A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue 8-v. 2. None are so surely caught, when they are catch'd, Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, 270 Customs, new, heedlessly followed. Though they be never so ridiculous, Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity, (So it be new, there's no respect how vile,) That is not quickly buzz'd into the ears? 8-v. 2. 25-i. 3. 17-ii. 1. The great man down, you mark,. his favourite flies; For who not needs, shall never lack, a friend; 36-iii. 2. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sleep, when he wakes? and creep into the jaundice 9-i. 1. i These are observations worthy of a man who has surveyed human nature with the closest attention. E 274 Power, loss of it, is loss of homage. 'Tis certain, greatness, once fallen out with fortune, Must fall out with men too: What the declined is, He shall as soon read in the eyes of others, As feel in his own fall: for men, like butterflies, Hath any honour; but honour for those honours Which when they fall, as being slippery standers, 275 Love, in its spring and in its maturity. 26-iii. 3. [ing; My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seem- And sweets grown common lose their dear delight. 276 Conscience. Poems. Who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life; But that the dread of something after death,The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns,-puzzles the will; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; 36-iii. 1. What's past, and what's to come, is strew'd with husks, And formless ruin of oblivion. 26-iv. 5. 278 Time, the effects of. Minutes, hours, days, weeks, and years, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys: renown, and grace, is dead. 280 Bad courses. But by bad courses may be understood, 23-ii. 4. 15-ii. 3. That their events can never fall out good. 17-ii. 1. Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast, 282 34-v. 3. Riches cannot procure happiness for their possessors. Is plagued with cramps, and gouts, and painful fits; The sweets we wish for turn to loathed sours, 283 The consequences of evil. Poems. When evil deeds have their permissive pass, 284 Wisdom and Learning. Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, 5-i. 4. That will not be deep search'd with saucy looks; Save base authority from others' books. Universal plodding prisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries; As motion, and long-during action, tires 286 8-i. 1. 8-iv. 3. The effects of the want of judgment and taste. When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, Understanding; it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. 10- iii. 3. 287 Affections not felt are disbelieved or despised. 13-i. 2. Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base: Nature hath meal, and bran; contempt, and grace. 31-iv. 2. k Implies, that the entertainment was mean, and the bill was extravagant. It is said by Rabelais, there was only one quarter of an hour in human life passed ill, and that was between the calling for the reckoning and the paying for it. 1 Smith's theory of moral sentiments shews, agreeably to Thucydides, that sentiments, when above the tone of others, reach not their sympathy. 289 Sorrow distorts appearances. Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, 290 Fortitude under afflictions. Bid that welcome Which comes to punish us, and we punish it Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, 17-ii. 2. 30-iv. 12. io-ii. 1. Time. I,-that please some, try all; both joy, and terror, Of good and bad; that make, and unfold, error. 294 13-iv. Chorus. Mankind different in exterior only. Are we not brothers? So man and man should be;. 31-iv. 2. m Amongst mathematical recreations, there is one in optics, in. which a figure is drawn, wherein all the rules of perspective are inverted, so that if held in the same position with those pictures which are drawn according to the rules of perspective, it can present nothing but confusion: and to be seen in form, and under a regular appearance, it must be looked upon from a contrary station; or, as Shakspeare says, eyed awry. This curious double allusion to an optical experiment, not even now very familiar, shews the strength, comprehensiveness, and subtilty, of the poet's observation. The anamorphosis cylinder and polymorphic prism are both introduced. |