I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried.1 Thus times do shift, The Amber Bead. 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; 2 Nil tam difficilest quin quærendo investigari possiet (Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking). — TERENCE: Heautontimoroumenos, iv. 2, 8. 8 Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. - MILTON: Paradise Lost, book iv. line 256. 4 Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. - YOUNG: Night Thoughts, night v. line 1011. 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 The next way home 's the farthest way It is the lot of man but once to die. Book ii. Emblem 13. about.2 Book iv. Emblem 2, Ep. 2. Book v. Emblem 7. GEORGE HERBERT. 1593-1632. To write a verse or two is all the praise 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 A verse may find him who a sermon flies, 1 To die is a debt we must all of us discharge. line 418. The Elixir. The Church Porch. EURIPIDES: Alcestis, 2 The longest way round is the shortest way home. BOHN Foreign Proverbs (Italian). Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.1 The Church Porch. Chase brave employment with a naked sword Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, The worst speak something good; if all want sense, Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. Sin. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him. If goodness lead him not, yet weariness The Church Militant. The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords Man. The Pulley. A True Hymn. Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? 2 Do well and right, and let the world sink. His bark is worse than his bite. After death the doctor.* The Size. Country Parson. Chap. xxix. Jacula Prudentum. Ibid. Ibid. Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.5 1 And he that does one fault at first, WATTS: Song xv. 2 See Heywood, page 20. BICKERSTAFF: Thomas and Sally. 8 Ruat cœlum, fiat voluntas tua (Though the sky fall, let Thy will be done). SIR T. BROWNE: Religio Medici, part ii. sect. xi. 4 After the war, aid. Greek proverb. After me the deluge. MADAME DE POMPADOUR. 5 Hell is paved with good intentions. — DR. JOHNSON (Boswell's Life of Johnson, Annus 1775). No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.1 God's mill grinds slow, but sure.2 The offender never pardons. Jacula Prudentum. Ibid. Ibid. It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle. Ibid. To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure.* Ibid. The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.5 Ibid. Help thyself, and God will help thee. Ibid. Words are women, deeds are men.7 Ibid. The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken. Ibid. A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two. Ibid. IZAAK WALTON. 1593-1683. Of which, if thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here disallow thee to be a competent judge. The Complete Angler. Author's Preface. Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt. Ibid. As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler. 1 See Burton, page 192. Ibid. 2 Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. — F. VON LOGAU (1614-1655): Retribution (translation). - 8 They ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. DRYDEN: The Conquest of Grenada. 4 God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. Journey. 5 The lion is not so fierce as painted. - FULLER: Expecting Preferment. 6 God helps those who help themselves. - SIDNEY: Discourses on Gorernment, sect. xxiii. FRANKLIN: Poor Richard's Almanac. 7 Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. - Dr. MADDEN: Boulter's Monument (supposed to have been inserted by Dr. Johnson, 1745). 8 See Chaucer, page 4. 9 See Burton, page 185. I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a fishing. The Complete Angler. Author's Preface. As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter. Part i. Chap. 1. Ibid. I am, sir, a Brother of the Angle. It [angling] deserves commendations; . . . it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man. Ibid. men are to be Ibid. Angling is somewhat like poetry, born so. Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.1 66 Ibid. Sir Henry Wotton was a most dear lover and a frequent practiser of the Art of Angling; of which he would say, ""T was an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness;" and "that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it." Ibid. You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it. Ibid. I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business." Chap. ii. 1 Virtue is her own reward. DRYDEN: Tyrannic Love, act iii. sc. 1. Virtue is to herself the best reward. - HENRY MORE: Cupid's Conflict. Virtue is its own reward. - PRIOR: Imitations of Horace, book iii. ode 2. GAY: Epistle to Methuen. HOME: Douglas, act iii. sc. 1. Virtue was sufficient of herself for happiness. DIOGENES LAERTIUS: Plato, xlii. Ipsa quidem virtus sibimet pulcherrima merces (Virtue herself is her own fairest reward). - SILIUS ITALICUS (25?-99): Punica, lib. xiii. line 663. |