good is only thought Worthy reward who will be bad for nought Raise not the bad to make the good complaine No good at all with doing ill is wonne Let vs not thinke that that our good can frame Which ruin'd hath the Authors of the same They are too blame which deeds well done wil wrest Good deeds the cruelt'st heart to kindnesse brings Good done to any doth impression strike Of ioy and loue in all that are alike Good deeds are famishment vnto the deuill The end is crowne of euery worke well done Good still is best when it is soonest wrought For lingring-fauour euer comes to nought The way to good is neuer learn'd too late Faults should be measur'd by intent not deed Nothing so good but may through guiltie shame Be much corrupt and wrested to great blame Igâ—orant faults craue pardon still by course Faâ—â—ts done may be repented not reclaim'd He that will purchase things of greatest price Must conquer by his deeds and not by words Faults vncommitted challenge no repent Many deserts may lessen slender faults Vniust offences daunger scape a time But yet at length reuenge doth pay them home Faults oft are measur'd by their secrâ—cie An error past is likewise past recalling There 's nought so vile that on the earth doth liue But to the earth some speciall good doth giue Good is the end that cannot be amended Where good is found we should not quit with ill There 's nought so good but strain'd from that faire vse Reuolts to vice and stumbles on abuse Gold and base mould no difference but by vse Better to heare than doe what is not well For ones offence why should a number fall Or priuas sinne be plagu'd in generall Seldome but some good commeth ere the end Gay without good is good hearts greatest loathing Forraine defects giuing home faults the way Make many times bad actions well succeed Still the directest courses best succeed Vertue conducteth to all things are good First weigh the qualitie of each offence And thereunto apply the punishment What one thinkes good another counts as vaine The highest iudger quickely can â—spie If faults or fraud doe vnder couert lye Wisdome directs to know the good from bad As oft as we doe good wee sacrifice The more â—ur grace and goodnesse doth encrease The more our soules prepare them selues to God Truth is the guide to all good actions Neuer repent thee of thy well-done deeds The goodnesse that proceeds from ignorance Iâ— like the hearbs that on a dunghill growes Good men doe still delight in doing good Good deeds doe shew the fruits of zealous faith Similies on the same subiect AS hardest stones are pierâ—'d with softest drops So vertuous deads reforme the loosest minds As â—ond behauiour most displaies a foole So honest deeds declare an honest heart As falling starres are soone extinguished So slight offences craue quicke pardoning As sullein lookes bewrayes reuenge-full thoughts So mild aspect declares a gentle heart As golden bridles better not a horse So words without good deeds shew not a man As bankets haue no grace where wanteth guests So words are litle worth where deeds come short Examples likewise on the same TRaiane reproou'd for listning poore mens wrongs Said None should hindet him from doing good The Emperour Auâ—elian had great care Least malice should obscure his well done deeds Philip did thanke the woman for her checke And said Still câ—ide me when I doe not well Augustus left his friend to iudgements triall For hindring law quoth he becomes no king Cleon being call'd to deale in state affaires Fore-warn'd his friends be carefull of their deeds Reward the good saith Solon for their doing good Aud punish them delight in wicked deeds Of euill Deeds c. Euill deeds and wicked come from vicious minds And here or some-where els due vengeance finds EXtreamest ills some time a ioy possesse Ill hardly set on is as hard got out Those things which we deeme good oft prooue but ill Counsell that comes when ill hath done his worst Blesseth our ill but makes our good accurst To put backe ill our good we must forbeare Euill tidings still doe faster flye than good Our greatest ills we most of all mistiust A guiltie conscience vrged with the thought Of former ill done deeds not easily erres Euils vnto euils still conducters are Ill comes too soone repentance oft too late Ill newes hath wings and with the wind doth â—â—ye In the first rising seeke to stifle ill Least it get head and grow against thy will That daye 's ne're ill that brings a pleasing night Worse than the worst of euils are wicked thoughts No blush can paint the shame is due to ill The apprehension of what e're is good Giues but the greater feeling to the worse All wicked deeds doe wrathfull doomes procure In euills counsell is the comfort chiefe Many times good doth grow by euils proofe By euill courses may be vnderstood That their euents can neuer fall out good When ill is hapt teares but encrease the ill Ill by example often gaineth good It 's double griefe to see a helplesse ill Great men that will haue lesse doe for them still Must beare them out although their deeds be ill Good heart in ill doth much the ill amend It 's better to reforme than cut off ill The worâ—er deed the doer likes for