The other, at high wish. Best state, contentless, 214 Treason, silent in its operations. 27-iv. 3. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep; 215 Malice, its extent. 22-iii. 1. To cut the head off, and then hack the limbs; 216 Good The value of a good name. name, in man, and woman, Is the immediate jewel of their souls:d . 29-ii. 1. Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands: But he, that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that, which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. 217 Slander, certain in its aim. Slander, Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter, Transports his poison'd shot. 218 Peasant and Courtier. 37-iii. 3. 36-iv. 1. The age is grown so picked,f that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. 219 A tide in human life. There is a tide in the affairs of men, 36-v. 1. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Is bound in shallows, and in miseries : b Best states contentless have a wretched being-a being worse than that of the worst states that are content. c Malice. d Prov. xxii. 1. e Mark. f Spruce, affected. And we must take the current when it serves, 29-iv. 3. When fortune means to men most good, 221 Natural defects impair virtues. Oft it chances in particular men, 16-iii. 4. That, for some vicious mole of nature in them, By the o'ergrowth of some complexion," h Shall in the general censure take corruption 36-i. 4. Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease; With fear and horrid flight. 223 27-v. 5. Riches not true which are to be courted. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count their worth. A grandam's name is little less in love, Than is the doting title of a mother; 35-ii. 6. They are as children, but one step below. 24-iv. 4., Pride hath no other glass To shew itself but pride; for supple knees Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees. 226 Neglect of departed friends. As we do turn our backs 26-iii. 3. From our companion, thrown into his grave; Slink all away; leave their false vows with him, With his disease of all-shunn'd poverty, 227 27-iv. 2. Decay of pomp. Vast confusion waits 16-iv. 3. (As doth a raven on a sick-fallen beast) The imminent decay of wrested pomp." 228 Love, the display of. The ostent" of our love, which, left unshewn, 229 Sufferings softened by sympathy. 30-iii. 6. When we our betters see bearing our woes, 230 Infirmity, its effects. Infirmity doth still neglect all office, Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves, When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind, To suffer with the body. 231 The power of melancholy. O hateful Error, Melancholy's child! 34-ii. 4. o States clear from distress. Why dost thou shew to the apt thoughts of men 232 Truth and Beauty, their excellence. Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd; 233 Man values only what he sees and knows. The jewel that we find, we stoop and take it, 234 29-v. 3. Poems. 5-ii. 1. Friendship with the wicked, dangerous. 235 Earth, Nature's mother. 17-v. 1. The earth, that's nature's mother, is her tomb; 236 Nature, oft perverted by man. 35-ii. 3. O, mickle is the powerful grace, that lies Within the infant rind of this small flower 35-ii. 3. p Plain. 'q Virtue. r i.e. To the inhabitants of the earth. For this being smelt, with that part cheers each part; 238 Real happiness, where chiefly found. They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing: It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean; superfluity comes sooners by white hairs, but competency lives longer. 9-i. 2. 239 Ambition and content. Thoughts tending to Ambition, they do plot * * * Thoughts tending to Content, flatter themselves, 240 Misguided expectations. 17-v. 5. How mightily, sometimes, we make us comforts of our losses! And how mightily, some other times, we drown our gain in tears! 241 Timidity, incapable of adventure. Impossible be strange attempts, to those 11-iv. 3. That weigh their pains in sense; and do suppose, 242 11—i. 1. The love of life. O our lives' sweetness! That with the pain of death we'd hourly die, Rather than die at once! 34-v: 3. t Exod. xxiii. 2. $ Sooner comes, sooner acquires, becomes old. u New attempts seem impossible to those who estimate their labour or enterprises by sense, and believe that nothing can be but what they see before them. |