To wail the fault its rising did commit,

Who, rebel-like, with their own lord at strife,

Thus made an insurrection ’gainst his life.

Or were these gems sent to adorn his skin,

The cabinet of a richer soul within?

No comet need foretell his change drew on,

Whose corpse might seem a constellation.

Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings

8. Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join

The varying verse, the full resounding line,