best Neuer was man so euill did or thought But would pretend some good cause though starke naught Good words doe often couer ill pretence One day doth wreake the ill that many wrought Mischiefe oft falls vpon the meaners head An euill deed â—one by authoritie Is mightie sinne and subornation The good compar'd with bad is soonest seene Who will not stoope to good must yeeld to ill Mischiefe doth euer ouer-match the bad The wicked cannot sleepe or take their rest Till they be pleased with some ill done deed Mischiefe is light and mounteth ouer head Old mischiefes oft doe set new ills abroach Ill president the tyde that waâ—tes to vice A minute spent in good seemes long loath'd day But nights of ill like moments slip away The more ill threats vs we suspect the lesse To harme there alwaies needs but little helpe Euill ensueth of each wrong intent With vniust men to stand debating lawes Is to giue power to hurt a rightfull cause Constrained ill must needs be suffered We see the good but yet we chuse the ill Oft that is vile shewes like a vertuous deed Nothing the world with greater harme doth fill Than want of feeling one anothers ill Mens faults doe seldome to them-selues appeare Men smoother partially their owne misdeeds Faults still against them-selues giue euidence When better choices are not to be had We needs must take the seeming best of bad The euill doth alwaies argue the offence One bad done deed may worke to many ill Euill seeming good is most pernicious Those euils where to a man by loue is driuen So much the rather
ought to be forgiuen Things badly got can haue but bad successe Custome confirmes and makes ill in perfection Nothing is euill that is necessarie Too small a sacrifice for mischiefes done Is one mans breath that thousands did defeat Mischiefe is no meet way to seeke redresse Mischiefe is oft thought good by speeding ill A bad beginning makes a worâ—er end Ill some-times is the cause of good successe And wicked meanings turne to happinesse One mischiefes Sunne thawes not anothers Ice The sight of euill sets out goodnesse best Euill dessignes haue euill accidents All such as are the ministers of ill The gallowes eates or fatall sword doth kill Similies on the same subiect AS Fowlers by their craft beguile the birds So wicked deeds corrupt plaine meaning minds As serpents food is onely on the earth So wicked mens delights is ill done deeds As sheep-cloath'd Wolues do alwaies greatest spoile So painted deeds doe most of all deceiue As Circes witch-craft chaunged men to beasts So wicked deeds makes seeming men bruit beasts As braunches prosper not cut from the tree So all is vaine that swerues from honest course As little sparkes of â—ire procure great harme So least ill deeds doe hardly find amends Examples likewise on the same PEricles said th' Athenians loued him Because they neuer could detect his deeds Demetrius lost all his followers Because he had no care of doing ill Pyrrhus desired to be smit with death When he did ought that ill beseem'd a King Seuerus caus'd his man be smoakt to death Because his deeds should not dishonour him Men to doe ill or iniurie each other Is no meane eye-sore Tullie doth affirme No man saith Socrates should deale vniustly In any matter be it ne're so small Of Thoughts Thoughts are the flowring blossoms of the mind And words the daily fruits of our desires CLose thoughts stands free from sword or violence No kings commaund could euer hinder thought What thought can thinke another thought can mend A secret shame in euery thought will smother Where feares doe Candie-thoughts with Icie-cold Heat stirres the tongue to daungers manifold Thoughts are but dreames till their effects be tryed Vnstained thoughts doe seldome dreame of ill A fault vnknowne is as a thought vnacted Preuention speaketh all but what he thinkes That which the thought would by the tongue digest The eare conuayes it backe into the breast The thoughts of men are fed with expectations All wishing thoughts sprout forth by quicke desire Citties doe bastardize the brauest thoughts It 's very hard imprisoned thoughts to bale Pure thoughts doe alwayes sleepe secure and still While lust and murder wakes to staine and kill Thoughts oft times force a lingring life to pine Hope strengthened addes much matter to each thought All womens tongues and thoughts seldome agreee How poore soeuer thought is rich enough If springing thoughts be any iot diminisht They wither in their prime and prooue nought worth The heart hath but one string yet many thoughts All earthly thoughts are subiect to annoy Vnreuerend thoughts gainst kings are treacherie Vnmeasur'd thoughts by fortune are cut short Nothing doth sooner dry vp beauties blood Than sullein thoughts though it be ne're so fresh Oft princes thoughts are tyed to beauties wings All wicked thoughts haue still a wicked end Sweet is the thought where hope perswadeth hap Sweet are the thoughts that neuer found amisle Nothing doth sooner shorten life of man Than vaine deluding hopes and idle thoughts Deare is the thought whereby discretion liues Thoughts prosper not where feare doth perish them No witnesse needeth for a guiltie thought The meanest man