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!
If so be you ask me where
They do grow, I answer, there,
Where my Julia's lips do smile,

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 ?
Then spoke I to my girl

To part her lips, and showed them there

The quarelets of pearl.

A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.

A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat;
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility,

Ibid.

Delight in Disorder.

Do more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.

1 See Bacon, page 170.

Ibid

You say to me-wards your affection 's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.1

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-morrow will be dying.2

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
A baptism o'er the flowers.

To Music, to becalm kis Fever

Fair daffadills, we weep to see

You haste away so soon:
As yet the early rising sun

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
Like little mice stole in and out.

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;
New things succeed, as former things grow old.

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;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out."

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.

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YOUNG: Night Thoughts,

This house is to be let for life or years;

Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears.
Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known,
She must be dearly let, or let alone.

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,
And turn delight into a sacrifice.

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,