And lays up all his wealth within that pow'r, -Popular men, Daniel's Civil War. They must create new moniters, and then quell 'em, And not his Hydra? They must sweat no less Johnfon's Catiline. I never courted popular applaufe; By prodigal gifts to draw the needy földier, Of which, I would rife up the head against him. In my command, that can give fanctuary To malecontents, or countenance rebellion: C 6 My My competent means of life deferves no envy ; 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 i 2. To be a crouching, crawling, fawn'ng cur, With true compunction of unfeigned grief, To do all this, were to be born a fool; Death! I will ftand between the counter-buffs Hemmings's Jews Tragedy. POVERTY. 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: Το To find a woman chaste, that's poor and fair! Is poofer than a poor purse. -The rich Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy. Have wakeful nights, whilft the poor man's turf 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, Brown's Paflorals. Marriage-Broker. To mortal men great loads allotted be; 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 Shakespear's Measure for Meafure. For pow'r is proud, till it look down to fear; Lord Brooke's Alaham. In all ftates, pow'r which oppreffeth spirits, Lord Brooke's Mustapha. Pow'r, doth what likes, in her inferiors move; Lord Brooke's Alaham. Inftead of thefe, I faw the veils of pow'r, 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 But one dish more, you prejudice the rest: 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, Whom no command can rule, nor council teach. Pow'r is that luscious wine, which does the bold, 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, 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 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. |