HYPOCRITES.

They

Can pray upon occasion, talk of heaven,
Turn up their goggling eye-balls, rail at vice,
Dissemble, lie, and preach, like any priest.

Otway.

THE STRENGTH OF FRIENDSHIP.

Friendship is the cement of two minds,
As of one man the soul and body is;
Of which one cannot sever but the other
Suffers a needful separation.

Chapman.

THE LOTTERY OF MARRIAGE.

Marry! no faith; husbands are like lots in
The lottery: you may draw forty blanks
Before you find one that has any prize
In him; a husband generally is a
Careless domineering thing, that grows like
Coral; which, as long as it is under water,
Is soft and tender; but as soon

As it has got its branch above the waves,
Is presently hard, stiff, not to be bow'd.

Marston.

JEALOUSY.

Thou wond'rous yellow fiend!

Temper an antidote with antimony,

And 'tis infectious: Mix jealousy with marriage,

It poisons virtue.

Davenport.

A TRUE KING.

He's a king,

A true, right king, that dares do aught, save

wrong:

Fears nothing mortal, but to be unjust;

Who is not blown up with the flatt'ring puffs Of spongy sycophants; who stands unmov'd, Despite the justling of opinion.

THE JUST MAN FEARLESS.

A just man cannot fear;

Marston.

Not, though the malice of traducing tongues,
The open vastness of a tyrant's ear,
The senseless rigour of the wrested laws,
Or the red eyes of strain'd authority,
Should in a point meet all, to take his life;
His innocency is armour 'gainst all these.

Ben Jonson.

CALAMITY TO BE RESPECTED.

Do not insult calamity;

It is a barbarous grosness to lay on

The weight of scorn, where heavy misery

Too much already weighs men's fortunes down.

Daniel.

DROWSINESS of Night.

The drowsy night grows on the world, and now
The busy craftsmen and o'erladen hind

Forget the travail of the day in sleep:
Care only wakes, and moping Pensiveness;
With meagre, discontented looks, they sit,
And watch the wasting of the midnight taper.

Rowe.

AN IDLE JESTER.

He cannot try to speak with gravity,

But one perceives he wags an idle tongue;
He cannot try to look demure, but spite
Of all he does, he shows a laughter's cheek;
He cannot e'en essay to walk sedate,
But in his very gait one sees a jest,
That's ready to break out in spite of all
His seeming.

Knowles.

A MUTUAL FALSEHOOD.

Money and man a mutual falsehood show,
Men make false money-money makes men so.

Aleyn.

THE TRUE COnqueror.

The fine and noble way to kill a foe,

Is not to kill him: you with kindness may
So change him, that he shall cease to be so;
And then he's slain. Sigismund used to say
His pardons put his foes to death; for when
He mortify'd their hate, he kill'd them then.
Aleyn.

AN UPRIGHT JUDGE.

A judge-a man so learn'd,

So full of equity, so noble, so notable;
In the process of his life, so innocent;
In the manage of his office so incorrupt;
In the passages of state so wise; in
Affection of his country so religious;
In all his services to the king so
Fortunate and exploring, as envy
Itself cannot accuse, or malice vitiate.

Chapman and Shirley.

HYMN TO THE MOON.

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,
Now the sun is laid to sleep,
Seated in thy silver chair,

State in wonted manner keep :
Hesperus entreats thy light,
Goddess, excellently bright.

Earth, let not thy envious shade
Dare itself to interpose;

Cynthia's shining orb was made

Heav'n to clear, when day did close:
Bless us, then, with wished sight,
Goddess, excellently bright.

Lay thy bow of pearl apart,

And thy crystal shining quiver;

Give unto the flying hart

Space to breathe, how short soever :
Thou that mak'st a day of night,

Goddess, excellently bright.

Ben Jonson.