*166* LOVE, WHAT IT IS LOVE is a circle, that doth restless move * 167 * DREAMS HERE we are all, by day; by night we're hurl'd IN man, ambition is the common'st thing; 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; * 171 UPON WRINKLES WRINKLES no more are, or no less, * 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, 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, 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 ; 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. I ASK'D thee oft what poets thou hast read, LIVE by thy Muse thou shalt, when others die, When monarchies trans-shifted are, and gone |