And taught us, all affaults, all ills to bear,
Is not to fly from danger, but from fear,

Courage, in great diftrefs, can only aid,
But fear, of what should help, will be afraid.

Lluellin.

Sir Robert Howard's Veftal Virgin.

Who bears a manlike foul, or valiant breaft,
Provokes not dangers to difturb his rest:

Nor is fo prodigal on ev'ry cause

Too light, to spend his ftrength, but when the laws
The true religion, or his country's good
Crave his affiftance, freely spills his blood.
To caft away our lives denotes a fear;
Who throws not off that life he cannot bear?
Cato or Caffius fcarce deferv'd a room

In fame, and virtue groan'd to raise their tomb:
We might more juftly praife to Otho lend,
Who liv'd a woman, like a man did end.

Brave men fcorn death, but yet they value life;
Because their lives are useful to the world.

Dancer.

Crown's Darius.

Never contemn thy felf; he who will have

Fortune or women love him, must be brave.

Crown's Second Part of the Deftruction of Jerufalem.
VERTUE

With state and greatness, vertue feldom dwells;
State fofters pride, pride all good grace expells.

Mirror for Magiftrates.

Fair fall the fteps, that happily do end
Their courfe, begun in veitue's painful race;
Many begin that steep hill to afcend,

Where vertue dwells; but few do find fuch grace
As not to faint, ere they attain that place.

Vertue itself turns vice, b'ing mifapply'd;
And vice fometime by action's dignify'd.

Ibid.

Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet.
Forgive

Forgive me this my virtue ;

For, in the fatnefs of thefe purfy times,
Vertue it felf of vice must pardon beg,

Yea, courb, and wooe, for leave to do it good.

-Vertues forces

Shakespear's Hamlet.

Shew ever nobleft in confpicuous courses.

Johnson's Sejanus.

Happen what there can, I will be just;
My fortune may forfake me, not my vertue:
That fhall go with me, and before me ftill,
And glad me doing well, though I hear ill.

John fon's Catiline.

Heroick vertue finks not under length
Of years, or ages, but is ftill the fame,
While he preferves, as when he got good fame.

Johnson's Mafques.

As nothing equals right to vertue done,
So is her wrong past all comparison :
Vertue is not malicious; wrong done her,
Is righted ever, when men grant they err.

Chapman's Monfieur d'Olive.
Tho' vertue be the fame, when low she stands
In th' humble shadows of obfcurity,

As when she either fweats in martial bands,
Or fits in court clad with authority;
Yet, madam, doth the ftrictness of her room,
Greatly detract from her ability:

For, as inwall'd within a living tomb,

Her hands and arms of action labour not;
Her thoughts, as if abortive from the womb,
Come never born, tho' happily begot :
But where fhe hath, mounted in open fight,
An eminent and fpacious dwelling got,
Where the may ftir at will, and use her might,
There is the more herself, and more her own;
There in the fair attire of honour dight,

She fits at eafe, and makes her glory known.

Applaufe

Applause attends her hands, her deeds have grace:
Her worth, new born, is ftraight as if fully grown.
With fuch a godly and refpected face

Doth virtue look, that's fet to look from high;
And fuch a fair advantage by her place
Hath state and greatnefs to do worthily.

Daniel to the Countess of Bedford.

A worthy mind needs never to repent,
The fuff'ring croffes for an honest cause.
Whilft trav'lling now with a contented mind,
The memory of this my fancy feeds;

Though to great ftates their periods are affign'd,
Time cannot make a prey of vertuous deeds.

E. of Sterline's Cræfus.

Vertue, thofe that can behold thy beauties,

Thofe that fuck, from their youth, thy milk of goodness,
Their minds grow ftrong against the ftorms of fortune;-
And ftand, like rocks, in winter gufts unfhaken;
Not with the blindness of defire forfaken.

States

Lord Brooke's Mustapha.

may afflict, tax, torture, but our minds Are only fworn to Jove: I grieve, and yet am proud That I alone am honeft; high powers! ye know, Vertue is feldom feen with troops to go.

Marfton's Sophonisba. Man's wit doth build, for time but to devour ; But vertue's free from time and fortune's pow'r.

Drayton's Jane Grey, to Gilford Dudley.

Others, whom we call vertuous, are not fo
In their whole fubftance; but their vertues grow
But in their humour, and at seasons shew.

For when, through taftlefs flat humility
In dough-bak'd man, fome harmlessness we fee,
Tis but his phlegm that's vertuous, and not he:

So

So is the blood fometimes; who ever ran
To danger unimportun'd, he was then
No better than a fanguine vertuous man :
So cloyster'd men, who in pretence of fear,
All contributions to this life forbear,

Have vertue in melancholy, and only there.
Spiritual cholerick criticks, which in all
Religions find faults, and forgive no fall,
Have, thro' this zeal, vertue but in their gall.
We're thus but parcel gilt; to gold we're grown,
When vertue is our foul's complexion :
Who knows his vertue's name or place, hath none.
Vertue's but aguish, when 'tis feveral,
By occafion wak'd and circumstantial;
True vertue's foul, always in all deeds all.

Dr. Donne.

Extraordinary vertues, when they foar
Too high a pitch for common fight to judge of,
Lofing their proper fplendor, are condemn'd
For most remarkable vices.

Maffinger's Unnatural Combat.

'Titles may fet a glofs upon our name,

But vertue only is the foul of fame.

Shirley's Coronation.

Each muft, in vertue, ftrive for to excell;
That man lives twice, who lives the first life well.

Herrick.

What though he nor rewards, nor knows my pain? In vertuous acts the very doing's gain.

To honour vertue, is to fet it forth.

Vertue's no vertue whilst it lives fecure ;
When difficulty waits on't, then 'tis pure.

Baron.

Ibid.

John Quarles to Baron. Black-fide, long put, or ftanding oppofite, Doth ufe to add more luftre unto white:

A

A pearl fhines brighter in a negroe's ear:
Some ladies look more fair who patches wear:
So vice, if counterplac'd, or feated near,
Makes vertue shew more lovely, ftrong, and clear.

For vertue, though a rarely planted flow'r,
Was in the feed by this wife florist known;
Who could foretel, ev'n in her fpringing hour,
What colours she shall wear when fully blown.

Howell

Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert.

Vertue's defenfive armour must be strong,
To 'scape the merry, and malicious tongue.

Sir W. Davenant's Law against Lovers.
The frowns of heav'n are to the vertuous, like
Those thick dark clouds, which wandring feamen fpy,
And often fhew the long expected land

Is near.

Sir W. Davenant's Unfortunate Lovers.

Fate hath done mankind wrong; vertue may aim
Reward of confcience, never can of fame.

Edward Hyde, (E. of Clarendon,) on Dr. Donne's Death. Vertue doth man to vertuous actions steer; 'Tis not enough that he fhould vice forbear.

Denham.

Whilft paffion holds the helm, reafon and honour
Do fuffer wrack; but they fail fafe, and clear,
Who constantly by verte's compass steer.

Davenport's King John and Matilda.

'Tis not to vertue that you now resort,
If it wants ftrength, its own felf to fupport;

Tis only fin not fuff'ring that it fears,

It grows the stronger, the more weight it bears.

E. of Orrery's Black Prince.

Ye gods! to what must I hereafter trust;
Since you deftroy me but for being just ?
If you of vertue only will admit,
Why am I ruin'd for pursuing it?

E. of Orrery's Tryphon.

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