Women are frail; Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves; For we are soft as our complexions are, And credulous to false prints. The untainted virtue of your years Hath not yet dived into the world's deceit : 5-ii. 4. Than of his outward show; which, God he knows, Seldom, or never, jumpeth with the heart. 409 24-iii. 1. Violent commotion. Riotous madness, To be entangled with those mouth-made vows, 30-i. 3. 410 Hypocrisy. It oft falls out, To have what we'd have, we speak not what we mean. 5-ii. 4. You take my house, when you do take the prop 412 9-iv. 1. Danger of precipitancy. 413 Marriage. Earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, e Dan. iii. 22. 25-i. 1. Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Let still the woman take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, sways she level in her husband's heart. However we do praise ourselves, So Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, 7-i. 1. 4-ii. 4. 415 Filial ingratitude. Filial ingratitude! Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand, 34-iii. 4. If I am traduced by tongues, which neither know The chronicles of my doing-let me say, 'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brakef That virtue must go through. 417 Benefit of communication with friends. 25-i. 2. You do, surely, but bar the door upon your own liberty, if you deny your griefs to your friend. 418 Human nature alike in all. 36-iii. 2. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? if you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? 9—iii. 1. 419 Good may be extracted from evil. There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out; f Thicket of thorns. We may gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself. 20-iv. 1. Should dying men flatter with those that live? To fly the boar before the boar pursues, And make pursuit, where he did mean no chase. 422 24-iii. 2. Honour not exempt from detraction. Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning!-Who hath it? He that died o'Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. 18-v. 1. Bad is the trade must play the fool to sorrow, Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, 34-iv. 1. More hideous, when thou shew'st thee in a child, 425 Desirableness of meekness. Who should study to prefer a peace, 34-i. 4. If holy churchmen take delight in broils? 21-iii. 1. Thy Glass will shew thee how thy beauties wear, The sea-monster, is the hippopotamus, the hieroglyphical symbol of impiety and ingratitude. Sandys, in his Travels, says, "that he killeth his sire, and ravisheth his own dam." The vacant Leaves thy mind's imprint will bear, Look, what thy memory cannot contain, Shall profit thee, and much enrich thy book. 427 Poems. Greatness most exposed to scandal. The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honour'd, or begets him hate: For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. The moon being clouded presently is miss'd, But little stars may hide them when they list. The crow may bathe his coal-black wings in mire, And unperceived fly with the filth away; But if the like the snow-white swan desire, The stain upon his silver down will stay. Poor grooms are sightless night, kings glorious day. Gnats are unnoted wheresoe'er they fly, But eagles gazed upon with every eye. 428 Humility. Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good,. 429 Kings, like other men. Poems. 5-ii. 4. Kings are no less unhappy, their issue not being gracious, than they are in losing them, when they have approved their virtues. 430 Accusation. 13-iv. 1. When shall he think to find a stranger just, h Matt. vii. 1---5. Poems. 431 Honour dearer than life. Life every man holds dear; but the dear man Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man To plainness honour's bound, When majesty stoops to folly. Every good servant does not all commands: 435 26-v. 3. 28-v. 3. 34-i. 1. 31-v. l. Peace, in what sense a victory. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; 436 The sight of sorrow, its effects. 19-iv. 2. To see sad sights moves more, than hear them told; Deep sounds make lesser noise, than shallow fords; And sorrow ebbs being blown with wind of words. |