But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,

More from Dryden John/Absalom and Achitophel

• A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
• A man so various, that he seem'd to be
• And all to leave what with his toil he won
• Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
• So over violent, or over civil,
• The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme,