,

Which now, like fruit unripe, stick to the tree, But fall, unripen'd.

Our Thoughts are our's; their Ends none of our 4022. FRIENDSHIP-unreserv'd,

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* He bars the door to his own Liberty who denies his Griefs to his Friend.

4023. SEVERITY—verbal.

'Tis better speaking Daggers than using

4024. OFFICIOUSNESS.

To be too busy is some Danger,

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The hey-day in the blood is tame, is humble,
And waits upon the Judgment.

1026. VICE;-it's SELF-DELUSION.

In a corrupted Heart the Reason

Is Pander to the Will,

4027. IRRITATION-PATIENCE. Upon the heat and flame of Irritation Sprinkle cool Patience.

4028. EVIL;-progressive.

Where bad begins still worse remains behind, 4029. EVIL turn'd on it's Authors.

'Tis just to make the Engineer of Mischief Hoist with his own Petard*.

4030. SHAME--false.

Men will not understand what is most fit,
But oft from shame and a mistaken Pride
Are as the owner of a foul Disease,
Who rather than divulge it lets it feed
Even on the pith of Life.

4031. SECRECY.

2§. A Man who can not keep his own Counsel cannot keep that of another.

4032. WAR.

[Peace;

War is the' Imposthume of much Wealth and That breaks within, and shews no cause without Why the Man dies.

4033. PRUDENCE-excessive.

There is a craven scruple

Of thinking too precisely on the Event,

Which, rightly quarter'd, has but one part

4034, PROCRASTINATION.

[Wisdom.

3§. If it be wise and just that it be done,

* Nec Lex est æquior ulla

Quam Necis Artifices Arte perire suâ.

Metus in Auctorem redit.

SENECA,