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And while they live, we see their glorious actions Oft wrested to the worst; and all their life Is but a stage of endless toil and strife, Of torments, uproars, mutinies, and factions; They rise with fear, and lie with danger down; Huge are the cares that wait upon the crown. - [Kings] Death is the port where all may refuge find, The end of labor, entry into rest; Death hath the bounds of misery confin'd Whose sanctuary shrouds affliction best. - [Death] This self-conceit is a most dangerous shelf Where many have made shipwreck unawares; He who doth trust too much unto himself Can never fail to fall in many snares. - [Conceit] -----those whose cruelty makes many mourn Do by the fires, which they first kindle, burn. - [Cruelty] Though all things do to harm him what they can, No greater en'my to himself than man. - [Enemies] What fairer cloak than courtesy for fraud? - [Courtesy] The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care. - Aurora (song) [Silence] A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd, In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd. - Doomes-day--The Fifth Houre [Worth] Yet all that I have learn'd (hugh toyles now past) By long experience, and in famous schooles, Is but to know my ignorance at last, Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools. - Recreation with the Muses (London, fol. 1637, p. 7) [Knowledge] The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory--death. - The Icebound Ship [Death]
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