*141*
POSTING TO PRINTING
Let others to the printing-press run fast;
Since after death comes glory, I'll not haste.
*142*
HIS LOSS
All has been plunder'd from me but my wit:
Fortune herself can lay no claim to it.
*143*
THINGS MORTAL STILL MUTABLE
Things are uncertain; and the more we get, The more on icy pavements we are set.
*144*
NO MAN WITHOUT MONEY
No man such rare parts hath, that he can swim, If favour or occasion help not him.
*145*
THE PRESENT TIME BEST PLEASETH
Praise, they that will, times past: I joy to see Myself now live; this age best pleaseth me!
*146*
WANT
Want is a softer wax, that takes thereon, This, that, and every base impression, *147*
SATISFACTION FOR SUFFERINGS
For all our works a recompence is sure;
'Tis sweet to think on what was hard t'endure.
*148*
WRITING
When words we want, Love teacheth to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
*149*
THE DEFINITION OF BEAUTY
Beauty no other thing is, than a beam Flash'd out between the middle and extreme.
*150*
A MEAN IN OUR MEANS
Though frankincense the deities require, We must not give all to the hallow'd fire.
Such be our gifts, and such be our expense, As for ourselves to leave some frankincense.
*151*
MONEY MAKES THE MIRTH
When all birds else do of their music fail, Money's the still-sweet-singing nightingale!
*152*
TEARS AND LAUGHTER
Knew'st thou one month would take thy life away, Thou'dst weep; but laugh, should it not last a day.
*153*
UPON TEARS
Tears, though they're here below the sinner's brine, Above, they are the Angels' spiced wine.
*154*
ON LOVE
Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all Is, when love's honey has a dash of gall.
*155*
PEACE NOT PERMANENT
Great cities seldom rest; if there be none T' invade from far, they'll find worse foes at home.
*156*
PARDONS
Those ends in war the best contentment bring, Whose peace is made up with a pardoning.
*157*
TRUTH AND ERROR
Twixt truth and error, there's this difference known Error is fruitful, truth is only one.
*158*
WlT PUNISHED PROSPERS MOST
Dread not the shackles; on with thine intent, Good wits get more fame by their punishment.
*159*
BURIAL
Man may want land to live in; but for all Nature finds out some place for burial.
*160*
NO PAINS, NO GAINS
If little labour, little are our gains;
Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
*161*
TO YOUTH
Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may;
The morrow's life too late is; Live to-day.
*162*
TO ENJOY THE TIME
While fates permit us, let's be merry;
Pass all we must the fatal ferry;
And this our life, too, whirls away, With the rotation of the day.
*163*
FELICITY QUICK OF FLIGHT
Every time seems short to be That's measured by felicity;
But one half-hour that's made up here With grief, seems longer than a year.
*164*
MIRTH
True mirth resides not in the smiling skin;
The sweetest solace is to act no sin.
*165*
THE HEART
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
*166*
LOVE, WHAT IT IS
Love is a circle, that doth restless move In the same sweet eternity of Love.
*167*
DREAMS
Here we are all, by day; by night we're hurl'd By dreams, each one into a several world.
*168*
AMBITION
In man, ambition is the common'st thing;
Each one by nature loves to be a king.
*169*
SAFETY ON THE SHORE
What though the sea be calm? Trust to the shore;
Ships have been drown'd, where late they danced before.
*170*
UPON A PAINTED GENTLEWOMAN
Men say you're fair; and fair ye are, 'tis true;
But, hark! we praise the painter now, not you.
*171*
UPON WRINKLES
Wrinkles no more are, or no less, Than beauty turn'd to sourness.
*172*
CASUALTIES
Good things, that come of course, far less do please Than those which come by sweet contingencies.
*173*
TO LIVE FREELY
Let's live in haste; use pleasures while we may;
Could life return, 'twould never lose a day.
*174*
NOTHING FREE-COST
Nothing comes free-cost here; Jove will not let His gifts go from him, if not bought with sweat.
*175*
MAN'S DYING-PLACE UNCERTAIN
Man knows where first he ships himself; but he Never can tell where shall his landing be.
*176*
LOSS FROM THE LEAST
Great men by small means oft are overthrown;
He's lord of thy life, who contemns his own.
*177*
POVERTY AND RICHES
Who with a little cannot be content, Endures an everlasting punishment.
*178*
UPON MAN
Man is composed here of a twofold part;
The first of nature, and the next of art;
Art presupposes nature; nature, she Prepares the way for man's docility.
*179*
PURPOSES
No wrath of men, or rage of seas, Can shake a just man's purposes;
No threats of tyrants, or the grim Visage of them can alter him;
But what he doth at first intend, That he holds firmly to the end.
*180*
FOUR THINGS MAKE US HAPPY HERE
Health is the first good lent to men;
A gentle disposition then:
Next, to be rich by no by-ways;
Lastly, with friends t' enjoy our days.
*181*
THE WATCH
Man is a watch, wound up at first, but never Wound up again; Once down, he's down for ever.
The watch once down, all motions then do cease;
The man's pulse stopt, all passions sleep in peace.
*182*
UPON THE DETRACTER
I ask'd thee oft what poets thou hast read, And lik'st the best? Still thou repli'st, The dead.
--I shall, ere long, with green turfs cover'd be;
Then sure thou'lt like, or thou wilt envy, me.
*183*
ON HlMSELF
Live by thy Muse thou shalt, when others die, Leaving no fame to long posterity;
When monarchies trans-shifted are, and gone, Here shall endure thy vast dominion.
