[1542] "Acts of fame" are not the best means of "sanctifying" wealth. True charity is unostentatious.
[1543] Wakefield quotes Horace, Od. ii. 2, or, as Creech puts it in his translation, silver has no brightness,
Unless a moderate use refine,
A value give, and make it shine.
[1544] Dryden, Virg. Æn. iv. 250:
But called it marriage, by that specious name
To veil the crime, and sanctify the shame.—Wakefield.
[1545] Originally, "Ambition, avarice, and th' imperious" etc., for Marlborough was never the dupe of a "greedy minion."
[1546] "Storied halls" are halls painted with stories or histories, as in Milton, Il Penseroso, ver. 159:
And storied windows richly dight
Casting a dim religious light.
The walls and ceiling of the saloon at Blenheim are painted with figures and trophies, and some rooms are hung with tapestry commemorating the great sieges and battles of the Duke. The tapestry, which was manufactured in the Netherlands, and was a present from the Dutch, is described by Dyer in The Fleece, Book iii. ver. 499-517.
[1547] Addison's Verses on the Play-House: