Ill fits a Man to say "This thing's to do;" When he has Cause, with Strength and Means, to

4035. AMBITION.

45. A Spirit with Ambition elevated

Despises the invisible Event,

Exposing what is mortal and unsure

[do it.

To all that Fortune, Death, and Danger dare,
Even for an Egg-shell*.

4036. CONSCIENCE.

5. To a sick Soul,-as Sin's true Nature is, Each Joy seems Prologue to some great amiss. i 4037. GUILT;-it's JEALOUSY...

65. The Jealousy of Guilt

Oft spills itself in fear of being spilt. 4038. REASON.

79. Divided from his Reason, Man is but as a Picture or mere Beast.

Who thinks much remembers much. 4042. JUSTICE.

+ Where the Offence is let the great Axe fall; Not glance upon the guiltless.

4043. NECESSITY.

1

12

2. Necessity sometimes creates a compell'd

Valour.

* So DEMOSTHENES of PHILIP..

4044. WORDS; their INADEQUATENESS. 13. There are some occasions so great and se. rious, that the gravest Words are too light for the bore of the Matter.

4045. AFFECTION metamorphoses.

3. Affection

Will, like the Spring that turneth Wood to Stone,
Turn all things to it's latent quality,

And leave no semblance foreign to itself.
Thus blemishes to graces finely change*,
Dipt in it's potent stream.

[VIRTUE.

4046. SLANDER impotent against WISDOM and Slanders against the Wise and good, like Arrows,

Too slightly timber'd and too weakly thrown,
Reverting to the hostile Bow again,
Wound not where they are aim'dt.

4047. YOUTH-AGE—their becoming CHARACYouth no less becomes

[TERISTICS.

The light and careless Livery that it wears,
Than settled Age his Sables and his Weeds,
Importing health and graveness.

4048. GRIEF false.

21. False Grief is like the painting of a Sorrow; A Face without the Heart.

4049. LOVE.

Love is begun by Time: And it is seen, in passages of proof,"

* Amatorem quod Amica

).

Turpia decipiunt cœcum Vitia, aut etiam ipsa hæc
Delectant.
HOR.

† Telum imbelle, sine ictu

Conjecit, rauco quod protinus ære repulsum
Et summo clypei nequicquam umbone pependit.

VIRG.

Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.

201

There lives within the very flame of Love ou

A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it:

And nothing is at a like goodness still

Where Passion mixes; but increas'd to the Dies of it's own too much*.

4050. PROCRASTINATION.

That we would do,

[height,

We should do at the moment when we would, And nothing trust to Time; for this "would" changes,

And has abatements and delays as many

As there are Tongues, are Hands, are Accidents. And then this "should" is like a Spendthrift's That hurts by easing.

4051. MURTHER.

No Place should Murther sanctuarize+.

4052. OPPORTUNITY.

[Sigh,

Weigh what Convenience both of Time and Means. 4053. EXPEDIENTS trust not all to one.

A Project.

Should have a back or second that might hold, i' If the first did blast in proof.

4054. NATURE.

Nature her Custom holds, Let Shame say what it will.

*There is in the Comparisons of SHAKESPEARE, whether taken from the greatest or lowest subjects, a force and happiness of Invention, an originality, a propriety, a philosophic Depth and Refinement, a poetic Grace, and Happiness of Idea and Expression, truely peculiar.

The Privilege of Sanctuary was very much abridged before the Birth of our Poet: by Stat. 27 H. VIII. c. 19. Anno 1535; and 37. 12. And it was finally abolisht after his Death by 21 Ja. I. c. 28. Anno 1623.

4055. PUNISHMENT. /

§ Punishment does well for those that do ill. 4056. SENSIBILITY impair'd by HABIT. The hand of little Employment has the daintier 4057. EMULATION of RANK.

[Sense. The Age is grown so picked, the Toe of the Peasant comes so near the Heel of the Courtier, that he galls his kybe.

4058. CONGRUITY.

Sweets to the Sweet.

4059. NATURE and NECESSITY. Let Hercules himself do what he may,

The Cat will mew, and Dog will have his Day. 4060. PATIENCE.

Strengthen your Patience.

4061. FEAR-MANNERS. Fear forgets Manners.

4062. LIFE.

3f. Though a Man's Life's no more than to say, However short, the Interim is our's.

4063. PROPERTY.

Spacious in the Possession of Dirt.

["One,"

4064. EXCELLENCE-perceiv'd as possesst. To know fully the Excellence of another, is to be comparable with that other in Excellence. 4065. CONVERSATION-fashionable. ··

There are many who only get the tune of the time; an outward habit of encounter; a kind of yesty collection and do but blow them to their Trial, the Bubbles are out.

4066. STEADINESS.

Be constant to your purposes.

45. The treacherous bak Are justly caught in their own Treachery. 4068. THEORY; PRACTICE,

5. Theory without Practice is mere Prattle.

OTHELLO.

4069. PREFERMENT.

Preferment goes by Letter and Affection;
And not by old Gradation, where each Second
Stood Heir to the First.

4070. SERVICE-ill requited.

20 2

You shall mark

Many a duteous and knee crooking knave

..I

That, doting on his own obsequious Bondage, Wears out his time, much like his Master's Ass, For nought but Provender: and when he's old insincere and selfish. [cashier'd. Others there are

4071.

Who, trim'd in Forms and Visages of Duty,. Keep yet their Hearts attendant on themselves; And throwing but shews of service to their Lords Do well thrive by them; and when they have lin'd their Coats,

Do themselves homage."

4072. POLICY-bad.

1 1

6. 'Tis wretched Policy, Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain, To wake and wage a Danger profitless. 4073. ACCUSATION EVIDENCE. 7§. To urge an Accusation is no Proof: Without more certain and more overt test.