Doft thou defire her fouly, for those things That make her good? oh, let her brother live! When judges steal themselves. What? do I love her, And feaft upon her eyes? what is't I dream on ? To fin, in loving virtue: never could the ftrumpet, Once ftir my temper; but this virtuous maid Subdues me quite ever till now, : When men were fond, I fmil'd; and wonder'd how, This is woman, who well knows her ftrength, Their riper years will aim at. But go further, Who as her daughters ripen, and do bud Their youthful fpring, ftraight the inftructs them how To fet a glofs on beauty, add a luftre To the defect of nature; how to use The mystery of painting, curling, powd'ring, Now Now to draw on, and then again put off; And thefe once learn'd, what wants the tempter now, Therefore, grave judges, let me thus conclude, Man tempts not woman, woman doth him delude. Swetnam the Woman Hater. Thou haft virtue to fecure all; I am confident Temptations will shake thy innocence No more, than waves, that climb a rock, which foon Betray their weakness; and discover thee, More clear and more impregnable. Shirley's Hide-Park. What a frail thing is man! it is not worth Shirley's Lady of Pleafure. Let me, tho' late, yet at the last begin She who will run fo near the brink of fin, Herrick. Crown's Married Beau. TIME. For that which might by fecret means hath wrought, By tract of time to open fhew is brought. Mirror for Magiftrates. The time is out of joint; oh curfed spight! For he is but a baftard t the time, Shakespear's Hamlet. That doth not fmack of obfervation. Shakespear's King John. Time travels in divers paces, with divers perfons; And who he ftands ftill withal. 2. Prithee whom doth he trot withal? 1. Marry, he trots hard with a young maid, between The contract of her marriage, and the day It is folemniz'd; if the interim Be but a fe'nnight, time's pace is fo hard, That it seems the length of feven years. 2. Who ambles time withal? 1. With a priest that lacks Latin, And with a rich man that hath not the gout; 2. Whom doth he gallop withal? For though he goes as foftly as foot can fall, 2. Whom ftays it still withal? 1. With the lawyers in the vacation; for they fleep Between term and term, and then they perceive Not how time moves. It is an argument the times are fore When virtue cannot fafely be advanc'd, Nor vice reprov'd. Shakespear's As you like it. Johnson's Sejanus Daniel's Civil Wq1. Altho' the cause seem'd right, and title ftrong, Injurious time, unto the good unjust; Drayton in the Mirror for Magiftrates Then burden would the gods with ev'ry crime, The vice of other kingdoms, give him time: Lord Brooke's Muftapha. Daughter of heaven am I, but God, none greater; Pure like my parents, life and death of action, Author of ill fuccefs to ev'ry creature, Whose pride against my periods make a faction: With me who go along, rife while they be ; Nothing of mine refpects eternity. I bring the truth to light, detect the ill; Yea, worth it felf falls, till I lift to raise. Time hath several falls, Griefs lift up joys, feafts put down funerals. Ibid. Ibid. Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy. Old time will end our story; Sometimes on that man's land, fometimes on this. By him the names of good men ever live, 'Tis he alone that rightly can discover, Brown's Paftorals. Time is the moth of nature, devours all beauty. Shirley's Humorous Courtier. The ancient times what is the best do fhew; The modern teach what is moft fit to do. Aleyn's Poitiers. Time flows from inftants, and of thefe, each one Should be efteem'd, as if it were alone: Weep no more for what is past; For time in motion makes fuch hafte He |