Yet with their modest merit none compare.
LXV.
These, therefore, we prefer; and though no Queen
Besides Ourselves we will to hold the reign;
Yet, for their true desart conspicuous seen,
We rank them foremost on the flow’ry plain.
LXVI.
Hear, and obey; and if aught else abide,
To raise dispute among your orders bright;
Still by true merit let the cause be try’d,