The Opinion.
LOng have I thought, It was in vain,
To seek to purchase Love or Fame:
For both alike would slide away,
Or by my own, or her decay.
For Love and Fame, crown'd with successe,
Do from enjoyment both grow lesse.
Poems, viz. 1. A panegyrick to the king. 2. Songs and sonnets. 3. The blind lady, a comedy. 4. The fourth book of Virgil, 5. Statius his Achilleis, with annotations. 6. A panegyrick to Generall Monck. / By the Honorable Sr Robert Howard.
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- Poems, viz. 1. A panegyrick to the king. 2. Songs and sonnets. 3. The blind lady, a comedy. 4. The fourth book of Virgil, 5. Statius his Achilleis, with annotations. 6. A panegyrick to Generall Monck. / By the Honorable Sr Robert Howard.
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- Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.
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- London, :: Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Anchor on the lower Walk of the New Exchange.,
- 1660.
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Had the god's so, but been content,
I would have liv'd indifferent.
Not to have fear'd extreams of fate,
Or Cares, that from lost Joyes take weight;
Indifferency all safety keeps,
Ther's none unhappy whilst he sleeps.
But strangely wak't, she did surprize,
My blisse and reason with her eyes:
So lazy Princes wanting aime,
To seck to purchase love and fame,
Are by some slighted power o'recome,
The scorn of others, and their own.
Now she too much her power knows;
So some resisted stream o'reflows
More than its usuall banks; nor I
Dare longer her just power deny:
That must above the Common rate,
Not reward passions but Create.