For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools. The Leviathan. Parti. Chap. iv. No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Chap. zvin. WILLIAM BROWNE. 1590-1645. Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.1 Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones, come and buy! There's the land, or cherry-isle. Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Cherry Ripe The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls Some asked how pearls did grow, and where ? To part her lips, and showed them there The quarelets of pearl. A sweet disorder in the dress A winning wave, deserving note, Ibid. Delight in Disorder. Do more bewitch me than when art 1 See Bacon, page 170. Ibid You say to me-wards your affection 's strong; Love me Little, Love me Long Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day To the Virgins to make much of Time Fall on me like a silent dew, Or like those maiden showers Which, by the peep of day, do strew To Music, to becalm kis Fever Fair daffadills, we weep to see You haste away so soon: Has not attained his noon. To Daffadills Sorrows Succeed. Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.3 Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then,* As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again. To Mistress Susanna Southwell Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting-stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. See Marlowe, page 41. The Night Piece to Julia, 2 Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they be withered. Wisdom of Solomon, ii. 8. Gather the rose of love whilest yet is time. Queene, book ii. canto xii. stanza 75. See Shakespeare, page 143. 4 Her feet beneath her petticoat SUCKLING: Ballad upon a Wedding. I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried.1 The Amber Bead Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve. Out-did the meat, out-did the frolick wine. Ode for Ben Jonson. Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; 1 See Bacon, page 168. Book ii. Emblem 2. 2 Nil tam difficilest quin quærendo investigari possiet (Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking). - TERENCE: Heautontimo oumenos, iv. 2, 8. 8 Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. - MILTON: Paradise Lost, book iv. line 256. * Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. Bight v. line 1011. - YOUNG: Night Thoughts, This house is to be let for life or years; Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears. Emblems. Book ii. Emblem 10, Ep. 10 The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,1 Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made. Book ii. Emblem 13. To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise. Praise Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky. Virtue. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' action fine. A verse may find him who a sermon flies, 1 To die is a debt we must all of us discharge. line 418. 2 The longest way round is the shortest way home. Proverbs (Italian). The Elixir. The Church Porch. EURIPIDES: Alcestis, |