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Thou doft not know what then will be thy mind,
When thou shalt fee thyself advanc'd and strong:
When thou hast shak'd off that which others bind,

Thou foon forgettelt what thou learned'ft long:
Men do not know what then themselves will be,
When as more than themselves, themselves they fee.
Daniel's Civil War.

Now, I fee, they but delude that praise us,
Greatness is mock'd, profperity betrays us;
And we are but ourselves; although this cloud
Of interposed smoke make us feem more:
These spreading parts of pomp whereof we're proud,
Are not our parts, but parts of others store.
Daniel's Cleopatra.
Though the mountains make a mighty fhew,
They are but barren heaps borne up aloft;
Where plains are pleasant ftill, tho' they lie low,
And are moft fertile too, tho' trod on oft:
Greatness is like a cloud in th'airy bounds,

Which some base vapours have congeal'd above;
It brawls with Vulcan, thund'ring forth huge founds,
Yet melts, and falls there, whence it firft did move.
E. of Sterline's Alexandrean Tragedy.
As in fine fields, weeds, or fat earth abounds,
Ev'n as the lab'rers fpend, or spare their pain;
The greateft fp'rits, difdaining vulgar bounds,
Of what they feek, the higheft height must gain:
They, that bright glory may be fo enjoy'd,
As only born to be in action still,
Had rather be, than idle, ill imploy'd :

Great fp'rits must do great good, or else great ill, E. of Sterline's Julius Cæfar. Greatness must keep those arts by which it grew ; And ever what it wills, or fears, make true.

Lord Brooke's Mustapha.

VOL. II.

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Oh greatnefs fcourge !

We cannot without envy, keep high name,
Nor yet difgrac'd, can have a quiet fhame.

1. He's dead, you fay then.
2. Certainly: And to hear

Marfton's Sophonisba.

The people now diffect him, now he's gone,
Makes my ears burn that lov'd him not: Such libels,
Such elegies and epigrams they have made,
More odious than he was. Brother, great men
Had need to live by love, meting their deeds
With virtue's rule; found, with the weight of judgment,
Their privat'st action: For though, while they live,
Their pow'r and policy mask their villanies,
Their bribes, their luft, pride and ambition;
And make a many flaves to worship them;
They are their flatt'rers, and their bawds in thefe :
Thofe very flaves fhall, when these great beasts die,
Publifh their bowels to the vulgar eye.

Beaumont and Fletcher's Four Plays in One.

Since by your greatnefs, you

Are nearer heav'n in place; be nearer it

In goodness: Rich men fhould tranfcend the poor,
As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of

The fun, to water dry and barren grounds.

Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy. Both flow'rs and weeds, fpring when the fun is warm; And great men do great good, or else great harm.

Webfter's White Devil. The great are like the bafe; nay, they're the fame, When they seek shameful ways to avoid shame.

Webster's Dutchefs of Malfy.

Thus he was brought to act his fatal hour
Upon a fcaffold: To let greatness know
The twofold danger of too great a pow'r,

To him that hath it, and the giver too.
Let greatness held by Nimium, fear her fate;
For 'tis a tenure of the shortest date.

Greatness

Greatness triumphing on the tow'ring height
Of honour, if it once be turn'd at all,
Finds motion in itself: The very weight
Great bodies have, accelerates their fall:
There is no medium in their declination,
Between the height, and the precipitation.

Aleyn's Hen. VII.

They that are great, and worthy to be fo,
Hide not their rays from meaneft plants that grow.
Why is the fun fet in a throne fo high,
But to give light to each inferior eye?
His radiant beams distribute lively grace
To all, according to their worth and place;
And from the humble ground those vapours drain,
Which are fent down in fruitful drops of rain.
Sir John Beaumont.

1. Great men, we are none.

2. No, but you may be, by the length of your
Wit and shortness of your memory; for if
You have but wit enough to do mischief,

And oblivion enough to forget

Good turns; you may come to great places in

Time: keep a fool of your own, and then you are made.

Shirley's Bird in a Cage.

Truft not a great man, most of them diffemble;
Pride, and court-cunning have betray'd their faith
To a fecure idolatry; their foul

Is lighter than a compliment: Take heed,

They'll flatter thy too young ambition,

Feed thee with names, and then like fubtile chymifts, Having extracted, drawn thy spirit up,

Laugh, they have made thee miferable.

Shirley's Grateful Servant

-It is the curfe of greatness

To be its own deftruction. So we fee

That mountain-cedars have the least defence

'Gainft ftorms, when shrubs confront their violence.

Nabbs's Hannibal and Scipio.

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Greatness is but the fhadow of the beams
Of prince's favours, nourish'd in extremes;
First taught to creep, and feed on hopes; to live
Upon the glance, and humbly to obferve
Each under minion; till its own defire,
Work near enough to fet itself on fire.

Suckling's Sad One.
Great men by fmall means oft are overthrown;
He's lord of thy life, who contemns his own.

Be in thy greatnefs eafy, and thy brow

Herrick.

Still clear, and comforting as breaking light; The great, with bus'nefs troubled, weakly bow; Pow'r fhould with publick burdens walk upright. We chearfulness, as innocence commend ;

The great, may with benign and chearful eyes The people wrong, yet not the wrong'd offend; Who feel most wrong, from thofe who them defpife, Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert.

Our envy never would great men pursue,

If their great plagues, and paffions too we knew.

I was born with greatness;

Crown's Ambitious Statesman.

I've honours, titles, power, here within :
All vain external greatnefs I contemn.
Am I the higher for fupporting mountains?
The taller for a flatt'rer's humble bowing?

Have I more room for being throng'd with follow'rs?
The larger foul for having all my thoughts
Fill'd with the lumber of the state affairs?
Honours and riches are all fplendid vanities;
They are of chiefeft ufe to fools and knaves.

Crown's Ambitious Statesman.

GUID E.

For double fhame he doth deserve,
Who being guide, doth foooneft fwerve.

Brandon's Octavia

That

That man

May fafely venture to go on his way,
That is fo guided, that he cannot stray.

Marmyon's Holland's Leaguer.
I ftand like one

Has loft his way, and no man near him to enquire it of:
Yet there's a providence above, that knows
The roads which ill men tread, and can direct
Enquiring juftice: The paffengers that travel
In the wide ocean, where no paths are ;
Look up, and leave their conduct to a ftar.

Sir Robert Howard's Surprifal

HAIR.

OR, if of all the bodies parts, the head
Be the most royal; if difcourfe, wit, judgment,
And all our understanding faculties

Sit there in their high court of parliament,
Enacting laws to fway this hum'rous world,
This little ifle of man; needs muft that crown,
Which stands upon this fupreme head, be fair,
And held invaluable; and that crown's the hair;
The head that wants this honour, stands awry:
Is bare in name, and in authority.

Hair! 'tis the robe which curious nature weaves
To hang upon the head, and does adorn,
Our bodies; in the first hour we are born;
God does beftow that garment: When we die,
That, like a foft and filken canopy,
Is ftill fpread over us: In fpite of death,
Our hair grows in our grave, and that alone
Looks fresh, when all our other beauty's gone.
The excellence of hair, in this fhines clear,
That the four elements take pride to wear
The fashion of it: When fire moft bright does burn,
The flames to golden locks do strive to turn ;.

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