44 Hope and Despair. 19-i. 3. 45 Courage. By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion. 16-ii. 1. 46 Pride, its universality. Why, who cries out on pride, That can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea, Till that the very very means do ebb? What woman in the city do I name, When that I say, The city-woman bears The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders ? Who can come in, and say, that I mean her, When such a one as she, such is her neighbour? Or what is he of basest function, That says, his bravery is not on my cost (Thinking that I mean him), but therein suits His folly to the mettle of my speech? There then; How, what then? Let me see wherein My tongue hath wrong'd him ; if it do him right, Then he hath wrong'd himself; if he be free, Why then, my taxing like a wild-goose flies, Unclaim'd of any man. 10-ii. 7. 47 Contentment. How, in one house, Should many people, under two commands, Hold amity ?* 34-ii. 4. 48 Effrontery of Vice. I ne'er heard yet, That any of these bolder vices wanted Less impudence to gainsay what they did, Than to perform it first. 13-iii. 2. * Matt. vi. 24. Merely our own traitors. And as in the common course of all treasons, we still see them reveal themselves, till they attain to their abhorred ends; so he, that contrives against his own nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself.* 11-iv. 3. The jewel, best enamelled, Will lose his beauty; and though gold 'bides still, 14-ii. 1. The shrug, the hum, or ha; these petty brands, For calumny will seart Virtue itself:-these shrugs, these hums, and ha's, When you have said, she's goodly, come between, 52 Impediments increase desire. 13-ii. 1. All impediments in fancy's course 53 Reputation invaluable. 11-v. 3. The purest treasure mortal times afford, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. 17-i. 1. Foundations fly the wretched; such, I mean, * i. e. Betrays his own secrets in his own talk. 31-iii. 6. † Gold will long bear the handling; however, often touching will wear even gold; just so the greater character, though as pure as gold itself, may in time be injured by the repeated attacks of falsehood and corruption. Brand as infamous. § Love. Rumour, its diffusiveness. Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures; That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, 19-Induction. Loud Rumour speaks: I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride; The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. 19-Induction. In companions That do converse and waste the time together, Friendship is constant in all other things, 9-iii. 4. Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent: for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.† 59 Happiness, where delusive. 6-ii. 1. O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! 10-v. ii. 60 The effect of show on weak minds. The fool multitude, that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach; Which pries not to th' interior, but, like the martlet, *Therefore.' Let, which is found in the next line, is understood † Passion. here. Builds in the weather on the outward wall, It is the witness still of excellency, 9-ii. 9. To put a strange face on his own perfection. 6-ii. 3. 62 Intellectual advancement. 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.‡ A goodly apple rotten at the heart; 6-iv. 1. Is like a villain with a smiling cheek; O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! 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, 8-iv. 1. 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; * Power. † Increasing. 5-ii. 4. Matt. iv. 6. O, what may man within him hide, 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. 72 Mercy. O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous 5-ii. 2. Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting,|| petty officer, [der. Would use his heaven for thunder: nothing but thun Merciful Heaven! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled¶ oak, * Appearance. † False and feeble pretences. 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.' Paltry. ¶ Knotted. |