255 256 comes consequatur: quin incommodi plus malique adsit, boni si obtigit quid. N illico T. M. PLAVTVS THE BEST DOWRY ON ego illam mihi dotem duco esse quæ dos dicitur : sed pudicitiam et pudorem et sedatum cupidinem, deûm metum, parentum amorem, et cognatûm concordiam, tibi morigera atque ut munifica sim bonis, prosim I [probis. T. M. PLAVTVS GRIEF TOO DEEP FOR TEARS AM not prone to weeping, as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew, W. SHAKESPEARE 257 258 259 DESPAIR OR now I stand as one upon a rock, FOR environed with a wilderness of sea; PHILOSOPHY W. SHAKESPEARE WOW charming is divine Philosophy; not harsh and crabbéd as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns. TRUTH H! my best Sir, take heed, OH J. MILTON take heed of lies! Truth, though it trouble some minds, some wicked minds, that are both dark and dangerous, preserves itself: comes off pure, innocent! 260 261 262 and like the Sun, tho' never so eclipsed, J. FLETCHER PUNISHMENT-WHY NOT REGULAR UE punishment DUE succeeds not always after an offence; POWER MAKES ENEMIES T. KYD THE power to give creates us oft our foes: where many seek for favour, few can find it : each thinks he merits all that he can ask, and disappointed, wonders at repulse, wonders awhile, and then sits down in hate. GR PEACE FROWDE RIM-VISAGED war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; and now, instead of mounting barbéd steeds, to fright the souls of fearful adversaries, 、he capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, to the lascivious pleasing of a lute. 263 W. SHAKESPEARE DE FORTUNE INCONSTANTIA 264 MORTALEM Fortuna repente reddidit, ut summo e regno famul infumus esset: et rursus multæ fortunæ forte recumbunt: haudquaquam quenquam semper Fortuna sequuta est. DISBELIEF IN PROVIDENCE EUM qui non summum putet, DEUM Q. ENNIVS aut stultum aut rerum esse imperitum existimo : cui in manu sit quem esse dementem velit, quem sapere: quem sanari, quem in morbum injici; quem contra amari, quem accersiri, quem expeti. 265 266 267 268 Is JUPITER QVID SIT STEIC is est Jupiter quem dico, Græcei vocant aëra: quique ventus est et nubes, imber postea, atque ex imbre frigus; ventus post fit, aër denuo : istæc propter Jupiter sunt ista, quæ dico tibei, qui mortaleis, urbeis, atque belluas omneis juvat. Q. ENNIVS THE ATMOSPHERE HOC vide circum supraque, quod complexu continet terram; id quod nostri cœlum memorant, Graii perhibent æthera. Quidquid est hoc, omnia is animat, format, auget, alit, ferat, sepelit, recipitque in sese omnia; omniumque idem est pater: indidemque eadem quæ oriuntur, de integro æque eodem occidunt. THE WORLD M. PACUVIVS `HE world's a labyrinth, where unguided men Twa worn as a where me no sooner have we measured with much toil J. FLETCHER STRENGTH WITHOUT WISDOM WHAT is strength without a double share WHAT of wisdom? vast, unwieldly, burdensome, proudly secure, yet liable to fall by weakest subtleties, not made to rule, but to subserve where wisdom bears command. 269 J. MILTON BIRTH AND DEATH NAM nos decebat, cœtus celebrantes domum lugere, ubi esset aliquis in lucem editus, Q. ENNIVS 270 DISSEMBLING WORDS 'HROUGHOUT the world, if it was sought, they be good cheap, they cost right nought, but well to say, and so to mean, SIR T. WYATT 271 272 273 H HONOUR TO THE BRAVE ALONE ONOUR rewards the brave and bold alone; she scorns the timorous, indolent and base: danger and toil stand stern before her throne, and guard,—so Jove commands,—the fatal place. Who seeks her must the mighty cost sustain, and pay the price of fame,-labour and care and pain. CHANGE OW like a younker or a prodigal the scarféd bark puts from her native bay, W. SHAKESPEARE PRODIGIES-THE COINAGE OF SUPERSTITION O natural exhalation in the sky, No no common wind, no customéd event, but superstition from its natural cause construes awry, and calls them prodigies, 274 PROSPERITY DISSIPATES: adversity REGULATES HOSE who run riot in prosperity THO will often, when adversity blows strong, shrink from their bankless and irregular course; stoop low within those bounds they have o'erlookt, and calmly run on in obedience e'en to their ocean. 275 276 FORTUNE ‘ORTUNE, you say, flies from us: she but circles, Fo like the fleet sea-bird round the fowler's skiff, lost in the midst one moment and the next brushing the white sail with her whiter wing, as if to court the aim.-Experience watches and has her on the wheel. DEATH BUSY EVERYWHERE DEATH EATH distant ?-No, alas! he's ever with us, and shakes the dart at us in all our actings; he lurks within our cup, while we're in health; sits by our sick-bed, mocks our medicines: we cannot walk or sit or ride or travel, but Death is by to seize us when he lists. T. KYD 277 278 279 WHY TO SLEEP HY rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, and hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; and lulled with sounds of sweetest melody? MY CRIME IS BOLD W. SHAKESPEARE Y Lord, the greater confidence he shewes who is suspected, should be feared the more: for danger from weake natures never growes; who most disturbe the worlde, are built therefore. He more is to be feared, that nothing feares, and malice most effects, that least appeares. L AUTUMN S. DANIEL OOK how, when Autumn comes, a little space paleth the red blush of the Summer's face, tearing the leaves, the Summer's covering, three months in weaving by the curious Spring, making the grass his green locks go to wrack, tearing each ornament from off his back. F. BEAUMONT |