to liue Hope not for that which iustice doth denie Where grace begins hope makes a happie end Similies on the same subiect AS greatest calmes oft turne to thunderclaps So sweetest hopes doe change to sowrest haps As in meane places may much wealth be hid So little hopes may mightie things expect As sadnes is the hearts chiefe punishment So hope is highest helpe in deepe distresse As one part of the body toiles for all So hope striues to accomplish all desires As euery mettall is of Sulphur made So euery pleasure doth from hope proceed As honest pastimes can no way offend So good mens hopes must needs haue happy end Examples likewise on the same WHen Alexander gaue great gifts away Being askt What for himselfe he kept replied Hope Caesar continually wasled with hope That he should gouerne many Monarchies Androclidas derided being lame Said Then in fight I hope I shall not flie Pindarus calleth hope The nource of age And Thales said Hope was a common helpe Learned men differ from the ignorant As Bias saith but onely by their Hope Hope as Simonides the Poet saith Is the sole guide and gouernour of men Of Loue. Loue is a vertue measur'd by duteous choice But not if it be maim'd with wilfull chaunce TRue loue is simple like his mother Truth Firme and vntainted loue had neuer meane In long delay loue most impatient is Our treasure we may hide but not our loue The truest loue is most suspitious Loues eyes in looking neuer haue their fill MAY is not loues month MAY is full of flowers But dropping APRIL Loue is full of showers Leud loue breeds losse ill peace hath deadly fight Life is most loath'd where loue may not preuaile Loue is the mistresse of a many minds Loues little sweet oft finds a longer sower Loue 's like the winters Rose or Sommers Ice Loue where it likes life where it loues would be Loue doth desire the thing belou'd to see That like it selfe in louely shape may be As loue is loth to part so seare shunnes death Luke warme desires best fit with crazed loue Valour nor loue dwells where diuision is Nought worth is loue without true constancie Loue cannot sound well but in louers tongues Loues strongest bands vnkindnes doth vnbind Firme loue that is in gentle brests begun No idle charme may easily remooue Short is the ioy of him that longest loues Loue neuer can endure a Paragon The greater loue the greater is the losse True loue is often sowne but seldome growes Loose loues are vaine and vanish still to smoake Loue that two hearts makes one so frames one will Too hard a lesson t is for liuing clay From loue in course of nature to refraine Firme loue the dread of daunger doth despise Loue may not be compeld by masterie Sweet loue barres lewdnesse from his companie Causelesse to chaunge loue is most foule reproch Loue hateth thought of all vngentlenes A louers heauen must passe by sorrowes hell All losse is lesse yea lesse is infamie Than losse of loue to him that loues but one They cannot iudge of loue that ne're did loue Loue wants his eyes yet shoots he passing right The shrine of loue doth seldome offrings want What can be said that louers cannot say Blind loues best Poets haue imperfect sight Loue deeply grounded hardly is dissembled Loue is a fiend a fire a heauen a hell Where pleasure paine and sad repentance dwell Where both deliberate the loue is light True loue is mute and oft amazed stands Who euer lou'd that lou'd not at first sight The darkest night is Cupids brightest day Loue alwaies makes those eloquent that loue There 's nothing more than counsell louers hate The light of hidden fire it selfe discouers And loue that is conceald betraies poore louers A louer most restraind the worser fares Loue is too full of faith too credulous Great force and vertue hath a louing looke No stonie limits can hold out true loue What loue can doe that dare it still attempt Sweet are those bands that true loue doth combine Loue goes toward loue like schoole-boyes from their bookes But loue from loue to schoole with heauie lookes No loue so sweet as where both soules consent True perfect loue is quickest of beleefe It 's better loue and liue than loath and die Free vent of words loues fire doth asswage Lookes doe kill loue and loue by lookes reuiues Foule words and frownes will not compell a louer Louers well wot what