Who, wayward once, his mood with nought agrees. 503. Grief not to be cherished. Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition. Poems. 17-ii. 2. When remedies are past, the griefs are ended, The robb'd, that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself, that spends a bootless grief. 37—i. 3. 505. Grief alleviated by submission to Heaven. Peace, ho, for shame! confusion's cure lives not Your part in her you could not keep from death; That you run mad, seeing that she is well. 35-iv. 5. To persevere In obstinate condolement ", is a course Of impious stubbornness; 't is unmanly grief: It shews a will most incorrect to heaven; A heart unfortified, or mind impatient; An understanding simple and unschool'dy. 36-i. 2. 507. Excess of grief and joy. The violence of either grief or joy Their own enactures with themselves destroy: Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. 509. Complaints unavailing. 11-i. 1. None can cure their harms by wailing them. 24-ii. 2. Sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow For debt, that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe. Our size of sorrow, Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great 7-iii. 2. 30-iv. 13. Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noon-tide night. Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honour for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares: 24-i. 4. y "I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope."-1 Thess. iv. 13. . Determinations. a "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord."-Job i. 21. 513. The sight of sorrow, its effects. To see sad sights moves more, than hear them told; Deep sounds make lesser noise, than shallow fords; 514. Sorrows eased by being imparted. Why should calamity be full of words? Poems. Let them have scope; though what they do impart Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. Silent sorrow. 24-iv. 4. 515. Give sorrow words; the grief, that does not speak, Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. 15-iv. 3. 516. Sorrow, heaviest when unaided by the tongue. The heart hath treble wrong, When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue. 517. Sorrow distorts appearances. Poems. Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, C Joys that are dead. Amongst mathematical recreations, there is one in optics, in which a figure is drawn, wherein all the rules of perspective are inverted, so that if held in the same position with those pictures which are drawn according to the rules of perspective, it can present nothing but confusion: and to be seen in form, Since, wedding it, there is such length in grief. 519. Past sorrows not to be cherished. Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that 's gone. 17—v. 1. 1-v. 1. Gnarling a sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. 17-i. 3. 521. Mirth not suitable to sorrow. Sad souls are slain in merry company; When with like semblance it is sympathised. Poems. 522. Affliction sanctified. Affliction has a taste as sweet As any cordial comfort. 523. Affliction, most felt by contrast. To be worst, 13-v. 3. The lowest, and most dejected thing of fortune, 524. Fortitude under afflictions. Bid that welcome Which comes to punish us, and we punish it 34-iv. 1. 30-iv. 12. and under a regular appearance, it must be looked upon from a contrary station; or, as Shakspeare says, eyed awry. This curious double allusion to an optical experiment, not even now very familiar, shows the strength, comprehensiveness, and subtilty, of the poet's observation. The anamorphosis cylinder and polymorphic prism are both introduced. d Growling. e Hope. The instant action (a cause on foot) Lives so in hope, as in an early spring 5-iii. 1. We see th' appearing buds; which, to prove fruit, 527. The encouragement to hope. 19-i. 3. What! we have many goodly days to see: Of ten-times-double gain of happiness. The ample proposition, that hope makes In all designs begun on earth below, 24-iv. 4. Fails in the promised largeness: checks and disasters As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Why then Do you with cheeks abash'd behold our works; else But the protractive trials of great Jove, To find persistive constancy in men? The fineness of which metal is not found In fortune's love for then, the bold and coward, The hard and soft, seem all affined and kin: Joined by affinity. 26—i. 3. |