Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop, Not to outsport discretion. OTHELLO. Act п. Scene 3. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, ROMEO AND JUliet. Act п. Scene 6. LXXV. THE LOVE OF MONEY THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL But they that will be rich fall into temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.—1 TTM. vi. 9, 10. The deceitfulness of riches chokes the word, and he becometh unfruitful.'-MATT. xiii. 22. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; . . . and covetousness, which is idolatry. COL. iii. 5. 1 Mark x. 21-23; 2 Tim. iv. 10. Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, and said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. MATT. xxvi. 14, 15. How quickly nature Falls to revolt, when gold becomes her object. Avarice Grows with more pernicious root Than summer-seeding lust. MACBETH. Act IV. Scene 3. Gold! yellow, glittering, precious gold, will make black, white; foul, fair; Wrong, right; base, noble; old, young; coward, valiant: Why, this Will lug your priests and servants from your sides; Will knit and break religions; bless the accurs'd; 1 Ecclus. xxxi. 6. H This it is That makes the wappen'd widow wed again; TIMON OF ATHENS. Act IV. Scene 3. There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls; I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none. * ROMEO AND Juliet. Act v. Scene 1. O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce That solder'st close impossibilities, And mak'st them kiss! that speak'st with every tongue To every purpose! O thou touch of hearts! Think, thy slave man rebels; and by thy virtue Set them into confounding odds, that beasts May have the world in empire. * TIMON OF ATHENS. Act IV. Scene 3. Spoken to an apothecary. LXXVI. MORAL CONFLICT. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.1-GAL. v. 17. Within the infant rind of this small flower For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. Two such opposed foes encampt them still In man as well as herbs-grace and rude will; Full soon the canker death eats up that plant. Act II. Scene 3. The flesh being proud, desire doth fight with grace. 1 Rom. vii. 19, 22, 23; John iii. 6, 7; Rom. viii. 6, 7. LXXVII. SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS. And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.1—Is. vi. 9. The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.2-JOHN i. 5. What an infinite mock is this, that a man should have the best use of his eyes to see the way of blindness!-CYMBELINE. Act v. Scene 4. LXXVIII. THE SOOTHING EFFECTS OF MUSIC. And it came to pass, when the evil spirit was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.-1 SAM. xvi. 23. 1 Acts xxviii. 25-27; Rom. xi. 8. 2 1 Cor. ii. 14; John iii. 19. |