How he and his Friends have defeated the Crimes
Of voluptuous Aspirers in horrible Times;
By Patience and Prating done wonderfull Things
To Women consumptive, and Death-alarm’d Kings.
But tell me when Virtue got any Man Pension’d, 310
Or procur’d him a Title that’s fit to be mention’d,
Or taught him to talk for the Praise of the Nation,
Or dictated Themes for a publick Oration?
Did it ever a Brilliant Assembly advance,
Or import sound Politeness and Claret from France?