The Duke did these by steady virtue gain;

Which they in action more than precept taste;

Deeds shew the good, and those who goodness feign

By such ev’n through their vizards are outfac’t.

Oswald in war was worthily renown’d;

Though gay in courts, coarsely in camps could live;

Judg’d danger soon, and first was in it found;

Could toil to gain what he with ease did give.

Yet toils and dangers through ambition lov’d,

Which does in war the name of virtue own: