The fame that a man wins himself is best;
That he may call his own: honours put to him
Make him no more a man than his clothes do,
Which are as soon ta’en off; for in the warmth
The heat comes from the body, not the weeds;
So man’s true fame must strike from his own deeds.
Middleton.
7.
Adventurers.
The sons of Fortune, she has sent us forth
To thrive by the red sweat of our own merits.—
Middleton.
8.
New made Honour.
————— forgetfulness
Is the most pleasing virtue they can have.
That do spring up from nothing; for by the same.
Forgetting all, they forget whence they came.
Middleton.