O fearful meditation! where, alack, Shall time's best jewel from time's chest lie hid? Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back? Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid? 121. Truth, beauty's ornament. Poems. O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; Die to themselves; Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. Poems. 122. Truth and beauty, their excellence. Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd; But best is best, if never intermix'd. Poems. Marriage is a matter of more worth For what is wedlock forced, but a hell, 124. The same. Earthly happier is the rose distilled, 21-v. 5. Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. 7-i. 1. 125. Parents to be consulted in marriage concerns. Reason, my son Should choose himself a wife; but as good reason, t By the discretionary agency of another. The father (all whose joy is nothing else But fair posterity) should hold some counsel 13-iv. 3. A father 13-iv. 3. Is, at the nuptial of his son, a guest 127. The duty of conjugal fidelity. Nature craves, All dues be render'd to their owners; Now, 128. Conjugal affection needful in wives. 26-ii. 2. Fie, fie, unknit that threat'ning unkind brow; 12-v. 2. Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, I am ashamed, that women are so simple 12-v. 2. To offer war, where they should kneel for peace; Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, But that our soft conditions and our hearts," Should well agree with our external parts? 12—v. 2. 131. Conjugal affection needful in wives. My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty: To you, I am bound for life, and education; How to respect you; you are the lord of duty, I am hitherto your daughter: but here's my husband; Do not curst wives hold that self-sovereignty 37-i. 3. 8-iv. 1. How easy is it for the proper-false y In women's waxen hearts to set their forms! 4-ii. 2. You should account me the more virtuous, that I have not been common in my love. 28-ii. 3. Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong? 17-ii. 1. 136. Female frailty. Women are frail; Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves; * Gentle tempers. y Fair deceivers. For we are soft as our complexions are, Proper deformity seems not in the fiend A woman moved, is like a fountain troubled, 5-ii. 4, 34-iv. 2. Will deign to sip, or touch one drop of it. 12-v. 2. A grandam's name is little less in love, Than is the doting title of a mother; They are as children, but one step below. 24-iv. 4. 140. The power of natural affection. Unreasonable creatures feed their young: Who hath not seen them (even with those wings The poor wren, 23-ii. 2. The most diminutive of birds, will fight", 15-iv. 2. 142. Affections not felt are disbelieved or despised. How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime Fight for. 13-i. 2. Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments shows, agreeably to Thucydides, that sentiments, when above the tone of others, reach not their sympathy. A sick man's appetite, who desires most that, 144. Parental discipline neglected. 28-i. 1. Had doting Priam check'd his son's desire, 145. Filial rebellion. Poems. That nature which contemns its origin, Cannot be border'd certain in itself; She, that herself will slivera and disbranch From her material sap, perforce must wither, 34-iv. 2. Had I a dozen sons,-each in my love alike,-I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country, than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. 147. Companionship. In companions 28-i. 3. That do converse and waste the time together, 9-iii. 4. 148. Acquaintanceship to be formed with caution. It is certain that either wise bearing, or ignorant carriage, is caught, as men take diseases, one of another: therefore, let men take heed of their company. 19-v. 1. "In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end. For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not." -1 Sam. iii. 12, 13. ⚫ Restrained within any certain bounds. d Tear off. |