321 322 323 his actions are observed, so long he's wary; to his old ways again. But he whom kindness, he burns to make a due return, and acts, ΤΗ THE SAME HERE is a way of winning more by love Then, if they stray, but warn 'em; and the same they should for virtue have done, they'll do for shame. B. JONSON GUILT-THE SOURCE OF SORROW "O be good is to be happy; angels they're better. Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend, with whips and stings: the best know none of this, and find the height of all their heaven is goodness. TRUE LIBERTY N. ROWE RUE liberty always with right reason dwells, TRU twinned, and from her hath no dividual being; reason in man obscured or not obeyed, immediately inordinate desires and upstart passions catch the government man, till then free. F. S. III J. MILTON 3 324 ADVERSITY TRIES FRIENDSHIP SUMMER-friendship whose flattering leaves, that shadowed us in our prosperity, with the least gust drop off in the autumn of adversity! How like a prison is to a grave! when dead, we are P. MASSINGER 325 RETRIBUTION OR custom nor example nor vast numbers NOR nor For each particular crime a strict account his wickedness. P. MASSINGER 326 power more effectual without Violence HUS mighty rivers quietly do glide, THUS and do not by their rage their powers profess, but by their mighty workings; when in pride small torrents roar more loud, and work much less. Peace greatness best becomes. Calm power doth guide with a far more imperious stateliness, than all the swords of violence can do, and easier gains those ends she tends unto. 328 unheard, perchance, until old age hath tamed us; PRIDE IN ANCESTRY OW blest is he who his progenitors HOW with pride.remembers, to the listener tells the story of their greatness, of their deeds, linked to this goodly chain! For the same stock a line, or good, or evil, ushers in the glory or the terror of the world. A. SWANWICK from Goethe 329 THE OF LIFE AND DEATH HE ports of death are sins: of life, good deeds; through which our merit leads us to our meeds. How wilful blind is he, then, that would stray, and hath it, in his powers, to make his way! This world's death's region is, the other life's; and here, it should be one of our first strifes, so to front death, as men might judge us past it: for good men but see death, the wicked taste it. B. JONSON 330 VIRTUE TRIUMPHANT IN THE END E only, who with innocence unshaken WE have stood the assaults of fortune, now are happy: for tho' the worst of men by high permission a while may flourish, and the best endure J. TRAP 331 332 CARATACH'S LAMENT OVER HENGO AREWELL the hopes of Britain! Death, ever! Time and ye have done your worst. Fortune, now see, now proudly pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look, look what thou hast brought this land to!-Oh, fair flower, how lovely yet thy ruins shew, how sweetly even death embraces thee! The peace of Heaven, the fellowship of all great souls, be with thee! H J. FLETCHER THE PROPER USE OF TALENTS EAVEN doth with us, as we with torches do; not light them for themselves: for if our virtues did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike as if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched, both thanks and use. W. SHAKESPEARE 333 HYPOCRISY-GENERAL 334 AY not, my art is fraud: all live by seeming. gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming; all practise it; and he who is content with shewing what he is, shall have small credit TRUE RICHES T is the mynd that maketh good or ill, IT that maketh wretch or happie, rich or poor; 335 336 337 and other, that hath litle, asks no more, ALL THE TRIUMPH OF INNOCENCE your attempts E. SPENSER shall fall on me, like brittle shafts on armour that break themselves; or like waves 'gainst a rock that leave no sign of their o'erboiling fury but foam and splinters; my innocence, like these, THE PAST IRREPARABLE P. MASSINGER IME once past may never have recourse, revert to climb the hills, when they been rolled down BUT MISFORTUNE OUR PROBATION R. WILMOT UT know, young prince, that valour soars above their hidden strength, and throw out into practice J. ADDISON |