Entrusted with their armies and their love.
In other Courts 'tis dangerous to deserve,
140Thou didst a kind and grateful Master serve,
Who, to express his gratitude to thee,
Scorn'd those ill-natur'd arts of policy.
Happy had Belisarius bin
(Whose forward fortune was his sin)
By many victories undone,
He had not liv'd neglected, died obscure,
If for thy Prince those battles he had won,