Valor Is Abased By Too Much Loftiness.

A Dull Head Thinks Of No Better Way To Show Himself Wise, Than By Suspecting Everything In His Way.

The General Goodness, Which Is Nourished In Noble Hearts Makes Every One Think That Strength Of Virtue To Be In Another Whereof They Find Assured Foundation In Themselves.

A Churlish Courtesy Rarely Comes But Either For Gain Or Falsehood.

Fortify Courage With The True Rampart Of Patience.

But Words Came Halting Forth, Wanting Invention's Stay; Invention, Nature's Child, Fled Stepdame Study's Blows; And Others' Feet Still Seemed But Strangers In My Way. Thus, Great With Child To Speak, And Helpless In My Throes, Biting My Truant Pen, Beating Myself For Spite: "fool," Said My Muse To Me, "look In Thy Heart, And Write.