122 Court and country manners. Those, that are good manners at the court, are as ridiculous in the country, as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at the court. 10-iii. 2. If to do were as easy, as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages, princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws, for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree; such a hare is madness the youth, to skip over the meshes of good counsel the cripple. 124 Labour sweetens leisure. If all the year were playing holidays, g To sport would be as tedious as to work; 9-i, 2. But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. No might nor greatness in mortality 18-i. 2. Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny Before the curing of a strong disease, 5-iii. 2. 16-iii. 4. Was but devised at first, to set a gloss Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shewn; But where there is true friendship, there needs none. g John xiii. 17. 27-i. 2. Thieves are not judged, but they are by to hear, Although apparent guilt be seen in them. 17-iv. 1. Promising is the very air o' the time: it opens the eyes of expectation: performance is ever the duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable: performance is a kind of will, or testament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. 130 Pleasure often preceded by labour. 27-v. 1. There be some sports are painful; but their labour 1-iii. 1. When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner. The evil, that men do, lives after them; 20-iii. 6. 29-iii. 2. Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there. 'Tis often seen, 36-iii. 2. Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign seeds. 135 Patience and Cowardice compared. 11-i. 3. That which in mean men we entitle—patience, Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. 17-i. 2. Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward To what they were before. 15-iv. 2. 137 Arrogance. Shall the proud lord,. h That bastes his arrogance with his own seam, 26-ii. 3. Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? There thou might'st behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office. 139 34-iv. 6. Human nature. Strange is it, that our bloods, Óf colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together, The hearts of princes kiss obedience, 11-ii. 3. So much they love it; but, to stubborn spirits, 25-iii. 1. What our contempts do often hurl from us, 142 i The ill effects of neglected duty. 30-i. 2. Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves: Seals a commission to a blank of danger; h Fat. 26-iii. 3. ii.e. Change of circumstances, that is, 'the pleasure of to-day by revolution of events, and change of circumstances, often loses all its value to us, and becomes to-morrow a pain.' k By neglecting our duty, we commission or enable that danger of dishonour which could not reach us before, to lay hold upon us. Pardon, purchased by such sin, For which the pardoner himself is in: When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended, Things, done well, 5-iv. 2. And with a care, exempt themselves from fear: Are to be fear'd. 25-i. 2.. O infinite virtue! com'st thou smiling from 146 30-iv. 8. Flattery, its evil. He does me double wrong, That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. 147 Wisdom, superior to Fortune. Wisdom and fortune combating together, 148 Calamity lightened by fortitude. 17-iii. 2. 30-iii. 11. He bears the sentence well, that nothing bears 149 Adversity, the test of character. In the reproof of chance Lies the true proof of men. The sea being smooth, With those of nobler bulk? But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage The gentle Thetis,1 and anon, behold 1 The daughter of Neptune. The strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut, And flies fled under shade, why, then the thing of courage, n As roused with rage, with rage doth sympathize, 150 Determinations of Anger. What to ourselves in passion we propose, 26-i. 3. 151 36-iii. 2. Authority. O place! O form! How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, 5-ii. 4. What valour were it, when a cur doth grin, 153 Self-praise no commendation. The worthiness of praise distains his worth, 23-i. 4. If that the praised himself bring the praise forth: That breath fame follows; that praise, sole pure, transcends.P m The gad-fly that stings cattle. 26-i. 3. n It is said of the tiger, that in storms and high winds he rages and roafs most furiously. o Outside. p Prov. xxvii. 2. |