I'll find a conqueft, in a fafe retreat, Sir Robert Howard's Great Favourite. He that feek fafety in a ftatesman's pity, D'ye think that ftatefmens kindneffes proceed Ibid. When they're afraid, they're wondrous good and free; But when they're fafe, they have no memory. Sir Robert Howard's Veftal Virgin. A statesman all but int'reft may forget, E. of Orrery's Henry V. But fear in flatefmen is the higheft crime. For they, fearing to act, what they should do ; E of Orrery's Muftapha. Ah! had I ftudy'd but as much to gain Heav'n, as this world, I had not fweat in vain: Immortal crowns had waited for my brow; But my amazing miferies now are May May all great men learn by my wretched fate, Crown's Juliana. I'll feem religious to be damn'dly wicked; Crown's Ambitious Statesman. SUCCESS. Let them call it mifchief When it's paft, and profper'd, 'twill be virtue. And when need fpurs, defpair will be call'd wisdom. Of victory, howe'er it be atchiev'd; And vengeance leaft. For who befieg'd with wants, And he that sticks for folly of a conscience, Good fuccefs Johnfon's Catiline. Is oft more fatal far than bad; one winning To hazard his whole fortunes. Chapman's Revenge for Honour. Shews Shews to afpire just objects, are laid on With coft, with labour, and with form enough; Which only makes our best acts brook the light, And their ends had, we think we have their right: So worst works are made good, with good fuccess; And fo for kings, pay fubjects carcaffes. Chapman's First Part of Byron's Confpiracy. And tho' the fortune of fome age consents Have pafs'd for current, and good courses thought: The leaft whereof, in other times, again Moft dang'rous inconveniencies have brought; Whilft to the time, not to mens wits, pertain The good fucceffes of ill manag'd deeds: Tho' th' ignorant deceiv'd with colours vain, Mifs of the caufes whence this luck proceeds. Foreign defects giving home-faults the way, Make ev❜n that weakness sometimes well fucceed. Daniel's Mufophilus. What fuit of grace hath virtue to put on, If vice shall wear as good, and do as well? If wrong, if craft, if indifcretion, Act as fair parts, with ends as laudable? Which all this mighty volume of events, Go fafer than deceit without a guide ? Croffing the ways of right, ftill runs more wide. Profp'rous Profp'rous fuccefs gives blackest actions glory;' Marfion's Sophonisba. Succefs, like Lethe, to the fouls in blifs, Mafon's Muleaffes. Success must follow thofe attempts that rise Nabbs's Hannibal and Scipio. All's but endeavour untill perfected So they thrive, Whom fate in fpight of ftorms hath kept alive. Ibid. John Ford's Lover's Melancholy. Things that in th' period profp'rously succeed; Though crofs'd before, are acted well indeed. Things once well begun, Glapthorne's Hollander. Are half perform'd; the managing an act Glapthorne's Albertus Wallenflein. Hope of reward, or one victorious field, -Proud fuccefs admits no probe K Lady Alimony. Cleveland. My intent's good, O let it fo fucceed, -O, fuccefs Sharpham's Fleire. Is a rare paint! that which fucceeds is good; Baron's Mirza. All are not ill plots, that do sometimes fail; In tracing human flory, we fhall find Sir W. Davenant's Siege of Rhodes. If we but profper now, not we on fate, Sir Robert Howard's Great Favourite. 2. To that rash ftranger, fir, we nothing owe; As all thofe fins which for a crown are done, E. of Orrery's Black Prince. That's villany, that by its ill fuccefs When once it gains a crown, it virtue grows. Crown's Second Part of Henry VI. It is fuccefs makes innocence a fin; |