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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10411	Poems with the Muses looking-glasse: and Amyntas· By Thomas Randolph Master of Arts, and late fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge.	Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635.; Randolph, Robert, 1612 or 13-1671.	1638 (1638)	STC 20694; ESTC S115618	150,754	394

On the Passion of Christ. WHat rends the temples vail wher is day gone How can a generall darknesse cloud the Sun Astrologers their skill in vaine doe try Nature must needs be sick when God can dye Necessary observations 1 Precept FIrst worship God he that forgets to pray Bids not himselfe good morrow nor good day Let thy first labour be to purge thy sin And serve him first whence all things did begin 2 Pre. Honour thy Parents to prolong thine end With them though for a truth doe not contend Though all should truth defend doe thou loose rather The truth a while then loose their Loves for ever Who ever makes his fathers heart to bleed Shall have a child that will revenge the deed 3 Pre. Thinke that is just 't is not enough to doe Vnlesse thy very thoughts are upright too 4 Pre. Defend the truth for that who will not dye A coward is and gi●…s himselfe the lye 5 Pre. Honour the King as sonnes their Parents doe For he 's thy Father and thy Country 's too 6 Pre. A freind is gold if true hee le never leave thee Yet both without a touchstone may deceive thee 7 Pre. Suspicious men thinke others false but hee Cozens himselfe that will too credulous bee For thy freinds sake let no suspect be shown And shun to be too credulous for thine own 8 Pre. Take well what e're shall chance though bad it bee Take it for good and 't will be so to thee 9 Pre. Swear not An oath is like a dangerous dart Which shot rebounds to strike the shooters heart 10 Pre. The law 's the path of life then that obey Who keeps it not hath wandring lost his way 11 Pre. Thanke those that doe thee good so shalt thou gaine Their second helpe if thou shouldst need againe 12 Pre. To doubtfull matters doe not headlong run What 's well left off were better not begun 13 Pre. Be well advis'd and wary counsell make E're thou dost any action undertake Having undertaken thy endeauours bend To bring thy Action to a perfect end 14 Pre. Safe in thy brest close lock up thy Intents For he that knows thy purpose best prevents 15 Pre. To tell thy miseries will no comfort breed Men helpe thee most that thinke thou hast no need But if the world once thy misfortunes know Thou soone shalt loose a freind and find a foe 16 Pre. Keepe thy freinds goods for should thy wants bee known Thou canst not tell but they may be thine own 17 Pre. To gather wealth through fraud doe not presume A little evill got will much consume 18 Pre. First thinke and if thy thoughts approve thy will Then speake and after what thou speakst fulfill 19 Pre. Spare not nor spend too much be this thy care Spare but to spend and only spend to spare Who spends too much may want and so complaine But he spends best that spares to spend againe 20 Pre. If with a stranger thou discourse first learne By strictest observations to discerne If he be wiser then thy selfe if so Be dumbe and rather choose by him to know But if thy selfe perchance the wiser bee Then doe thou speake that he may learne by thee 21 Pre. If thou dispraise a man let no man know By any circumstance that he 's thy foe If men but once find that they ' l quickly see Thy words from hate and not from judgment bee If thou wouldst tell his vice doe what you can To make the world believe thou lov'st the man 22 Pre. Reprove not in their wrath incensed men Good councell comes cleane out of season then But when his fury is appeas'd and past He will conceive his fault and men at last When he is coole and calme then utter it No man gives Physick in the midst o th' Fit 23 Pre. Seeme not too conscious of thy worth nor be The first that knows thy own sufficiency If to thy King and Country thy true care More serviceable is then others are That blaze in court and every Action sway As if the Kingdome on their shoulders lay Or if thou serv'st a master and dost see Others prefer'd of lesse Desert then thee Doe not complaine though such a Plaint be true Lords will not give their Favours as a Due But rather stay and hope it cannot bee But men at last must needs thy vertues see So shall thy trust endure and greater grow Whilst they that are above thee fall below 24 Pre. Desire not thy meane-fortunes for to set Next to the stately Mannors of the Great He will suspect thy labours and oppresse Fearing thy greatnesse makes his wealth the lesse Great ones doe love no Aequals But must bee Aboue the Termes of all comparitie Such a rich Neighbour is compared best To the great Pike that eats up all the rest Or else like Pharaohs Cow that in an houre Will seaven of his fattest freinds devoure Or like the sea whose vastnesse swallows cleane All other streams though no encrease be seene Live by the Poore they doe the Poore no harme So Bees thrive best when they together swarme Rich men are Bears and Poore men ought to feare 'em Like ravenous wolfes 't is dangerous living neare ' em 25 Pre. Each man three Divels hath selfe borne afflictions Th' unruly Tongue the Belly and Affections Charme these such holy Conjurations can Gaine thee the friendship both of God and man 26 Pre. So liue with man as if Gods curious eye Did every where into thine Actions prie For never yet was sinne so void of sence So fully fac'd with brazen Impudence As that it durst before mens eyes commit Their beastly lusts least they should witnesse it How dare they then offend when God shall see That must alone both Iudge and Iury bee 27 Pre. Take thou no care how to deferre thy death And give more respit to this Mortall breath Would'st thou live long the only means are these 'Bove Galens diet or Hippocrates Strive to live well Tread in the upright wayes And rather count thy Actions then thy dayes Then thou hast liv'd enough amongst us here For every day well spent I count a yeare Live well and then how soone so e're thou die Thou art of Age to claime Aeternitie But he that out lives Nestor and appeares T' have past the date of gray Mathusalem's yeares If he his life to sloth and sinne doth give I say he only Was he did not Live 28 Pre. Trust not a man unknown he may deceive thee And doubt the man thou knowst for he may leave thee And yet for to prevent exceptions too 'T is best not seeme to doubt although you doe 29 Pre. Heare much but little speake a wise man feares And will not use his tongue so much as eares The Tongue if it the hedge of Teeth doe breake Will others shame and its own Ruine speake I never yet did ever read of any Vndone by hearing but by speaking many The reason 's this the Eares