griefe it is to part When twixt two bodies liueth but one heart Loue easily commenteth on euery woe Loues gentle spring doth alwaies fresh remaine Loue maketh young men thrall and old men dote In follie loue is wise and foolish wittie A louers houres are long though seeming shoâ—â— Louers doe say The heart hath treble wrong When it is bard the ayding of the tongue Loue doth with gall and hony both abound It is not loue that loues to anger loue Loue still is free and led with selfe-delight Sweet is the loue that comes with willingnes Who learnes to loue the lesson is so plaine That once made perfect neuer lost againe There is no paine like loues sweet miscrie Great talke of loue proceeds but from the tongue Loue makes blunt wits right pleasing Oratours All loue deceits are held excusable Loue is most sweet and faire in euery thing Loue well is said to be a life in death That laughes and weepes and all but with a breath Such veâ—â—ue loue hath to make one of two The fire of loue is blown by dalliance Loues speciall lesson is to please the eye Loues glorie doth in greatest darknes shine Loue is a spirit all compact of fire Not grâ—sse to sâ—â—ke but light and will aspire Loue paints his longings in faire virgins eyes If merit looke not well Loue bids stand by Loue loftie doth despise a lowly eye Loue neuer will be drawn but must be led Although sweet loue to conquer glorious be Yet is the paine farre greater than the fee. He that shewes all his loue doth loue but lightly Fauours make happy louers euer dumbe The latest wonne is alwaies lou'd the longer Equall estate doth nourish equall loue Loue in braue spirits kindles goodly fire Which to great height of honour doth aspire Loue makes at once sicke sound aliue and dead Loue makes diuided creatures liue in one Loue is a thing that feeds on care and feare Poore is the loue that pouertie impaires All loues conceits are excellently wittie Two eyes him needeth both to watch and wake That louers will deceiue and find their scape That loue is singular is least in sight A pregnant loue conceits a thousand things Wanton conceits are rife where loue is wittie Disdaine to true loue yet was euer foe That loue is it which alwaies lasteth long That tends to neither of the louers wrong Vnwoed loue knowes not what pittie meanes They loue indeed that dare not say they loue Loues workes are more than of a
mortall temper Hearts are Loues food his drinke is louers teares Loue is a golden bubble full of dreames That waking breakes and fils vs with extreames The gaine is griefe to them that traffique loue Loue is in prime of youth a Rose in age a Weed Loue for a minutes ioy payes endlesse paine Meane men in loue haue frownes as well as Kings Two constant louers being ioyned in one Yeelding to one another yeeld to none Loue truly bred true triall will abide Mens loue is written on the Angels brests Loue with true friends will alwaies liue and die Loue is refiner of inuention The faultes that are in loue by loue committed By loue for loue doe claime to be remitted Loue teacheth musicke to vnskilfull men Loue woon by vertue still is permanent The loue of beautie reason oft beguiles Loue is the Lord of hope and confidence Loue wheâ—s the dâ—llest wits his plagues are such Yet makes the wise by pleasing dote as much Likenesse in manners maketh loue most pure Vertue cannot be perfect wanting loue Loue is most fortunate where courage liues Concealed loue burnes with the fiercest flame Louers best like to see themselues alone Or with their loues if needs they must haue one A cold base loue cooles not a hot desire Hate in the name of loue doth oft presume Selâ—e loue of mischiefe is the only ground The â—owards warfare is a wanton loue Where â—rowes a perfect sympathie of hearts Eâ—h passion in the one the other paineth Pure loue did neuer see the face of feare Lasciuious loue is root of all remorse Loue wonne in heat will with a cold be lost Loue and high seat no equals can endure Louers haue quick all corners searching eyes Similies on the same subiect LIke as the waxe doth quench and feed the flame â—o loue to men giues both despaire and life As luie finds fit meanes whereby to climbe So loue sorts out his subiect where him list As fire with violence consumeth wood So scorne with crueltie doth murder