From "Of The Benefit We May Get By Our Enemies": Translated From Plutarch

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Title:     From "Of The Benefit We May Get By Our Enemies": Translated From Plutarch
Author: Henry Vaughan [More Titles by Vaughan]

1651

1. [HOMER. ILIAD, I. 255-6.]

Sure Priam will to mirth incline,
And all that are of Priam's line.

 

2. [AESCHYLUS. SEPTEM CONTRA THEBES, 600-1.]

Feeding on fruits which in the heavens do grow,
Whence all divine and holy counsels flow.

 

3. [EURIPIDES. ORESTES, 251-2.]

Excel then if thou canst, be not withstood,
But strive and overcome the evil with good.

 

4. [EURIPIDES. FRAGM. MLXXI.]

You minister to others' wounds a cure,
But leave your own all rotten and impure.

 

5. [EURIPIDES. CRESPHONTES, FRAGM. CCCCLV.]

Chance, taking from me things of highest price,
At a dear rate hath taught me to be wise.

 

6. [INCERTI.]

[He] Knaves' tongues and calumnies no more doth prize
Than the vain buzzing of so many flies.

 

7. [PINDAR. FRAGM. C.]

His deep, dark heart--bent to supplant--
Is iron, or else adamant.

 

8. [SOLON. FRAGM. XV.]

What though they boast their riches unto us?
Those cannot say that they are virtuous.

[The end]
Henry Vaughan's poem: From "Of The Benefit We May Get By Our Enemies": Translated From Plutarch

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