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1118. NO DANGER TO MEN DESPERATE.
When fear admits no hope of safety, then
Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
1119. SAUCE FOR SORROWS.
Although our suffering meet with no relief,
An equal mind is the best sauce for grief.
An equal mind is the best sauce for grief.
1120. TO CUPID.
I have a leaden, thou a shaft of gold;
Thou kill'st with heat, and I strike dead with cold.
Let's try of us who shall the first expire;
Or thou by frost, or I by quenchless fire:
Extremes are fatal where they once do strike,
And bring to th' heart destruction both alike.
Thou kill'st with heat, and I strike dead with cold.
Let's try of us who shall the first expire;
Or thou by frost, or I by quenchless fire:
Extremes are fatal where they once do strike,
And bring to th' heart destruction both alike.
1121. DISTRUST.
Whatever men for loyalty pretend,
'Tis wisdom's part to doubt a faithful friend.
'Tis wisdom's part to doubt a faithful friend.
1123. THE MOUNT OF THE MUSES.
After thy labour take thine ease,
Here with the sweet Pierides.
But if so be that men will not
Give thee the laurel crown for lot;
Be yet assur'd, thou shall have one
Not subject to corruption.
Here with the sweet Pierides.
But if so be that men will not
Give thee the laurel crown for lot;
Be yet assur'd, thou shall have one
Not subject to corruption.
