With painful art, and application warm,

And take, at last, some little place by storm;

Enough to keep two shoes on Sunday clean,

And starve upon discreetly, in Sheer Lane.

Already this thy fortune can afford;

Then starve without the favour of my lord.

'Tis true, great fortunes some great men confer;

But often, ev'n in doing right, they err:

From caprice, not from choice, their favours come;

They give, but think it toil to know to whom: