Don't be proud 'cause we adore you, We do't only for our pleasure; And those parts in which you glory We by fancy weigh and measure. When for deities you go, For angels or for queens, pray know 'Tis our fancy makes you so. Don't suppose your majesty Distinguish'd only by your pride. Tyrants make subjects rebels grow, And pride makes angels devils below, And your pride may make you so. Palinode. No more, no more of this! I vow There was a time when I begun, He physic's use doth quite mistake My heat of youth, and love, and pride, And made me then converse with toys I was persuaded in those days But now my youth and pride are gone, For, now the cause is ta'en away, 'Tis but a folly now for me To spend my time and industry For when I think I have done well, I see men laugh; but cannot tell Great madness 'tis to be a drudge, When those that cannot write dare judge. Besides the danger that ensu'th To him that speaks or writes the truth, To be call'd poet, and wear bays, Wit, only good to sport and sing, Give me the wit that can't speak sense, Ne'er learn'd, but of his grannam ; His thousand pound per annum, Upon his Mare, stolen by a Trooper, in 1644. t WHY let her go. I'll vex myself no more, Lest my heart break, as did my stable door. 'Twas but a mare; if she be gone, she's gone; 'Tis not a mare that I do stand upon, Now, by this cross! I am so temperate grown, I'll bridle nature, since my mare is gone. From thief or true man one may ride secure. To plague the thief, for fear I make him worse: But to restore me home my mare again, And, 'cause I would not have good customs alter, I wish who has the mare may have the halter. SIR ROBERT HOWARD, A younger son of Thomas earl of Berkshire, was probably born about 1622, and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. Having shared in his father's sufferings, and distinguished himself by his loyalty and courage, he became, after the Restoration, a knight, a M. P. and a place-man, and died in 1698. For a list of his drámatic and other works, and farther particulars of his life, vide Wood's Ath. II. 1018. and the Biographia Dramatica. His poems, consisting of songs and sonnets, panegyrics, translations, &c. were published, together with his first comedy, "The Blind Lady," in 1660: but Sir Robert is principally known to posterity by his controversy with his brother-in-law Dryden. SONG. To the inconstant Cynthia. In thy fair breast, and once fair soul, That I no more could read my own. |