Reformation. MANNERS, MIND, MORALS. RECREATION. 259 "As for games of recreation, I hold them to belong to civil life and recreation.”—Advt. L. ii. 1. "But is there no quick recreation ?—Ay, that there is." -L. L. L. i. 1. 'Away! the gentles are at their game, and we will to our recreation."-L. L. L. iv. 3. "Sweet recreation barr'd, What doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy."—Com. Err. v. 1. (See M. N. D. vi. 32—43; Rich. III, iii. 63—67; Ant. Cl. i. 1, 45—46; ii. 3, 25—40; ii. 5, 1—18, &c.) (Nearly every game, sport, or exercise introduced by the poet has been found noted by the philospher, who usually explains the use of these various forms of "recreation" of mind and body.) REFORMATION of the Affections.-Faults Sometimes Feigned. "The labour (of the will) is to reform the affections, restraining them if they be too violent, and raising them if they be too soft and weak; or else it is to cover them ; or, if occasion be, to pretend and represent them. Examples are plentiful in the Courts of princes, and in all politic traffic."-Discourse of the Intel. Powers. "So when this loose behaviour I throw off .. Shall show more goodly. I'll so offend to make offence a skill."-1 Hen. IV. i. 2. (See 2 Hen. IV. V. v. 2, 42-58.) REMEMBRANCE is Applied Knowledge (Q.V.). . . no other but the "The invention of speech is knowledge whereof our mind is already possessed, to call before us that which may be pertinent to the purpose which we take into our consideration. So as, to speak truly, it is... but a remembrance or suggestion with All knowledge is but memory an application. or remembrance."-Advt. L. ii. 1. Oph.: "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. love, remember. And there's pansies, that's for thoughts." Pray you Lear: "A document in madness! Thoughts and remembrance fitted."-Ham. iv. 6. See Ham. i. 2, 1—7. "He hath an abstract for the remembrance of such places; and goes to them by his note."-Mer. Wiv. iv. 2. "I do not know One of my sex; no woman's face remember." REPROOF, or Dispraise by Friends. -Temp. iii. 2. "What is reproved even by friends, is a great evil. This sophism deceives by the cunning of friends. For they are wont sometimes to acknowledge and proclaim the faults of their friends, not because truth compels them, but choosing such faults as may do them the least injury; as if in other respects they were Friends also use reprehensions, excellent men. by way of prefaces, whereby they may presently be the more large in commendation."-De Aug. vi. 3 (Soph.). (See Polonius's instructions to Reynaldo) :— Put on him What forgeries you please; and marry, none so rank That's not my meaning; but breathe his faults so quaintly The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind," &c. -See Ham. ii. 1; iii. 4, 9-21, 30, &c. ; [Oth. v. 2, 130–230. "Posthumous not dispraising whom he praised began," &c.-See Cymb. v. 5, 171-185; also Two Gent. Ver. iii. 2, 30-55; L. L. L. iv. 3, 260–263; 2 Hen. IV. (P. Hal and Falstaff) ii. 4, 302—330; Tr. Cr. iv. 1, 75–78; Tim. Ath. i. 1. 167–175. REPUTATION Despised as Breath, by Scornful Counsellors. "As for reputation, with a view to which the councils of princes ought to be specially framed, they (scornful councillors) despise it as a breath of the people, that will quickly be blown away."-De Aug. viii. 1. "The rabble... clapped their chopped hands and uttered such a deal of stinking breath... that it almost choked Cæsar."-See Jul. Cæs. i. 2. 66 I heard him swear Were he to stand for Consul, never would he beg (the people's) stinking breaths," &c. REPUTATION of Great Men Causes their Hard Condition. "It is a very hard and unhappy condition of men preeminent for virtue, that their errors, be they ever so trifling, are never excused. In men of remarkable virtue the slightest faults are seen, talked of, and severely censured, which in ordinary men would be unobserved or readily excused."-De Aug. viii. 1. "Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children and our sins, lay on the king! We must bear all. O hard condition, Twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath Of every fool. What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy!" &c. -See Hen. V. iv. 1. RESOLUTION. "In human actions fortune insists that some resolution shall be taken. Not to resolve is itself to resolve; so that many times suspension of resolution involves us in more necessities than a resolution would.” -De Aug. vi. 3 (Soph.). "My resolution and my hands I'll trust But resolution and the briefest end." -Ant. Cl. iv. 13, and v. 2, 234–239 ; [Cymb. iii. 6, 1-4. "Ere a determinate resolution (of the business was arrived at) . . This respite shook The bosom of my conscience, and made to tremble "Thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought," &c. "To be once in doubt is once to be resolved." &c. (See resolution and irresolution well illustrated and contrasted in the characters of Isabel and her brother Claudio (M. M. i. 1). Upwards of 100 passages could be brought in support of Bacon's observations on these qualities.) RESPONSIBILITY of "Great Place" or Dignity. "Men in great place are thrice servants. Servants of the Sovereign or State, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their actions nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. The rising unto place is laborious. By pains men come to greater pains, and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities."-Ess. Great Place. "Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children and our sins lay on the king! Twin-born with greatness," &c." -See the whole passage Hen. V. iv. RETREAT to be Secured. [1, 93-301. "That which leaves no opening for retreat is bad. For not to be able to retreat is to be, in a way, powerless; and power is a good, "The ground of this sophism is, that human actions are so uncertain, and subject to such risks, that that appears the best course which has the most passages out of it."-De Aug. vi. 3 (Sɔph.). "I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, -Macb. iii. 4. Iago: "Patience, I say; your mind may perhaps change." Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels returning ebb, but keeps due on |