XXXI. Spend not on hopes. They that by pleading-clothes Old courtiers know this: therefore set out sc, XXXII. In clothes, cheap handsomenesse doth bear the bell; Much curiousnesse is a perpetuall wooing XXXIII. handsome Play not for gain, but sport. Who playes for more Onely a herauld, who that way doth passe, XXXIV. If yet thou love game at so deere a rate,' Learn this, that hath old gamesters deerly cost: Dost lose? rise up; dost winne? rise in that state: Who strive to sit out losing hands are lost. Game is a civil gunpowder, in peace Blowing up houses with their whole increase. VOL. I. C XXXV. In conversation boldnesse now bears sway: Then march on gallant: get substantiall worth; XXXVI. Be sweet to all. Is thy complexion sowre? Then keep such companie; make them thy allay; Get a sharp wife, a servant that will lowre: A stumbler stumbles least in rugged way. Command thy self in chief. He life's warre knows, XXXVII. Catch not at quarrels. He that dares not speak XXXVIII. If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, trifle, stopped 'Tis a thinne web, which poysonous fancies make: But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuffe, which would endure a shake. Wisdome picks friends; civilitie playes the rest : XXXIX. Laugh not too much; the wittie man laughs least; Lesse at thine own things laugh, lest in the jest Make not thy sport abuses; for the fly XL. Pick out of mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profanenesse, filthinesse, abusivenesse; joke These are the scumme, with which course wits abound: The fine may spare these well, yet not go lesse. All things are bigge with jest; nothing that's plain XLI. Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer; Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking; Many affecting wit beyond their power XLII. A sad wise valour is the brave complexion serious, grave That leads the van and swallowes up the cities. The gigler is a milkmaid, whom infection. Or a fir'd beacon frighteth from his ditties: Then he's the sport; the mirth then in him rests, XLIII. Towards great persons use respective boldnesse; Feed no man in his sinnes; for adulation XLIV. Envie not greatnesse; for thou mak'st thereby LXV. When basenesse is exalted, do not bate take from I care not though the Cloth of State should be XLVI. Thy friend put in thy bosome; wear his eies But love is lost, the art of friendship's gone, XLVII. Yet be not surety, if thou be a father: Love is a personall debt; I cannot give My children's right, nor ought he take it: rather Fathers first enter bonds to Nature's ends, XLVIII. If thou be single, all thy goods and ground God made me one man; love makes me no more, XLIX. In thy discourse, if thou desire to please, Get a good stock of these, then draw the card L. Entice all neatly to what they know best; For so thou dost thyself and him a pleasure; But a proud ignorance will lose his rest, Rather then shew his cards;-steal from his treasure What to ask further: doubts well-rais'd do lock |