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current^, and constantly.
They dispose Kings to Tyranny,
Husbands to Jealousie,
Wise Men to Irresolutiow',
and Melancho/y.
Eight rhymes on one I, rhyme between the
abbreviated " "
repress'd and
" " least (a pure rhyme in
" Irresolution'," pronounced as a word of six
1625).
syllables (as in Richard the
Third and in other earlier
plays), rhymes with the word "on," four lines before.
Two lines retain the rhythm, but do not rhyme,
unless "leese" and " Businesse " form a rhyme, or
"whereby" rhymes with "currently," "constantly,"
"Tyranny," etc.
And now follow close upon each other those
sentences referring to a man who knows too little, and
ought to endeavour to know " more," but who, instead
of doing so, "smothers " his suspicions (and somewhat
else), those sentences in which, moreover, the word
" "
Cause occurs.
There is
Nothing makes a Man Suspect much, more then
to Know little : And therefore Men should remedy Suspicion,
by procuring to know more, and not keep their Suspicions in
Smother.
And the other sentence, after it has been said that
one ought to speak one's mind openly towards one's
opponent,
runs thus :
For thereby, he shall be sure, to know more of the Truth of
them, then he did before; And withall, shall make that Party,
more circumspect, not to give further Cause of Suspicion.
The word " more" occurs no fewer than four times
in those few words, and it
rhymes four times ! Let