Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper 36-iii. 4. 182. The power of imagination. The treasury of life, when life itself 34-iv. 6. 183. Moral conquest. Yields to the theft. Brave conquerors!-for so you are, That war against your own affections, 184. The necessity of repose. These should be hours for necessities, Not for delights; times to repair our nature With comforting repose, and not for us To waste. 8-i. 1. 25-v. 1. A great perturbation in nature! to receive at once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching. 15-v. 1. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand; but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature. 36-iii. 2. 187. Studies to be pursued according to taste and pleasure. Continue your resolve, To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy. Only, while we do admire When life is willing to be destroyed. pray; This virtue, and this moral discipline, Talk logic with acquaintance that you have, m The mathematics, and the metaphysics, Fall to them, as you find your stomach serves you: No profit grows, where is no pleasure ta'en;- The nimble spirits in the arteries; As motion, and long-during action, tires 189. Cultivation and Sterility. 12-i. 1. 8-iv. 3. Our bodies are our gardens; to the which, our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce; set hyssop, and weed up thyme; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions. 37-i. 3. 190. Things to be valued by their worth. Is good, without a name; vileness is so°: 191. The character of true excellence. Value dwells not in particular will; It holds its estimate and dignity 11-ii. 3. n Titles. • Good is good independent of any worldly distinction; and so is vileness, vile. As well wherein 't is precious of itself To blench from this, and to stand firm by honour: When we have soil'd them; nor the remainder viands 192. Promises and Performances. 26-ii. 2. Promising is the very air o' the time: it opens the eyes of expectation: performance is ever the duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable: performance is a kind of will, or testament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. 193. Prevalence of appearances. 27-v. 1. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,— That all, with one consent, praise new-born gawdst, Though they are made and moulded of things past; And give to dust, that is a little gilt, More laud than gilt" o'er-dusted. 26-iii. 3. There is so great a fever on goodness, that the dissolution of it must cure it: novelty is only in re P The will dotes that attributes or gives the qualities which it affects; that first causes excellence, and then admires it. qi. e. Under the guidance of my will. Shrink, or fly off. quest; and it is as dangerous to be aged in any kind of course, as it is virtuous to be constant in any undertaking. There is scarce truth enough alive, to make societies secure; but security enough to make fellowships accursed: much upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world. 195. The desire of novelty. It hath been taught us from the primal state, 5-iii. 2. And the ebb'd man, ne'er loved, till ne'er worth love, Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying tide, 196. Customs, new, heedlessly followed. New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous, 30-i. 4. Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are follow'd. 25-i. 3. 197. Custom supreme in its power. What custom wills, in all things should we do 't, That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat 28-ii. 3. To the next abstinence: the next more easy: 36-iii. 4. 199. Ceremony, its origin. Was but devised at first, to set a gloss On faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 't is shewn; But where there is true friendship, there needs none. Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity, (So it be new, there 's no respect how vile,) That is not quickly buzz'd into the ears? Let the subject see, to make them know, That outward courtesies would fain proclaim Favours that keep within 2. 202. Court and country manners. 27-i. 2. 17-ii. 1. 5-v. 1. Those, that are good manners at the court, are as ridiculous in the country, as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at the court. 10-iii. 2. 203. Town and country life contrasted. Did you but know the city's usuries, And felt them knowingly; the art o' the court, Is certain falling, or so slippery, that The fear 's as bad as falling; the toil of the war, A pain that only seems to seek out danger I' the name of fame, and honour; which dies i' the search, And hath as oft a slanderous epitaph, Then only shows of kindness have their worth, When outward courtesies truly declare The heart that keeps within. a Scaly-winged. b Rustic life. • Command, control. |