A
adaptation. See useful.
"age, if it will hit, Shoots a bow short" 27
alms. See giving.
"Anger is not love, nor wisdom either" 52
appearance 45. See also
clothes.
arguing. "Be calm in arguing" 52 , "Mark
all his wanderings" 53. See also
conversation.
arguments. See quarrels.
attitude, demeanor. "Be sweet to all"
36, "All worldly joys go less to the one joy
of doing kindnesses" 55
B
baseness "When baseness is exalted..." 45
behavior. See attitude.
boasting. "...Nor make thy shame thy glory"
9
boldness. "In conversation boldness now bears
sway" 35
A B C
D E F G
H I J K
L M N O P
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C
calmness in arguing. "Calmness is great advantage"
53
children. "Some till their ground but let weeds choke
their son" 17, "They breed them
tender" 18, "fill his mind with
rest before his trunk with riches" 19,
"Love is a personal debt" 47
church. "Twice on a day His due is
understood" 66, "Pray with the
most" 67, "God is more there than thou"
68, "Praying 's the end of
preaching" 69, "weep out the stains"
70, "All worldly thoughts are but thieves"
71, "Judge not the preacher"
(72), "combine with saints on earth"
73, "Though God do hedge us in yet who is holy?"
75
cleanliness. "Let thy mind's sweetness have its
operation" 62
clothes, appearance. "take thine own
measure" 30, "empty vessels under sail"
31, "cheap handsomeness" 32,
cleanliness 62, "Thy clothes being fast, but thy soul
loose about thee" 69
command thyself 36. See also
control, self
communion. "the food... 'tis
better" (66)
control in conversation. "Calmness is great advantage"
53
control, lack of. "Lose not thyself" 24,
"Correct thy passion's spite" (44)
control, self. "Constancy knits the
bones" 20, "Thou liv'st by rule"
23, "Command thyself" 36, "mind's
sweetness" 62
conversation. "Dare to be
true" 13, "Look to thy mouth"
(22), "boldness now bears sway"
35, "courteous, useful, new or witty"
49, do yourself and him a pleasure
50, "spend not all that you can speak"
51, "Truth dwells not in the clouds"
53, "Take all that is given"
(60)
curses. See swearing.
D
debt. "By no means run in debt" 30
drink. "Drink not the third
glass" 5, "outlawed by himself"
6, "must I find pain wherein he finds a pleasure"
7, "frailty gains pardon by submissiveness"
9
drinking with friends. "Let not a common ruin entomb you"
8
E
employment. See service.
"envy not greatness" 44
Eucharist. See communion.
A B C
D E F G
H I J K
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F
fame. "Take stars for
money" 29, "Think not thy fame at ev'ry twitch
will break" 37, "If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be
pos'd 'Tis a thin web" 38
"Fast when thou wilt but then, 'tis gain not
loss." 66
"Fathers first enter bonds to nature's
ends" 47
food. "do not a famine fear" 22
fortitude. "slackness breeds
worms" 57
friends. "Wisdom picks
friends" 38, "your friend put in your
bosom" 46, fatherhood
first 47
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D E F G
H I J K
L M N O P
Q R S T
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G
gambling. "Play not for gain but
sport" 33, "game is a civil gunpowder"
34
Gentry "are gone to grass" 16
giving: to the poor "regard your means
and others' merit" 63, "so much giv'n to God"
64. to God "restore to God His due"
65
goals. "Pitch your behaviour low, your projects
high" 6, "active and stirring spirits live
alone" 57
God. "Join hands with God" 63, "Man is
God's image" 64, "Thwart not the mighty
God" 66, "where most pray is heaven"
67
gold. See money.
good. "A good digestion turns all to
health" 60
great, the. "Envy not greatness" 44
A B C
D E F G
H I J K
L M N O P
Q R S T
U V W X Y Z
H
heaven. "keep heaven's gate open" 64,
"where most pray is heaven" 67, "churches are either
our heaven or hell" 71
holy. "nothing but holy, pure and clear"
Superliminare2
honesty, openness. "Do all things like a man, not sneakingly"
21
humor. "Pick out of tales the
mirth" 11, "The witty man laughs least"
39, "all things are big with jest"
40, "a wise man is master of all his jests"
42
I
idleness. "Fly
idleness" 14, "full of sin but most of sloth"
16, "sink not in spirit" 56,
"slackness breeds worms" 57
J
jealousy. "Be not your own
worm" 44
job. See service.
jokes. See humor.
joy. See kindness.
