* 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.

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.

WHAT though the sea be calm? Trust to the shore; Ships have been drown'd, where late they danced before.

K

* 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.

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TO LIVE FREELY

LET'S live in haste; use pleasures while we may; Could life return, 'twould never lose a day.

NOTHING comes free-cost here; Jove will not let His gifts go from him, if not bought with sweat.

*175*

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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.

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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.

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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.