SELF-DEPENDENCE.

I will stand no more

On others' legs, nor build one joy without me.
If ever I be worth a house again,

I'll build all inward: not a light shall ope
The common outway: no expense, no art,
No ornament, no door, will I use there;
But raise all plain and rudely like a rampire,
Against the false society of men,

That still batters

All reason piece-meal; and, for earthly greatness,

All heavenly comforts rarifies to air.

I'll therefore live in dark; and all my light,
Like ancient temples, let in at my top;
That were to turn one's back to all the world,
And only look at heaven.
Chapman.

LANGUAGES CHARACTERISED.

The ancient Hebrew, clad with mysteries;
The learned Greek, rich in fit epithets,
Blest in the lovely marriage of pure words;
The Roman eloquent, and Tuscan grave,
The braving Spanish, and the smooth-tongued
Brewer.

French.

THE CAUSE OF QUARRELS.

That ordinary commotioner, the lie,

Is father of most quarrels in this climate.

Middleton and Rowley.

THE DANGERS OF AMBITION.

Ambition is at a distance

A goodly prospect, tempting to the view;
The height delights us, and the mountain top
Looks beautiful, because 'tis nigh to heaven:
But we ne'er think how sandy's the foundation;
What storms will batter, and what tempests
shake.

CHOICE OF A WIFE.

Otway.

The sum of all that makes a just man happy
Consists in the well choosing of his wife;
And there, well to discharge it, does require
Equality of years, of birth, of fortune;
For beauty being poor, and not cried up

By birth or wealth, can truly mix with neither.
And wealth, when there's such difference in

years

And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy. Massinger.

WHAT IS LOVE?

What thing is love?-for sure love is a thing;

Love is a prick, love is a sting,

Love is a pretty, pretty thing;

Love is a fire, love is a coal,

Whose flame creeps in at every hole ;

And, as myself can best devise,

His dwelling is in ladies' eyes,

From whence he shoots his dainty darts
Into the lusty gallants' hearts:

And ever since was called a gcd

That Mars with Venus played even and odd.

MURDER WILL OUT.

Peele.

Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out.
The element of water moistens the earth,
But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

Webster.

THE IMAGINATIONS OF THE BRAIN.
My brain, methinks, is like an hour-glass,
Wherein m' imaginations run like sands,

Filling up time; but then are turn'd and turn'd.
So that I know not what to stay upon,

And less to put in act.

Ben Jonson.

THE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS.

To be good is to be happy; angels

Are happier than men, because they're
better.

Guilt is the source of sorrow. 'Tis a fiend,
Th' avenging fiend that follows us behind
With whips and stings. The blest know none
of this,

But rest in everlasting peace of mind,

And find the height of all their heaven is good

ness.

Rowe

WELCOME THE BEST DISH.

When friends like friends do friendly show

- Unto each other high and low,

What cheer increase of love doth grow,

What better cheer than they to know;

This is welcome!

To bread or drink, to flesh or fish,

Yet welcome is the best dish!

MUSIC.

Heywood.

Music alone with sudden charms can bind
The wandering sense, and calm the troubled

mind.

Congreve.

A TRUE FRIEND.

It is a name

Virtue can only answer to : couldst thou
Unite into one all goodness whatsoe'er
Mortality can boast of, thou shalt find
The circle narrow-bounded to contain
This swelling treasure; every good admits
Degrees, but this being so good, it cannot:
For he is no friend is not superlative.
Indulgent parent, brethren, kindred, tied
By the natural flow of blood, alliances,
And what you can imagine, is too light
To weigh with name of friend: they execute
At best but what a nature prompts them to:
Are often less than friends when they remain
Our kinsmen still: but friend is never lost.

THE JOYS OF FRIENDSHIP.

Who knows the joys of friendship?

Shirley.

The trust, security, and mutual tenderness,
The double joys, where each is glad for both?
Friendship, our only wealth, our last retreat and

strength,

Secure against ill-fortune and the world.

Rowe.