He gratis comes; and thou art well appay'd, Guilty thou art of murder and of theft; Mis-shapen Time, copesmate of ugly night, * Poems, Base watch of woes, sin's pack-horse, virtue's snare; Thou nursest all, and murderest all, that are. Time's glory is to calm contending kings; To blot old books, and alter their contents; To mock the subtle, in themselves beguiled; One poor retiring minute in an age, Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends; Lending him wit, that to bad debtors lends. Poems. 534 Moral conquest. Brave conquerors!-for so you are, That war against your own affections, 8-i. l. 535 Every place a home to the wise. All places, that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:1 There is no virtue like necessity. 17-i. 3. 536 The proffered means of Heaven to be embraced. The means, that heaven yields, must be embraced, 537 Self-conquest. 17—iii. 2. Better conquest never can'st thou make, Than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts Against those giddy loose suggestions. 16-iii. 1. 538 Acquaintanceship to be formed with caution. It is certain that either wise bearing, or ignorant carriage, is caught, as men take diseases, one of another: therefore, let men take heed of their company. 19-v. 1. 1 Tit. i. 15. 539 Sorrow not to be courted. In wooing sorrow let's be brief, Since, wedding it, there is such length in grief. 540 m The solemnity of oaths. The truth thou art unsure To swear, swear only not to be forsworn; 17—v. 1. 541 Resignation to the will of God. 16-iii. 1. Heaven me such usage send, Not to pick bad from bad; but, by bad, mend! 542 Knowledge to govern ourselves. Let's teach ourselves. Ah, honourable stop, 543 Anger to be controlled by reason. 37-iv. 3. 37-ii. 3. Let your reason with your choler question A full hot horse; who being allow'd his way, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper 545 25-i. 1. 36-iii. 4. Virtuous conflict. O virtuous fight, When right with right wars, who shall be most right! Let's take the instant by the forward top; m Old copy reads swears. 26-iii. 2. 31—iii. 4. 11-v. 3. 548 The encouragement to hope. What! we have many goodly days to see: 24-iv. 4. 6-iv. 1. Will fashion the event in better shape Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty : 552 10-ii. 3. So madly hot, that no discourse of reason, Can qualify the same? 26-ii. 2. You should account me the more virtuous, that I have not been common in my love. 28-ii. 3. How long Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong? 17—ii. 1. You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair: Your words have took such pains, as if they labour'd Is valour misbegot, and came into the world He's truly valiant, that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe; and make his wrongs His outsides; wear them like his raiment, carelessly; And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger. If wrongs be evils, and enforce us kill, Stop the rage betime, Before the wound do grow incurable; 27-iii. 5. For, being green, there is great hope of help. 558 Compassion recommended to the proud. Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, 22-iii. 1. That thou may'st shake the superflux" to them, 559 The duty owing to ourselves and others. 34-iii. 4. Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy 11-i. 1. I will chide no breather in the world, but myself; against whom I know most faults. 561 Imperfections belong to the best. Thy honourable metal may be wrought 10-iii. 2. "Superfluity. |