Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley. Samuel Johnson

kings and gods abound;

       Glory and arms and love are all the sound.

      In the first poem, on the danger of the prince on the coast of Spain, there is a puerile and ridiculous mention of Arion at the beginning; and the last paragraph, on the cable, is in part ridiculously mean, and in part ridiculously tumid. The poem, however, is such as may be justly praised, without much allowance for the state of our poetry and language at that time.