The shrine is that which thou dost venerate,
And not the beast that bears it on his back.
I care not though the cloth of state should be
Not of rich arras, but mean tapestry.

Herbert.

He that wears a brave foul, and dares gallantly do,

May be his own herald, and godfather too.

For, at the beginning, was no peasant or prince,

Alexander Brome.

Alexander Brome.

DISSIMULATIΟΝ.

And 'twas policy made the diftinction since.

For commonly in all diffimulations

Th' excess of glav'ring doth the guile detect;
Reason refuseth falfhood to direct :

The will, therefore, for fear of being fpy'd,

Exceedeth mean, because it wanteth guide.

Mirror for Magistrates.

For commonly all that do counterfeit

In any thing, exceed the nat'ral mean;

And that for fear of failing in their feat.

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Mirror for Magistrates.

1. Why is dissembling join'd to their sex infep'rable,

As heat to fire, heaviness to earth,

Moisture to water, thinness to air?

2. No, but found in their sex, as common as

Spots upon doves, moles upon faces,

Caterpillars upon sweet apples,

Cobwebs upon fair windows.

Lilly's Endimion.

1. He was a man that would keep church so duly, rife

Early before his fervants, and ev'n for

Religious haste, go ungarter'd, unbutton'd;

Nay, fir-reverence untruft, to morning pray'r;

Dine quickly upon high days, and when I

Had great guests, would e'en shame me, and rife from

The table, to get a good feat at an

Afternoon fermon

2. There is the devil;

He thought it sanctity enough, if he

Had kill'd a man, fo't had been done in a pew,
Or undone his neighbour, so it had been
Near enough to the preacher. Oh, a fermon
Is a fine short cloak of an hour long, and
Will hide the upper-part of a dissembler!
Church, ay, he seem'd all church, and his confcience
Was as hard as the pulpit.

Shakespear's Puritan.

Why, I can smile, and murther while I smile;
And cry, content to that which grieves my heart;
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face to all occafions :
I'll drown more failors, than the mermaid shall;
I'll flay more gazers, than the bafilisk;
I'll play the orator, as well as Neftor;
Deceive more flily, than Ulyffes could;
And, like a Sinon, take another Troy:
I can add colours ev'n to the camelion;
Change shapes with Proteus, for advantages;
And fet the murth'rous Matchiavel to school.
Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
Tut, were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

Shakespear's Third Part of K. Henry VI.

Your face, my Thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue; look like th' innocent flow'r,
And be the ferpent under't.

Shakespear's Macbeth.

Away, and mock the time with fairest shew :

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Shakespear's Macbeth.

Vice never doth her just rage so provoke,

As when she rageth under virtue's cloak.

Chapman's Buffey D'ambois.

It was the coverture of honesty
That laid the snare, whereby they were undone;
And that's the engine that confounds us all,
That makes the breach whereby the world is sack'd,

And made a prey to cunning, when we fall

Into the hands of wife dishonesty :
When as our weak credulity is wrack'd
By that opinion of sufficiency,
To all the inconveniencies, that guile
And impious craft can practice, to beguile.
And note, but how, these cankers always seize
The choiceft fruits with their infections;

How they are still ordained to disease
The natures of the best complexions.

Daniel's Arcadia

Disguise these passions, lest you lose your end;
Who hides his mind, is to himself a friend.

Lord Brook's Alabam..

Her secret drift the wisest miss to find;
Nor will she know yet what these factions meant;.
But with a pleas'd eye fooths fad discontent.

The least fufpicion craftily to heal,

Still in her looks humility she bears,
The safeft way with mightiness to deal;
So policy religion's habit wears :
'Twas then no time her grievance to reveal,

He's mad which takes a lion by the ears:
This knew the queen, and this well know the wife,
This must they learn that rightly temporize.

Drayton.

Oh, you're a foul dissembling hypocrite!
You fav'd me from a thief that yourself might rob me:
Skinn'd over a green wound to breed an ulcer.

Middleton and Rowley's Fair Qarrel.

Hypocrify's a delicate white devil;

Do but fashion yourself to seem holy,

And study to be worse in private, worse,

You'll

You'll find yourself more active in your sensuality,
And it will be another titillation,

To think what an ass you make o'the believing
World, that will be ready to dote, nay, and
Superftitioufly adore you, for abusing them.

Though custom calls

Shirley's Grateful Servant.

Those actions only honest, that are glorious
In publick fame; yet sometimes to dissemble
An ill that's not intended, when the end
Hath clear'd it to opinion, it attains
The greatest praise.

Nabbs's Tottenham-Court.

Great nature, that hast made a stone descry
'Twixt meaner nature, checking baser metals,
Which proudly counterfeit the purer gold;
Why haft thou left the foul of man no touchstone,
To judge diffemblance, and descry proud vice,
Which with false colours seems more virtuous

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Then virtue's self? Like to some cunning workman
Who frames a fhape in such form of stature
That oft he excels by imitating nature.

Sicelides.

First bait thy hook with deep dissembl'd love,
Keep close thy ferpent, and show them thy dove:
Seem friend to both: Who ever fail'd his end,
That hammer'd treason with the hands of friend?
Feel both their pulses: If they chance to beat
Active and sprightly, wish, advise, intreat
To peace: Perfuaded fury and stopt streams
When most resisted, run to most extremes :
But if their tilted spirits run too low,
Urge reputation, and the faith they owe
To facred honour in a prince's name :

The whetstone of abated valour, 's shame.

For most men

Quarles's Virgin Widow.

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To

Study more how to seem judicious, than

To be so, herein whilft their best wisdom lies
To hide their follies in scholastick guise.

I'll never trust again

A woman with white eyes, that can take notes,
And write a comment on the catechism;

All your devotion's false.

Heath.

Main's City Matche

The shape of virtue still can best deceive;

Those that in faithless oceans take their way,

Sink in the storms; but 'tis the calms betray.

Sir Robert Howard's Vestal Virgin

DOUBT.

His name was doubt, that had a double face,
Th'one forward looking, th'other backward bent,
Therein resembling Janus auncient,
Which had in charge the ingate of the year:
And evermore his eyes about him went,

As if some proved peril he did fear,

Or did misdoubt some ill, whose caufe did not appear.

You do seem to know

Spenser's Fairy Queen

Something of me, or what concerns me; pray you
(Since doubting things go ill, often hurts more..
Than to be sure they do; for certainties
Or are past remedies, or timely knowing,
The remedy then born) discover to me

What both you fpur and stop.

The wound of peace is surety,

Shakespear's Cymbeline

Surety fecure; but modeft doubt is call'd

The beacon of the wife; the tent that searches

To the bottom of the worst.

Our doubts are traitors,

Shakespear's Troilus and Creffida

And make us lose the good we oft might win,

By fearing to attempt.

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