loue As young vines yeeld most wine but old brings best So young loue speaketh much but old doth most Like as affection is in louers restlesse So being perfect it is likewise endlesse As fancie must be cured by affection So loue is onely remedied by loue Examples likewise on the same PAusanias lou'd his wife with such firme loue As no description well could set it downe Prediccas for his loue to Alexander Refused mightie wealth in Macedon The Emperour Claudius would not loue or hate But as he waâ— thereto by others led Scipio so lou'd the Poet Ennius That being dead he kept his picture still Zeno although a Stoicke yet did yeeld That loue in young men was most requisite Cicero not gain-said wise men to loue So they might loue without deepe cares and sighes Of Hate Hate is loues enemie and Friendships foe Neighbourhoods bane and Peaces ouerthrow HAte cannot worke where nature planteth loue Hates eies may slumber but can hardly sleepe Hatred is chiefest enemie to loue That which is hâ—ld with hate we feare to loose Who hates himselfe to loue another man Sencelesse should be esteemed of all men The deadliest hate with sâ—iles securely stands Where rancour rules there hate doth most preuaile Lewd loue is hate and base desire is shame Youth old in will age young in hate doth make 'T is incident to them who many feare Many to them more grieâ—oâ—es hate doe beare In meckenesse maskes the most distemperd hate True faithfull loue will neuer turne to hate Men oft shew fauour to conceale theâ—â— hate Hatred attendeth on prosperitie The sweetest loue changing his propertie Turnes to the sowrest and most deadly hate Loue so thou maist haue little feare to hate Few hate their faults all hate of them to heare A rooted hate will hardly be displac'd Fie on the loue that hatcheth hate and death These are the greatest spoilers of a state Young â—â—nsell priuat gaine and partiall hate Hate without might comes euer more too late A poore mans hate is very perillous Mercie may mend whome hatred made transgresse From deepe desireâ— oft comes the deadliest hate Hatred must be beguil'd by some new course Where states are strong and Princes doubt their force Neuer put trust in them that hate their blood Hate seekes to salue his harmes by swist reuenge Enforced wedlock breeds but secret hate Hate euurmore is blind and so is loue In vâ—â—lgar eares delight it alwaies breeds To haue the hated authors of misdeeds Where hâ—â—e doth rule Lordship small safetie hath Hate nourisheth contempt debate and rage Hate furrowes vp a graue to burie loue But few will follow them whom princes hate Hate and disdaine doe neuer brooke respect Consisting in true louing hearts neglect To colour â—aâ—e with kindnesse some commend Hid hate exceâ—deth open enmitiâ—â— Lookes oft tiâ—â—â— hate when as the heart doth loue No hate like that of friends once chang'd to foes Who foster hate can neuer find out loue Most happie he to whome loue comes at last And doth restore what hate before did wast Hate many times is hid in smoothest lookes The wrong of friends exceeds the soe-mans hate Hate buried once hurts deadly afterward A bâ—d mans hate can neuer harme the good With pleasing speech men promise and protest When hatefull hearts lâ—e lurking in their breast Whome all men hate none is so fond to loue Hate commonly doth most offend it selfe Hates winking is a prep'ratiue to death Similies on the same subiect AS Lyons are discerned by their pawes So hatefull men are by their qualities As enuie braggeth and can draw no blood So hate in stead of hurt oft doth men good As greenest wood lies long before it burne So hate stands watching till fit time to harme As blindnes led by blindnes needs must fall So hate vrg'de on by hate harmes least of all As children for their faults haue slye excuses So hates smooth lookes hide very foule abuses As crauen Cocks make shew yet dare not fight So hate makes proffers when he dares nor bite Examples likewise on the same DEmetrius Phalerius did condemne Any that iustly could be said to hate Stesilia did procure Themistocles Euen to the death to hate Aristides Cato and Caesar hated not each other Vntill Seruilia made them enemies Clodius did hate the men that lou'd him most And therefore was of all abandoned Cicero saith No honest citizen Can be procur ' de to hate his enemie Pindarus held no vice more odious Than enuious hatred in what man so ere Of Chastitie Chast life is graces seale deuotions staffe Marke of the iust and crowne of martyrdome CHastitie is bright honours glorious crowne Lost iewels may be found Chastitie neuer That 's lost but once and once lost lost for euer Shee is most chast that 's but enioyd of one Pure chastitie is beautie to our soules Grace to our bodies peace to our desires We breake chast vowes when we liue loosely euer The purest
