274

One would have ling'ring wars with little cost;
Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings;
A third man thinks, without expense at all,
By guileful fair words peace may be obtain'd.

275

Not mutinous in peace, yet bold in war.

276

Mirror of all martial men.

21-i. 1.

23-iv. 8.

21-i. 4.

277

Were it good,

To set the exact wealth of all our states
All at one cast? to set so rich a main

On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour ?
It were not good; for therein should we read
The very bottom and the soul of hope.

278

18-iv. 1.

The commonwealth is sick of their own choice,
Their over-greedy love hath surfeited.

19-i. 3.

279

Omit no happy hour,

That may give furtherance to our expedition:
For we have now no thought in us but France;
Save those to God, that run before our business.
Therefore, let our proportions for these wars
Be soon collected; and all things thought upon,
That may, with reasonable swiftness, add
More feathers to our wings.

280

20-i. 2.

This might have been prevented, and made whole,

With very easy arguments of love;

Which now the manage of two kingdoms must

With fearful bloody issue arbitrate.

281

Good fortune bids us pause,

16-i. 1.

And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks.

282

The fat ribs of peace

Must by the hungry now be fed upon.

283

16-iii. 3.

God, if thy will be so,

Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,

With smiling plenty, and fair prosperous days!

284

Shall we, upon the footing of our land,
Send fair-play orders, and make compromise,
Insinuation, parley, and base truce,

To arms invasive?

285

24-v. 4.

16-v. 1.

Now join your hands, and, with your hands, your

hearts,

We will untread the steps of damned flight;
And, like a bated and retired flood,

Leaving our rankness and irregular course,
Stoop low within those bounds we have o'erlook'd

And calmly run on in obedience.

288

I find the people strangely fantasied;

Possess'd with rumours, full of idle dreams;
Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear.

289

16-v. 4.

16-iv. 4.

They'll sit by the fire, and presume to know
What's done i' the Capitol: who's like to rise,
Who thrives, and who declines; side factions, and

give out

Conjectural marriages; making parties strong,

And feebling such as stand not in their liking,
Below their cobbled shoes.

290

28-i. 1.

When drums and trumpets shall
I' the field prove flatterers, let courts and cities be
Made all of false-faced soothing!

291

28-i. 9.

Ingratitude is monstrous: and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude.

292

28-ii. 3.

The Providence that's in a watchful state,
Knows almost every grain of Plutus' gold;
Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps;
Keeps place with thought, and almost, like the gods,
Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles.

There is a mystery in the soul of state;
Which hath an operation more divine,
Than breath, or pen, can give expressure to.

293

26-iii. 3.

We must not rend our subject from our laws,
And stick them in our will. Sixth part of each ?
A trembling contribution! Why, we take,
From every tree, lop, bark, and part o' the timber:
And, though we leave 't with a root, thus hack'd,
The air will drink the sap.

294

25-i. 2.

These exactions,

Most pestilent to the hearing; and to bear them,
The back is sacrifice to the load.....

This makes bold mouths:

Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze
Allegiance in them: their curses now
Live, where their prayers did; and it's come to pass,
That tractable obedience is a slave

To each incensed will.

295

It doth appear: for, upon these taxations,

25-i. 2.

The clothiers all, not able to maintain
The many to them 'longing, have put off
The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who,
Unfit for other life, compell'd by hunger,
And lack of other means, in desperate manner
Daring the event to the teeth, are all in uproar,
And Danger serves among them.

25-i. 2.

296

This double worship,

Where one part does disdain with cause, the other Insult without all reason; where gentry, title, wisCannot conclude, but by the yea and no

Of general ignorance, -it must omit

Real necessities, and give way the while

[dom,

To unstable slightness; purpose so barr'd, it follows, Nothing is done to purpose: Therefore, beseech

you,

You that will be less fearful than discreet;
That love the fundamental part of state,
More than you doubt the change of't; that prefer
A noble life before a long, and wish

To jump a body with a dangerous physic,
That's sure of death without it, at once pluck out
The multitudinous tongue, let them not lick
The sweet which is their poison: your dishonour
Mangles true judgment, and bereaves the state
By that integrity which should become it;
Not having the power to do the good it would,

For the ill which doth control it.

297

It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot,
To curb the will of the nobility :
Suffer it, and live with such as cannot rule,

Nor ever will be ruled.

298

I have in equal balance justly weigh'd

28-iii. 1.

28-iii. 1.

What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we

suffer,

And find our griefs heavier than our offences.

299

When we mean to build,

We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection :
Which if we find outweighs ability,
What do we then, but draw anew the model
In fewer offices; or, at least, desist
To build at all? Much more, in this great work,
(Which is, almost, to pluck a kingdom down,
And set another up,) should we survey
The plot of situation, and the model;
Consent upon a sure foundation;
Question surveyors; know our own estate,
How able such a work to undergo,
To weigh against his opposite; or else,
We fortify in paper, and in figures,
Using the names of men, instead of men:
Like one, that draws the model of a house
Beyond his power to build it; who, half through,
Gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost
A naked subject to the weeping clouds,
And waste for churlish winter's tyranny.*

300

19-i. 3.

In cases of defence, 'tis best to weigh
The enemy more mighty than he seems:
So the proportions of defence are fill'd;
Which, of a weak and niggardly projection,
Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat, with scanting
A little cloth.

20-ii. 4.

301

It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe:

For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom,

(Though war, nor no known quarrel, were in ques

tion,)

But that defences, musters, preparations,

Should be maintain'd, assembled, and collected,

As were a war in expectation.