FRANCIS QUARLES. 1592-1644. Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.-Emblems, Book II, 2. This house is to be let for life or years; Her rent is sorrow, and here income tears; Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known, She must be clearly let, or let alone.—Emblems, Book II, 10. The slender debt to nature 's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made. -Emblems, Book 11. GEORGE HERBERT. 1593-1632. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives.-Virtue. A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.-The Church Porch. Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.-The Church Porch. Sundays observe: think when the bells do chime "T is angel's music.-The Church Porch. The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.-The Church Porch. Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?-The Size. Do well and right, and let the world sink.-Country Parson, Ch. 29. Help thyself, and God will help thee.-Jacula Prudentum. SIR JOHN SUCKLING. 1609-1641. "T is expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were. Her face is like the milky way i' the sky, -Against Fruition. A meeting of gentle lights without a name.-Brennoralt, Act. III. The prince of darkness is a gentleman.-The Gobblins. -See Shakespeare,-King Lear. ROBERT HERRICK. 1591-1674. Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. -The Rock of Rubies, and Quarrie of Pearls. Some asked how pearls did grow, and where? Then I spoke to my Girl, To part her lips, and showed them there Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting-stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. -Night Piece to Julia. You say to me-wards your affection 's strong; -Love me Little, Love me Long. Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.-Seek and Find. JAMES SHIRLEY. There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings.-Ajax and Ulysses. Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.-Ajax and Ulysses. The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.-Psalm CXII, 6 JOHN KEPLER. It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.-Brewsters Martyrs of Science. RICHARD LOVELACE. 1618-1658. I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.-To Lucasta, on going to the wars. Stone walls do not a prison make, That for an heritage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.—To Althea, from prison. JOHN WEBSTER. "T is just like a summer birdcage in a garden; the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption, for fear they shall never get out.-The White Devil. Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd to near have neither heat nor light.-The White Devil. RICHARD CRASHAW. 1616-1650. The conscious water saw its God and blushed.—Epigram on John II. Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she, That shall command my heart and me. -Wishes To His Supposed Mistress. A happy soul that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day. -In Praise of Lessius's Rules of Health. The modest front of this small floor, Believe me, reader, can say more Than many a braver marble can, "Here lies a truly honest man!-Epitaph on Mr. Ashton. THOMAS HEYWOOD. The world's a theater, the earth a stage Which God and nature do with actors fill.-Apology for Actors. Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.-History of Women. Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead; Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.-Hierarchie of Angells. -Ascribed to Thomas Seward. |