Than the soft myrtle !-O, but man, proud man! Most ignorant of what he's most assured, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, 74 5-ii. 2. Divine Justice. You are above, 34-iv. 2. You justicers, that these our nether crimes That comfort comes too late; 'Tis like a pardon after execution: That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me; 76 Things to be valued by their worth. 25-iv. 2. From the lowest place when virtuous things proceed, It is a dropsied honour: good alone Is good, without a name; vileness is so:† The property by what it is should go, We must not stint‡ Our necessary actions, in the fear To cope malicious censurers; which ever, 78 11-ii. 3. 25-i. 2. Judgment of weak minds not to be regarded. By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is * Titles. Good is good independent of any worldly distinction, and so is vileness vile. + Retard. § Encounter. Sometime. ↑ Approved. Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up For our best act. 79 Depravity. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile :* In the fatness of these pursy times, Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg; Yea, curbt and woo, for leave to do him good. 25-i. 2. 34-iv. 2. 36-iii. 4. O wicked wit, and gifts, that have the power 36-i. 5. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: 27-i. 2. Some run from brakest of vice, and answer none; 84 Satan outwitting himself. 5-ii. 1. The devil knew not what he did, when he made man politic; he crossed himself by't: and I cannot think, but, in the end, the villanies of man will set him clear. Ingrateful man, with liquorish draughts, 27-iii. 3. And morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind, 86 Mental deformity and virtue. 27-iv. 3. In nature there's no blemish, but the mind; *Titus i. 15. · † Bend. Brakes of vice,' means the engine of torture. In Holinshed, p. 670, it is mentioned, 'the said Hawkins was cast into the Tower, and at length brought to the brake,' &c. This engine is still to be seen in the Tower. * Virtue is beauty ; but the beauteous-evil 4-iii. 4. 87 Virtue and Vice, their influence. 36-i. 5. 88 Hypocrisy 'Tis too much proved, —that, with devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er The devil himself. 36-iii. 4. 89 Age provident. Youth heedless. 36--ii. 1. 90 Instability of worldly glory. 27-i. 2. 91 Mankind, its general character. Who lives, that's not Depraved, or depraves? who dies, that bears Not one spurn to their graves of their friend's gift ?T 27-i. 2. 92 Interposition. 'Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes * In the time of Shakspeare, trunks, which are now deposited in lumber-rooms, were part of the furniture in apartments where com. pany was received. They were richly ornamented on the top and sides with scrollwork, and emblematical devices, and were elevated on feet. Ornamented. Satiate. § Too frequent. || i.e. The glory of this life is just as much madness in the eye of reason, as pomp appears to be when compared to the frugal repast of a philosopher. 1 i. e. Given them by their friends. Between the pass and fell incensed points 36-v. 2. Time shall unfold what plaited* cunning hides, 34-i. 1. 94 Obstinacy, its evil. To persist 26-ii. 2. In doing wrong, extenuates not wrong, What rein can hold licentious wickedness, When down the hill he holds his fierce career? From her material sap, perforce must wither, 34-iv. 2. Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, Which, at the first, are scarce found to distaste; Burn like the mines of sulphur. Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, Which after-hours give leisure to repent. 37-iii. 3. 24-iv. 4. Where's that palace, whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not? who has a breast so pure, But some uncleanly apprehensions Folded, doubled. He that covereth his sins shall not prosper.' Prov. xxviii. 13. 'Who covers faults at last with shame derides.' Restrained within any certain bounds. § Tear off. Keep leets,* and law-days, and in session sit 100 Timidity and self-confidence. 37-iii. 3. Blind Fear, that seeing Reason leads, finds safer footing than blind Reason stumbling without Fear. 101 Judgment influenced by circumstances. Men's judgments are 26-iii. 2. A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward 30-iii. 11. Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. Cold ways, 17-i. 3. That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous 104 Knowledge to be communicated. 28-iii. 1. That man-how dearly ever parted,|| How much in having, or without, or in,- 26-iii. 3. The beauty that is borne here in the face, *Courts of equity. Who has so virtuous a breast, that some impure conceptions will not sometimes enter into it: hold a session there as in a regu lar court, and bench by the side' of authorised and lawful thoughts? Rom. vii. 18-24. Prov. v. 14. Are of a piece with them. Excellently endowed. § Growling. |