Upon God’s throne, or on the chair of state?
He that is guilty of no quæry here,
Out-lasts his epitaph, out-lives his heir.
But there is none such, none so little bad;
Who but this negative goodness ever had?
Of such a lord we may expect the birth,
He’s rather in the womb, than on the earth.
And ’twere a crime in such a public fate,
For one to live well and degenerate:
And therefore I am angry, when a name