please So gentle minds are easily ouer-rul'd As heauines fore-tels some harme at hand So minds disturb'd presage ensuing ills As sickly bodies brooke not heat nor cold So crazed minds dislike of euery thing As working vessels are by vent kept sound So troubled minds by conference find ease As fennie grounds send forth vnsauorie sents So bad minds blâ—nder out distempered thoughts Examples likewise on the same SCeuola in the greatnesse of his mind Entred Porsennaes Tent to murder him Queene Tomiris to shew her dauntlesse mind With Cyrus blood reueng'd her deare sonnes death Zenobia told Aurelian in the field He was not able to subdue her mind Lucius Dentatus neuer matcht for mind Came eighteene times a conquerour from field Cicero saith the goodnesse of the mâ—nd Is most discern'd in pardoning iniuries Socrates said His quietnes in mind Was cause he neuer sickned till his death Of Affection c. Affection and sweet fancies secret fire Kindle the coales that quicken vp desire WHere we affect we seldome find defect Of things vnknowne we can haue no desire Men ost affect them that doe loue them least And least doe loue them whome they should like best That one desires another doth disdaine Affection by the countenance is descried Full easily the fault may be redrest Where kind affection onely hath transgrest Kindly affection youth to liue with youth Truest affection doth no bounds retaine Affection is a â—ierce yet holy fire Free of him-selfe and chain'd to strong desire Desire with small encouraging growes bold It 's easie to desire but hard to chuse Affections speech that easily can dissolue Doth moisten Flint yet Steele in stiffe attire The sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none In darkest nights desire sees best of all Sweet are the kisses the embracements sweet When like desires with like affections meet Affections slaue regards no oathes nor lawes Luke-warme desires best fit with crazed loue Affection is a coale that must be coold Else suffered it will set the heart on fire Entire affection hateth nice coy hands Affection will like fire him-selfe betray Affection faints not like a pale fac'd coward But then wooes best when most his choise is froward The coales are quicke where fancie blowes the fire Desire can make a Doctor in a day Where loue doth reigne disturbing iealousie Doth call him selfe affections Sentinell Fauour and grace are tearmed fancies fuell An equall age doth equall like desires Bad mens affections turne to feare and hate And hate to daunger and deserued death That 's hardly kept which is desir'd of many The most maid-seeming is not without affection That needs must issue to the full perfection Hath grounded-being by the minds affection There 's nothing can affections force controll Drunken desire doth vomit his receit Affections gawdie banner once displayed The coward fights and will not be dismayed Things much restrain'd make vs the more desire them In meanest shewe the most affection dwells Small drops doe oft-times quench a mightie fire But hugest Seas not qualifie desire All qualifide affections loue doth hate Beautie strikes fancie blind vaine shewes deceiue Sad perâ—urâ—ations that affections guide Should not giue iudgement till their cause be tride Desire is life of loue and death of feare Death is the finall end of all desires Nothing can quench an infinite desire Once kindled through the first conceiued fire Sad sighes doe shew the heat of hearts desire Desire controld doth aggrauate desire Desire being fierce is spring of sighes and teares Men once degenerate and growne deprest Are pleasd to share affections with a beast Desire doth spring from that we wish and want Fancie is blind deafe and incredulous Fancie is watchfull and doth seldome sleepe Fancie