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While all is shared, and all is borne away;
Ready to starve, and dare not touch his own. 22—i. 1.

617. The clearest sight without wisdom, blindness.

What an infinite mock is this, that a man should have the best use of eyes, to see the way of blindness! 31-v. 4.

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The untainted virtue of your years

Hath not yet dived into the world's deceit :

No more can you distinguish of a man,

Than of his outward show; which, God he knows, Seldom, or never, jumpeth with the heart. 24-iii. 1.

619.

Obstinacy, its evil.

To persist

In doing wrong, extenuates not wrong,
But makes it much more heavy.

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26-ii. 2.

Old fools are babes again; and must be used
With checks, as flatteries,—when they are seen abused.

621.

Apathy.

34-i. 3.

Patience, unmoved, no marvel, though she pause";
They can be meek, that have no other cause,
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry;

But were we burden'd with like weight of pain,
As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.

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14—ii. 1.

If when you make your prayers,

God should be so obdurate as yourselves,

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i. e. Who have no cause to be otherwise.

22-iv. 7.

"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy

victory."-1 Cor. xv. 55.

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make us

When we in our viciousness grow hard,
(0 misery on 't!) the wise gods seel our eyes;
In our own filth drop our clear judgments;
Adore our errors; laugh at us, while we strut
To our confusion.

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In the fatness of these pursy times,
Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg;

13-iii. 2.

Yea, curb and woo, for leave to do him good.

625.

The same.

36-iii. 4.

You take my house, when you do take the prop
That doth sustain my house; you take my life,
When you do take the means whereby I live. 9-iv. 1.
The cruelty of oppression.

626.

"T is a cruelty,

To load a falling man.

25-v. 2.

627.

Cruelty insecure.

There is no sure foundation set in blood;

No certain life achieved by others' death. 16-iv. 2.

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When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.

20-iii. 6.

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How sour sweet music is,

17-v. 5.

When time is broke, and no proportion kept!
So is it in the music of men's lives.

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Bad is the trade must play the fool to sorrow,

Angʼring itself and others.

Bend.

34-iv. 1.

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Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.

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37-iii. 3.

But jealous souls will not be answer'd so:

They are not ever jealous for the cause,

But jealous, for they are jealous: 't is a monster,
Begot upon itself, born on itself.

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The venom clamours of a jealous woman

37-iii. 4.

Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. 14—v. 1.

635.

The venomous effects of jealousy.

O beware of jealousy:

It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.

37-iii. 3.

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Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
The thoughts of others!

9-i. 3.

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Will poor folks lie,

That have afflictions on them; knowing 't is

A punishment, or trial? Yes, no wonder,
When rich ones scarce tell true: To lapse in fulness
Is sorera, than to lie for need; and falsehood

Is worse in kings than beggarsb.

Sorer, a greater or heavier crime.

The noble saying of King John of France, "That if Truth were banished from all other places of the earth, she ought to find a dwelling in the heart of kings."

639.

Equivocation.
But yet,-

I do not like but yet, it does allay

The good precedences; fye upon but yet:
But yet is as a gaoler to bring forth
Some monstrous malefactor.

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30-ii. 5.

Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness,
Wherein the pregnanta enemy does much.

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4-ii. 2.

That we were all, as some would seem to be,
Free from our faults, as faults from seeming free!

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O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
How may likenesse, made in crimes,
Making practice on the times,
Draw with idle spiders' stringsf

Most pond'rous and substantial things!

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5-iii. 2.

5-iii. 2.

The harlot's cheek, beautied with plast'ring art,
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it %,
Than is my deed to my most painted word. 36-iii. 1.

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Though those, that are betray'd,

Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor

Stands in worse case of woe.

31-iii. 4.

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O wicked wit, and gifts, that have the power
To seduce!

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Preceding.

d Dexterous, ready fiend.

f False and feeble pretences.

That is, compared with the thing that helps it.

36-i. 5.

Appearance.

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The shrug, the hum, or ha; these petty brands,
That calumny doth use:-

For calumny will searh

Virtue itself:-these shrugs, these hums, and ha's, When you have said, she's goodly, come between, Ere you can say, she's honest.

647.

Slander, certain in its aim.

Slander,

Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter,
As level as the cannon to his blanki,
Transports his poison'd shot.

648.

The venom of slander.

Slander,

13-ii. 1.

36-iv. 1.

Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath
Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie

All corners of the world: kings, queens, and statesk,
Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave,
This viperous slander enters.

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31-iii. 4.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile1:
Filths savour but themselves.

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34-iv. 2.

This fester'd joint cut off, the rest rest sound;
This, let alone, will all the rest confound.

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But by bad courses may be understood,

17-v. 3.

That their events can never fall out good. 17—ii. 1.

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Persons of highest rank.

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"Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled."-Titus i. 15.

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