XCII Fame Unmerited
There’s none should places have in Fame’s high court
But those that first do win Invention’s fort;
Not messengers, that only make report.
To messengers rewards of thanks are due
For their great pains, telling their message true, 5
But not the honour to invention new.
Many there are that suits will make to wear
Of several patches, stoln both here and there,
That to the world they gallants may appear:
And the poor vulgar, who but little know, 10
And reverence all that makes a glistering show,
Examine not the same how they came to.
Then do they call their friends and all their kin;
They factions make the ignorant to win,
And with their help into Fame’s court get in. 15
Duchess of Newcastle.