All things are lawful that do profit bring; John Day's Ile of Gulls The opinion of wisdom, is a foul tetter, That runs all over a man's body: if fimplicity Directs us to have no evil, it directs us To a happy being, for the fubtileft folly Proceeds from the fubtileft wisdom. This is the wife man's cure, Webfler's Dutchess of Malfy. That any thing, fate wills, he can endure. Daubourne's Poor Man's Comfort. Let a wife man place his ftrength May's Cleopatra. Maffinger and Field's Fatal Dowry. Wealth, without wifdom, may live more content, All pray for riches, but I ne'er heard yet Of any fince Solomon that pray'd for wit: He's counted wife enough in these vain times, That hath but means enough to wear gay cloaths, And be an outside of humanity; what matters it a pin, So that his wealth be great? that's it doth caufe Tailor's Hog hath loft his Pearl. In -In fuch like affairs, Which do concern th' uncertain rule of states, -But let Ev'n the plotting deftinies contrive, And be themselves of council; all their malice While wisdom takes the upper hand of fate. Cartwright's Royal Slave. Excellent morality! O the vaft extent O'th' kingdom of a wife man! fuch a mind Can fleep fecure, when the brine kiffes the moon, And thank the courteous ftorm for rocking him! Baron's Mirza: 'The wife men were but feven: now we scarce know So many fools, the world fo wife doth grow. Heath's Claraftella. Your wifdom hath the skill to cure Sir W. Davenant's Unfortunate Lovers. The wife I here obferve, Are wife tow'rds God; in whofe great fervice ftill, I can but fmile to think how foolish wife Those women are, that chufe their loves for wisdom. Wisdom in man's a golden chain, to tie Poor women in a glorious flavery. . Juftice and faith never forfake the wife, Sicelides Not turning like the wind, but if the ftate Denham But feven wife men the antient world did know; Wisdom of what her felf approves, makes choice; Clear fighted reafon wifdom's judgement leads, All human wisdom to divine, is folly; Greatnefs we owe to fortune, or to fate; 1. Are there divinities below? Ibid, Ibid. Denham's Sophy. 2, There are; ev'ry wife thing is a divinity, That can dispose, and check the fate of things. Sir Robert Howard's Great Favourite 1. Confult a little with your prudence. All it's own joys, and adds her confidence. Sir Robert Howard's Veftal Virgins. For 'tis the fate of wife men, to be thought To act what int'reft, not justice, bids them: And Hiftories do oft'ner palliate crimes, Than publish them. Were all things of one temper, Fane's Sacrifice. The universe would not fubfift one minute : Were all men wife, the world would be at a Hectors. The The wife do always govern their own fates, W IT. Abdicated Prince: Wit not avails, late bought with care and cost; Mirror for Magiftrates. The wit, the pupil of the foul's clear eye, Where all the gath'rings of the senses are: From thence, this pow'r the shapes of things abstracts, When the rates things,and moves from ground to ground, When her affent fhe lightly doth encline It nothing fees, or fees the falfe for true : For if that region of the tender brain, Either at firft uncapable it is, And fo few things, or none at all receives: Or marr'd by accident, which haps amifs, And fo amifs it ev'ry thing perceives. As the moft forward bud Sir John Davies Is eaten by the canker, ere it blow; Shakespear's Two Gentlemen of Verona. The only foil of his fair vertae's glofs, Shakespear's Love's Labour's loft. Short-liv'd wits do wither as they grow. Ibid. Your wit makes wife things foolish; when we greet Wife things feems foolish, and rich things but poor, Good wits are greatest in extremities. But as of lions it is faid, and eagles, Ibid. Johnson's Volpone. That when they go, they draw their feres and talons Chapman's Revenge of Buffy D'ambois. By |