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Know when to speake; for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings.
Topic: Advice
Source: Caution in Councell
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A sweet disorder in the dresse
Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Delight in Disorder
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A winning wave, (deserving note.)
In the tempestuous petticote,
A careless shoe-string, in whose tye
I see a wilde civility,--
Doe more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Delight in Disorder
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For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee
Which bore my Love away
I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave,
I'le seek him in your eyes.
Topic: Bees
Source: Mad Nan's Song
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To get thine ends, lay bashfulnesse aside;
Who fears to aske, doth teach to be deny'd.
Topic: Beggary
Source: No Bashfulnesse in Begging
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Let's live with that small pittance which we have;
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Topic: Content
Source: The Covetous Still Captive
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Fair daffadils, we weep to see
You haste away so soone;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attained its noone.
. . . .
We have short time to stay as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay
As you or anything.
Topic: Daffodils
Source: Daffadills
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When a daffadill I see,
Hanging down his head t'wards me,
Guesse I may, what I must be:
First, I shall decline my head;
Secondly, I shall be dead:
Lastly, safely buryed.
Topic: Daffodils
Source: Hesperides--Divination by a Daffadill
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Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
Topic: Discontent
Source: None
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Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
Topic: Disease
Source: Abstinence
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'Tis not the food, but the content,
That makes the table's merriment.
Topic: Eating
Source: Content not Cates
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Out did the meate, out did the frolick wine.
Topic: Eating
Source: Ode for Ben Jonson
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It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
Topic: End
Source: Hesperides (340)
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Her pretty feet
Like snails did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they played at bo-peep
Did soon draw in agen.
Topic: Feet
Source: Upon her Feet
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I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.
Topic: Flies
Source: The Amber Bead
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Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit,
Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.
Topic: Hell
Source: Noble Numbers--Hell
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Hell is paved with good samaritans.
Topic: Hell
Source: Noble Numbers--Hell
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Topic: Hell
Source: Noble Numbers--Hell
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Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.
Topic: Investigation
Source: Hesperides--Seeke and Finde
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What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve:
The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
Topic: Kisses
Source: Hesperides--A Kiss
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Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.
Topic: Kisses
Source: Hesperides--To Anthea
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If little labour. little are our gaines:
Man's fortunes are according to his paines.
Topic: Labor
Source: Hesperides--No Paines, No Gaines
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What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore,
Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
Topic: Navigation
Source: Safety on the Shore
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Praise they that will times past, I joy to see
My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
Topic: Past
Source: The Present Time Best Pleaseth
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Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.
Topic: Perseverance
Source: Hesperides--Seeke and Finde
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Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome
When no force else can get the masterdom.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Money Gets the Mastery
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Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the
aged.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Money Gets the Mastery
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No day is wholly unproductive of good.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Money Gets the Mastery
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Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
Topic: Repentance
Source: Hesperides--Penitence
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Hast thou attempted greatnesse?
Then go on;
Back-turning slackens resolution.
Topic: Resolution
Source: Regression Spoils Resolution
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A careless shoe string, in whose tie
I see a wilde civility.
Topic: Shoemaking
Source: Delight in Disorder
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I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.
Topic: Spring
Source: Hesperides
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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse;
Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
Topic: Temptation
Source: Hesperides-Temptations
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'Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known:
Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne.
Topic: Tyranny
Source: Kings and Tyrants
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Welcome, maids of honor,
You doe bring
In the spring,
And wait upon her.
Topic: Violets
Source: To Violets
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The readiness of doing doth expresse
No other but the doer's willingnesse.
Topic: Will
Source: Hesperides--Readinesse
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