The Hesperides & Noble Numbers Part 81

1037. CAUTION IN COUNSEL.

Know when to speak; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings.

1038. MODERATION.

Let moderation on thy pa.s.sions wait; Who loves too much, too much the lov'd will hate.

1039. ADVICE THE BEST ACTOR.

_Still take advice; though counsels, when they fly At random, sometimes. .h.i.t most happily._

1040. CONFORMITY IS COMELY.

_Conformity gives comeliness to things: And equal shares exclude all murmurings._

1041. LAWS.

Who violates the customs, hurts the health, Not of one man, but all the commonwealth.

1042. THE MEAN.

'Tis much among the filthy to be clean; _Our heat of youth can hardly keep the mean_.

1043. LIKE LOVES HIS LIKE.

Like will to like, each creature loves his kind; Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind.

1044. HIS HOPE OR SHEET ANCHOR.

Among these tempests great and manifold My s.h.i.+p has here one only anchor-hold; That is my hope, which if that slip, I'm one Wildered in this vast wat'ry region.

1045. COMFORT IN CALAMITY.

'Tis no discomfort in the world to fall, When the great crack not crushes one, but all.

1046. TWILIGHT.

The twilight is no other thing, we say, Than night now gone, and yet not sprung the day.

1047. FALSE MOURNING.

He who wears blacks, and mourns not for the dead, Does but deride the party buried.

_Blacks_, mourning garments.

1048. THE WILL MAKES THE WORK; OR, CONSENT MAKES THE CURE.

No grief is grown so desperate, but the ill Is half way cured if the party will.

1049. DIET.

If wholesome diet can recure a man, What need of physic or physician?

1050. SMART.

Stripes, justly given, yerk us with their fall; But causeless whipping smarts the most of all.

1051. THE TINKER'S SONG.

Along, come along, Let's meet in a throng Here of tinkers; And quaff up a bowl As big as a cowl To beer drinkers.

The pole of the hop Place in the aleshop To bethwack us, If ever we think So much as to drink Unto Bacchus.

Who frolic will be For little cost, he Must not vary From beer-broth at all, So much as to call For Canary.

1052. HIS COMFORT.

The only comfort of my life Is, that I never yet had wife; Nor will hereafter; since I know Who weds, o'er-buys his weal with woe

1053. SINCERITY.

Wash clean the vessel, lest ye sour Whatever liquor in ye pour.

1054. TO ANTHEA.

Sick is Anthea, sickly is the spring, The primrose sick, and sickly everything; The while my dear Anthea does but droop, The tulips, lilies, daffodils do stoop: But when again she's got her healthful hour, Each bending then will rise a proper flower.

1055. NOR BUYING OR SELLING.

Now, if you love me, tell me, For as I will not sell ye, So not one cross to buy thee I'll give, if thou deny me.