compeld to Lute strings is compar'd Which ouer stretcht doe cracke before they sound Lawfull desires are honesties best notes Affection's rest lesse yet being perfect end-lesse Delay is preiudiciall to desire The greater part leane to example so That what they fancie they will sâ—ant forgoe Fancies best cure is mutuall affection Fancie soone â—ires but long before it quench When loue leads lookes no compasse keepes desire A hot desire on present heat doth dote When cold repentance will it not fore-note Low fortunes often times haue high desires Like fortunes globe euen so is fancies seat Appetites flame with wisdome best is quencht There neuer did all circumstances meet With those desires which were conceiu'd before Affection brooketh no diuision Sleepe hath no priuiledge ouer desire Similies on the same subiect AS poyson sweetly mixt is sooner ta'ne So fancie close conceal'd is soonest fier'd As Chrysolites are prooued in the fire So is affection in enforc'd restraint As cities wanting Magistrates decay Euen so desire vngouern'd hurts it selfe As all the world were darke but for the Sunne So life but for affection were vnsure As steele brings fire from the hardest flint So fancie mollisies the stearnest mind As Almond trees in age doe beare most fruit So yeares doth best approoue affections Examples likewise on the same ZAleucus to the Locrians made a law To loose their eyes that sinn'd in foule desires Appius was banished the cittie Rome For leud affection to Virginia Marke Anthonie disgrac'd his former fame By not restraining his affections King Alexander hated to the death In men or women loose and leud desires Fancie saith Aristotle often makes A frenzie in their soules are led thereby Desire saith Socrates no limits holds And therefore hardly can be mastred Of Disdaine c. Contempt and Scorne are Wits infirmitie Wherwith Disdaine and Scoffes keepe company FLint frost disdaine weares melts and yeelds we see Things long in getting quickly are disdain'd Present disdaine oft after-loue diuines Prayers preuaile not where is coy disdaine Better to die a thousand deaths and more Than liue contemn'd that honour'd was before Disdaine deliuers a depraued mind Griefe often-times giues place to nice disdaine Too much precisenesse sauours of selfe-loue Gibing demaunds deserue scornefull replyes Neither can wit or Art take any place Where aduerse scorne with feare strikes boldnesse dead Presumption giues no guerdon but disdaine Despised men on earth must liue in heauen There must be some contempt ere plagues ensue Disdaine attends where greatest honour haunts In high disdaine loue is a base desire And Cupids flames doe seeme but watrie fire Disdaine repines at all good things it sees They others vertues scorne that doubt their owne Mocke none in need beware thine owne mishap Scoffes without feare from follâ—e doe proceed The choice â—â—hard wheâ—e silence kills with griefe Oâ— speech reapes no reward but base contempâ— To mocke a friend is held no manly part Scorne can haue no reward but like contempt Ieasting is tollerable but scorne most vile Disdaine declares a proud presuming heart Loues passions quenched by vnkind disdaine Doth often times encrease the more desire Scorning is artificiall iniurie Who scorneth most shall be but paid with scoffes Scorne not thy wife least scorn'd she do thee
fairest stone small raine soone makes a print Ill fare that faire which inwardly is foule Beautie is inward vertue of the soule We trample grasse and prize the flowers in MAY Yet grasse is greene when fairest flowers decay The loue of beautie Reason quite forgets The cause of loue is only beauties lookes Beautie and youth once banisht ne're returne Chast thoughts makes beautie be immortallizd Faire beautie is the sparke of hot desire And sparkes in time will kindle to a fire Sicknesse and age are beauties chiefest foes Weeds oft times grow when fairest flowers fade Beautie is like a faire but fading flower Where beautie most abounds there wants most ruth The goodliest gemme being blemisht with a cracke Looseth both beautie and the vertue too Beautie doth whet the wit makes bold the will Beautie makes Art to worke beyond it selfe Vnhonest beautie is a deadly poyson Vertue-Iesse beautie doth deserue no Ioue The fairest flower nipt with the