As record of fair act; nay, many times, 31-iii. 3. 204. Modern and present opinions contrasted. It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about; Makes sound opinion sick, and truth suspected, 16-iv. 2. 205. The act of opposing one thing to another. 206. Worldly opinion of things. What things there are, Most abject in regard, and dear in use! What things again, most dear in the esteem, 26-i. 3. 26-iii. 3. 207. Things unavoidable not to be deplored. Be you not troubled with the time, which drives Hold unbewail'd their way. 30-iii. 6. Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward To what they were before. 15-iv. 2. Rumour is a pipe 19-Induction. Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures; That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, 211. 19-Introduction. Rumour, its diffusiveness. Loud Rumour speaks: I, from the orient to the drooping west, 19-Introduction. Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news: Give to a gracious message 213. Unwelcome news, thankless. The first bringer of unwelcome news 30-ii. 5. Remember'd knolling a departing friend. 19-i. 1. 214. Extenuation. Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, 37-v. 2. "T is better to be much abused, Than but to know 't a little. 216. Opportunity personified. 37-iii. 3. Unruly blasts wait on the tender spring; Unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers; The adder hisses where the sweet birds sing; What virtue breeds, iniquity devours: We have no good that we can say is ours; But ill annexed opportunity Or kills his life, or else his quality. O, Opportunity! thy guilt is great: "T is thou that execut'st the traitor's treason; Thou mak'st the vestal violate her oath: Thy secret pleasure turns to open shame, When wilt thou be the humble suppliant's friend, The patient dies while the physician sleeps; When Truth and Virtue have to do with thee, Guilty thou art of murder and of theft; 217. The present opportunity to be taken. Poems. For honour travels in a strait so narrow, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, Within the infant rind of this small flower 26-iii. 3. For this being smelt, with that part cheers each part; 35-ii. 3. 219. Good may be extracted from evil. There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out; Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. 7-i. 1. Let still the woman take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, 4-ii. 4. 221. Posthumous good and evil. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. 29-iii. 2. Goodness often misinterpreted. 222. To some kind of men, Their graces serve them but as enemies.- 10-ii. 2. Which buys admittance; oft it doth; yea, and makes Diana's rangers, false themselves, yield up Their deer to the stand of the stealer; and 't is gold Which makes the true man kill'd, and saves the thief; Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man: What Can it not do, and undo? 224. Gold The mind contaminated by gold. This yellow slave 31-ii. 3. Will knit and break religions; bless the accursed ; 225. The judgment corrupted by gold. 27-iv. 3. O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce Thou ever young, fresh, loved, and delicate wooer, That solder'st close impossibilities, And mak'st them kiss! that speak'st with every tongue, f • Sorrowful. i. e. Gold restores her to all the sweetness and freshness of youth. |