Hudibras - Continued.

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He that complies against his will
Is of his own opinion still.

RICHARD BAXTER.

1615-1691.

Love breathing Thanks and Praise.
I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.

HENRY VAUGHAN.

1614-1695.

Ascension-Hymn.

And yet, as Angels in some brighter dreams

Call to the soul when man doth sleep,

So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted theams, And into glory peep.

EARL OF ROSCOMMON.

1633-1684.

Essay on Translated Verse.

Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.

JOHN DRYDEN.

1631-1700.

ALEXANDER'S FEAST.

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None but the brave deserves the fair.

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Sweet is pleasure after pain.

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Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain;

Fought all his battles o'er again;

And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he slew the

slain.

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Fallen from his high estate,
And weltering in his blood;
Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes.

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For pity melts the mind to love.

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War, he sung, is toil and trouble;

Honor, but an empty bubble;
Never ending, still beginning,
Fighting still, and still destroying.

Alexander's Feast-Continued.

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Take the good the gods provide thee.

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Sighed and looked, and sighed again.

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And, like another Helen, fired another Troy.

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Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

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He raised a mortal to the skies,

She drew an angel down.

CYMON AND IPHIGENIA.

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He trudged along, unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of thought.

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She hugged the offender, and forgave the offence, Sex to the last.

ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.

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Whate'er he did, was done with so much ease,
In him alone 't was natural to please.

Absolom and Achitophel -- Continued

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A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
Fretted the pigmy body to decay,
And o'er informed the tenement of clay.

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Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

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And all to leave what with his toil he won,
To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son.

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Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

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The people's prayer-the glad diviner's theme,
The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.*

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Than a successive title, long and dark,
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.

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Not only hating David, but the king.

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Who think too little, and who talk too much.

* Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.-Joel iii. 28.

Absalom and Achitophel - Continued.

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A man so various, that he seemed to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,
Was every thing by starts, and nothing long.

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So over violent, or over civil,

That every man with him was God or devil.

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His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.

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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

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Beware the fury of a patient man.

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And dashed through thick and thin.*

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For every inch, that is not fool, is rogue.

Through thick and thin, both over banck and bush,

In hopes her to attaine by hooke or crooke.

Fairie Queene. Book 3. c. i. st. 17.