His dusk poor candle-rents; his own fat head

With all the learn'd world's, Alexander's flame

That Cæsar's conquest cow'd, and stript his fame,

He shames not to give reckoning in with his;

As if the king pardoning his petulancies

Should pay his huge loss too in such a score

As all earth's learned fires he gather'd for.

What think'st thou, just friend? equall'd not this pride

All yet that ever Hell or Heaven defied?

And yet for all this, this club will inflict