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And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, TO hid the feeling heart?

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see.

And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove.

A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.

He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the devil in.

Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.

Thou hast prevariated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me: And while my open nature trusted in thee, Thou hast stept in between me and my hopes, And ravish'd from me all my soul held dear. Thou hast betray'd me.

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.

Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent!

Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth khow.

O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!

O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?