Dares rush on death—because he cannot die.
But if man loses all, when life is lost,
He lives a coward, or a fool expires. 200
A daring infidel (and such there are,
From pride, example, lucre, rage, revenge,
Or pure heroical defect of thought), 203
Of all earth’s madmen, most deserves a chain.
When to the grave we follow the renown’d
For valour, virtue, science, all we love,
And all we praise; for worth, whose noontide beam,