Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.
Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.
How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
Exercise thy lasting youth defends.
Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.