winters frost In shew seemes worser than the basest weed The perfect glasse of vertue beautie is No bait so sweet as beautie to the eye White seemes the fairer when as blacke is by The purest Lawne is apt for euery staine Better it is with beautie to be blinded Than beauties graces should be blindly minded Beautie is tearm'd the mistresse of delight Beautie oft iniures them endued there with Beautie enflates and puffeth vp the mind Humilitie with beautie seldome is Beautie brings fancie to a daintie feast And makes a man that else were but a beast Man of all creatures is most beautifull Beautie not proud nothing more excellent Similies on the same subiect AS the right Corall need no other grace So Artlâ—sse beautie best sets sorth the face As finest cloth will soonest catch a staine So fairest lookes may shadow minds most vaine As greatest feasts seldome can want fit friends So beauties house will hardly lacke resort As medlers with the fire are easily scorcht So they that gaze on beautie soone are caught As coldest Climates haue their Summer dayes So coolest thoughts are fierd at beauties blaze As that same Speare which harme must heale the wound So looke where beautie kills it must reuiue Examples likewise on the same HErcules being a mightie conquerour Yet vaild his courage at faire beauties feet The â—ybian Lyons looâ—e their sternest might If of a beauteous face they once get sight The Sâ—anâ—ian Lord by nature dull and rude By sight of beautie lost this seruitude Alcestaes beautie made Mâ—andeâ—s Swannes To leaue the stood and on her shoulders pearch Chrysippus held that beautie did preserue Kindnes and all societie with men Zeno the Prince of Stoickes did agree That beautie like could very hardly be Of Iealousie Iealousie is hells torment to the mind Quite quenching reason and encreasing rage LOue euer laughes when Iealousie doth weepe If age be iealous youth will be vntrue No hell can be compard to Iealousie This still we find where iealousie is bred Hornes in the mind are worse than on the head Suspect bewraies our thoughts betraies our words Suspitious eyes are messengers of woe Iealous suspect is linked with despaire Well fares the man how ere his cates doe tast That tables not with foule suspition Better to die than be suspitious Trust not too soone nor all too light mistrust Mistrust doth treason in the trustiest raise Where Iealousie directesh forward wills Beauties sweet dalliance with despight a kills Iealousie kindles enuieâ— quenchlesse fire Suspition alwaies haunts a guiltie mind Suspition often wounds as a â—â—ope as death When sweet repose doth calme the troubled mind Then base suspect soon'st leaues his â—â—ing behind Daungerous suspect still waits on loues delight Suspition oft times breeds a further ill Once guiltie and suspected euermore O Iealousie when truth once takes thy part No mercie-wanting Tyrant so seuere No secrecie can be without suspect Iealousie is the father of reuenge Iealousie pines it selfe to death aliue Thy wise being faire be not thou iealous Because suspition curâ—â— not womens follies Iealousie growes extreame by lengthning it A iealous man no counsell will admit Iealousie is the sruit of suddaine choice The heart being once infect with iealousie Griefe is the night and day darke miscrie No thraldome like the yoke of iealousie Suspition giues continuall cause of care Iealousie is Disdaines blacke harbinger Iealousie is the torment of the mind For which nor wâ—t nor counsell helpe can find Suspition wounds but iealousie strikes dead Suspect sends men too swiftly to their end Who trauailes in suspect are bound to haste Too much sâ—spition oâ— another is A flat â—â—ndâ—â—â—â—ng of ouâ— owne amisse Passioâ—â— kept priuat doe most preiudice Suspition needs no vrger but it selfe Wise men haue alwaies hated iealousie Where once suspition breedeth enmitie 'T is hard with shewes to compasse amitie Iealousie murdereth hospitalitie Iealousie rootes vp all good neighbourhood Iealousie reckons friends no more than foes Similies on the same subiect AS no content is like the sweetes of loue So no despaire can match with iealousie Loue as it is diuine with loyaltie So is it hellish wrapt in iealousie As from small brookes great riuers doe arise So huge distemper springs from iealousie