will yet in thought aspire Our narrow-eyes thoughts oft times looke more direct Than our loose wisdomes borne with wild neglect All leaden thoughts than earth no higher flyes Full many signes bewrayes our secret thoughts Thoughts often-times doe shroud vs in the earth To muse and meditate is learnings life By common cariage of the outward parts The secret thoughts are seene of many hearts Cartie thy thoughts in silence sealed vp Sweet are the thoughts of pleasures we haue tryed Thoughts are not seene yet lookes bewray the mind Similies on the same subiect AS white and blacke are contrarie in sight So words and thoughts are very different As fire and water neuer can agree Euen so mens words and thoughts doe disagree As courtiers cloakes are shifted very oft So are our thoughts neuer at certaine stay As light is welcome to perplexed minds So merrie thoughts doe banish sadnesse best As euery tree hath his peculiar fruit So euery man hath his owne priuat thought As merrie hosts care not for frowning guests So pleasant minds can brooke no pensiue thoughts Examples likewise on the same CAesar did neuer feare a merrie looke But doubted sad men to haue wicked thoughts The Spartanes carried commendation Because they scorn'd to beare iniurious thoughts Puluillus being told his sonne was dead Made answere Therefore he would take no thought When Scipio read the bookes of Xenophon He said They counsail'd him from taking thought Thoughts doe afflict the mind saith Cicerâ— And makes it subiect to no certaintie Saith Aristotle They need Physicke most That doe deuoure their health by fretfull thoughts Of Teares c. Teares are best friends to solitarie minds And mourning is a foe to company WEeping auailes not where laments are scorn'd Our teares oft times draw teares from others eies Great losses greatly are to be bemoan'd Teares tye the tongue of an accusers grudge And softs the rigour of the stearnest iudge No griefe like that to mourne and be despis'd A troubled soule in teares her comfort seekes Well mourning garments fit a mourning mind Teares are dumbe Oratours and wanting speech Perswade some-time more than the tongue can doe Teares are the most effectuall â—hetoricke Teares are the treasure of a griefe-gald heart Griefe tyes the tongue and sorrow stoppeth teares Teares must not be as torments but at markes To shew the loue we beare vnto our friend Teares will appease where trespasse hath incenst Repentant teares doth quench Gods kindled ire Teares shâ—d in time doth winne a blisse-full houre Our teares must be as drops of vitall blood Not feigned but deriued from the heart The heart may weepe although the eyes be drie Partners in loue are partners in laments Eyes are first causers of the hearts lamenting Musicke can hardly solace humane eares When strings are broke and eyes are drown'd in teares Soft teares make batterie in the hardest heart Teares deem'd but silent are as loud as thunder Teares are swift postes to certifie our griefes They seldome doe respect poore beggers teares That may haue musique to delight their eares Teares are as nourishment to godly soules Weeping is ioy to well-affected minds Our eyes must not be drowned nor yet dry To weepe for losse or worldly dignitie And not for sinne is meere hypocrisie Teares kindle loue and qualifie displeasure The deepest cares breake neuer into teares Teares ill becomes
fairest stone small raine soone makes a print Ill fare that faire which inwardly is foule Beautie is inward vertue of the soule We trample grasse and prize the flowers in MAY Yet grasse is greene when fairest flowers decay The loue of beautie Reason quite forgets The cause of loue is only beauties lookes Beautie and youth once banisht ne're returne Chast thoughts makes beautie be immortallizd Faire beautie is the sparke of hot desire And sparkes in time will kindle to a fire Sicknesse and age are beauties chiefest foes Weeds oft times grow when fairest flowers fade Beautie is like a faire but fading flower Where beautie most abounds there wants most ruth The goodliest gemme being blemisht with a cracke Looseth both beautie and the vertue too Beautie doth whet the wit makes bold the will Beautie makes Art to worke beyond it selfe Vnhonest beautie is a deadly poyson Vertue-Iesse beautie doth deserue no Ioue The fairest flower nipt with the winters frost In shew seemes worser than the basest weed The perfect glasse of vertue beautie is No bait so sweet as beautie to the eye White seemes the fairer when as blacke is by The purest Lawne is apt for euery staine Better it is with beautie to be blinded Than beauties graces should be blindly minded Beautie is tearm'd the mistresse of delight Beautie oft iniures them endued there with Beautie enflates and puffeth vp the mind Humilitie with beautie seldome is Beautie brings fancie to a daintie feast And makes a man that else were but a beast Man of all creatures is most beautifull Beautie not proud nothing more excellent Similies on the same subiect AS the right Corall need no other grace So Artlâ—sse beautie best sets sorth the face As finest cloth will soonest catch a staine So fairest lookes may shadow minds most vaine As greatest feasts