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And lays up all his wealth within that pow'r,
Which in itself all greatnefs doth devour :
So flock the mighty, with their foll'wing train,
Unto the all-receiving Bullingbroke ;
Who wonders at himself, how he should gain
So many hearts as now his party took;
And with what eafe, and with how flender pain,
His fortune gives him more than he could look:
What he imagin'd never could be wrought,
Is pour'd upon him far beyond his thought:
So, often, things which seem at first in shew,
Without the compafs of accomplishment;
Once ventur'd on, to that fuccefs do grow,
That ev'n the authors do admire th'event:
So many means which they did never know,
Do fecond their defigns, and do prefent
Strange unexpected helps; and chiefly then,
When th'actors are reputed worthy men.

-Popular men,

Daniel's Civil War.

They must create new moniters, and then quell 'em,
To make their arts feem nothing. Would you have
Such an Herculean actor in the fcene,

And not his Hydra? They must sweat no less
To fit their properties, than to express their parts.

Johnfon's Catiline.

I never courted popular applaufe;
Feafted the men of action; or labour'd

By prodigal gifts to draw the needy földier,
The tribunes or centurions to a faction;

Of which, I would rife up the head against him.
I hold no place of ftrength, fortrefs, or castle

In

my command, that can give fanctuary

To malecontents, or countenance rebellion:
I've built no palaces to face the court;
Nor do my follow'rs brav'ry fhame his train;
And though I cannot blame my fate for want,

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My competent means of life deferves no envy ;
In what then am I dangerous?

Maflinger's Emperor of the Eaft.

1. How full of hidden ambiguities

Grow thefe diftracted times?

The factious common's giddy censure stand

So ftrange and doubtful, that 'twere policy indeed
To found 'em to the bottom;

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2. To be a crouching, crawling, fawn'ng cur,
To lick the lazy hands of prating priests,
With proteftations of integrity
Devoted wholly to them;

With true compunction of unfeigned grief,
Submiffively to crave their gracious pardon :
To paw the ragged multitude with praise
Of their ingenious care and fervent love
For prefervation of the commonwealth;
To promise fair rewards to froward fools;
Perhaps, with dirty feet to mire with fawnings,
And then be beaten with the shameful flaff
Of foul reproach :

To do all this, were to be born a fool;
To live a flave, and die a coward.

Death! I will ftand between the counter-buffs
Of these devouring storms in fpite of hell;
Nor priest, nor peasant fhall inforce me ftoop
An inch to either: As I have liv'd, I'll fall;
Or freed from both, or rent up root and all.

Hemmings's Jews Tragedy.

POVERTY.
O known evil,

Rich fly the poor, as good men fhun the devil!

Heywood's Woman kill'd with Kindness.

Poverty, thou bane of chastity,

Poison of beauty, broker of maidenheads!

I fee when force, nor wit can scale the hold,

Wealth muft; fhe'll ne'er be won, that defies gold:
But lives there fuch a creature? Oh, 'tis rare,

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To find a woman chaste, that's poor and fair!
Dekker and Webfter's Weftward Hoe.
-A poor fpirit,

Is poofer than a poor purse.

-The rich

Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy.

Have wakeful nights, whilft the poor man's turf
Begets a peaceful fleep; in which they're bleft
From frigid fears all day, at night with reft.

Goffe's Careless Shepherdess. Poor men are born to wrongs; low are their ranks; The more they're trod on, the more they must give

thanks.

Dauborne's Poor Man's Comfort.

With poverty in love we only close,

Because our lovers it most truly fhews;

When they who in that bleffed age did move,
Knew neither poverty, nor want of love;
The hatred which they bore was only this,
That ev'ry one did hate to do amifs:
Their fortune still was fubject to their will;
Their want, O happy! was the want of ill.

Brown's Paflorals.
1. Our want with this philofophy doth well
Agree; but yet I hope your conftancy
Will yield it a far less uneafy task
To commend poverty, than suffer it.
2. Not fo, for wit is heav'n's gift to those
Are fhap'd of purer clay; but patience
Each noble mind bestows upon itself.

Marriage-Broker.

To mortal men great loads allotted be;
But of all packs, no pack like poverty.

POWE R.

Herrick.

When pow'r, that may command, so much descends;

Their bondage, whom it stoops to,

it intends.

Johnson's Sejanus.

-Oh,

-Oh, 'tis excellent

To have a giant's ftrength! but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.

Shakespear's Measure for Meafure.

For pow'r is proud, till it look down to fear;
Though only fafe, by ever looking there.

Lord Brooke's Alaham.

In all ftates, pow'r which oppreffeth spirits,
Imprifons nature, empire difinherits.

Lord Brooke's Mustapha.

Pow'r, doth what likes, in her inferiors move;
As we are fefs'd, fo pay we hate, or love.

Lord Brooke's Alaham.

Inftead of thefe, I faw the veils of pow'r,
Practice, and pomp, fpecious hypocrify,
Rent from her face, ev'n while fhe did devour:
I faw those glorious ftiles of government,
God, laws, religion, (wherein tyrants hide
The wrongs they do, and all the woes we bide,)
Wounded, prophan'd, deftroy'd: pow'r is unwife,
That thinks in pomp to mask her tyrannies.

The violent thunder is ador'd by those

Are dafh'd in pieces by it.

Ibid.

Webfter's White Devil.

Pow'r's a trange thing, which ev'n additions make
Weak, and diípos'd to fall: Few can digest
The fwelling cheer of fortune: If you take

But one dish more, you prejudice the rest:
Some fortunes, that have flow'd gently before,
Run over, if you add one honour more.

Aleyn's Henry VII. With what a diff'rence nature's palate taftes

The fweeter draught which art provides her, pow'r : Since pow'r, pride's wine, but high in relish laits Whilft fuming new; for time does turn it four ?

Yet

Yet pow'r, earth's tempting fruit, heav'n first did plant,
From man's first ferpent fafe, ambition's reach;
Elfe Eden could not ferve ambition's want;

Whom no command can rule, nor council teach.

Pow'r is that luscious wine, which does the bold,
The wife, and noble most intoxicate;
Adds time to youth, and takes it from the old ;
Yet I by furfeit this elixir hate.

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert.

Yield not in ftorms of ftate to that diflike

Which from the people does to rulers grow; Pow'r, fortune's fail, fhould not for threat'nings ftrike; In boats beftorm'd, all check at those that row.

Ibid.

For he who fecrets, pow'r's chief treasure, fpends,
To purchase friendship, friendship dearly buys:
Since pow'r feeks great confed'rates, more than friends.

My reward is pow'r ;

An outward trifle, bought with inward peace;

Got in an age, and rifled in an hour;

When fev'rifh love, the people's fit fhall cease.

But how men gain their pow'r, the gods do not
So much regard; as how 'tis us'd, when got.

Ibid.

Ibid.

E. of Orrery's Tryphon. Oh wretched he, who call'd abroad by pow'r, To know himself can never find an hour! Strange to himself, but to all others known ; Lends ev'ry one his life, and ufes none : So ere he tafted life, to death he goes; And himself loses, ere himself he knows.

Crown's Thyefles. But pow'r, it feems, can change the names of things; Call treafon virtue, and make rebels kings.

Crown's Charles VIII. of France.

PRAISE.

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