Though little fire grows great with little wind, 12-ii. I. Who finds the heifer dead, and bleeding fresh, But will suspect, 'twas he that made the slaughter? 22-iii. 2. We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Others there are, Who, trimm'd in forms and visages of duty, The expense of spirit in a waste of shame 37-i. 1. .Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Poems. 485 Man changed by outward circumstances. At all times alike Men are not still the same; 'Twas time and griefs, 486 The effects of fear and sloth. Ebbing men, Most often do so near the bottom run, 27-v. 2. The time will bring on summer, 1-ii. 1. When briars shall have leaves as well as thorns, 488 Ingratitude. Blow, blow, thou winter wind, As man's ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, Though thou the waters warp, 11-iv. 4. 489 As friend remember'd" not. 10-ii. 7. Carefulness. For my means, I'll husband them so well, 490 Man to be studied before trusted. 'Tis not a year or two shews us a man: 36-iv. 5. They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They belch us. 37-iii. 4. As briars have sweetness with their prickles, so shall troubles be recompensed with joy. "Unnatural. ▾ Remembering. 491 Grief in experience and inexperience. True grief is fond, and testy as a child, Who, wayward once, his mood with nought agrees. 493 The power of natural affection. Unreasonable creatures feed their young: Poems. 13-v. 3. And though man's face be fearful to their eyes, Who hath not seen them (even with those wings The poor wren, W The most diminutive of birds, will fight,' 495 Service seldom duly rewarded. 15-iv. 2. The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer. Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths; In deepest consequence.* 11-iii. 6. 15-i. 3. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Shall time's best jewel from time's chest lie hid? What poor duty cannot do, Noble respect takes it in might, not merit. I read as much, as from the rattling tongue Poems. 7-v. I. Conscience, it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbour's wife, but it detects him. 24-i..4. 500 Troubles aggravated by the view of what would 'Tis double death to drown in ken of shore: 501 The power of fear. Poems. Fear, and be slain; no worse can come, to fight: And fight and die, is death destroying death; 502 Time tedious to the afflicted. 17-iii. 2. Short time seems long, in sorrow's sharp sustaining, Though woe be heavy, yet it seldom sleeps, And they that watch, see time how slow it creeps. Poems. Some, that smile, have in their hearts, I fear, 29-iv. 1 Can vengeance be pursued farther than death? 506 A noble resolve. 35-v. 3. Had I a dozen sons,—each in my love alike,—I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country, than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. 507 Sorrows eased by being imparted. Why should calamity be full of words? Windy attorneys to their client woes, Airy succeeders of intestate joys," Poor breathing orators of miseries! 28-i. 3. Let them have scope; though what they do impart Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. 508 Flattery. He that's once denied, will hardly speed. This 24-iv. 4. Is the world's soul; and just of the same piece My heart laments, that virtue cannot live y Joys that are dead. 27-iii. 2. 29-ii. 3. z Envy. |