Builds in the weather on the outward wall, 61 True Modesty. It is the witness still of excellency, 9-ii. 9. To put a strange face on his own perfection. 6-ii. 3. For nature, crescent," does not grow alone In thews and bulk; but as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul 36-i. 3. O, what authority and show of truth The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! 6-iv. 1. 9-i. 3. The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed, Glory grows guilty of detested crimes; Poems. When, for fame's sake, for praise, an outward part, We bend to that the working of the heart. 8-iv. 1. 67 Fickle-mindedness. O perilous mouths, That bear in them one and the self-same tongue, Either of condemnation or approof! Bidding the law make court'sy to their will; 5-ii. 4. 9 Power. r Increasing. s Matt. iv. 6. 68 t Duplicity. O, what may man within him hide, Most pond'rous and substantial things! 5-iii. 2. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. 36-iii. 1. When we for recompense have praised the vile, Which aptly sings the good. 71 27-i. 1. Falsehood, its evil. Will poor folks lie, That have afflictions on them; knowing 'tis A punishment, or trial? Yes; no wonder, When rich ones scarce tell true: To lapse in fulness Is sorer, than to lie for need; and falsehood Is worse in kings, than beggars.* 31-iii. 6. O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous Could great men thunder 5-ii. 2. As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, [der. Would use his heaven for thunder: nothing but thun Merciful Heaven! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, t Appearance. False and feeble pretences. w Sorer, a greater or heavier crime. The noble saying of John of France, "That if truth were banished all other places of the earth, she ought still to find a dwelling in the hearts of kings.' Than the soft myrtle!—O, but man, proud man! Most ignorant of what he's most assured, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, 5-ii. 2. 74 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; But now I am past all comforts here, but prayers. 25-iv. 2. 76 Things to be valued by their worth. From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, ; Is good, without a name vileness is so :b Our necessary actions, in the fear To coped malicious censurers; which ever, That is new trimm'd; but benefit no farther 11-ii. 3. 78 Judgment of weak minds not to be regarded. What we oft do best, By sick interpreters, oncee weak ones, is Not ours, or not allow'd;f what worst, as oft, a Titles. 25-i. 2. b Good is good independent of any worldly distinction; and so is vileness, vile. c Retard. d Encounter. e Sometime. f Approved. Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up For our best act. 79 Depravity. 25-i. 2. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile :8 In the fatness of these pursy times, Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg; 34-iv. 2. Yea, curbh and woo, for leave to do him good. 81 Traducement. 36-iii. 4. O wicked wit, and gifts, that have the power O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: 36-i. 5. 27-i. 2. Some run from brakes of vice, and answer none; 84 Satan out-witting 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; i '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. C Virtue is beauty; but the beauteous-evil 87 k Virtue and Vice, their influence. Virtue, as it never will be moved, 4-iii. 4. Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven; And prey on garbage. 88 Hypocrisy. 36-i. 5. 'Tis too much proved,"-that, with devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er The devil himself. 89 Age provident. Youth heedless. It seems, it is as proper to our age To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions, 90 Instability of worldly glory. Like madness is the glory of this life, 36-iii. 1. 36-ii. 1. As this pomp shews to a little oil, and root." 91 Mankind, its general character. Who lives, that's not 27-i. 2. Depraved, or depraves? who dies, that bears 92 Interposition. 'Tis dangerous, when the baser nature comes 27-i. 2. k In the time of Shakspeare, trunks, which are now deposited in lumber-rooms, were part of the furniture in apartments where company was received. They were richly ornamented on the top and sides with scroll work, and emblematical devices, and were elevated on feet. 1 Ornamented m Satiate. n Too frequent. o 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. P i.e. Given them by their friends. |