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66 - WHOSE needless carefulness Infects them past the mind's best medicine,

sleep."

Ibid. p. 105.

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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Oh, how they cast to sink it! and defeated, (Soul-sick with poison) strike the monu

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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

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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." Wit BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. 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;

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-"Sweet expressions, quick conceit, Familiar language, fashioned to the weight Part with't at pleasure: when we would Of such as speak it."

"PUT on

The surest armour anvil'd in the shop
Of passive fortitude."

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. Lover's

Progress, p. 421.

"A MAN from whose example As from a compass, we may steer our fortunes,

Our actions, and our age; and safe arrive at A memory that shall become our ashes." Ibid. The Pilgrim, p. 445.

"FOR he that holds no faith, shall find no trust;

But sowing wrong, is sure to reap the same." DANIEL, vol. 1, p. 77.

uncase,

It brings along with it both flesh and sinews, And leaves us living monsters."

Ibid. Prophetess, p. 166.

"WHERE benefits Are ill-conferred, as on unworthy men That turn them to bad uses, the bestower For wanting judgement how and on whom to place them, Is partly guilty."

Ibid. Queen of Corinth, p. 192.

Humility.

"THE fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest towards the ground." -BP. REYNOLDS, vol. 5, p. 47.

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