Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.