"Charity, decent, modest, easy, kind, /  Softens the high, and rears the abject Mind; / Knows with just Reins, and gentle Hand to guide, /  Betwixt vile Shame, and arbitrary Pride."
Charity. A Paraphrase of the Thirteenth Chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians. [from Tonson's Miscellanies]
Text from <u>The Literary Works of Matthew Prior</u>, Ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears. 2 vols. Second Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).<br>
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See also <u>Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part. Containing a Collection of Original Poems, With Several New Translations. By the most Eminent Hands</u>. (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1704), pp. 205-9. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=gg8UAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;