The fhrine is that which thou doft venerate, Herbert. He that wears a brave foul, and dares gallantly do, Alexander Brome. For, at the beginning, was no peafant or prince, Alexander Brome. DISSIMULATION. For commonly in all diffimulations Mirror for Magiftrates. For commonly all that do counterfeit Mirror for Magiftrates. 1. Why is diffembling join'd to their fex infep'rable, As heat to fire, heaviness to earth, Moisture to water, thinness to air? 2. No, but found in their fex, as common as Spots upon doves, moles upon faces, Caterpillars upon fweet apples, Cobwebs upon fair windows. Lilly's Endimion. 1. He was a man that would keep church fo duly, rise Early before his fervants, and ev'n for Religious hafte, go ungarter'd, unbutton'd; Nay, fir-reverence untruft, to morning pray'r; Had great guests, would e'en fhame me, and rife from The table, to get a good feat at an Afternoon fermon L4 2. There 2. There is the devil; He thought it fanctity enough, if he Had kill'd a man, fo't had been done in a pew, Church, ay, he seem'd all church, and his confcience Shakespear's Puritan. Why, I can fmile, and murther while I fimile; And frame my face to all occafions : I'll drown more failors, than the mermaid fhall; Shakespear's Third Part of K. Henry VI. Your hand, your tongue; look like th' innocent flow'r, And be the ferpent under't. Shakespear's Macbeth. Away, and mock the time with faireft thew: Falle face muft hide what the falfe heart doth know. Shakespear's Macbeth. Vice never doth her juft rage fo provoke, As when she rageth under virtue's cloak. Chapman's Buffey D'ambois. It was the coverture of honesty That laid the fnare, whereby they were undone; That makes the breach whereby the world is fack'd, When as our weak credulity is wrack'd By that opinion of fufficiency, To all the inconveniencies, that guile Daniel's Arcadia Difguise these paffions, left you lofe your end; Lord Brook's Alabam.. Her fecret drift the wifeft mifs to find; Nor will she know yet what these factions meant ;. The leaft fufpicion craftily to heal, Still in her looks humility fhe bears, The fafeft way with mightiness to deal ; 'Twas then no time her grievance to reveal, He's mad which takes a lion by the ears: This knew the queen, and this well know the wife, Oh, you're a foul diffembling hypocrite!' Drayton You fav'd me from a thief that yourself might rob me:: Skinn'd over a green wound to breed an ulcer. Middleton and Rowley's Fair Qarrel. Hypocrify's a delicate white devil; Do but fashion yourfelf to feem holy, And ftudy to be worse in private, worse, You'll You'll find yourself more active in your fenfuality, To think what an afs you make o'the believing Though custom calls Shirley's Grateful Servant. Thofe actions only honeft, that are glorious Nabbs's Tottenham-Court. Great nature, that hast made a stone descry Sicelides. Firft bait thy hook with deep diffembl❜d love, Quarles's Virgin Widow. For most men To 1 To be fo, herein whilft their best wisdom lies I'll never truft again A woman with white eyes, that can take notes, Heath Main's City Matche The shape of virtue still can best deceive; Sir Robert Howard's Veftal Virgin His name was doubt, that had a double face, As if fome proved peril he did fear, Or did mifdoubt fome ill, whofe caufe did not appear. You do feem to know Spenfer's Fairy Queen Something of me, or what concerns me; pray you The wound of peace is furety, Shakespear's Cymbelins Surety fecure; but modeft doubt is call'd The beacon of the wife; the tent that searches Our doubts are traitors, Shakespear's Troilus and Cresfida. And make us lofe the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. |