Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse. A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. See Gray, Quotation 10 . The first two laws are also ascribed to the centaur Cheiron.
Apt words have power to suage The tumours of a troubl'd mind.
See Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Quotation 58 . See Waller, Quotation 2 .