216. CHARITY IN ACCUSING. If thou do accuse, Produce an enemy in that very shape Take heed You charge not in your spleen a noble person, And spoil your soul. 218. ACCUSATION CALUMNIOUS. Come not in way of accusation To taint that honour every good tongue blesses. 219. LAW; NOT MALICE. When faults lie open to the Law, let that, 220. DETRACTION. To be traduc'd by ignorant tongues Is the rough brake that Virtue must go through. We must not stint 221. Our necessary actions, in fear To cope malicious censurors. 222. CONFIDENCE JUST. Things done well Exempt themselves from fear. 223. INNOVATION. Things done without example Are to be fear'd. 224. CORRUPTION FROM GOOD. When education, learning, eloquence,All these so noble benefits,-shall prove Not well dispos'd, the mind grown once corrupt, They turn to vicious forms ten times more ugly Than ever they were fair. 225. FASHION. New customs, Though they be ever so ridiculous, Yea let them be unmanly, still are follow'd. An Englishman may still be wise, 227. MERCY-LEGAL IS JUSTICE. If the worst offender may 228. POPULAR ESTIMATION. What we oft do best, By sick interpreters is not allow'd; What worst, is oft cry'd up for our best action. 229. WOMEN. Two women plac'd together makes cold weather. 230. CONFIDENCE MISPLACED. Where you are liberal of your loves, and counsels, 231. GRANDEUR. If majesty and pomp attach the heart, To leave's a thousand times more bitter than 'Tis sweet at first to acquire. 232. RELIGION-TEACHERS of it. They should be good men whose employ is righteous. 233. OBSCURITY AFFECTED. A strange tongue makes a cause more strange; sus> picious. THE WILL OF HEAVEN 234. RESIGNATION, BE DONE IN ALL THINGS. 235. GRIEF. Grief makes bold mouths. 236. MAGNANIMITY UNSUSPICIOUS. A noble spirit ever casts Doubts, as false coin, from it. 237. POVERTY SHOULD BE BEFRIENded. Stand the poor people's friend. 238. HUMILITY. The blessedness of being little. 239. REST SHOULD HAVE IT'S SEASON. There should be hoürs for necessities As for delights:-Times to repair our nature With comforting repose, and not for us To waste. 240. VIRTUE ABOVE SELFISHNESS. A good man stands upon his truth and honesty. 241. MEDIOCRITY OF STATION. And range with humble livers in content, 242. ADVANCEMENT. Honour's train Is longer than his fore-skirt. 243. DETRACTION. Many enemies, like village curs, Bark when their fellows do. 244. CONTENT. Our content is our best having, 245. APPEARANCES. All hoods make not monks. 246. JUSTICE DIVINE. Heaven is above all yet;. there sits a Judge, 247. VIRTUE. Virtue finds few friends. 248. Churchmen should nurse no slanders; for their The way of their profession, is against it: [station, They are to cure our sorrows; not to sow them, 249. OBEDIENCE. The hearts of Princes kiss obedience, So much they love it. 250. MAGNANIMITY. Though perils did Abound as thick as thought could make them and Appear in forms more horrid, yet should Duty, As doth a rock against the chiding flood *, The approach of this wild river break, and stand Unshaken. 251. WORDS. "Tis a kind of good deed to say well; And yet words are no deeds. 252. ENVY, Of what base metal art thou moulded, envy! 253. OPPRESSION. Press not a falling man too far. *Ut Pelagi Rupes immota resistit: EN. IV. 254. MUTABILITY OF LIFE. This is the state of man :-To-day he puts forth 255. RELIANCE ON HUMAN SUPPORT. Is that poor man, that hangs on Princes' favours! 256. CONSCIENCE. A still and quiet conscience is a peace 257. HONOURS. Too much honour is a burthen Too heavy for a man that hopes for Heaven. 258. FORTITUDE. A man may out of fortitude of Soul Endure more miseries and greater far Than his weak-hearted enemies dare offer. 259. VIRTUE FOR IT'S OWN SAKE. § Do justice For Truth's sake and your conscience. 260. AMBITION. Fling away ambition; By that sin fell the Angels. How can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it. |