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[Hudibras continued.

As wise philosophers have judged;
Because a kick in that place more
Hurts honour, than deep wounds before.

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As men of inward light are wont

To turn their optics in upon 't.

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Still amorous, and fond, and billing,
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.

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What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
About two hundred pounds a year.
And that which was proved true before,
Prove false again? Two hundred more.

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'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin;

And therefore no true saint allows

They shall be suffer'd to espouse.

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Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick,

Though he gave his name to our old Nick.

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With crosses, relics, crucifixes,

Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes;
The tools of working out salvation

By mere mechanic operation.

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True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin'd upon.1

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1 True as the needle to the pole Or as the dial to the sun.

Barton Booth, Song.

Hudibras continued.]

For those that fly may fight again,

Which he can never do that's slain.1

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He that complies against his will

Is of his own opinion still.

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With books and money plac'd for show,

Like nest-eggs to make clients lay,

And for his false opinion pay.

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ANDREW MARVELL.

1620-1678.

And all the way, to guide their chime,
With falling oars they kept the time.

Bermudas.

In busy companies of men.

The Garden. (Translated.)

Annihilating all that's made

To a green thought in a green shade.

Ibid.

The world in all doth but two nations bear, The good, the bad, and these mixed everywhere. The Loyal Scot.

Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland.

The inglorious arts of peace.

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232 Walker.

Temple. - Harvey.

To make a bank was a great plot of state;
Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.

The Character of Holland.

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Books like proverbs receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.

Antient and Modern Learning.

STEPHEN HARVEY.

And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but born and die.

Juvenal. Satire ix.2

1 Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.

Byrom, Advice to Preach Slow. 2 From Anderson's British Poets, Vol. xii. p. 697.

JOHN DRYDEN. 1631-1701.

ALEXANDER'S FEAST.

None but the brave deserves the fair. Line 15.

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Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain;

Fought all his battles o'er again;

And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he

slew the slain.

Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,

Fallen from his high estate,

And weltering in his blood;
Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth expos'd he lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes.

For pity melts the mind to love.

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Softly sweet, in Lydian measures,
Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures.
War, he sung, is toil and trouble;

[Alexander's Feast continued.

Honour, but an empty bubble;

Never ending, still beginning,
Fighting still, and still destroying.
If all the world be worth the winning,
Think, O think it worth enjoying:
Lovely Thais sits beside thee,

Take the good the gods provide thee.

Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again.

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And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy.

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Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft

desire.

He rais'd a mortal to the skies,

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She drew an angel down.

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ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.

Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please.

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A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,
And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.1

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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Part i. Line 163.

I Compare Fuller, Holy and Profane State. Duke d'Alva.

Life of

2 What thin partitions sense from thought divide. Pope, Essay on Man, Ep. 1, Line 226.

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