From that it is disposed: Therefore 'tis meet 562 Honourable causes need no oath. What other oath, Than honesty to honesty engaged?. Unto bad causes swear 29-i. 2. Such creatures as men doubt: but do not stain Nor th' insuppressive mettle of our spirits, To think, that, or our cause, or our performance, 563 News, good and bad. Though it be honest, it is never good 29-ii. 1. To bring bad news: Give to a gracious message 564 Submission. 30-ii, 5. Ask God for temperance; that's the appliance only, Which 565 your disease requires. Humility recommended. Love and meekness, 25-i. 1. Become a churchman better than ambition. 566 25-v. 2. Forethought. Determine on some course, 28-iv. 1. More than a wild exposure to each chance Since the affairs of men rest still uncertain, 568 The sin of ambition. 29-v. 1. I charge thee fling away ambition; By that sin fell the angels, how can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by 't? • Disposed to. Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not! 569 Jests unbecoming to age. 25-iii. 2. How ill white hairs become a fool, and jester! 570 The danger of false accusation. Take good heed, 19-v. 5. You charge not in your spleen a noble person, 25-i. 3. The same. Frivolity. Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools! 573 The advantage of sincerity. Taunt my faults Poems. With such full license, as both truth and malice Have power to utter. O, then we bring forth weeds, When our quick winds lie still; and our ills told us, Is as our earing. 574 q 30-i. 2. Things unavoidable not to be deplored. Hold unbewail'd their way. 30-iii. 6. P The sense is, that man not agitated by censure, like soil not ven tilated by quick winds, produces more evil than good. Tilling, ploughing; prepares us to produce good seed. Corrupt nature,---a depraved nature. If we shall stand still, In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at, We should take root here where we sit, or sit State statues only. 577 Mildness to be used in differences. 25-i. 2. That which combined us was most great, and let not Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms, 30-ii. 2. Now, for the love of Love, and her soft hours, 30-i. 1. May'st thou have the spirit of persuasion, and he the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may move, and what he hears may be believed. 580 Ingratitude, how extinguished. We sent to thee; to give thy rages balm, Above their" quantity. 18-i. 2. 27-v. 5. Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks Best to preserve it. 582 Reason to be regarded. Do not banish reason For inequality: but let your reason serve 30-iii. 4. To make the truth appear, where it seems hid; 583 Praise to be bestowed seasonably. Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove; our head shall go bare, till merit crown it: no perfection in reversion shall have a praise in present: we will not name desert, before his birth; and, being born, his addition" shall be humble. 26-iii. 2. We thought not good to bruise an injury, till it were full ripe. 585 20-iii. 6. Be advised: Passion allayed by reason. I say again, there is no English soul 25-i. 1. If I mistake In those foundations which I build upon, 13-ii. 1. This too much lenity And harmful pity, must be laid aside. The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on; I love not to see wretchedness o'ercharged, And duty in his service perishing. w Title. 7-v. I. i.e. If the proofs which I can offer will not support the opinion I have formed, no foundation can be trusted. Honour and policy, like unsevered friends, I' the war do grow together: Grant that, and tell me, 28-iii. 2. Drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment. 591 The necessity of repose. These should be hours for necessities, Not for delights; times to repair our nature 37-ii. 3. To waste. 592 25-v. 1. Not to woo honour, but to wed it. Believe not thy disdain, but presently Do thine own fortunes that obedient right, 11-ii. 3. If you shall cleave to my consent," when 'tis, So I lose none, 595 Caution in choosing friends. 15-ii. 1. Where you are liberal of your loves, and counsels, Like water from ye, never found again Cleave to me constant. 25-ii. 1. |