Chapter 48
Part iii. Canto ii. Line 175.
True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not sinned upon.
Part iii. Canto iii. Line 243
For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.
Part iii. Canto iii. Line 547
He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still.
MARQUIS OF MONTROSE.
1612-1650.
_Song_, "_My Dear and only Love_."
I'll make thee famous by my pen, And glorious by my sword.
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.
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Take the good the G.o.ds 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 raided a mortal to the skies She drew an angel down.
_Cymon and Iphigenia_.