As Crowes do deeme their brood the fairest birds So iealous men their owne choise most commend As shippes in tempests by the winds are tost So fond conceits doe hurrie iealous heads As kindnesse doth delight in companie So is it poyson to mad iealousie Examples likewise on the same THe Persians were so iealous of their wiues As but in waggons they ne're went abroad Phanius lockt vp his wife through iealousie Whereby she compast what she could not else Procris was slaine through her owne iealousie Hid in a bush to watch her husbands walke Argus albeit he had an hundred eyes Yet could not keepe from Io Iupiter Cicero calleth Iealousie a feare Of loosing that belongs to ones owne selfe Chrysippus holds that iealousie ill brookes A partner in the thing it most esteemes Of Wit and Wisdom Wisdome is Natures child Experience heire Discretely rul'd while Wit gads euery where WIsdome seemes blind when she beholdeth best Wisdome growne wealthie liueth then at quiet No wisdome with extremities to deale It 's wisdome to giue much a gift preuailes When deepe perswading Oratorie failes Mans wit doth build for time but to deuoure Wisdome is alwaies held the chiefest wealth Ech soyle oâ— couâ—trey is a wise mans home He is not wise that hauing scapâ—â— a harme Will afterward goe meddle with it more Faire sober speed is counted wisdomes hast All after-wit is euer dearely bought Wisdome bids stay though foot be in the gate Not cowardise but wisdome warnes to yeeld When fortune aids the proud iusulting foe Feed 〈…〉 les with toyes and wise men with regard When clouds appeare wise men put on their cloakes He wisely walketh that doth safely goe All places that the eye of heauen surâ—aies Are to a wise man happie ports and hauens What wise men see
eare Without some sweet impression of the mind Wine often-times is cause of many words The fewer words the more discretion That man may worthily be said to doâ—e That trusts faire words and solles his goods for smoke When swords haue pleaded words doe come too late The lesse men speake the more they meditate Bargaines made by constraint may well be broken And words by force compeld as well vnspoken By the hearts thoughts the tongue is carried Few words well coucht doe most content the wise Reports in Coâ—â—â—s are held both night and day As common guests and seldome paâ—t away Seld speaketh loue but sighes his secret paines Of whome the tongue talkes much the heart thinkes more Better by speaking little make a sâ—arre Than by much babling cause a wide deepe wound Report hath oft a blister on her tongue The sweetest words may come from sowrest hearts The words that sound the sweetest in the eare Are not the wholsoâ—â—'st alwaies to the heart In many words is couched most mistrust Who fights with words doth soonest wound himselfe Many repent the words that they haue spoke But neuer any that they held their peace The coldest words oft cooles the hottest throat Workes and not words doe most commend a man Spend stripes on him whome words may not retaine Yet spend to mend by strokes but not to maime From fewest words may great effects ensue Silence hath seldome yet made any sad Whereas desire doth vrge the tongue to speake Somwhat must out or else the heart will breake The tongue is call'd the gate of life and death Who speakes with heed may boldly say his mind The man whose tongue before his wit doth run Oft speakes too soone and rues when he hath done A word once past can be recalde no more Better be silent than in vaine to speake As good be dombe as speake and not be heard Similies on the same subiect AS one sparke may procure a mightie fire So one ill tongue may cause great enmitie As riuers are bound in with bankes for ouer-flowing So reason should restraine too lauish talking As gold boiles best when it doth bubble least So mild deliuerance sweetens best our words As silence is a gift deuoid of feare So talking is a thing to vrge suspect As he beares miserie best that hides it most So he declares least wit that prateth most As we must giue account for idle silence So much more must we for our fruitlesse talke Examples likewise on the same POmpey let burne his finger in the fire Rather than he would be too free of tongue Vâ—ysseâ— in his youâ—h refrain'd from speech Because in yeares he would direct