Book v
. Emblem 7._
FOOTNOTES:
[203-4] Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.--YOUNG: _Night Thoughts, night v. line 1011._
[204-1] To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.--EURIPIDES: _Alcestis, line 418._
[204-2] The longest way round is the shortest way home.--BOHN: _Foreign Proverbs (Italian)._
GEORGE HERBERT. 1593-1632.
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, A box where sweets compacted lie.
_Virtue._
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives.
_Virtue._
Like summer friends, Flies of estate and sunneshine.
_The Answer._
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' action fine.
_The Elixir._
A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.
_The Church Porch._
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.[205-1]
_The Church Porch._
Chase brave employment with a naked sword Throughout the world.
_The Church Porch._
Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music.
_The Church Porch._
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.
_The Church Porch._
Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.
_Sin._
Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand.
_The Church Militant._
Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him.
_Man._
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast.
_The Pulley._
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines accords.
_A True Hymn._
Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?[205-2]
_The Size._
Do well and right, and let the world sink.[205-3]
_Country Parson. Chap. xxix._
His bark is worse than his bite.
_Jacula Prudentum._
After death the doctor.[205-4]
_Jacula Prudentum._
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.[205-5]
_Jacula Prudentum._
No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.[206-1]
_Jacula Prudentum._
God's mill grinds slow, but sure.[206-2]
_Jacula Prudentum._
The offender never pardons.[206-3]
_Jacula Prudentum._
It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.
_Jacula Prudentum._
To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure.[206-4]
_Jacula Prudentum._
The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.[206-5]
_Jacula Prudentum._
Help thyself, and God will help thee.[206-6]
_Jacula Prudentum._
Words are women, deeds are men.[206-7]
_Jacula Prudentum._
The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.[206-8]
_Jacula Prudentum._
A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two.[206-9]
_Jacula Prudentum._
FOOTNOTES:
[205-1] And he that does one fault at first, And lies to hide it, makes it two.
WATTS: _Song xv._
[205-2] See Heywood, page 20. BICKERSTAFF: _Thomas and Sally._
[205-3] Ruat coelum, fiat voluntas tua (Though the sky fall, let Thy will be done).--SIR T. BROWNE: _Religio Medici,