Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.
If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.