So Cecrops City, and Amphion's Towers:
Now glorious Sparta lies upon the ground.
Lofty Mycenæ hardly to be found.
Of Oedipus his Thebes what now remains?
Or of Pandion's Athens, but their Names?
So also Sylvester in his Du Bartus.
Thebes, Babel, Rome, those proud Heaven-daring Wonders,
Lo under ground in Dust and Ashes lie,
For earthly Kingdoms even as men do die.
By this you may see that frail Paper is more durable than Brass or Marble; and the Works of the Brain more lasting than that of the Hand; so true is that old Verse,