seldome can want fit friends So beauties house will hardly lacke resort As medlers with the fire are easily scorcht So they that gaze on beautie soone are caught As coldest Climates haue their Summer dayes So coolest thoughts are fierd at beauties blaze As that same Speare which harme must heale the wound So looke where beautie kills it must reuiue Examples likewise on the same HErcules being a mightie conquerour Yet vaild his courage at faire beauties feet The â—ybian Lyons looâ—e their sternest might If of a beauteous face they once get sight The Sâ—anâ—ian Lord by nature dull and rude By sight of beautie lost this seruitude Alcestaes beautie made Mâ—andeâ—s Swannes To leaue the stood and on her shoulders pearch Chrysippus held that beautie did preserue Kindnes and all societie with men Zeno the Prince of Stoickes did agree That beautie like could very hardly be Of Iealousie Iealousie is hells torment to the mind Quite quenching reason and encreasing rage LOue euer laughes when Iealousie doth weepe If age be iealous youth will be vntrue No hell can be compard to Iealousie This still we find where iealousie is bred Hornes in the mind are worse than on the head Suspect bewraies our thoughts betraies our words Suspitious eyes are messengers of woe Iealous suspect is linked with despaire Well fares the man how ere his cates doe tast That tables not with foule suspition Better to die than be suspitious Trust not too soone nor all too light mistrust Mistrust doth treason in the trustiest raise Where Iealousie directesh forward wills Beauties sweet dalliance with despight a kills Iealousie kindles enuieâ— quenchlesse fire Suspition alwaies haunts a guiltie mind Suspition often wounds as a â—â—ope as death When sweet repose doth calme the troubled mind Then base suspect soon'st leaues his â—â—ing behind Daungerous suspect still waits on loues delight Suspition oft times breeds a further ill Once guiltie and suspected euermore O Iealousie when truth once takes thy part No mercie-wanting Tyrant so seuere No secrecie can be without suspect Iealousie is the father of reuenge Iealousie pines it selfe to death aliue Thy wise being faire be not thou iealous Because suspition curâ—â— not womens follies Iealousie growes extreame by lengthning it A iealous man no counsell will admit Iealousie is the sruit of suddaine choice The heart being once infect with iealousie Griefe is the night and day darke miscrie No thraldome like the yoke of iealousie Suspition giues continuall cause of care Iealousie is Disdaines blacke harbinger Iealousie is the torment of the mind For which nor wâ—t nor counsell helpe can find Suspition wounds but iealousie strikes dead Suspect sends men too swiftly to their end Who trauailes in suspect are bound to haste Too much sâ—spition oâ— another is A flat â—â—ndâ—â—â—â—ng of ouâ— owne amisse Passioâ—â— kept priuat doe most preiudice Suspition needs no vrger but it selfe Wise men haue alwaies hated iealousie Where once suspition breedeth enmitie 'T is hard with shewes to compasse amitie Iealousie murdereth hospitalitie Iealousie rootes vp all good neighbourhood Iealousie reckons friends no more than foes Similies on the same subiect AS no content is like the sweetes of loue So no despaire can match with iealousie Loue as it is diuine with loyaltie So is it hellish wrapt in iealousie As from small brookes great riuers doe arise So huge distemper springs from iealousie As Crowes do deeme their brood the fairest birds So iealous men their owne choise most commend As shippes in tempests by the winds are tost So fond conceits doe hurrie iealous heads As kindnesse doth delight in companie So is it poyson to mad iealousie Examples likewise on the same THe Persians were so iealous of their wiues As but in waggons they ne're went abroad Phanius lockt vp his wife through iealousie Whereby she compast what she could not else Procris was slaine through her owne iealousie Hid in a bush to watch her husbands walke Argus albeit he had an hundred eyes Yet could not keepe from Io Iupiter Cicero calleth Iealousie a feare Of loosing that belongs to ones owne selfe Chrysippus holds that iealousie ill brookes A partner in the thing it most esteemes Of Wit and Wisdom Wisdome is Natures child Experience heire Discretely rul'd while Wit gads euery where WIsdome seemes blind when she beholdeth best Wisdome growne wealthie liueth then at quiet No wisdome with extremities to deale It 's wisdome to giue much a gift preuailes When deepe perswading Oratorie failes Mans wit doth build for time but to deuoure Wisdome is alwaies held the chiefest wealth Ech soyle oâ— couâ—trey is a wise mans home He is not wise that hauing scapâ—â— a harme Will afterward goe meddle with it more Faire sober speed is counted wisdomes hast All after-wit is euer dearely bought Wisdome bids stay though foot be in the gate Not cowardise but wisdome warnes to yeeld When fortune aids the proud iusulting foe Feed 〈…〉 les with toyes and wise men with regard When clouds appeare wise men put on their cloakes He wisely walketh that doth safely goe All places that the eye of heauen surâ—aies Are to a wise man happie ports and hauens What wise men see