But this Ambition, or (give it a more moderate Title), Desire of Fame, is naturally addicted to most men; The Triumph of _Miltiades_ would not let _Themistocles_ sleep; For what was it that _Alexander_ made such a Bustle in the world, but only to purchase an immortal Fame? To what purpose were erected those stupendious Structures, entituled _The Wonders of the World, viz._ The walls of _Babylon_, the _Rhodian Colossus_, the Pyramids of _Egypt_, the Tomb of _Mausolus, Diana's_ Temple at _Ephesus_, the _Pharoes_ Watch-Tower, and the Statue of _Jupiter_ in Achaya, were they not all to purchase an immortal Fame thereby? Nay, how soon was this Ambition bred in the heart of man? for we read in _Genesis_ the 11th. how that presently after the Flood, the People journeying from the _East_, they said among themselves, _Go to, let us build us a City, and a tower, whose Top may reach unto Heaven; and let us make us a Name_. Here you see the intent of their Building was to make them a Name, though God made it a Confusion; as all such other lofty Buildings built in Blood and Tyranny, of which nothing now remains but the Name; which is excellently exprest by _Ovid_ in the Fifteenth Book of his _Metamorphosis_. Troy _rich and powerful, which so proudly stood, That could for ten years spend such streams of Blood, For Buildings, only her old Ruines shows, For Riches, Tombs, which slaughter'd Sires enclose_, Sparta, Mycenae, _were of_ Greece _the Flowers; So_ Cecrops _City, and_ Amphion's _Towers: Now glorious_ Sparta _lies upon the ground. Lofty_ Mycenae _hardly to be found. Of_ Oedipus _his_ Thebes _what now remains? Or_ of Pandion's Athens, _but their Names?_ So also _Sylvester_ in his _Du Bartus_. Thebes, Babel, Rome, _those proud Heaven-daring Wonders, Lo under ground in Dust and Ashes lie, For earthly Kingdoms even as men do die._ By this you may see that frail Paper is more durable than Brass or Marble; and the Works of the Brain more lasting than that of the Hand; so true is that old Verse, Marmora _Maeonij_ vincunt Monumenta Libelli: Vivitur ingenio, caetera mortis erunt. _The Muses Works Stone-Monuments outlast. 'Tis Wit keeps Life, all else Death will down cast._