What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!
Black detraction will find faults where they are not.
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.
Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.