FULKE GREVILLE. LORD BROOKE
God and the World they worship still together,
Draw not their lawes to him, but his to theirs,
Untrue to both, so prosperous in neither,
Amid their owne desires still raising feares;
'Unwise, as all distracted powers be; 5
Strangers to God, fooles in humanitie.'
Too good for great things, and too great for good;
Their Princes serve their Priest, &c.
A Treatie of Warres, st. lxvi-vii.
Motto To 'A Lay Sermon', 1817
God and the World we worship still together,
Draw not our Laws to Him, but His to ours;
Untrue to both, so prosperous in neither,
The imperfect Will brings forth but barren Flowers!
Unwise as all distracted Interests be, 5
Strangers to God, fools in Humanity:
Too good for great things and too great for good,
While still 'I dare not' waits upon 'I wou'd'!
S. T. C.
The same quotation from Lord Brooke is used to illustrate Aphorism xvii, 'Inconsistency,' Aids to Reflection, 1825, p. 93 (with the word 'both', substituted for 'still' in line 1). Line 8 is from Macbeth, Act I, Sc. vii, 'Letting I dare not,' &c. The reference to Lord Brooke was first given in N. and Q., Series VIII, Vol. ii, p. 18.
