Sit PARADISE REG/trill). goolt nt,? All treafures and all gain etleem as droll, And dignities and pow'rs all bdt the highefi ? 36 Thy years are ripe, and over-ripe ; the fon Of Macedonian Philip had ere th&fe Won Afia, and the throne of Cyrus held At his difpofe ; young Scipio had brought down The Carthaginian pride ; young Pompey quell'd 35 The Pontic king, and in triumph had rode. Yet years, and to ripe years judgment matures Qtench not the thirlt of gl iry, but augment. Great Julius, whom now all the world admires, The more he grew in years, the m.)re 46 With glory, wept that he had liv'd fo long Inglorious : but thou yet art not too late. To whom our Saviour calmly thus reply'd: Thou neither dolt perfuade me to leek wealth For empire's fake, nor empire to affaft 4 For glory's fake by all thy argument For what is glory but the blaze of fames The peoples praife, if always praife unmix'd ? And what the people but a herd confued, 40 A mifcellaneous rabble, who extol [praife ? Things vulgar, and well weigh'd, fcarce worth the They praife, and they admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other And what delight to be by luch extoll'd, To live upon their to ngues and be their talk, 55 Of whom to be ciifprais'd were no fmAll praife ? His lot who dares be fingularly good. Th' intelligent among them and the wife Are few, and glory fcarce of few is rais'd. This is true glory and renown, when God Looking on th' earth, with approbation marks The juft man, and divulges him through Heaven To all his Angels, who with true applaufe Recount
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