And yet vouchsafes, to Man, to shew 

 Both Service and Submission too. 

 From whence we this Distinction have, 

 That Beast is Fierce, but this is Brave. 

 This Dog hath so himself subdu'd, 

 That Hunger cannot make him rude : 

 And his Behaviour does confess 

 True Courage dwells with Gentleness. 

 With sternest Wolves he dares engage, 

 And acts on them successful Rage. 

 Yet too much Courtesie may chance 

 To put him out of Countenance. 

 When in his Opposer's Blood, 

 Fortune hath made his Vertue good ; 

 This Creature from an Act so brave 

 Grows not more Sullen, but more Grave. 

 Man's Guard he would be, not his Sport, 

 Believing he hath ventur'd foi J t ; 

 Hut yet no Blood, or shed, or spent, 

 Can ever make him insolent. 



Few Men, of him, to do great Things have 

 learn'd, 



And when th' are done to be so unconcern'd. 

 Katherine Philips — " The Matchless Orinda." 



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