“For fools rush in, where angels dare not tread,”
is certainly fashion’d upon Shakespear’s,
——————————“the world is grown so bad
That wrens make prey, where angels dare not perch.”
Rich. III. A. I. S. III.
2. The verses to Sir W. Trumbal in Past. 1.
“And carrying with you all the world can boast,
To all the world illustriously are lost.”
from Waller’s Maid’s Tragedy alter’d,
Happy he that from the world retires
And carries with him what the world admires.
p. 215. Lond. 1712.
XIII. When to these marks the same Rhyme is added, the case is still more evident.
“Men would be angels, angels would be Gods.”
Essay on Man, Ep. I. v. 126.
Without all question from Sir Fulk Grevil,