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 ustome, with which hee longs to bee acquainted, anil shines to better his understanding. He conceives his youth as the season of his lust; and the houre wherein he ought to be bad : and, because he would not lose his time, spends it. Hee distasts religion as a sad thing, and is six yeares elder for a thought of heaven. Hee scorues and feares, and yet hopes for old age, but dare not imagine it with wrinkles. Hee loves, and hates with the same inflamation : and when the heat is over, is coole alike to friends and enemies. His friendship is seldom so stedfast, but that lust, drinke, or anger, may overturne it. He offers you his blood to day in kindnesse, and is readie to take yours tomorrow. He does seldom anything which hee wishes not to doe againe, and is onely wise after a misfortune. He suffers much for his knowledge; and a great deale of folly it is makes him a wise man. He is free from many vices, by being not grown to the performance, and is onely more virtuous out of weaknesse. Every action is his danger, and every man his ambush. Hee is a shippe without pilot or tackling, and only good fortune may steere him. If hee scape this age, hee has 'scapt a tempest, and may live to be a man.

No voice has silence ?—not if sound alone Can to another's heart disclose our own; Utter our woes; or, when our souls rejoice, Vent the full bliss-—but silence has a voice ! When the fixed eye has seen the form it loved, With the last throb of ebbing nature moved,