his tongue Great Alexander gaue Cherillus coine To hold his peace and to forbeare to write Antigâ—nus this lesson taught his sonne First to learne silence then to practise speech Zeâ—o reprâ—oued one that prated much And said his eares were founded on his tongue The toâ—gue saith Aristotle blabs the mind And fooles or wise men soone thereby we find Of Flatterie c. Flatterie is friendships vtter ouerthrow The wracke of States and honest natures foe THe greenest hearb oft hides the foulest toad The stillest water hath the deepest channell It 's better to be blamed by a friend Than to be kissed of a flatterer Soothing gâ—ts friends but truth doth purchase hate A seeming friend is a deceitfull bogge Flatterie suruiues not at the dead mans dore Liue men haue eares when tombes are deafe and poore Of false dissembling foulie must be fall The best dissembler hath the brauest wit It is esteem'd no certaine way to thriue To praise the dead but flattering men aliue Dissembled holinesse is double crime Faire feigned tales conuey foule things from sight Dissembling sometimes may attaine to saue Mens liues their â—ame their goods and all they haue Chuse few friends trie them flatterers speake faire Men strew sweet flowers to hide the deepest snares Mens pleas in loue like painters pensils are Which figure shadowes and the substance leaue Faire outward shewes prooue inwardly the worst Loue looketh faire when hap is most accurst The badge of hypocrites is noted still By alwayes speaking well yet doing ill Flatterie doth verie seldome want rewards To flatter wise men shewes discretions want When greatest braues are brought to trials proofe The boasters are content to stand aloofe Flatterers râ—spect their owne good no mans else Better a wretch than a dissembler False flatterers are worse than greedie crowes The one deâ—oureâ— aliue the other dead Plaine and not honest is too haâ—sh a style Men still doe foullest when they fairest speake Fond Physiognomies complexion Guides not the inward disposition Better offend with truth than flattering praise Flatterers are nought else but trencher flyes True loue 's a Saint so shall ye true loue know False loue 's a Sâ—ithian yet a Saint in show Flatterie iâ— the nource of wickednesse Dissembling weares a cloake truth naked goes The smoothest lookes doe soon'st of all beguile And oft are clokes to cogitations vile Womens dissembling hardly can be matcht A foe is better than a dissembling friend Similies on the same subiect AS vultures sleepe not where they find no prey So flatterers haunt not but where profit growes As vermine breâ—d in places of most warmth So flatterers cling where best they find reliefe As Pilgrims creepe not but where is some crosse So slye dissemblers crouch not but for gaine As â—othes the finest garments doe consume So flatterers feed vpon the frankest hearts As Panthers haue sweet sents but rauenous minds So flatterers haue smooth lookes but killing heaâ—â—s As straightest trees haue still the crookedst roots So all dissemblers haue the craftiest trickes Examples likewise on the same THe Emperour Sigismond strooke a flatterer And said He bit worse than a Scorpion Augustus so detested flatterie He could not bide his seruants kneele to him Tyberius seruants might not call him Lord Because he said therein they flatter'd him Clisiphus was call'd Philips counterfeit Because like him he fashion'd all he did Phocion said to king Antipater He could not be his friend and flatterer Wise men saith Bias make not all their friends But haue a speciall eye to flatterers Of good Deeds c. Good Deeds confound all bad suppresse offence Correcting faults with loue and patience THat is a good deed which preuents the bad Good vowes are neuer broken by good deeds He that sets downe what gifts in goodnes lurke Shall breath him twise before he end his worke In persons full of note good deeds are done Vowes are but seeds and good deeds are the fruits Good turnes ought not be held a seruile bond To bind their doers to receiue their meed That which doth good disgraceth no degreâ— We haue no good that we can say is ours Of passed good to make a new discourse By double vsurie doth twise renew it Good lampes will shine till all their oyle be gone Each goodly thing is hardest to begin When as the doing