Or youthful poets fancy when they love?

The Fair Penitent. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario?

The Fair Penitent. Act v. Sc. i.

Footnotes

[301:1] None think the great unhappy, but the great.—Young: The Love of Fame, satire 1, line 238.

[301:2] But with the morning cool reflection came.—Scott: Chronicles of the Canongate, chap. iv.

Scott also quotes it in his notes to "The Monastery," chap. iii. note 11; and with "calm" substituted for "cool" in "The Antiquary," chap. v.; and with "repentance" for "reflection" in "Rob Roy," chap. xii.


ISAAC WATTS.  1674-1748.