Judges and Senates have been bought for gold, 190 Honour and fhame from no Condition rife; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Fortune in Men has fome small diff'rence made, 195 One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ;, The cobler apron'd, and the parfon gown'd, The frier hooded, and the monarch crown'd. "What differ more (you cry) than crown and cow!!" I'll tell you, friend! a wife man and a Fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parfon will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The reft is all but leather or prunella. 200 204 VER. 193. Honour and foame from no Condition rife; Alt will your part, there all the honour lies.] What power then has Fortune over the Man? None at all; for as her favours can confer neither worth nor wisdom; so neither can her dif pleasure cure him of any of his follies. On his Garb indeed The hath fome little influence; but his Heart still remains the fame : Fortune in Men has fome fmall diff'rence made, But this difference extends no further than to the habit; the pride of heart is the fame both in the faunter and flutterer, as it is the poet's intention to infauate by the use of these terms. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with ftrings,. That thou may'st be by kings, or whores of kings. Boaft the pure blood of an illustrious race, In quiet flow from Lucrece to Lucrece : Look next on Greatness; fay where Greatness lies Not one looks backward,, onward still he goes, VARIATIONS. VER. 207. Boaf the pure blood, etc.] in the MS. thus, The richest blood, right-honourably old,: Down from Lucretia to Lucretia roll'd, 220 No lefs alike the Politic and Wife; 225 230 All fly flow things, with circumfpective eyes; What's Fame? a fancy'd life in others breath, 235 Juft what you hear, you have, and what's unknown In the fmall circle of our foes or friends; Alike or when, or where, they fhone, or fhine, 245 A Wit's a feather, and a Chief a rod; An honeft Man's the nobleft work of God. 250 All fame is foreign, but of true defert; Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart: And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels, In Parts fuperior what advantage lies ? 260 266 Make fair deductions; fee to what they mount: 270 How much of other each is fure to coft; How each for other oft is wholly lost; How inconfiftent greater goods with these; 275 Say, would't thou be the Man to whom they fall? Mark how they grace Lord Umbra, or Sir Billy. Look but on Gripus, or on Gripus' wife. 6 280 If Parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd, VER. 281.283. If parts allure thee, - Or ravish'd with the rubiftling of a Name,] These two instances are chosen with great judgment; the world, perhaps, doth not afford two other fuch. Bacon difcovered and laid down those principles, by whofe affiitance, Newton was enabled to unfold the whole law of Nature. He was no less eminent for the creativę power of his imagination, the brightness of his conceptions, and the force of his expreffion: yet being legally convicted for bribery and corruption in the Administration of Justice, while he prefided in the fupreme Court of Equity, he endeavoured to repair his ruined fortunes by the most profligate flattery to the Court: Which, from his very first entrance into it, he had accustomed himself to practise with a prostitution that disgraceth the very profeffion of letters. Cromwell feemeth to be distinguished in the most eminent manner, with regard to his abilities, from all other great and wicked men, who have overturned the Liberties of their Country. The times, in which others fucceeded in this attempt, were fuch as faw the spirit of Liberty fuppreffed and ftifled, by a general luxury and venality: But Cromwell fubdued his country; when this fpirit was at its height, by a fuccessful struggle against court-oppreffion; and while it was conducted and fupported by a fet of the greatest Geniuses for government the world ever faw embarked together in one Common cause. VER, 283. Or ravish'd with the whistling of a Name,] And even this fantastic glory fometimes fuffers a terrible reverse. -Sacheverel, in his Voyage to I-colombkill, defcribing the church there, tells us, that "In one corner is a peculiar inclosure, in which were the monuments of the kings of many dif"ferent nations, as Scotland, Ireland, Norway, and the |