And yet run'st toward him still: Thou art not noble; For all the accommodations that thou bear'st Are nursed by baseness: Thou art by no means valiant; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Thou art not thyself; Do curse the gout, serpigo," and the rheum, nor age; But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, Dreaming on both: for all thy blessed youth Of palsied eld; and when thou art old, and rich, 334 Intemperance, the evil of it. Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny; it hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne, 335 Avarice. How quickly nature falls into revolt, When gold becomes her object! For this, the foolish over-careful fathers 5-iii. 1. 15-iv. 3. Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains Their bones with industry: Affects, affections. " Leprous eruptions. [with care, ▾ Old age. For this, they have engross'd and piled up Our thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey, 19-iv. 4: How sour sweet music is, When time is broke, and no proportion kept! 337 Cowardice. Courage. 17-v. 5. Cowards die many times before their deaths; 338 Jests misplaced may be fatal. His jest will savour but of shallow wit, 29-ii. 2. When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it. 339 Simplicity in pleasing. 20-i. 2. That sport best pleases, that doth least know how: 340 8-v. 2. Satiety. The cloy'd will, (That satiate yet unsatisfied desire, That tub both fill'd and running,) ravening first 31-i. 7. 342 343 Brevity of life. Some, how brief the life of man Infatuation. Let the superfluous, and lust-dieted man, 10-iii. 2. That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly; So distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough. Sometimes we are devils to ourselves, 34-iv. 1. When we shall tempt the frailty of our powers, 26-iv. 4. Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Violent fires soon burn out themselves: 8-i. 1. Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes, that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding, food doth choke the feeder: Light Vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. 17-ii. 1. 348 Youth and Age distinguished. Youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables, and his weeds, Importing health and graveness." a 36-iv. 7. young man regards show in dress; an old man, health. 349 Love elevates and refines. Base men, being in love, have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them. 350 The most promising hopes often blasted. As in the sweetest bud The eating canker dwells, so eating love As the most forward bud 37-ii. 1. 'Tis not the many oaths, that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. What is not holy, that we swear not by, But take the Highest to witness." The silence often of pure innocence : 353 Delusion of imagination. O, who can hold a fire in his hand, Or wallow naked in December snow, This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property foredoes itself, 2-i. 1. 11-iv. 2. 13-ii. 2. 17-i. 3. b The sense is, we never swear by what is not holy, but take to witness the Highest---the Divinity. c Destroys. And leads the will to desperate undertakings, That does afflict our natures. To be furious, 36-ii. 1. Is, to be frighted out of fear: and, in that mood, When valour preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with. 356 Excess of grief and joy. 30-iii. 11. The violence of either grief or joy 357 Mental power. t; 36-iii. 2. Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, 29-i. 3. The harlot's cheek, beautied with plast'ring art, Ignomy in ransom, and free pardon, 360 Affliction, most felt by contrast. To be worst, 36-iii. 1. 5-ii. 4. The lowest, and most dejected thing of fortune, d Ostrich. 34-iv. 1. e Determinations. That is, compared with the thing that helps it. b Hope. |