The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.