The commonplace whom daily we

In our dull streets and houses see,

To think of other mould than these

Were Cato, Solon, Socrates,

Or Mahomet or Confutze,

This also is a vanity.

III

Hannibal, Cæsar, Charlemain,

And he before, who back on Spain

Repelled the fierce inundant Moor;