That’s _Love in earnest_, which is constant found, When Friends are in _Affliction_, or in _Bands_; And, their _Affection_ merits to be _crown’d_, Whose _hearts_ are fastned where they joyne their _hands_. Tis easie to be friendly, where wee see A _Complement_ or two will serve the turne; Or, where the _kindnesse_ may required bee; Or, when the charge is with a trifle borne. It is as easie too, for him to spend At once, the full Revenues of a yeare, In Cates, for entertainment of his _Friend_, Who thinkes his _glorie_, is _expensive-cheere_: For, 'tis his pleasure; and, if none should come Like _fashionable-Friends_, for him to court, Hee would with _Rogues_, and _Canters_, fill the Roome, Or, such as should abuse, and flout him for’t. But, hard it is, to suffer, or to spend For him (though worthy) that’s of meane estate, Unlikely our occasions to befriend, Or, one unable to remunerate. Few men are liberall, whom neither _Lust_, _Vaine glorie_, _Prodigalitie_, nor _Pride_, Doth forward into foolish _Bountie_ thrust; As may, by Observation bee espide. For, when a slender _Bountie_ would relieve Their vertuous _Friend_, whose wants to them are knowne, To their _Buffoone_, a Knights estate they’l give, And, thinke on t’other trifles ill-bestowne. Yet, this Ile say; and, give the _Devill_ his due; These _Friends_, are to their _lusts_, and _humours_, true. _The =Sword= hath place, till =War= doth cease; And, usefull is, in time of =Peace=._ [Illustration: PACISQUE BONUS BELLIQUE MINISTER. ILLVSTR. XXX. _Book. 4_]