688.

The evil of duelling.

You undergo too strict a paradox,

Striving to make an ugly deed look fair:

Your words have took such pains, as if they labour'd
To bring manslaughter into form, set quarrelling
Upon the head of valour; which, indeed,

Is valour misbegot, and came into the world
When sects and factions were newly born:
He's truly valiant, that can wisely suffer

The worst that man can breathe; and make his wrongs
His outsides; wear them like his raiment, carelessly;
And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart,

To bring it into danger.

If wrongs be evils, and enforce us kill,
What folly 't is to hazard life for ill!

27-iii. 5.

You ever-gentle gods,

Let not my worser spirity tempt me again
To die before you please!

34-iv. 6.

I hate ingratitude more in a man,

Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.

4-iii. 4.

O, see the monstrousness of man,

When he looks out in an ungrateful shape! 27-iii. 2.

Ingratitude is monstrous: and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude. 28-ii. 3.

Corrupt nature,-a depraved nature.

Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend,

More hideous, when thou shew'st thee in a child,
Than the sea-monster!

34-i. 4.

696.

The same.

Filial ingratitude!

34-iii. 4.

Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand,
For lifting food to 't?

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!

698.

Ingratitude, how extinguished.

We sent to thee; to give thy rages balm,
To wipe out our ingratitude with loves

34—i. 4.

Above their quantity.

* Unnatural.

Remembering.

27-v. 5.

The sea-monster is the hippopotamus, the hieroglyphical symbol of impiety and ingratitude. Sandys, in his Travels, says, that he killeth his sire, and ravisheth his own dam."

66

• Their refers to rages.

699.

Violent commotion.

Riotous madness,

To be entangled with those mouth-made vows,
Which break themselves in swearing!

As the unthought-on accident is guilty
To what we wildly do: so we profess

30-i. 3.

Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows.

13-iv. 3.

I ne'er heard yet,

13-iii. 2.

That any of these bolder vices wanted
Less impudence to gainsay what they did,
Than to perform it first.

702.

Wickedness, its own reward.

What mischiefs work the wicked ones; Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby!

22-ii. 1.

Satan, avoid! I charge thee tempt me not. 14-iv. 3.

704.

Satanic craftiness.

Oftentimes, to win us to our harm,

The instruments of darkness tell us truths;

Win us with honest trifles, to betray us

In deepest consequenced.

705.

Satan out-witting himself.

15-i. 3.

The devil knew not what he did, when he made man politic; he crossed himself by 't: and I cannot

"And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour."-Acts xvi. 16-18.

think, but, in the end, the villanies of man will set

him clear.

706.

Reason to be regarded.

Do not banish reason

27-iii. 3.

For inequalitye: but let your reason serve

To make the truth appear, where it seems hid;
And hide the false, seems true.

Mingle reason with your passion.

708. Reason, ineffectual to stay appetite.

5-v. 1.

34-ii. 4.

Counsel may stop awhile, what will not stay;
For when we rage, advice is often seen
By blunting us to make our wits more keen.

Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood,
That we must curb it upon others' proof;
To be forbid the sweets that seem so good,
For fear of harms that preach in our behoof.
O appetite, from judgment stand aloof!
The one a palate hath that needs will taste,
Though reason weep and cry-it is thy last.

Reason subdued by passion.

Poems.

709.

O strange excuse!

When Reason is the bawd to Lust's abuse.

Poems.

710.

Passion.

Take heed, lest by your heat you burn yourselves.

711.

Passion allayed by reason.

Be advised:

I say again, there is no English soul

More stronger to direct you than yourself,

If with the sap of reason you would quench,
Or but allay, the fire of passion.

22-v. 1.

25-i. 1.

712.

Mental passions, their effects.

The passions of the mind,

That have their first conception by mis-dread,

Have after-nourishment and life by care;

And what was first but fear what might be done, Grows elder now, and cares it be not dones. 33—i. 2.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters
Cannot be truly follow'd. You shall mark
Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave,
That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,
Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,
For nought but provender; and, when he 's old,
cashier'd.

Others there are,

Who, trimm'd in forms and visages of duty,
Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves;
And, throwing but shows of service on their lords,
Do well thrive by them, and, when they have lined
their coats,

Do themselves homage.

714.

Self-interest, its influence.

Commodity h, the bias of the world;
The world, who of itself is peisedi well,
Made to run even; upon even ground;
Till this advantage, this vile drawing bias,
This sway of motion, this commodity,
Makes it take head from all indifferency,

37-i. 1.

From all direction, purpose, course, intent. 16-ii. 2.

Believe not thy disdain, but presently

Do thine own fortunes that obedient right,

Which thy duty owes.

11-ii. 3.

Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride;

f But fear of what may happen.

And makes provision that it may not be done.
Self-interest.
i Poised, balanced.