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"POWER for a pencil, conscience for a table, To write opinion in of any fashion."

Ibid.

p. 58. "THE plague that in some folded cloud remains,

The bright sun soon disperseth: but observe,
When black infection in some dunghill lies,
There's work for bells and graves if it do
rise."
WEBSTER, Appius and Virginia. Old
Plays, vol. 5, p. 406.

"HE that would tame a lion, doth not use
The goad, or wierd whip; but a sweet voice,
A fearful stroking; and with food in hand
Must ply his wanton hunger."1

Ibid. p. 441.

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“FALSE antidotes for vicious ignorance, Whose causes are within, and so the cure; Error corrupting nature, not mischance, For how can that be wise which is not pure." Ibid. p. 210.

"TILL the inward moulds be truly placed, All is made crooked that in them we cast." Ibid. "FROM early childhood's promising estate, Up to performing manhood."

GONDIBERT, p. 2. Ibid. "WAR, art's deliberate strength." "READY as pilots waked with sudden winds." Ibid. p. 14.

"Dogs, such whose cold secresy was meant By nature for surprize." Ibid. 24.

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"RELAYS of horse, long-breathed as winter winds." Ibid. 25.

" ANIMALS

They want not the re Bui speech, by which we

boast."

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of thought,

ours for reason

Ibid. p. 26.

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"WHOSE needless carefulness

Infects them past the mind's best medicine,

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Which from the people does to rulers grow;

Power (Fortune's sail) should not for threatenings strike,

YET in our walk to our last home design'd In boats bestorm'd, all check at those that

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"THOU'ST brought me to that dull calamity, | Oh, how they cast to sink it! and defeated,
To that strange misbelief of all the world
And all things that are in it, that I fear
I shall fall like a tree, and find my grave,
Only remembering that I grieve."

Ibid. p. 60.

VIRTUE." The memorial thereof is immortal, because it is known with God and with man. When it is present, men take example at it; and when it is gone, they desire it; it weareth a crown, and triumpheth for ever, having gotten the victory, striving

for undefiled rewards."-Wisdom, iv. 1-2.

"NIMIRUM primorum parentum peccatum et luimus, et imitamur."-BACON, vol. 10, p. 4.

"LIGHT is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.”—Psalm 97, v. 11. Bible translation.

DIVINATIONS, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain; and the heart fancieth as a woman's heart in travail."-Ecclesiasticus, 34. 5.

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Where noble names lie sleeping, till they sweat,

And the cold marble melt.”—Ibid. p. 135.

"I HOLD a spleen, no sin of malice,
And may, with man enough, be best for-
gotten."-Ibid. Scornful Lady, p. 347.
" AND when

Crowned with still flourishing leaves of
I light upon (such worthies)
truth and goodness,
With such a feeling I peruse their fortunes
As if I then had lived."

F. Elder Brother, p. 110.

"He has made his study all his pleasure, And is retired into his contemplation, Not meddling with the dirt and chaff of nature,

That makes the spirit of the mind mud too.” Ibid. p. 115.

"He has been at court, and learned new

tongues,

And, now to speak a tedious piece of nothing,

MADE his soul melt within him, and To vary his face as seamen do their compass,

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May live neglected, and do noble things, As fools in strife throw gold into the sea, Drowned in the doing."-Ibid. p. 105.

AGAR ELLIS, Hallam, et id genus. "WHERE may a maiden live securely free, Keeping her honour safe?-Not with the living:

They feed upon opinions, errors, dreams, And make them truths: they draw a nourishment

Out of defamings, grow upon disgraces, And when they see a virtue fortified Strongly above the battery of their tongue,

To worship images of gold and silver,
And fall before the she-calves of the season."

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- UNBAKED poetry,

Such as the dablers of our time contrive, That has no weight nor wheel to move the mind,

Nor indeed nothing but an empty sound." Ibid. p. 121.

"SUCH a one-shews his thoughts double, Making 'em only food for his repentance." BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. Wit without Money, p. 282. "NOTHING to lose but that my soul inherits, Which they can neither law nor claw away.” Ibid. p. 292.

"THAT daily thrust their hazards;

lives through

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