286. Timidity, incapable of adventure. Impossible be strange attempts, to those That weigh their pains in sense; and do suppose, 287. Nature content with little. O, reason not the need: our basest beggars Allow not nature more than nature needs, 11-i. 1. 288. 34-ii. 4. Nature, its weakness. Strange it is, 30-v. 1. That nature must compel us to lament 289. Nature, oft perverted by man. O, mickle is the powerful gracee, that lies And vice sometime 's by action dignified. 35—ii. 3. 290. The mirror of nature. Hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature; to shew virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure. 36-iii. 2. 291. Natural defects impair virtues. Oft it chances in particular men, That, for some vicious mole of nature in them, By the o'ergrowth of some complexiong, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason; New attempts seem impossible to those who estimate their labour or enterprises by sense, and believe that nothing can be but what they see before them. • Virtue. f Impression, resemblance. 8 Humour. Or by some habit, that too much o'er-leavens Shall in the general censure take corruption 292. Virtue and knowledge. I held it ever, 36-i. 4. Virtue and cunning were endowments greater May the two latter darken and expend; 293. Knowledge gained by experience. Our courtiers say, all 's savage but at court: 33-iii. 2. The imperious seas breed monsters; for the dish, Poor tributary rivers as sweet fish. 294. Knowledge to govern ourselves. 31-iv. 2. Let's teach ourselves. Ah, honourable stop, 37-ii. 3. 295. Chastity. The heavens hold firm 31-ii. 1. The walls of thy dear honour; keep unshaked Virtue, that transgresses, is but patched with sin; and sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue. 4-i. 5. i Do out. h Star, signifies a scar of that appearance. k "Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed."-Eccles. Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast, 33-v. 3 O infinite virtue! com'st thou smiling from 30-iv. 8. The honour of a maid is her name; and no legacy is so rich as honesty. 11-iii. 5. 300. The praise of virtue consists in action. Remuneration for the thing it was! O, let not virtue seek For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: 26-iii. 3. Some run from brakes" of vice, and answer none; 5-ii. 1. 302. Virtue contrasted with vice. What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted? 303. Virtue and vice, their influence. Virtue, as it never will be moved, 22-iii. 2. Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven; ""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. 304. Love, in its spring and in its maturity. My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: And sweets grown common lose their dear delight. 305. Poems. Love. Love is not love, When it is mingled with respects P, that stand 306. Love elevates and refines. 34-i. 1. Base men, being in love, have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. 37-ii. 1. Nature is fine in love: and, where 't is fine, It sends some precious instance of itself 308. Love betrays itself like murder. 36-iv. 5. A murd'rous guilt shews not itself more soon, Than love that would seem hid: love's night is noon. • Satiate. 4-iii. 2. Pi. e. With cautious and prudential considerations. "Who seeks for aught in love but love alone?" I Love is the passion by which nature is most exalted and refined; and as substances refined and subtilized easily obey any impulse, or follow any attraction, some part of nature, so purified and refined, flies off after the attracting object, after the thing it loves. The ostent of our love, which, left unshewn, Is often left unloved. 310. Love, its dereliction. 30-iii. 6. Sweet love, changing his property, Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate. 17—iii. 2. This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property foredoest itself, And leads the will to desperate undertakings, That does afflict our natures. 36-ii. 1. This is the monstruosity in love,—that the will is infinite, and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit. 26-iii. 2. 313. Decaying nature of love. There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick, or snuff, that will abate it; And nothing is at a like goodness still; Dies in his own too-much. 314. Decaying love, its effects. When love begins to sicken and decay, 36-iv. 7. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith: 29-iv. 2. The service of the foot Being once gangren'd, is not then respected For what before it was. 28-iii. I. |