Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, 16-iv. 2. The king is but a man, as I am: the violet smells to him, as it doth to me; the element shows to him, as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions:* his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing. 20-iv. 1. 167 Men often blind to their faults. Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear, 168 God's vengeance on the wicked. Poems. There is no king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all unspotted soldiers. Some, peradventure, have on them the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder; some of beguiling virgins with the broken seal of perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with pillage and robbery. Now, if these men have defeated the law, and outrun native punishment, though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to fly from God:t war is his beadle, war is his vengeance; so that here men are punished, for beforebreach of the king's laws, in now the king's quarrel : where they feared the death, they have borne life away; and, where they would be safe, they perish.‡ Then, if they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of their damnation, than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. 20-iv. 1. * Qualities. Isa. x. &c., that is, punishment in their native country. 169 Man different only in exterior. Though mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust; yet reverence* (That angel of the world) doth make distinction Of place 'tween high and low. Kings, and mightiest potentates, must die; 171 Unwelcome news, thankless. The first bringer of unwelcome news As well the fear of harm, as harm apparent, Nothing can we call our own, but death; 31-iv. 2. 21-iii. 2. 19-i. 1. 24-ii. 2. Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. 174 Conflict of Grace. 17-iii. 2. The flesh being proud, Desire doth fight with Grace, For there it revels, and when that decays, The guilty rebel for remission 175 prays. The failure of Hope. The ample proposition, that hope makes In all designs begun on earth below, Poems. Fails in the promised largeness: checks and disasters As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, * Reverence, or due regard to subordination, is the power that keeps peace and order in the world. Why then Do you with cheeks abash'd behold our works; else But the protractive trials of great Jove, To find persistive constancy in men? In fortune's love; for then, the bold and coward, I held it ever, 26-i. 3. Virtue and cunningt were endowments greater May the two latter darken and expend; 177 Glory and Wealth, their temptation. 33-iii. 2. O, the fiercet wretchedness that glory brings us! To have his pomp, and all what state compounds, 27-iv. 2. 'Tis the curse of service; Preferment goes by letter, and affection, Not by the old gradation, where each second 37-i. 1. Hasty, precipitate. * Joined by affinity. † Knowledge. Grief boundeth where it falls, Not with the empty hollowness, but weight.* 180 Misconstruction. Men may construe things after their fashion, 17-i. 2. Cleanf from the purpose of the things themselves. 181 Poverty and Riches. Poor and content, is rich, and rich enough; Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness, 29-i. 3. 37-iii. 3. Wherein the pregnant¶ enemy does much. 4-ii. 2. Strange it is, 30-v. 1. That nature must compel us to lament Our most persisted deeds. 184 Judgment governed by circumstances. Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks: 185 Virtue. 34-iv. 6. Virtue, that transgresses, is but patched with sin; and sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue. 186 Human nature. 4-i. 5. The first time that we smell the air, We wawl and cry: *That is, no griefs, evidently ence by reaction upon others. trasted to a bladder. affected, have a sympathetic influThe conceit is from a ball con† Entirely. 'I have learned in whatever state,' &c.-Phil. iv. 11. Endless, unbounded. Winter, producing no fruits. Dexterous, ready fiend. When we are born, we cry, that we are come 34-iv. 6. Sometimes, hath the brightest day a cloud: Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold; 188 Though the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the sooner it wears. 189 Pride, its effects. Two curs shall tame each other: Pride alone 18-ii. 4. Must tarre* the mastiffs on, as 'twere their bone. 190 Men, their various characters. O heavens, what some men do, While some men leave to do! 26-i. 3. How some men creep in skittish Fortune's hall, How one man eats into another's pride, While pride is fasting in his wantonness! 26-iii. 3. 191 Contentment, its happiness. "Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, 25-ii. 3. 'Tis a common proof t That lowliness is young Ambition's ladder, * Provoke. + Experience. 29-ii. 1. Low steps. |