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: