280 281 282 283 284 THE ENVY “HE cankering rust corrodes the brightest steel; the moth frets out your garment, and the worm eats its slow way into the solid oak: but envy, of all evil things the worst, saps and consumes the heart in which it lurks. R. CUMBERLAND FREQUENCY-ITS EFFECT ON PLEASURE THE 'HE nightingale in summer's front doth sing, and stops his pipe in growth of riper days; not that the summer is more pleasant now than when her mournful hymns did hush the night; but that wild music burdens every bough and sweets grown common lose their dear delight. W. SHAKESPEARE POSSESSION MORE LANGUID THAN EXPECTATION WHO riseth from a feast with that keen appetite that he sits down? Where is the horse that doth untread again his tedious measures with the unbated fire that he did pace them first?-All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. W. SHAKESPEARE DESCRIPTION OF A STORM NTEREA prope jam occidente sole inhorrescit INT mare, tenebræ conduplicantur, noctisque et nimbûm occæcat nigror: flamma inter nubes coruscat, cœlum tonitru contremit : grando mixta imbri largifluo subita turbine præcipitans cadit : undique omnes venti erumpunt, sævi existunt turbines: fervit æstu pelagus. AMBITION M. PACUVIVS AMBITION, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; and is a swelling and the last affection 285 286 287 288 a high mind can put off, being both a rebel TH' THE SHEPHERD'S LIFE B. JONSON 'H' unbusied shepherd stretched beneath the haw- his careless limbs thrown out in wanton ease, HOPE Tin all designs begun on earth below, HE ample proposition, that hope makes A. HILL fails in the promised largeness: checks and disasters as knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, NO JOY UNMIXED HILKE ground that berith the wedis wicke, THI bereth eke these wholesome herbes as full oft, and next the derke night is the glad morowe, THE SAME G. CHAUCER SODEN wo, that ever art successour to worldly blis! spreint is with bitternesse 289 290 upon thy glade day have in thy minde WH SOLITARY GRIEF G. CHAUCER HAT equal torment to the grief of mind yield such a sore, that doth her grievance hide, USES OF SEVERITY N all growing empires IN E. SPENSER even cruelty is useful; some must suffer, and be set up examples to strike terror in others, though far off: but, when a state is raised to her perfection, and her bases too firm to shrink or yield, we may use mercy, P. MASSINGER 291 MORAL Discernment sHOULD BE JUST AS QUICK 292 AS VISUAL ATH Nature given us eyes HATH to see this vaulted arch and the rich crop of sea and land, which can distinguish twixt NECESSITY OF LAWS W. SHAKESPEARE RUST me, each state must have its policies, TRUS kingdoms have chiefs, cities have their charters: even the wild outlaw, in his forest-walk, keeps yet some touch of civil discipline. For not, since Adam wore his verdant apron, 293 294 ALLOY IN THIS WORLD-UNIVERSAL UNRULY NRULY blasts wait on the tender spring; the adder hisseth where the sweet birds sing: We have no good that we can say is ours, or kills his life or else his quality. W. SHAKESPEARE TIME-HIS POWER AND OFFICE TIME'S BY falsehood and bring truth to light : IME'S glory is to calm contending kings; to stamp his awful seal on agéd things: and smear with dust their stately golden towers. W. SHAKESPEARE 295 296 E MPTY men SELF-PRAISE are trumpets of their own deserts; but you that are not in opinion, but in proof, really good, and full of glorious parts, leave the report of what you are to fame; which from the ready tongues of all good men IF DEATH THE LEVELLER P. MASSINGER F you would know of what frail stuff you're made, there rest the bones of kings, there tyrants rot; R. CUMBERLAND 297 298 DECEIT IAT man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, WHA as to descry the crafty cunning train, by which Deceit doth mask in visor fair, and cast her colours, dyed deep in grain, to seem like Truth, whose shape she well can fain, and fitting gesture to her purpose frame, the guiltless man with guile to entertain? THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE E. SPENSER REMEMBER what our father oft has told us, the ways of Heaven are dark and intricate : puzzled in mazes and perplexed with errors, our understanding traces them in vain, lost and bewildered in the fruitless search; nor sees with how much art the windings run, nor where the regular confusion ends. J. ADDISON 299 300 POVERTY do not wonder, sire, AND cling to gain, for mortals, even if life be far prolonged, still clutch with closest gripe TELL SORROW IN OLD AGE ELL me not of it, friend-when the young weep sorrow falls down like hail-drops of the north, SIR J. BEAUMONT |