104 CANDOUR-CARE, &c. CANDOUR. (See ARTIFICE.) CARE-MELANCHOLY - GLOOM. 1. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire, cut in alabaster? 2. Care that is enter'd once into the breast, Will have the whole possession, ere it rest. 3. SHAKSPEARE. BEN JONSON. That spoils the dance of youthful blood, BLAIR'S Grave. 4. The spleen with sudden vapour clouds the brain, 5. But human bodies are sic fools, For a' their colleges and schools, 6. If thou wilt think of moments gone, Of joys as exquisite as brief, BLACKMORE. BURNS. From the Spanish-BowRING. 7. Go, you may call it madness-follyYou shall not chase my gloom away; There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay! ROGERS. Sits on me as a cloud along the sky, Which will not let the sunbeams through, nor yet 9. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, "T is that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, which we must steep First in the icy depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold will sleep. BYRON. BYRON'S Don Juan 10. But can the noble mind for ever brood, CAMPBELL. 11. "T was thus in Nature's bloom and solitude, 12. Come, rouse thee, dearest: 't is not well 1 CARLOS WILCOX. MRS. DINNIES. 106 CARE-MELANCHOLY-GLOOM. 13. Blame not, if oft, in melancholy mood, This theme too far such fancy hath pursued; 14. Oh! it is hard to put the heart Alone and desolate away To curl the lip in pride, and part 15. Strange that the love-lorn heart will beat With rapture wide amid its folly ;— No grief so soft, no pain so sweet As love's delicious melancholy. ROBERT SANDS. N. P. WILLIS. MRS. A. B. WELBY. 16. O! dark is the gloom o'er my young spirit stealing! Then why should I linger when others are gay?The smile that I wear, is but worn for concealing A heart, that is wasting in sadness away. MRS. A. B. WELBY. 17. Alas, for my weary and care-haunted bosom ! The spells of the spring-time arouse it no more; 18. How vain a task, to wake my lyre To rapture's thrill, with passion's fire, MRS. OSGOOD. 19. Pale Care now sits enthron'd upon that cheek, Where rosy Health did erst her empire hold. J. T. WATSON. CAUTION-DISCRETION - PRUDENCE. 1. But now, so wise and wary was the knight, By trial of his former harms and cares, That he decry'd, and shunned still his sight: The fish, that once was caught, new bait will hardly bite. SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. They, that fear the adder's sting, will not Come near his hissing. CHAPMAN. 3. Look forward what's to come, and back what's past; 4. The better part of valour is discretion. DENHAM. SHAKSPEARE. 5. When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks. SHAKSPEARE. 6. Prudence! thou vainly in our youth art sought, And, with age purchas'd, art too dearly bought ;We're past the use of wit, for which we toil, Late fruit, and planted in too cold a soil. 7. None pities him that's in the snare, And, warn'd before, would not beware. 8. Man's caution often into danger turns, 9. He knows the compass, sail and oar, Or never launches from the shore; DRYDEN. HERRICK. YOUNG. GAY's Fables. 108 CELIBACY - CHASTITY. 10. Would you, when thieves are known abroad, Bring forth your treasures in the road? Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus expos'd his wealth? 11. The mouse, that always trusts to one poor hole, Can never be a mouse of any soul. GAY'S Fables. POPE. 12. All's to be fear'd where all is to be lost. BYRON'S Werner. CELIBACY-CHASTITY. 1. But earlier happy is the rose distill'd, 2. Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Chaste as the icicle That's curdled by the frost of purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple. 3. Lady, you are the cruelest she alive, 4. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. MILTON'S Comus. 5. Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain But our destroyer, foe to God and man? MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 6. There swims no goose so grey, but, soon or late, She finds some honest gander for a mate. POPE. |