SONNETS-continued.]

For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains.
And disapproves that care, though wise in show,
That with superfluous burden loads the day,
And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
Yet I argue not

Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward.

Of which all Europe rings from side to side.
But O, as to embrace me she inclin'd,

I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

Ibid.

To the Same.

Ibid.

On his Deceased Wife.

Have hung

My dank and dropping weeds

To the stern god of sea.

Translation of Horace. Book i. Ode 5. Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. The Reason of Church Government. Book ii.

By labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. Ibid. Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

Ibid.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

Apology for Smectymnuus.

Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.

Tractate of Education.

I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but strait conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. Ibid.

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

Ibid.

TRACTATE OF EDUCATION-continued.]

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

ibid.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself. Areopagitica.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. Ibid. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary. Ibid.

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

Ibid.

Who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?

Ibid.

By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth and idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at far distance, true colours and shapes. History of England. Book i. ad fin. Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

Tetrarchordon.

Iconoclastes, xxiv. ad fin.

THOMAS FULLER. 1608-1661.

THE HOLY AND THE PROFANE STATE.

Ed. Nichols, 1841.

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.1 The Life of Monica.

But our captain counts the image of God, nevertheless his image, cut in ebony as if done in ivory.

The Good Sea-Captain.

Of Expecting Preferment.

The lion is not so fierce as painted.2 Their heads sometimes so little, that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room.

1 Cf. Waller, p. 100.

Of Natural Fools.

2 The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.-Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.

FULLER.—ROCHEFOUCAULD.—BASSE.—VAUGHAN. 125

The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. Of Tombs.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have Of Books.

lost.

They that marry ancient people, merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves, in hope that one will come and cut the halter.

Of Marriage. To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul. The Court Lady. Often the cockloft is empty, in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.1 Andronicus. Ad. fin. 1.

FRANCIS DUC DE ROCHEFOUCAULD.

1613-1680.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past, and over future evils, but present evils triumph over philosophy."

Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue.

Maxim 23.

Maxim 227.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us.3

Maxim 245.

WILLIAM BASSE. 1613-1648.

Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh
To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie

A little nearer Spenser, to make room

For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb.4

On Shakespeare.

They are all gone.

1 My Lord St. Albans said that wise nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.-Bacon, Apothegm, No. 17.

2 This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade

on a journey.-Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man, Act i.

3 I am convinced that we have a degree of delight and that no small one in the real misfortunes and pains of others.-Burke, The Sublime and Beautiful. Pt. 1, Sec. 14, 15.

4 I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room.

Jonson, To the Memory of Shakespeare.

THEY ARE ALL GONE-continued.]

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

Ibid.

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul when man doth sleep,

So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes,
And into glory peep.

Ibid.

A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side. Part i. Canto i. Line 67.
For rhetoric, he could not ope

His mouth, but out there flew a trope.

For all a rhetorician's rules
Teach nothing but to name his tools.
For he, by geometric scale,
Could take the size of pots of ale.
And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike, by Algebra.
Whatever sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.
Where entity and quiddity,

Parti. Canto i. Line 81.

Parti. Canto ì. Line 89.

Parti. Canto i. Line 121.

Parti. Canto i. Line 125.

Part i. Canto i. Line 131.

2 Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.-Fuller, Holy and Profane State. Andronicus, Ad. fin. 1.

Parti. Canto i. Line 191.

- Skelton, Why come ye not to

HUDIBRAS--continued.]

And prove their doctrine orthodox,
By apostolic blows and knocks.
Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to.

The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty,
For want of fighting was grown rusty,
And ate into itself for lack

Parti. Canto i. Line 199.

Part i. Canto i. Line 215.

Of him, more than the Pope of Rome. Parti. Canto iii. Line 263.

1 See Proverbs, post.

Parti. Canto iii. Line 1047.

2 And so his Highness schal have thereof, but as had the man that scheryd his Hogge, moche Crye and no Wull.-Fortescue (1395-1485), Treatise on Absolute and Limited Monarchy, Ch. x.

3 Ay me, how many perils do enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall.

Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book i. Canto 8. St. 1.
5 Cf. Bunyan, p. 137.

4 See Appendix, post: He that fights and runs away.