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3502 34| which, thanks be to God, is verified only in the change of the 3503 12| no better than a kind of vermin. Goodness answers to the 3504 45| which then blossoms; crocus vernus, both the yellow and the 3505 39| falleth upon that, that he had versatile ingenium. Therefore if a 3506 34| because men do not use to seal vessels, that are empty. A phantasm 3507 3| whereupon he saith, In veste varietas sit, scissura non 3508 3| no seam, but the church’s vesture was of divers colors; whereupon 3509 8| as was said of Ulysses, vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati. 3510 39| fortunam sibi facturus videretur) falleth upon that, that 3511 11| quae fecerunt manus suae, vidit quod omnia essent bona nimis; 3512 28| they shall be preserved in vigor. Therefore it was great 3513 9| Cain’s envy was the more vile and malignant, towards his 3514 9| continual. It is also the vilest affection, and the most 3515 37| best:~Optimus ille animi vindex laedentia pectus~Vincula 3516 4| it is not so. Nay rather, vindictive persons live the life of 3517 45| honeysuckle, and some wild vine amongst; and the ground 3518 45| ribes; figs in fruit; rasps; vineflowers; lavender in flowers; the 3519 55| also, that turn it into vinegar; for injustice maketh it 3520 45| smell. Then the flower of vines; it is a little dust, like 3521 1| great severity, called poesy vinum doemonum, because it filleth 3522 2| saith of him, Jam Tiberium vires et corpus, non dissimulatio, 3523 32| hath fared with tobacco in Virginia. Wood commonly aboundeth 3524 39| in these words, In illo viro tantum robur corporis et 3525 19| know them:~Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos.~ ~And 3526 52| But shows, and species virtutibus similes, serve best with 3527 21| question, by showing another visage, and countenance, than you 3528 38| of custom is everywhere visible; insomuch as a man would 3529 41| to God than old, because vision, is a clearer revelation, 3530 41| Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall 3531 17| many. Let him also see, and visit, eminent persons in all 3532 2| Better saith he qui finem vitae extremum inter munera ponat 3533 2| of a limb; for the most vital parts, are not the quickest 3534 6| Vespasian, to take arms against Vitellius, he saith, We rise not against 3535 41| the other side, heat and vivacity in age, is an excellent 3536 2| conjugii nostri memor, vive et vale. Tiberius in dissimulation; 3537 11| fueris, non esse cur velis vivere. Nay, retire men cannot 3538 14| likewise, by that speech, Si vixero, non opus erit amplius Romano 3539 36| become the person, when the vizors are off; not after examples 3540 3| the same, Devita profanas vocum novitates, et oppositiones 3541 36| and vulgar thing); and the voices of the dialogue would be 3542 48| great mean of obtaining; for voicing them to be in forwardness, 3543 43| as the Scripture saith) void of natural affection; and 3544 15| what Cicero saith: Quam volumus licet, patres conscripti, 3545 27| worth of the occasion; for voluntary undoing, may be as well 3546 18| contradictories, Sunt plerumque regum voluntates vehementes, et inter se 3547 14| the Civil War,~Hinc usura vorax, rapidumque in tempore foenus,~ 3548 14| overthrown estates, so many votes for troubles. Lucan noteth 3549 3| but a light thing, to be vouched in so serious a matter, 3550 Glo| certify~Virtuous: able~Votary: vowed~Wanton: spoiled~Wood: maze~ 3551 17| strange thing, that in sea voyages, where there is nothing 3552 56| turn bees;~... animasque in vulnere ponunt.~ ~Anger is certainly 3553 3| dove, in the shape of a vulture or raven; and set, out of 3554 2| contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another 3555 12| stoned, for gagging in a waggishness a long–billed fowl. Errors 3556 24| be more tedious, while he waits upon his memory, than he 3557 9| is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets, and doth not 3558 28| foundations of great monarchies.~Walled towns, stored arsenals and 3559 45| double white violet; the wallflower; the stock–gilliflower; 3560 32| itself to hand; as chestnuts, walnuts, pineapples, olives, dates, 3561 37| amiss, to bend nature, as a wand, to a contrary extreme, 3562 49| like. So if a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; 3563 1| and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, 3564 7| respected, and the youngest made wantons; but in the midst, some 3565 9| thinketh to make his natural wants part of his honor; in that 3566 45| comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, 3567 45| nectarines; cornelians; wardens; quinces. In October and 3568 17| magazines; exchanges; burses; warehouses; exercises of horsemanship, 3569 6| to take the safest, and wariest way, in general; like the 3570 3| expressed, by St. Paul, in the warning and precept, that he giveth 3571 34| with sweat, and