Let these from envy hate—from interest those!
Guilt, like the first, your gratitude requires,
Since none can envy till he first admires;
And nature tells the last his crime is none,
Who to your interest but prefers his own.
Aaron Hill.
What made the man of Envy what he was,
Was worth in others, vileness in himself,
A lust of praise, with undeserving deeds,
And conscience poverty of soul; and still