justice. "Art thou a Magistrate? then be severe" 15
K
kindness. "All worldly joys go less to
the one joy of doing kindnesses" 55
L
listening. "Mark what another says"
54
love. "If cause require, you are his
sacrifice" 46, "Love is a personal debt"
47, "all your goods and ground submit to love"
48, "Love is a present for a mighty king"
59, (60). In arguing: "anger
is not love" 52. See also
fathers, friends. Do not see
"lust."
lust (Do not confuse with love). "It blots your lesson written in your
soul" 2, "Your lust has bounds
and stays" 3.
lying. "Nothing can need a lie" 13
A B C
D E F G
H I J K
L M N O P
Q R S T
U V W X Y Z
M
"Man is God's image" 64
minister. See preacher.
money. "For he, that needs five thousand pound
to live, Is full as poor as he, that needs but
five" 18, "The way to make your son rich
is to fill his mind with rest, before his trunk with riches"
19, "Be thrifty but not covetous"
26, "Never exceed your income"
27, "Wealth is the conjurer's
devil" 28, "None is so wasteful as the scraping
dame" 29, "By no means run in debt"
30, "whether wealth, or love, or language; nothing
comes amisse" (60)
music in church. "mark in church-time others symmetry"
(70)
O
oaths. See swearing.
P
patience. See listening and
sermons. [See also idleness.]
persistence. See fortitude.
planning. "Let your mind still be bent, still
plotting" 57
pleasures. "Make a bait of
pleasure" Perirrhanterium,
"Look not at pleasures as they come, but go" 77. See
also sins, drink,
money, humor etc.
poor. "Give to all something, to a good poor
man" 63, "a poor man is Christ's stamp"
64
position, rank. "Do not bate the place its
honor" 45
prayer. private and public 67, "praying
's the end of preaching" 69
preachers. "God calls preaching
folly" 72, "God sent him whate'er he be"
74. See also sermons.
preparation & morality: be better. "my first fruits"
Dedication, lessons of the 77 stanzas
Superliminare
priest. See preachers.
profane humor. "buy it not too dear" 41
profaneness. "Avoid profaneness" Superliminare
Stanza2
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Q
quarrels. "Catch not at
quarrels" 37
R
relationship with people. "Do all things
like a man" [or woman] 21, "Entice all neatly
to what they know is best" (50), "Be useful where
you live" 55. See also
friends.
relationship with the great. "use respective
boldness" 43
relationships, family. "your children, kindred, friends call upon
you" 27, "game is a civil gunpowder"
34
reputation, "for all may have, if they dare try, a glorious life,
or grave" (15), "the great soldier's honour was
compos'd Of thicker stuff" 38. See also
fame.
rules, ethical. "turn delight into a
sacrifice" (1), "choice of paths; take no
by-ways" 3, "man breaks the fence and every
ground will plow" 4, "Man is a shop of
rules" 24
A B C
D E F G
H I J K
L M N O P
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U V W X Y Z
S
saints. "combine with saints on
earth" 73
self examination. "lose not thy self" 24,
"salute yourself" 25, "take account of all"
58, in church 70, "Let
vain and busy thoughts have there no part" 71,
"Sum up all at night" 76, "defer not the least
virtue" 77, "nothing by holy, pure and
clear" Superliminare (Stanza 2)
sermons. "Resort to sermons, but to
prayers most" 69, "God's way of
salvation" 75. See also
preachers.
service. "chase brave
employments" (15), "Spend not on
hopes" 31
sex. See lust.
single, not married. "All your goods and ground submit
to love" 48
sins. "Boast not thereof" 9,
"the cheapest sins most dearly punished are" 12
sloth. See idleness.
society. "meet them there" 55 See
also relationship.
Sunday. See church.
swearing. "It gets you
nothing" 10, "Omit the
oaths" 11
A B C
D E F G
H I J K
L M N O P
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T
tithing. "Restore to God His due in tithe and
time" 65
"Truth dwells not in the clouds" 53, "share
in the conquest, confess a truth" 54.
In arguing: "arguing...makes...truth discourtesy"
52.
U
useful. "Be useful where you
live" 55, "Take all that is given...nothing comes
amiss" 60, naturalize all foreign
good 61
W
wealth. See money.
wine. See drink.
wisdom, foreign. "Take all that is
given" 60
wit. See humor.
Y
youth."whose sweet youth and early hopes enhance your rate
and price, and mark you for a
treasure" Perirrhanterium,
"Youth may make even with the years" 27 |
or pick a letter.