the rain washed it. Philip of Macedon dreamed, 3572 24| to the person, are great wastes of time; and though they 3573 29| but rather full eating; watching and sleep, but rather sleep; 3574 45| burnet, wild–thyme, and watermints. Therefore you are to set 3575 27| receipts; and if he think to wax rich, but to the third part. 3576 41| exceeding subtle; who afterwards waxed stupid. A second sort, is 3577 40| or purchasing; and usury waylays both. The sixth, that it 3578 14| government, are mainly shaken, or weakened (which are religion, justice, 3579 26| and on the other side, weakeneth and dulleth any violent 3580 55| of people. And let no man weakly conceive, that just laws 3581 14| spend more and earn less, do wear out an estate sooner, than 3582 2| nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so 3583 32| victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to 3584 17| triumphs, masks, feasts, weddings, funerals, capital executions, 3585 4| to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first 3586 37| runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably 3587 2| discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, 3588 12| benefits, it shows that he weighs men’s minds, and not their 3589 45| low hedges, round, like welts, with some pretty pyramids, 3590 53| axle–tree of the chariot wheel, and said, What a dust do 3591 28| should be both the lion’s whelp and the ass between burthens; 3592 3| of unity. And therefore, whensoever it cometh to that pass, 3593 21| called him by his true name whereat straightways he looked back.~ 3594 9| pity ever healeth envy. Wherefore you shall observe, that 3595 45| full shade, some of them, wheresoever the sun be. You are to frame 3596 26| own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, 3597 11| good to side a man’s self, whilst he is in the rising, and 3598 43| to good spials, and good whisperers, than good magistrates and 3599 30| heads, by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings. 3600 | whither 3601 9| prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain 3602 32| the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the 3603 1| shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach 3604 45| as may be, to a natural wildness. Trees I would have none 3605 18| stout and haughty kings, William Rufus, Henry the First, 3606 45| convallium; some with sweet–williams red; some with bear’s–foot: 3607 35| discern a busy nature, from a willing mind.~ 3608 55| proceedeth either of glory, and willingness to speak, or of impatience 3609 24| or obstruction in men’s wills; for pre–occupation of mind 3610 28| their stem, they became a windfall, upon the sudden. Never 3611 Glo| return: reaction~Return: wing running back~Rise: dignity~ 3612 18| s revenue; for that that wins in the hundred, he leeseth 3613 26| Philippics, calleth him venefica, witch; as if he had enchanted 3614 38| he might be hanged in a withe, and not in an halter; because 3615 33| is not innocent; for it withholdeth men from works of liberality 3616 53| perfection. For saith Pliny, very wittily, In commending another, 3617 28| saith) It never troubles a wolf, how many the sheep be. 3618 37| turned from a cat to a woman, who sat very demurely at 3619 19| moulded, and shaped in the womb of their counsel, and grow 3620 36| sense, and not respect petty wonderments. It is true, the alterations 3621 54| some in their actions, do woo and effect honor and reputation, 3622 12| into a most shrunken, and wooden posture; as needs it must; 3623 1| which is the love–making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of 3624 9| non agit: for it is ever working upon some or other. And 3625 3| cannot but move derision in worldlings, and depraved politics, 3626 6| the revealing is not for worldly use, but for the ease of 3627 16| meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders 3628 55| that turn judgment, into wormwood; and surely there be also, 3629 3| God; and therefore, his worship and religion, will endure 3630 21| insinuate, but they can wrap it into a tale; which serveth 3631 12| is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing; no better than a 3632 44| in the orator’s art; who writes books De Oratore, and a 3633 39| end infortunate. It is written that Timotheus the Athenian, 3634 21| I knew one that, when he wrote a letter, he would put that, 3635 28| no ways inferior unto the yeomanry for arms. And therefore 3636 45| juniper; cypress–trees; yew; pine–apple–trees; fir–trees; 3637 14| kind of shaking off the yoke, and assay of disobedience; 3638 28| merry with it, and said, Yonder men are too many for an 3639 7| eldest respected, and the youngest made wantons; but in the 3640 43| persons; as was Agesilaus, Zanger the son of Solyman, AEsop, 3641 15| one main division, addeth zeal to both sides; but many 3642 3| extremes. For to certain zealants, all speech of pacification