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3946. JUSTICE-divine.

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3948. PRUDENCE and I'N DEPENDEN While you live draw your neck out of the Collar.

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3952. INCONSIDERABLENESS.

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3953. COUNTERACTION.

One fire burns out another's burning;

One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish :

Being giddy, help thyself by backward turning; One desperate grief cures by another's languish. 3954. BEAUTY external and internal.

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3956. ANGER-under CONSTRAINT.

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Patience perforce with wilful Choler Makes the flesh tremble at their different greeting. 3957 LOVE.

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3961. How silver sweet sound Lovers' Tongues by Like softest Music to attending Ears! [Night,

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• 3962. LEAVE-TAKING.

Parting is such sweet Sorrow, Lovers would say "Good Night" till it be morrow. 3963. EARTH.

The Earth that's Nature's Mother is her Tomb:
What is her burying Grave that is her Womb*:
And from her Womb Children of different kind
We sucking on her natural Bosom find
Many for many Virtues excellent;
None but for some, and yet all different.

3964. SLEEP-CARE.

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Care keeps his Watch in every old Mau's Eye;
And where Care lodges Sleep will never lie:
But where unbruised Youth with unstufft Brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden Sleep doth

3965. EQUIVOCATION.

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Riddling Confession finds but riddling Shrift. 3966. EYES.

Men's Eyes were made to look.

3967.INTERCESSION--none should warp JUSTICE. 8. Nor Tears nor Prayers should purchase out [Abuses.

3968. LOVE.

9§. To a Lover's Ear the Tongue that merely speaks The Name belov'd, speaks heavenly Eloquence. 3969. WORDS; -few, decisive.

10§. Brief Sounds determine oft of Weal or Woe. 3970. DEATH.

Death is but Exile from this lower World. 3971. PASSION.

Those that are mad with Passion have no Ears.

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3972. FEELING the SOURCE of BLOQUENCE.

Ill can Men speak of what they do not feel*.

3973. DEATH.

Death is the End of all.

3974. HAPPINESS-from DISPOSITION; not

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A swarm of Blessings lights upon our head,
Happiness courts us in her best Array,
And our Perverseness poisons all our Bliss.
Take heed, take heed; for such die miserable.

3975. SUN-SET-DEW.

When the Sun sets the Air doth drizzle Dew.
3976. INTENTION.

Whate'er in the intent is meant for Love,
Has thanks for it's good-meaning.

3977. LOVE-GRIEF.
Venus smiles not in a House of Tears.
3978.- animates.

*+. In Terrors howsoever new and great, Love gives new strength, and strength will help 3979. GRIEF-NATURE-REASON. [afford.

Nature's Tears are Reason's Merriment †.

3980, REVENGE.

Can Vengeance be pursued farther than Death.

* Si vis me Flere, dolendum Primum ipsi tibi: tunc tua me infortunia tangent. HOR. † A pious and philosophic Sentiment, harshly, but stoically, expresst.

This was attempted in 1660. " The Courtiers, to give proof of their loyalty, and the King, to manifest his filial piety, carried their Vengeance beyond the Grave; and aimed at the punishment of those whom a fortunate exit had delivered from the arm of human power."-MACAULAY. V.

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3981. DESPAIR..

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Tempt not a desperate Man.

HAMLET.

3982. GRIEF moderated by REASON.

In Sorrow let Discretion fight with Nature,

And with such feeling think of the deceas'd,
As not to lose remembrance of ourselves.

3983. DUTY-HASTE.

* Haste commends Duty.and over I 3984. GRIEF-inostentatious....

25. The Grief that passes shew resides within. 3985. SECRECY.

31. Firm Prudence will to things of Secrecy Give but an Understanding, and no Tongue.

3986. LOVE.

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A Violet in the Youth of primy Nature,
Forward, not permanent; sweet, but not lasting;
The pèrfume and suppliance of a minute,
Not more.

3987. PROGRESSION-mental and corporeal.
Nature, when crescent, does not grow alone
In thewes and bulk: but as this Temple waxes,
The inward service of the Mind and Soul

Grows wide withal.

3988. PRINCE.

A Prince's Will is not his own:

For he, himself, is subject to his Birth.

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Ch. I. speaking of the Parliamentary Order for digging up and exposing at Tyburn the Bodies of Cromwell, Bradshaw, Ireton, and Pride.

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