If we shall stand still, 577 Mildness to be used in differences. 25-i. 2. That which combined us was most great, and let not May it be gently heard: When we debate Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms, 30-ii. 2. Now, for the love of Love, and her soft hours, 30-i. 1. May'st thou have the spirit of persuasion, and he the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may move, and what he hears may be believed. 580 Ingratitude, how extinguished. We sent to thee; to give thy rages balm, 18-i. 2. 27-v. 5. Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks 582 30-iii. 4. Reason to be regarded. Do not banish reason For inequality: but let your reason serve To make the truth appear, where it seems hid; * Let not ill-humour be added. Their refers to rages. † Censure. 5-v. 1. § Apparent inconsistency. 583 Praise to be bestowed seasonably. Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove; our head shall go bare, till merit crown it: no perfection in reversion shall have a praise in present: we will not name desert, before his birth; and, being born, his addition* shall be humble. 26-iii. 2. 584 Injuries. We thought not good to bruise an injury, till it were full ripe. 20-iii. 6. 585 Passion allayed by reason. Be advised : 25–1. 1. 586 Suspicion. If I mistake 13-ü. 1. 587 The exuberance of lenity. This too much lenity 23-ii. 2. 588 Humanity. 7-v. 1. * Title. ti.e. If the proofs which I can offer will not support the opinion I have formed, no foundation can be trusted. 589 Honour and policy. Honour and policy, like unsevered friends, I'the war do grow together: Grant that, and tell me, In peace, what each of them by th' other lose, That they combine not there. 28-iii. 2. 590 Drunkenness. Drinking : I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment. 37-ii. 3. 591 The necessity of repose. 25-v.1. 592 Honour. See, that you come Not to woo honour, but to wed it. 11-ii. 1. 593 Justice to self. 11-ii. 3. 594 Honour disinterested. So I lose none, 15-ii. 1. 595 Caution in choosing friends. Where you are liberal of your loves, and counsels, Be sure, you be not loose : for those you make friends, And give your hearts to, when they once perceive The least rub in your fortunes, fall away Like water from ye, never found again But where they mean to sink ye. 25-ii. 1. * Cleave to me constant. 596 Honesty misinterpreted. If my offence be of such mortal kind, That neither service past, nor present sorrows, Can ransom me into his love again, So shall I clothe me in a forced content, Oh, you blessed ministers above, 37-iii. 4. Keep me in patience; and with ripen'd time, In countenance !* 7—i. 1. 5—v. 1. Give sorrow words; the grief, that does not speak, You have too much respect upon the world: 602 The necessity of mental cultivation. 10-ii. 7. 9-i. 1. Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Forbearance. 22-iii. 1. 603 Now we have shown our power, Let us seem humbler after it is done, Than when it was a doing. * False appearance, hypocrisy. 28-iv. 2. 604 Self-inspection. You talk of pride; O that you could turn your eyes towards the napes* of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves! 28-ii. 1. 605 Studies to be pursued according to taste and pleasure. Continue your resolve, To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy. Only, while we do admire This virtue, and this moral discipline, Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks, I pray; Or so devote to Aristotle's checks,t As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured; Talk logic with acquaintance that you have, And practise rhetoric in your common talk ; Music and poesy use to quickenț you; The mathematics, and the metaphysics, Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you: No profit grows, where is no pleasure ta’en ;In brief, study what you most affect. 12-i. 1. 606 Action and elocution. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand; but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature. 36-jii. 2. 607 The mirror of nature. Hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and * With allusion to the fable, which says that every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own. | Harsh rules. Perhaps it should be ethics instead of checks. | Animate. |