Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

See the effect of commercial intercourse.

See the effect of commercial intercourse.

Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.

Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.

Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so,
execute with vigour.

Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so,
execute with vigour.

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

God made not pleasures for the rich alone.

That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

Then happy those, beloved of heaven,
To whom the mingled cup is given;
Whose lenient sorrow find read more

Then happy those, beloved of heaven,
To whom the mingled cup is given;
Whose lenient sorrow find relief,
Whose joys are chastened by their grief.